Total bullshit, people slag off opponents all the time in all sports and it wasn’t the ‘rest of the tour’ anyway.
I took those comments as tongue a cheek but that doesn’t somehow make the general standard of those coming up lately loads better. If they were the older guys wouldn’t be winning stuff.
It does make you wonder at the general standard coming through now, disrespectful or not. Every sport has it’s good and bad eras (I don’t think we’ll see another era as good as we have in mens tennis at the mo with Djok/Nadal/Federer for example) but the early to mid 90s saw a whole bunch of people come through that just blasted the established pros into retirement. How many of that level have we seen post 2000 even? 4 or 5 perhaps?