The debate on who’s the best to ever step on a tennis court may have just been put to rest. In a recent interview with AS published Wednesday, Rafael Nadal said that Novak Djokovic is better than him and every other tennis player who ever lived thanks to his most recent win at the U.S. Open.
The win is his third Grand Slam title this year and brought him to a total of 24 majors—two more that Nadal’s total.
“I believe that numbers are numbers and statistics are statistics. In that sense, I think he [Djokovic] has better numbers than mine and that is indisputable,” Nadal said, translated by ESPN. “This is the truth. The rest are tastes, inspiration, sensations that one or the other may transmit to you, that you may like one or the other more. I think that with respect to titles, Djokovic is the best in history and there is nothing to discuss about that.”
