Tennis is well served by the Fab Four
Rafa Nadal has reached seven of the last grand slam finals but having lost four of them to Novak Djokovic what will it take for him to beat the man machine from Serbia again? Roger Federer has won more grand slam events than any man in history yet it will take a monumental effort for him to beat either of them in a major again. Last week Andy Murray pulled off the remarkable achievement of reaching the semi-final stage of the last five slams yet will he ever win a slam outright with those three other guys still around? And then there’s poor old David Ferrer. You may hardly have heard of him but David is actually the fifth-best men’s tennis player in the world, a position he first earned as far back as 2006.
Do you have any idea how good you must be to be one of the best five in the world in anything, let alone tennis? With all those millions of Eastern Europeans hammering countless of balls for countless hours? With all those protégés coming off the conveyer belts of all those hi-sci academies in Florida? So think of how uniquely talented our friend David from Spain must be. Yet you’ve hardly heard of him. He’s not one of the Fab Four. And for him to reclaim his spot as the fourth-best player in the world would seem as big a jump as leaping the Grand Canyon itself.
