‘Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will leave Roger Federer behind in..’

For Nikola Pilic, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal are the one gamers remaining within the GOAT race, with Roger Federer falling behind! The Croat believes that each Rafa and Novak will end their careers with extra Main titles than the Swiss, particularly after Roger’s damage that sidelined him from the courtroom for a 12 months.

Firstly of 2021, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are tied on 20 Majors, three greater than Novak Djokovic. The Serb wasted his possibilities to shut the hole on the US Open and Roland Garros just a few months in the past, one thing he’s prepared to repair within the upcoming years.

The 2020 season noticed three Main tournaments and three totally different champions. Djokovic was the favourite to soften the deficit to Federer and Nadal after lifting the seventeenth Main trophy on the Australian Open, experiencing a default on the US Open and shedding the Roland Garros title match to Nadal.

Since 2011, Novak has been the dominant determine in males’s tennis, securing six year-end no. 1 honors and profitable probably the most Majors, Masters 1000 and the ATP Finals crowns. The Belgrade native has collected 16 Main shields for the reason that Australian Open 2011, shifting nearer to his principal rivals and guaranteeing his place among the many best gamers of all time.

Novak made an ideal begin of the season and gained the ATP Cup, the Australian Open, Dubai and Cincinnati, trying good so as to add the 18th Main trophy to his tally in New York. As an alternative of that, Novak received defaulted for the primary time in a profession after a careless mistake in opposition to Pablo Carreno Busta, returning to Europe and securing the record-breaking thirty sixth Masters 1000 trophy in Rome, leaving Nadal on 35.

Nikola Pilic dominated Roger Federer out from the GOAT race.

Looking for the second Roland Garros crown, Djokovic misplaced the title match to Rafa in straight units, taking solely two video games in units one and two and propelling Rafa in the direction of the twentieth Main.

The Spaniard made a stellar comeback in 2017 after a few powerful years on account of accidents, clinching six Main titles for the reason that Roland Garros that 12 months and matching Roger Federer on the high of the GOAT race. Roger hasn’t competed for the reason that Australian Open final January, combating a knee damage and present process surgical procedures in February and Could.

The Swiss ought to return to the courtroom on the finish of February, however it will likely be powerful for him to chase Main trophies after such an extended break and versus a lot youthful rivals from the highest. “It is laborious to think about that Roger Federer may win one other Main or two.

I am not saying it’s not possible, however it will likely be extraordinarily powerful for him to attain that. Apart from Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, there are younger weapons who may problem him, together with Dominic Thiem, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alexander Zverev, Daniil Medvedev. Plus, Roger is 39. In my view, solely two gamers have left within the GOAT race,” Nikola Pilic stated.