Roger Federer says Rafael Nadal is a great player. Photo: Tennis Live
For four consecutive years, from 2004 to 2007, Roger Federer won Wimbledon and the US Open, the last two Grand Slam singles titles of the season. In 2010, Rafael Nadal took the last two. A year later, Novak Djokovic achieved the Wimbledon-US Open double.
Last year, for the first time in nine years, there were four different major champions. This was because Andy Murray finally, truly joined the fraternity of the big four, winning his first Grand Slam singles title at the US Open.
It felt a little like 2003, when Andre Agassi, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Federer and Andy Roddick all took home major trophies. It was the first for Federer and, as it turned out, the only one for Roddick and Ferrero.
This year? It says here that there will be no four-way sharing of the big prizes.
The winner of this New York fortnight is almost certainly going to be one of the three who already have claimed a major this season – in order, Djokovic, Nadal or Murray. As if there wasn’t already enough at stake, that would make the winner your 2013 player of the year.
And in contrast to recent history, there’s no way of knowing who that will be. – ESPN
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