Do things necessarily need to be competitive at the top?

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Djokovic is number 1 in the world right now and by some distance. From reading posts this year so far I get the feeling that people here aren't satisfied with this state of affairs or that it's somehow worse now than it has been before. I'm not saying this is shaping up to be the most exciting year in tennis ever but is it really so bad, relative to the last 5 years, that the others need to step their game up to save us from some kind of viewing catastrophe? Yes they need to step their game up if they want to beat him and I'm sure they are doing all they can but the feeling I'm getting from here is that it is all too imperative that they succeed in order to avert a crisis.

I'll admit that I didn't watch much of Miami apart from highlights but across these last two tournaments he's been challenged a few times but in the end proved too good. The game moves on every year and if he's done the best with keeping up with that and improving then more credit to him. He's not my favourite player but if he should win the majority of everything significant this year then so be it. It seems that on here there is a strong desire not to have a single player dominate and that if that is the case then competition is weak; maybe no one wants to see domination of a "weak era" like 2004-2007 again and anything resembling that can't be good for the game. I, on the other hand, believe it's possible to just gave a player who is much better than everyone else at a given time. The competition is ok this year and we're not at a point where the matches are foregone conclusions , at least no more or less significantly so than previous years.

Yeah, the Doorman at the Casino de Monte-Carlo will be crying too, if Djoko does not win RG this year.

Jahu wrote:Yeah, the Doorman at the Casino de Monte-Carlo will be crying too, if Djoko does not win RG this year.

Nadal is definitely the favourite to take the title despite what Nadal says. Novak is the professional plate collector

That was before the 2011, since then more of a Plexiglas/Polycarbonate plastic trophies, he has advanced since moving to MC, more posh now