In the last two decades we have seen countless tennis players who have fallen one step away from being big stars in this sport. But that section of legends has corresponded to the great dominators of the circuit, exemplified in recent times in the figures of Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
It is the 'hot' moments of the matches that tip the balance in favor of these titans, moments in which they waste steel nerves for solve situations under pressure that the vast majority of players cannot. Therein lies the difference between being a great tennis player and a stellar one. And according to the data shown by the latest analysis of the ATP Beyond The Numbers, it is clear that both Rafa and Nole are the best in the world when they play under pressure.
After elaborate scoring with the break balls saved and converted, and the tiebreaks and deciding sets won, the report gives a score of 264.3 to Nadal and 264.1 to Djokovic. The two are located at the top of a study that collects the last 52 weeks of play, with other reference tennis players who occupy the top-10 of the ranking at a certain distance: Roger Federer (248.7), Dominic Thiem (238.6), Diego schwartzman (231.7) or Andrey Rublev (228.9).
In case the brand of Rafa and Nole was not important enough in itself, it should be noted that both are the only tennis players to also enter the top-10 of other ATP rankings produced in their latest report, as leaders of the service (Nadal 7th and Djokovic 10th) and leaders of the rest (1st the Spanish and 2nd the Belgrade). For all this, they currently occupy the first two positions in the ATP ranking, a tennis dictatorship that still does not see the end …