With the withdrawal of Roger Federer in the 2022 Laver Cup and with that of Rafa Nadal in the Davis Cup, there is only Novak Djokovic of the iconic ‘Big Three’ that has amazed the world of sport for so many years.
Analyzing the influence that the three tennis players have had on each other, Andy Roddick It has stopped at the ability that each one had to improve the other two.
“Rafa is an important part of that. Roger is better for having Rafa and Novak wouldn’t be the player he is without Rafa. If he had never had to face Rafa, we wouldn’t know that there is a better version of Novak,” he explained in his podcast ‘Served with Andy Roddick’.
In fact, the American focuses on the figure of Nadal: “The reason why these guys were so great was because they looked at the other side of the net and saw parts of themselves on the other side and knew they had to improve. Rafa was an important part of that. Created an impossible puzzle for a long time and he always did it in a decent way.”
“Roger was the first person who had no weaknesses, and then that created Rafa, who had no holes, and that created Novak who had none either,” added the former world number 1.
