Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. Three legends that make up the Big3, a select group where few people are encouraged to add a fourth voice, that of Andy Murray. The Briton has won Grand Slams, Masters 1000, Olympic Gold and has been No. 1 in the world, but his record does not give him to catch up with his three contemporaries. What nobody takes away from him is the fact that he is the man who confronted them the most times, some experiences that he wanted to share a few days ago with Gael Monfils through a direct on Twitch. With the Frenchman he spoke about which player is the strongest mentally of the three, a debate that Dunblane’s left open at the beginning and then closed it.
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“It’s funny because I had this same conversation with Novak a few months ago, we did an Instagram Live during the pandemic, when we were locked in our homes due to the coronavirus. I told him that for me there have been moments during his career where I would put him even ahead of Rafa in terms of mental strength, ”said the Scotsman, who shares a 24-game rivalry with the Spaniard and one of 35 direct duels with the Serbian.
But Murray wanted to be honest with himself and quickly settled the matter with a necessary clarification. “However, if I look at the race globally, as a whole, focusing on each game and each tournament they have played in their careers, I would tell you that I have never seen anything like Rafa Nadal. Just this week we have been chatting about where Novak was right now mentally, how he felt in that last tournament “, he added after seeing the somewhat duller character of the Balkan in his last tournaments of the 2020 season, both in Vienna (defeated by Lorenzo Sonego) and in the Nitto ATP Finals (where he suffered losses to Daniil Medvedev and Dominic Thiem).
“This is something that I had never really worried about on his part, I never thought that it could become a problem for Novak the fact of not finding the motivation or that he could not exploit that mental strength in everything,” Murray sentenced in collected statements by TennizBuzz taken from that talk with Monfils. “This is precisely why, if we look at their careers with an overview, I have to choose Rafa as the mentally stronger player.” This is what Andy think and possibly what a good part of the fan thinks. How do you see it in the forum?
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