Djokovic “forgot” about women’s tennis and did not …

He started out being like the nice guy on the circuit for their comments, but, with the years and the titles, the sayings – with anti-vaccine and anti-quarantine positions, to name a few – and the actions of Novak Djokovic became more controversial than funny. On this occasion, after the overwhelming defeat to Rafael Nadal in the Roland Garros final, the serbian He dedicated a few words to the Spanish, reviewing the large record of confrontations between one and the other.

“I have played with Rafa more than I have played with any other tennis player in my professional career. Our hand-in-hand history is the greatest in the history of this sport … He is definitely my biggest rival, “said the Serbian, referring to the 56 matches played against each other over 14 years, with 29 wins for him and 27 for Nadal.

However, such a grandiose definition of the Serbian did not go unnoticed by the other half of the racket world. It is that the American winner of 18 Grand Slams, Chris Evert, reminded him that the “greatest in history” of tennis is not so. “Well that’s true … in men’s tennis. Martina Navratilova and I have faced each other 80 times.”tweeted the former world number, champion seven times at Roland Garros, six at the US Open, three at Wimbledon and two in Australia, during the ’70s and’ 80s.

Owners of the largest record of the open era of tennis, They met 80 times between 1973 and 1988, with 37 wins for the American and 43 for the Czech, also winner of 18 Grand Slams throughout her career. It is worth remembering that both ended up representing the North American country in the Fed Cup, since Navratilova became a US citizen as soon as her professional career started.

But Evert did not stay only in the statistical correction. Later, he snapped again on his account: “When are men going to think before making such forceful statements bypassing women again?”. Overwhelming.

“The most serious”

The surprising fall of Djokovic in the Parisian final it was not well received by the Serbian press, who called it “Novak’s most serious defeat” in the words of the sports newspaper Sports, for example. This media points out that “Djokovic has not managed to win his second trophy at Roland Garros”, after winning in 2016, and that “Nadal triumphed easily.”

The rotary indicates that In no game between the big three, Djokovic, Nadal and Roger Federer, the scoreboard has never thrown a result as bulky as 6-0 and 6-2 in favor of some: “That clearly shows how much better the Spanish was against the Serbian in the final.”

Sports magazine he also notes under the heading “Nadal caught up with Federer” that “the triumph of the Spanish has brought a historical change in the fight for the title of the best tennis player of all time”, since, with 20 Grand Slam titles, the Spanish has equaled the record of the Swiss. “That means that, for the first time in eleven years, … the Swiss is no longer the best of all time, at least on that basis.”

The newspaper Today claims that Djokovic “He has not been able to face the best tennis player in the history of tennis on that ground in an equal way”.

The rotary Politics, for its part, alleges that “Djokovic didn’t seem the same” and he argues that even great champions have days when things don’t go well. Politics attributes Nadal’s landslide victory more to Djokovic’s failures than to his opponent’s tactics or pressure.