Alo88
Milan Legend
I like this take.
Federer was by far the more enjoyable to watch. I appreciate the aesthetic aspect of the sport, which is why I gravitated toward Milan and not some blunt instrument mouth breather club like Juventus or Inter.
All 3 have a legitimate argument.
Sampras would kill all of them obviously![]()
Federer is aestethics in perfection.
When tennis teachers want to show their students video studies of how to play those rackets, how to move, to serve, smash.... almost every imaginable point in this sport... they'll show them Federer videos, not Nadal or Djokovic videos.
When you watch Djokovic, Murray or Nadal play tennis, you can see that what they are doing is on an incredible high bar, how difficult playing tennis on that level is, how much training and dedication it takes to even think about playing like them. You see them sweat. You hear them scream. It's a constant struggle while they ask their bodies to do seemingly impossible things.
But when you watch Federer, everything seems so effortless. So intuitive. So easy. Every movement flows so naturally into the next one. It's like a dance. Sometimes I could swear he wasn't even sweating. Of course he was. Of course he was in as much physical pain as the others. But you never saw it. Federer transcended tennis to a level no one thought it's even possible, and he did that by making it look like a walk in the park.
Both Nadal and Djokovic said multiple times during their careers that Federer set the bar and that they wouldn't play on the levels they played during their prime if it wasn't for him who lead the way.
Numbers are numbers, and I can't win a debate against numbers, obviously. But I'd nonetheless bet that in 20 years, people looking back will say Federer left a bigger and especially more significant mark to the sport than Nadal and Nole.







