Geneva, (EFE).- The Swiss tennis player Roger Federer, retired last year, resisted in an interview with his country’s media to declare the Serbian Novak Djokovic as the best racket in history, arguing that as long as the Spanish Rafael Nadal continues active, the debate will remain open.
“It’s hard to say, I was discussing it with a friend… which is more difficult, winning Wimbledon at 17 like Boris Becker or at 36 like Novak?” Federer commented in an interview with the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger on the occasion of a Tribute to the Basel player in the Halle Tournament (Germany).
“What Djokovic has achieved is fantastic and could be enough, but I think that as long as Nadal continues playing we cannot answer that definitively,” added the tennis player, who for years also remained in the theoretical arena for being the best in the league. history together with the Mallorcan and the Serbian.
Federer was honored this Wednesday in Halle, a tournament where he is the player who has won the most titles, up to 10 in total (he is also the only one to achieve that number in a competition on grass).
After winning in Paris, Djokovic leads the men’s Grand Slam tournament rankings, with 23 titles, followed by Nadal’s 22 and Federer’s 20.