"There will not be a better generation" says Feliciano Lopez with admission of no new Big Three on the horizon post Djokovic

Former world number nine Feliciano Lopez believes that the era of the dominance of Spain’s Rafael Nadal, Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer.

Those three players dominated men’s tennis for the good part of the last two decades. It is because of this reason they are known as the ‘Big Three’.

Lopez was recently quoted in a report where he expressed his dominance that it is unlikely to have another era where three players would dominate men’s tennis for such a long time.

“It’s obvious. Roger Federer is gone, Djokovic doesn’t know what he has left, and Rafa doesn’t know what he has left either. But it’s evident that the world of tennis is experiencing a brutal change,” he said.

“In the end, what we have experienced in recent times has been unreal. Three No 1s, the three best players in history competing together in the last fifteen years seems unreal to me and that it will never happen again. The sooner we accept it, the better. And the sooner the comparisons stop, well, [the] better.

“Because if we think about it coldly, there will not be a better generation. There has not been one since tennis began. We are going to enjoy what we have, which is not what we had because it is impossible. We have had a generation of tennis players that is not going to go away. Repeat again.”

Djokovic has often been regarded as the greatest player in the history of men’s tennis, having won as many as 24 Grand Slam titles. On the other hand, Nadal has won the major 22 times whereas Federer lifted the major titles 20 times.