masterclass said:
Odds are that his H2H vs Federer will continue to improve as long as 32 and up Federer keeps playing a prime (not peak) Djokovic. The fact that Federer at his age is still meeting Djokovic in SF and Finals speaks volumes.
But H2H is only 1 fact and overrated by many people. It may tell one something with regards to specific matches and match-ups, especially when the margin is big, but it's not so important in terms of overall performance. Chelsea may lead Manchester UTD. 21-19 in their H2H, since 2000, but when Manchester UTD wins the league championship 7 times during that same time, versus 3 for Chelsea, that H2H doesn't mean so much.
Nikolay Davydenko can continue to hold his H2H edge on Rafael Nadal, but you'll never convince me that Kolya is the better player overall.
Respectfully,
masterclass
My theory of head-to-head between two players is that it may contain as many
as 4 different parts.
H2H-I -------- P1, P2 both in prime time.
H2H-II -------- P1 at prime, P2 is not in prime.
H2H-III ------- P1 is no longer in prime, but P2 in prime.
H2H-IV ------- Neither P1 or P2 in prime.
The "prime" should nto be confused with being at "peak".
Even when comparing two players (as opposed to worrying about
championships and titles etc), the only relevant H2H is is H2H-I.
For many pairs, H2H-IV will be nonexistent as one of them would have
retired. The other three are ususall possible and real when you take
two players with an age difference of 5 to 10 and who go through
different cycles at the same page. When P1 is at prime, P2 may be
developing (it should count in H2H II), then there will be some
perios when both are at prime (goes in H2H-I) and then P1 may
become senile and P2 might continue to be in prime (goes in H2H III).
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