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You say that there are hardly anymore surface specialists today (which is correct)... and that the court speeds are becoming similar across the different surfaces (debatable)... but, at the same time, you keep claiming that court speed is the biggest factor in determining who will do well and who won’t at any given tournament. This is completely contradictory.ashkor87 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 4:01 am It also helps that courts around the world are getting similar in speed..a good player can win all the tournaments he enters...not so much among the women, though! Maybe Swiatek...
In earlier days, there were clay court specialists like Bruguera and Costa .or even grass specialists. There are hardly any specialists any more, men or women..
You're essentially saying - in pretty much every post - that every player is a specialist for a certain court speed (usually defined as 'fast' or 'slow'). In 99% of your posts, you mention court speed as being a major factor in determining who will do well and who won't at each tournament.
Again - this constant claiming that court speed is a major determining factor - essentially THE determining factor - in which players will do well at a tournament, and which players won’t is nonsense. The vast majority of players are not surface or court speed specialists. A very good player is a very good player regardless of surface or court speed. The same for a mediocre player. The same for a not so good player. That is one thing in the game that has not changed over the years...
Borg, Lendl, Wilander, Edberg, Connors, etc., etc., etc. won multiple tournaments on multiple different surfaces and multiple different court speeds. Back then, the differences in court speed between surfaces were greater than they are today (indoor carpet, which we never see these days, was very fast). And talent transcended all of that - as it does today.
