I know Wayne is the #1 player of all time, I said it several times.

But the comparison I made of Gretzky vs Mario is pretty similar in a lot of ways to Seles vs Graf.

Nobody argues Seles retired ahead of Graf for her career, but we love to operate in what ifs when we talk about the 2 of them and there were certainly seasons where Graf was 2nd behind Seles.

Obviously tennis is different and much easier to compare 2 players head to head from the same era, but the idea that the best player's best rival was basically taken out of the competition by odd circumstances that people in the sport aren't supposed to deal with makes it a pretty apt comparison.

For all the times I hear people try to say what if Seles didn't get stabbed, I think it's perfectly fair to say what if Mario didn't have cancer while still accepting that he isn't #1 on the list.