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I don't think the new incoming big players will be as good as the outgoing ones. It's a very unusual situation to have three players as good as Federer, Nadal and Djokovic all playing at the same time. They each have 20 slams, which is crazy... but imagine the situation if we'd only had one of these players, without the other two - whoever it was would probably have 30 slams at least, likely more.
And it's unlucky for Murray that he was playing at the same time as these three... of none of them had been there, he would likely have won 10 slams instead of 3.
agree that next three (why do we need three?) will not be the same as Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, but I would like to point out one thing that is most-probably the result of their domination, and the fact that in most GS, all rounds to semi-finals were not that interesting, since you know that tournament has three secured spots in semi-final, and just one player could join these three, and that is that:
- last five US open women finals had more TV viewers than men finals
- men and women share same prizes in tennis (at least on all GS), it is "the one and only sport" where women are paid the same as men
it is due to simple fact that men tennis is not that interesting at the moment, because you already know winners