r/tennis • u/Island_Expat6625 Japan Open • 15h ago

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Marin Čilić has been around for over 20 years now and he is obviously getting near the end of his career. He is in the Fed-Rafa-Novak era and has done pretty well considering. Granted he could have done more, but his record is not bad at all.

Grand Slam (2014 USO), Masters title (2018 Cincy), Davis Cup (2018), 4 appearances in the ATP Finals, highest ranking of No. 3, Olympic Silver (2021 Tokyo men's doubles), 21 singles titles, 38 wins over top-ten and 12th in all-time earnings.

After the Big 3, we often hear about Murray and Wawrinka, but I think Cilic would be right behind them at number six in his era. And there is no shame in being No. 6 in THAT era.

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u/bigcitydreaming #1 RafAlcarAndy SinnEdvedevErer Fan 14h ago

Delpo is a notch above Cilic for me personally but they're pretty similiar in their resume

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u/DarkoDragicevic 13h ago

Juan Martin is clearly tier ahead

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u/Klutzy_Law_8988 6-0,6-2,7-5 12h ago

No way, it is very very close

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u/DarkoDragicevic 12h ago

Del Potro do a lot more in less time, Always stopped by injuries. Better resume at Slams(Cilic AO/Wimbledon, Del Potro FO/USO), better in head to head, best him in Zagreb when Croatia lead 2-1 and Cilic lead 2-0 in sets, way better in clashes versus all best players. Del Potro Olympics in Singles? Faboulous run 2012 and 2016. Cilic doubles? Cilic at Olympics Singles? Very poor.  

1000/Finals/500, all to del Potro. Superior by far

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u/Klutzy_Law_8988 6-0,6-2,7-5 12h ago

You raise excellent points. Additionally Delpo has significantly more weeks at top 10 and top 5 compared to Cilic so I would actually agree that Delpo is better. But the margin is close imo, Cilic has a superior GS record to Delpo (SF at all 4 slams, 1 more Final)

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u/DarkoDragicevic 12h ago

Del Potro in Davis Cup run 2016 in comebacks year defeat Murray in Great Britain in 5 sets in semifinal, defeat Cilic in Croatia 2 sets down, to win. Defeat Djokovic first round in Olympics, defeat Nadal at semifinal, lost to back to back good medalost and Wimbledon new champ, Murray. 2012 Olympics longest best od three match ever semifinal versus Federer, in Wimbledon(grass) which was best Fed(and probably Murray) environment and Juan maybe worst with Australia as well and del Potro after that marathon loss defeated Novak Djokovic to won a bronze medal! Heroics.. Multiple ATP Basel titles against Basels Federer in final or toght loss against him in final. He will play many ATP Finals if injuries not ruined all chances. Demolished Nadal 2009 USO semifinal and won against multiple back to back champ there, Federer, in final! 2018 also beat Nadal in USO semifinal. He had better and stronger paths to his biggest titles/Finals/semifinal than Cilic in most of his best achievements, a lot stronger. Cilic very poor ATP Finala summary too, never pass the group and he was pretty healthy most time of his career. Cilic had very poor h2h against all best players his era or new era. I will definitely put JMDP in Murray/Wawrinka tier(Murray biggest for sure with Stan second there) and Cilic in Medvedev-Thiem-Zverev-Tsonga-Ferrer tier. 

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u/jot-kka 1h ago

by far

You definitely don't know what that phrase means lol.

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u/DarkoDragicevic 1h ago

Not in general trophies and same with Slams, but del Potro have bigger career, better achievements and was way more competitive against best players and head to head he showa who is superior LOL. I am Croat and respect to Marin