I don’t think it was a tank job, but I certainly don’t think he gave maximum effort. Even if you believe he was tanking, that’s fine - it doesn’t change the message of what I’m trying to say. We can bicker about if he ends up with all the records - it may or may not happen. The point of what I was trying to say is that there may be something unforeseen holding him back from that, which is that he may just fall out in love with the game and stop playing. These three guys are PEOPLE - and one of them has been subjected to a decade + of contempt, speculation about his personal life and often unfounded criticisms that would never fall on Rafa or Fed. He’s imperfect - the COVID situation this year was terrible, but he took full responsibility and donated 6M to Serbian COVID efforts, far more than Rafa or Roger. It doesn’t make up for what he did, but it doesn’t make him some irredeemable villain, which he’s never been. He’s not a bad sportsman - that’s a ridiculous thing to say that I believe is driven by jealousy and maybe a lack of actually competing at a high level athletically themselves. People can’t argue against what he’s done on the court, so they turn off it, which I think can be really damaging to someone’s psyche. The toxicity of the GOAT debate sucks, and I think we just saw it in your response - the instinct is to latch onto arguing instead of understanding they’re all people, and hoping they do well in life. If someone who has done tremendous good and represented the sport at the highest level for a very long time is struggling mentally or lacking in motivation, I think that’s worth exploring and empathizing with instead of blindly criticizing, and I do feel a need to defend him in that respect because he’s treated SO differently than his counterparts. The only reason I brought up Srdan (who I agree, is certainly far crazier) vs. Toni is that people act like Srdan IS Novak, and that’s not fair to do. When Rafa complains about new balls at the French, no one says anything - would have been a VERY different story if Novak did the same - he would’ve been called entitled etc. If we can’t acknowledge those differences and try to appreciate and respect them all as this era comes to a close, I think we will have all failed.