'That’s why I separate Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic a bit', says Top 10

2020 was a rather special year and with the advent of the pandemic due to the Coronavirus emergency, the whole tennis world was conditioned by a "reworked" season that saw the cancellation of glorious tournaments such as Wimbledon. It has been an unusual season, particular, but this one has shown once again how at the moment Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal are the strongest tennis players in the world. Leaving aside the Swiss champion Roger Federer, now advanced in age and this year constantly struggling with injuries, the two players dominated the circuit between Grand Slam titles and Masters 1000 won. The only Grand Slam left "free" was the US Open, a tournament in which Nadal chose not to participate given the difficult conditions in the United States and saw Novak Djokovic eliminated by force majeure and an "extraordinary" event like the disqualification for having mistakenly hit a line judge when the game is stopped (which certainly does not happen every day). Analyst Craig O'Shannessy, known for having worked with some tennis players such as Novak Djokovic himself, worked for the ATP by structuring a ranking of all the statistics present: based on various statistics we have noticed that Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal they are always present but there is a category where the two clearly make the difference and that is performance under pressure, a statistic that takes into account the converted and saved break points as well as the tie break ratio and the decisive sets won. The ATP tried to evaluate the performances in the best moments of the match. Analyzing this story Nadal is ahead with the valuation of 264.3 but the advantage over Djokovic is almost nil as the Serbian is instead at 264.1.

Schwartzman on Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic

As the ATP Finals 2020 is set to get underway, Diego Schwartzman opened up on how the next week could pan out. He knows nothing short of his best would suffice. “I have to be one hundred percent to beat the Top Ten. If you are not like this it is very difficult to compete at the height of them,” Schwartzman said. Schwartzman differentiated between the level of difficulty he is set to face. Against the likes of Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, a brief moment of complacency can cost him, even if he is leading the proceedings. “That’s why I separate them a bit. Against Rafa and Djokovic you have to play 100% the whole game. As soon as you have an ups and downs they find a crack and come out of the problem that you can generate,” Schwartzman expressed. Schwartzman likened it to an arm-wrestling match. “It’s like an arm-wrestling that you win quickly,” the 28-year-old believes.

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