"Will not be easy that happen two generations in a row": Nadal doesn't think Rune, Alcaraz and current Next Gen can emulate Big Three
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Rafael Nadal doesn't think the current generation of players will be able to reach the heights of his generation as it's simply a very hard thing to do.
Nadal is part of an era that will forever the remembered as the golden era of tennis. Never before did we see three supreme talents battle it out for many years. If you add Andy Murray in there as well you have a group of players that are far above average in every sense of the word. Nadal doesn't think it will happen in this generation:
"I can't predict the future. Some of the names that you named, they are super good...If we start talking about achieving 22 Grand Slams, 21, 20, I mean, it's a big deal. That can happen, yes. Why not? But at the same time never happened in the past. Will not be easy that happen two generations in a row. That's just putting the logical perspective on the room, no?"
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Nadal has only words of praise for the new generations of players despite unsure of how far they can go:
"They are super good. They're going to have amazing career. They're going to win slams. They're going to win a lot of tournaments, yes. Some of them, I can't be sure, but I'm almost sure not two players of this generation going to achieve 20, 21, and 22 Grand Slams. If someone can reach that number - maybe - going to be difficult, they have a lot of things to do in front. But you never know what can happen."
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