How would Andre Agassi beat Novak Djokovic? \u201cLet\u2019s see,\u201d he ponders. \u201c. . . I would have probably gotten in a fight with him in the locker room before the match. I might have had a chance there.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for tennis, the former world No 1 is as taken aback as anyone by the rising standard at the top of the men\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been amazing watching the standard continually get better. You wonder how it\u2019s possible to continue at that sort of rate. What [Roger] Federer did when he came and when I said goodbye, a lot had to do with what I knew was untouchable.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just a different standard of tennis. It\u2019s different rules of engagement when guys can do what these guys can do. I don\u2019t recognise it from a standpoint of strategy, because I counted on getting somebody behind in a point and then slowly smothering them.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut nobody\u2019s behind in a point. You never know when they\u2019re behind in a point. That would have eliminated any ability I had to move forward in the court.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would have had to be a different player, would\u2019ve had to have a different body. It means the game has gotten a lot better. Fed raised it; [Rafael] Nadal matched and raised it; [Novak] Djokovic, for that intense little period of time, even raised it. It seemed like last year settled down a bit, and now all of a sudden [Andy] Murray is in the equation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I see those top three guys, I see what history will say is the golden age of tennis. You\u2019re talking about arguably the three best guys. Djokovic will still need some distance to cover, but best of all time, if you\u2019re having that discussion in the same generation, it\u2019s remarkable.\u201d \u2013 guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How would Andre Agassi beat Novak Djokovic? \u201cLet\u2019s see,\u201d he ponders. \u201c. . . I would have probably gotten in a fight with him in the locker room before the match. I might have had a chance there.\u201d As for tennis, the former world No 1 is as taken aback as anyone by the rising […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-17564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}