Messi, Nadal, Woods, Schumacher: Naming the GOAT in world's biggest sports

Is Rafael Nadal now the tennis GOAT (Greatest of All Time)?

On Sunday, the Spaniard won his 21st Grand Slam title in Australia, moving him ahead of both Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.

If we’re basing it purely on statistics, Nadal is now the greatest tennis player of all time.

While the GOAT of tennis may be up for debate, the GOAT for many others sports isn’t.

Therefore, we’ve decided to look at 18 different sports and name who we think is the GOAT in that particular sport.

Of course, we certainly aren’t casting the deciding vote. We’re simply having our opinion and we’d be concerned if you agreed with every single one of our picks.

It’s just a bit of fun on the back of Nadal making history at the weekend.

So, without further ado, here is the GOAT for 17 of the biggest sports in the world.

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As we’ve mentioned, Nadal moving ahead of both Federer and Djokovic means he’s the GOAT of men’s tennis in our eyes. For now at least…

The GOAT in women’s tennis is a little easier to name. Williams has claimed 23 Grand Slam singles titles as well as 14 in women's doubles, and two in mixed doubles.

For us, it was either Messi or Ronaldo. But given that the Argentine now has seven Ballon d’ors to Ronaldo’s five, we’re declaring him the GOAT.

Ali may have lost five fights in his career but the heavyweight boxer remains the only three-time lineal champion.

His trilogy of fights against Joe Frazier and his ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ victory over George Foreman helped boxing become one of the biggest sports in the world.

Who else but the fastest man in history?

The world record holder in the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay.

Usain Bolt has eight Olympic gold medals to his name and is