The Dagger: The boring, predictable men’s tennis game

Monotony kills sports.

When it’s foregone conclusion who will win a matchup, it becomes less interesting.

On some level, it’s nice to see dynastic runs from great teams and players like the 90s Bulls, the Williams sisters and the Yankees.

After some time, though, it gets old.

The University of Connecticut’s women’s basketball program is fabulous but watching them win 10 championships in 16 years was nauseating.

Today’s men’s tennis game makes me nauseous.

In the last 19 years, the “Big Three” – Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, and Rafael Nadal – have won 58 of the 73 in Grand Slam tournaments and 16 of the past 17, effectively dulling men’s tennis.

The worst part about it? The younger generation isn’t doing much about it.

The younger men’s tennis players’ inability to overcome the Big Three is annoying and makes the sport less exciting to watch.

The slivers of hope who made the game more competitive for a few years are Andy Murray, Juan Del Potro and Stan Wawrinka. But those guys have all but evaporated in recent years.

Now, most of the onus is upon young stars Dominic Thiem, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev – who seem to have the confidence to defeat the Big Three in any other tournament outside of majors. You know, the legacy defining competitions.

Anger, disgust and disappointment should not be directed at the Big Three who are simply excelling at their jobs but rather the outsiders who are doing nothing about it.

They should be more angry, disgusted and disappointed than fans – like me – that they haven’t been able overcome the three-headed monster.

We watch sports to see if there is anyone who will finally step up and say “This has got to stop,” and put an end to monotonous dynastic runs.

Unfortunately, I don’t see that person emerging any time soon in men’s tennis.

Le sigh.