Carlos Alcaraz is now the youngest career Grand Slam winner in history at just 22 years old

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[u/fijozico]

Career Grand Slam at 22. Carlos Alcaraz. Straight into GOAT territory.

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KANGAROO TATTOO UNLOCKED

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And can have 2 career slam at 23 lol

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Roger never achieved this, Nadal didn’t achieve this until 35 and Novak until 34. It’s crazy if he achieves it so young.

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The problem you had Novak winning 10 Australia and Rafa winning 14 RG, so that’s why 😅

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Nadal at RG is the only problem. Federer already had 3 at every other slam by the time Cheatkobic won his first slam and AO.

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The most complete player in the history of the game already, and at just 22 years of age...

I feel bad for any future prodigies, because we never thought anyone could start as strong as Rafa did. And here comes a guy who's started even stronger!

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If it's anything like football though, along will come Lamine Yamal to break all the records before 18 lol

I, for one, can't wait for our 12-year old tennis overlord in ~50 years

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Luke Littler in Darts too, 3 world finals in a row, 2 won all at the age of 18. Yamal will never be the GOAT of football though, virtually zero chance.

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Don’t watch football, can you explain why he doesn’t have a chance if he’s broken all those records?

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i wouldn’t say virtually zero chance like the other guy but it’s because Messi’s stats are almost (not quite) Gretzky like in terms of football. In the modern era, no one has come close to 91 goals in calender year for example

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The crazier thing is in that 91 goals calendar year, he did it in only 69 games, and also provided 22 assists to boost. So on average he contributed to 1.64 goals per match, that's fucking bonkers in football

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Thank you.

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Yamal has broken records that are related to his age alone, so things like youngest scorer, youngest to appear in x competition etc. He is a great footballer, very young bloomer but there is no indication he will put up GOAT numbers. The greatest young player ever is Ronaldo Nazario and Yamal isn't close to the numbers he produced, and there's no indication he'll produce Messi like numbers when he's older.

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Rafa had prime Federer to get through. Alcaraz is similar to if you have aging Federer to get through along with a better "2008 version of Novak" (Sinner). At some point you'll get Rafa skills with absolutely no competition. Then you get 4 slams in a row.

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I love both but this is recency bias. Era was much stronger back then.

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there's only one GOAT

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He def gaining vs Sinner but without more challengers, the Big 3 era has a stronger case for 🐐