Roger Federer: 'We will never know who is the greatest player ever'
In Indian Wells Roger Federer commented on the GOAT question, who could be the greatest player of all time. The Swiss said you cannot really pick an answer.
"It's definitely difficult overall", admitted Federer. "I don't think Ken Rosewall was thinking of how many majors he was going to win. You know, I think the future is only going to be reminded even more so of what everybody has achieved. I think players 30 years from now are going to chase much more records than I did early on or Pete did or and so forth. And because the game was what it was, you know, it's very difficult to compare. To be quite honest, yeah, maybe you could do it in generations. But I think at the end of the day, it's just a fun and interesting debate, nothing more. We will never quite know because you only get sometimes the chance to be the youngest to win a slam, and you only get a chance later on to be the oldest to win something. What's more difficult? I don't know. Sometimes you also get unlucky or lucky that a streak broke because of injury, because of some freak accident. Does that ruin everything? I don't know. It's really difficult, anyway, to see all these things. But what I know is I think any player who is in the conversation is already incredibly proud of that effort."
from Tennis World USA https://ift.tt/2W0pVZM
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