I read a bit about the Muller-Weiss syndrome Rafa has been dealing with the past 16 years, and it's kind of a miracle he's had a successful tennis career at all, never mind a goat level one. he was never going to stave it off forever, but it must have been a combination of age and the jerky nature of the tour on covid that accelerated the problem.
long ago I had thought that Roger's retirement would eventually be due to his back issues, and Rafa would be gone even earlier with busted knees. this means I'm totally unreliable for predictions, but I have this strange feeling that Djoker will finish with either > 25 majors (healthy for next few years), or exactly 20 (injury nobody knew about), nothing in between.
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