Most talented player of all time

[Datacipher]

Originally Posted by Benhur

I don't know if anyone has mentioned Ramesh Krishnan from India. I saw him play a few times on tv in the 80s. He had a very aesthetically pleasing game, and commentators often described his strokes as "smooth as silk" and his game "flowing like honey" and similar phrases. Not a hard hitter, but what you might call a touch player with extraordinary control. He won the Wimbledon and French Open junior titles in 1979. Extremely talented and promising player that never quite made it to the very top. His highest ranking was in the 20s.

He and Mcenroe actually had some interesting touch battles.

[kiki]

Originally Posted by Datacipher

I wonder if anyone remembers a story where Larsen, on match point, took an easy overhead sitter, and feigned hitting an overhead, but instead, at the last second, flipped his racquet around, and using it like a pool cue, hit the ball over with the butt of racquet for a winner! I vaguely recall this, but can't be sure it was Larsen.

Wouldn´t surprise me at all... wasn´t Tappy Larsen the guy that talked to his " falcon" who suposedly was on his shoulder??.I heard he was a real genious, kind of Budge Patty or Jaroslav Drobny

[kiki]

Originally Posted by Benhur

I don't know if anyone has mentioned Ramesh Krishnan from India. I saw him play a few times on tv in the 80s. He had a very aesthetically pleasing game, and commentators often described his strokes as "smooth as silk" and his game "flowing like honey" and similar phrases. Not a hard hitter, but what you might call a touch player with extraordinary control. He won the Wimbledon and French Open junior titles in 1979. Extremely talented and promising player that never quite made it to the very top. His highest ranking was in the 20s.

One of the nicest memories of the 80´s is when those 2 artists, Vijay Amritraj and Ramesh Krishnan led India to the DC finals...only to be wipped out by the ultrasolid swedish squad (Wilander,Nystrom,Jarryd,Edberg,Sundstrom,Pernfors ...)