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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
If Istoban plays like that on a regular basis, he's a top 10 player in the world.
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and that's why he's not a top 10 player...there's tons of examples even in recent years where a titan was brought down by scrub that played the match of his life. there's a very high chance that Istomin plays horribly next round and goes out in straights.
tennis players are often more like switches rather than sliding scales, they can be just totally on or off. the best ones just happen to be "on" a greater percentage of their matches, that's something that improves as they reach their prime, and goes down as they age past it.
now that holes are being punched in Djoker's aura of invincibility, he'll gradually start to find himself in situations like current Rafa and Fed, where he's just inexplicably off more frequently, and his opponents are emboldened to swing as hard as they can and see what happens.