On Monday, July 17, 2017 at 1:45:11 AM UTC+10, Tuan wrote:
> Not taking 6 months off in 2013. If he did he would have > 20 majors by now. It's now clear that he was getting stale. His freedom from serious injury, ironically, kept him from achieving even more.
Maybe, maybe not. In 2014, he still has to deal with Djokovic and Nadal before they fall off cliffs. And he's never had the type of bad run that suggests total burnout (eg Nadal 2015-2016).
On the other hand, his two slams this year are because he's always hanging around at the end of the big tournaments and everyone else blinked when he never has. Could just as easily happened in 2015 whereas, in hindsight, 6 months off in 2013 wouldn't have had him beating Djokovic then.