Lex Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 No surprise, Alcaraz is simply a better player than Djokovic at the moment. His numbers and potential are terrifying. I think it’s now beyond doubt that he’s the best 21 year old in the history of the game, if he retired tomorrow he’d be remembered as a great. We’ve rightly spent the summer eulogising Andy Murray’s great career. He retired on three slams on two surfaces, Alcaraz already has four over all three surfaces. He turned 21 a couple of months ago. For comparison Djokovic had one slam when he turned 23, at this rate Alcaraz could be in double figures when he’s 23. The scariest thing when you’re watching him is that he plays like a 21 year old. He does a lot of daft things, we’ve seen it throughout the tournament. He dropped two sets to Tiafoe, one to Paul, one to Humbert, one to Medvedev and he didn’t play well in the third set today either. He starts going for the wrong shot and his head goes a bit. The kind of mistakes you see almost every 21 year old player make. The kind of mistakes that get made less and less with experience. His coaches have alluded to that too, that he’s playing at about 80% of his potential. Which is normal, which is why you don’t see many kids his age winning slams, never mind winning four of them. If his development is normal in five or six years he will still be making all the shots he is today with all the physical power and attributes he has today, but he will be making less daft mistakes. The only question now is his longevity. If he’s still competing at the sharp end of slams when he’s 37 - like Djokovic is - he’ll be in the mid 30’s on slam count by then, long past Djokovics record. Or maybe he hits an injury crisis and never wins another one, who can say. He’ll be favourite to retain the US Open next month regardless. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted July 18 Share Posted July 18 On 14/07/2024 at 15:41, Melanius Mullarkey said: Absolute lovely seeing the jock getting his arse handed to him. Lovely. Murray wasn't playing m8? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JS_FFC Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 Murray has confirmed he will call it a career after next week’s Olympics. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 A career well lived IMO. For the most part. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 (edited) Will need to rename this thread once he retires? Had a great career and I would say the greatest Scottish sportsman of my lifetime. The only maybe slight regret is Australian Open to get to the final 5 times and never won it - v Federer / Djokovic though to be fair! Edited July 23 by Shannon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONKMAN Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 Sinner has withdrawn from Olympics with tonsiittis. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 What makes this even better is that Andy screen shotted it and put it on his Instagram story. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 On 24/07/2024 at 22:24, ICTChris said: Clip doesn't show another Murray moment - the team pile on to him and he brushes them off to go shake Goffin's hand. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 Nishokori and Taro Daniel made quick work of that first set against Murray and Evans, 6-2. Unless there’s a big turnaround we are looking at the last match of Andy’s career. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 Scenes. 9-4 down in third set tie break and come back to win 11-9. Murray’s career goes on! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The DA Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 Good win. Both dug deep. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 Andy Murray will not die!!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP_MFC Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 Incredible. Absolutely incredible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 My word, that was sensational. Very fitting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
printer Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 Typical from Andy (ably abetted by Evans). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirkieRR Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 That was unbelievable. Only able to watch as Mrs KRR had bought temporary 'Discovery Plus' access, whatever that is, to watch the Limpic equestrian stuff. Made me grateful (really) for BBC sports coverage it was done so amateurish. We saw Andy being handed the mic for his interview... and they cut away. Happily, the tennis was great television on any, ahem, 'platform'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IggyStooge Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 Sets, drugs n' violins as the GOAT officially retires the increasingly OCD-afflcited Nadal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 It’s another third set championship tie break for Evans and Murray. Didn’t take match points in the second set there and Evans double faulted on the Belgians second set point. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lex Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 Scenes, it’s happened again. Saves two match points and wins in the third set tie break. Gold medal must have their name on it! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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