It's so easy to become a prisoner of the moment. Sometimes you don't even have to try to get captured.
And so you watch Novak Djokovic win Wimbledon again for his 20th career Grand Slam title, and you think, "There's never been ANYTHING like this before." And you forget about McEnroe and Connors and Borg and Laver and Ashe and a whole pile of others who did their deal back in the day.
This time, though, the prisoner goes free. Because the moment really is unique.
Perhaps you could argue that we saw this before when Borg, Connors and McEnroe were battling it out in the late '70s and '80s, but we really didn't. By winning his 20th Slam, see, Djokovic had to bring an extra chair to the mountaintop. That's because two of his contemporaries had already been seated.
Djokovic, Federer, Nadal. Present and accounted for up there on the windy summit.
All have 20 career Grand Slam titles.
All are still playing.
Borg, Connors and McEnroe?
They can't touch that. They just can't.
And so this is no prisoner of the moment deal, unless "moment" comes with a "capital M." That's what you have to do when you look up and there's three historically transcendent talents in the men's game at the same time.
Savor it, boys and girls. Because, no, there's never been ANYTHING like this before.
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