Novak Djokovic Is the Greatest Player of the ‘Big Three’
The 32-year-old Serb overwhelmed Roger Federer in a marathon men’s singles final at Wimbledon and proved himself the best of his generation.
Though Novak Djokovic is the youngest member of the “Big Three”—the trio of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Djokovic that has reigned supreme over men’s tennis for the past decade—it often feels like he’s the overlooked middle child of the bunch. Both Federer and Nadal are superstars beloved for the sporting ideals their respective games epitomize: the elegance and precision of Federer’s classic style of attacking tennis, the grit and ferocity of Nadal’s power-baseline game. Djokovic, who today defeated Federer in the , 7–6 (5), 1–6, 7–6 (4), 4–6, 13–12 (3), has never elicited
