Yeah, it is highly unlikely that he separates himself from the pack, at least more for short spells. As of this moment, he's had more success than Zverev and Tsitsipas, but that might change. It will be interesting to see who has the best career of the three. I could see them playing hot potato with the #1 and Slams, until some of the younger guys emerge more fully.
If Djokodal relent before that happens.
While I don't think we'll see another 10+ Slam winner for awhile, one or even several of these guys could emerge somewhere in the Murray-Wilander-Edberg-Becker range (3-7 Slams). I mean, Becker won "only" 6 Slams over a 12-year span. Meaning, he wasn't winning 1-3 Slams a year like the Big Three, but one every other year (or really, five over the first seven years, then one more five years later, but the point is that he was in the top 10 a dozen years, mostly in the top 5. Of course he got started with his first at 17 and his last at 28, while the "Biggish Three" are already all in the second half of Becker's Slam-winning span (23-25 years old). But it is a different era, and it could be that 28 is the new 25, and 25 the new 22. Meaning, maybe it now takes players until 24-25 to fully come into their own, versus the 21-22 of eras past. And whereas they tended to peak at 24-25, maybe now it is 27-28.
That said, we still don't know what Sinner will look like in a couple years, or what Felix will look like once he gets over the hump of winning a title, or what sort of gears Alcaraz Garfia. I'm also rooting for Holger Rune, just because he has a bad-ass name. But he's only on the edge of the map, but he is the second highest ranked 18-year old at #124, so bears watching. Plus, he's
talking big.
