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U La La !
it is a trailer for Alcaraz vs Rafa
Tomorrow Rafa vs Alcaraz gonna be entering this file: Fight between generations.
And hopefully, this is gonna be a historic one .
Vamos 💪
Having seen that you can't say Safin couldn't be n°1 now ! 💪👊
Marat my love…
Pena que la cancha no tuviera ojo de halcón esas pelotas de partido se escaparon por poco
Monfils isn't a great tactical player today but oh my how terrible he was back then lol the guy just seemed to have no brain
The quality of play was so bad.
Monfils didn't have the head and focus back then. He wanted to be a showman & entertainer instead of using his head. Wasted talent who only won 63% of his matches and never reached a Major final!
how was this a generation game when safin was 29 and monfils 23? lol not that much of a difference
Nice !
With such physique and technique he should've been top 5 at least
Where's the trailer Alcaraz / Norris???
The surface is so slow
Safins best was lethal and don't forget he beat sampras,Federer and novak twice each,won 2 slams 5 master 1000s and 2 davis cups even though he spent 4 years out with injuries and retired at 29 in this season.
Safin was definitely not in his prime anymore here…😒
Doucement nadal cool u are the best. Cool
Safin is the best at wearing shirts that are two sizes too big
I hope tennis players of the future will understand that they can learn a lot from prime Monfils despite how he was never number one.
"О, пивасик!" – М.Сафин
Safin was timid and played like ass. Man I wish safin had a more successful career, such smooth strokes.
Such a talent, Monfils. Pity he didn't have consistency throughout his career…®️👍👏
Do people in professional tennis recognize how differently your commentators speak about the players?! Pointing to the intellect of some while heavy on the shots or physicality of others. A deficit vs prominence way of framing comments. Hoping I’m wrong.
"Generation game" but they both were in their 20's (merely one year short of the age difference between Fed and Novak!). Tomorrow's match between Rafa and Alcaraz will see someone in his 10's and someone well in his 30's face each other. What would be even more fun is a potential Federer-Alcaraz match with an 18 year-old aspiring legend facing a 41 year-old established legend!
adios pelota
Monfils' forehand lacked power by then, and his strategy was to rely on opponent making errors
29 vs. 22 not really a generation game
Safin's backhand is still one of my favorite shots.
Looks pretty much like modern tennis to me 😀 This is pre iPhone. Loooooong time ago.
Well when I see Monfils at this age, I understand how good Alcaraz will be
Марат 😍😍😃
It was already a "late " Safin … Not the one in 2005. Therefore, the clown's luck has come!
Wow, need celebrate at least for week victory of 20s years old over 40+ man On tie break ))
Safin was 29 and monfils was 22 at that time given that age difference every Federer/Djokovic and every Federer/Murray match can also be called "generation game", doesn't make sense. By that logic, Thiem/Shapovalov or Thiem/FAA can also be called generation game which again doesn't make sense since all of them are in 20s. Federer/Sinner or Rafa/Alcaraz or Nole/Musetti is more of a generation game
If only Safin and his sister were more mentally tough and less injury prone, they could have achieved the tennis sibling status the likes of the Williams and Bryans.
Two mavericks of the game and never a dull moment.
Monfils nascido em 1986 e Safin nascido em 1980 acho que os dois são da mesma geração!
Nadal nascido em 1986 se tornou profissional em 2001 Alcaraz nascido em 2003, em 2003 Nadal já era profissional.
Real ranking atp by level of tennis
1. Djokovic.
2. Nadal
3. Medvedev
4. Zverev
5. Tsitsipas
6. Felix auger aliassime
7. Carlos alcaraz
8. Jannik sinner
9. Andrey rublev
10. Casper ruud
mofils was all over the court.
As good as he is what did Gael improve in 13 years? Not much…compare big 3's game/technique evolution (not about the results)
I think 2 of the most fun players to watch play, Marat and Gael. Thanks for posting this!
Such a ugly celebration from Monfils , like a clown image Safin winning against Sampras and doing this
It pays to be a pusher even at the pros