By definition, a ‘Greatest Of All Time’ or GOAT, is a singular entity. That’s what the phrase suggests. But we live in times of such riches that there are a plethora of GOATS to pick from.
Nine months ago, a July Sunday witnessed some of the finest sporting action across different fields at almost the same time – at the Mecca of cricket, at the spiritual home of tennis and in the birthplace of golf..
Cricket and tennis witnessed two of the most dramatic moments in their respective histories separated by a few miles on a sporting Super Sunday in London.
Think Tiger Woods and golf. And think Roger Federer and tennis. The difference between the two is Tiger never had a Rafal Nadalesque opponent dogging his footsteps in the pomp of his career.