Exactly, but to Djokovic is really sports, he didn't make any excuses in his lost to Nadal. 6-0 first set? Damn, I can't remember what are the odds, was thinking of putting 6-3 beat on Nadal, luckily I didn't pull the trigger but just stay on the ML for Nadal, so just a couple of bucks winnings.
And in this modern era, we might not see that someone breaking that record, and it will continue no doubt about that and I would say that is one record that is going hard to break, or even get close to it. Djokovic though will remain at the #1 position.
The odds for Nadal winning the first set 6-0 would of been huge as no one would of expected this to happen even though Nadal is the king on the clay. Djokovic is the world number 1 for a reason and to see him lose this badly made him look like a player ranked outside the top 100 that's how good Nadal was on the day.
Yeah he still holds the number 1 rank and will most likely finish the year ranked number 1 as Djokovic is around 1400 points clear at the top ahead of Nadal. Maybe we will see Nadal drop and Thiem work his way up to second depending on what tournaments we see in the next 2 months. Well we know there will be no tennis played in China so we shall see as now the virus is getting out of control in Europe again.
Meanwhile, hes still leading by winning 29 games against Nadal while Nadal only won 27 in total.
I know, what I said was it made him look like Nadal was playing a player outside the top 100 with the score line. Yes I know Djokovic wasn't at 100% and it just showed how much strong he is to make the final just like we have seen in the past with Nadal. I'm in no way attacking Djokovic because if you go back through this thread you will see that I am a big supporter of his and still think that he can potentially be the most winning grand slam champion at the end of his carrer.