Olympic champion claims Djokovic can’t be GOAT because of his “better body”
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After Ben Bramble claimed Novak Djokovic‘s physique brings him an unfair advantage in the GOAT race, another similar opinion appeared in the English The Courier. Eve Muirhead, a 2022 curling Olympic champion, claims that Djokovic can’t be considered GOAT.
“Federer was at his very best before Djokovic reached his peak, that’s for sure. And there’s no doubt that Djokovic’s body has been built better than the other two to avoid injuries and give him an all-court game.
His flexibility and durability are incredible. In my own sport of curling, there’s no such thing as one ideal physique for a top player. But in tennis, you could get a lot closer to saying that there is. And Djokovic is it,” Muirhead said in her The Courier column.
Djokovic can’t be GOAT because he’s “rubber man”
To demonstrate that Novak Djokovic can’t be regarded as the Greatest Of All Time just because he won the most grand slams, one of the arguments that Ben Bramble used in his contentious The Guardian editorial was “physical advantages”.
Below are Bramble’s exact words: “Djokovic isn’t 10 feet tall but he is extremely fast and flexible. He is, as they say, “the rubber man”. This is an immense physical advantage. It allows him to extend points and grind his opponents down.
His abilities as a returner and defender, and indeed a strategist who runs his opponents around, are part of his greatness. But his physical advantages, at the same time, reduce the greatness of his achievements,” Brambles writes in The Guardian.
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