Most memorable shots in the open era

[borg number one]

So many good ones have already been mentioned, these are the ones that are most memorable for me, on the men's side:

Becker Serve
Sampras serve/forehand
Laver forehand/backhand
Vilas forehand/backhand
Borg forehand/backhand
Connors backhand
McEnroe serve
Ashe backhand
Tanner serve
Agassi backhand
Edberg backhand
Wilander backhand
Lendl forehand
Djokovic backhand
Murray backhand

I'm sure I've leaving off many for now....

On the women's side, the Graf BH, Evert's BH, Navratilova's serve and volley (both sides), the Seles BH, Henin BH..

[boredone3456]

Originally Posted by BTURNER

Steffi's forehand has to be in the top ten most influentail shots of all time either gender! No single stroke of any woman, so dominated the tactics and outcome on both sides of the net ( hers and her opponents) in so many majors for so long. If it was going in, you had little hope of winning, whatever the surface you were playing on, or whatever you tried or whatever your ranking. She built her game on it and opponents altered theirs in reply.

To this day, all groundstrokes are compared to the Graf forehand as the ultimate weapon. It sets the standard. Absolutely singular in scope and influence on the entire field for 15 ?years.

Grafs forehand is one of the best shots ever in the history of the womens game. It was feared by every single woman in the game and not one of them wanted to clash forehands with her (as if many of them could anyway). I didn't mention it because it was just so obvious, but it may be the best shot EVER in the womens game, and a top 10 shot in all of tennis all time.

Only a few other women had a shot as deadly/feared by opponents as the Graf forehand:

Serena's serve, both first and 2nd
Evert's Lob

I can't really think of any others that in their time were as deadly as the Graf's forehand was during hers. It was just stellar.

[kiki]

Originally Posted by pc1

That's was a great shot.

Memorable shots in the Women's game
Goolagong's backhand
Evert's backhand
Henin's backhand
Navratilova's volley
Graf's forehand
Serena's serve
Wade's serve
Seles' return

I always loved the serve motion of Ginny Wade, one of the best women´s ever server.It reminds me, somehow , of John Newcombe, who is arguably at top 3 or top 5 GOAT server within men´s ranks.

[kiki]

Originally Posted by boredone3456

some for the women.

Everts Lob: amazing shot, didn't Martina devote an entire chapter to it in her book and say it was the reason she finally decided to get into better shape? that thing was fierce

Serena's serves: both her first and 2nd serves are deadly, 2nd serve may be the best ever in the womens game

Davenports Forehand: This shot is kind of underrated. When she was clicking the thing was like a cannon, she could push everyone around with this thing. It looked and just sounded beautiful coming off her racket.

Well said.Evert lob was very deep, and very acurate.It was a major stroke and killed off many hopes of the oncoming volleyers, like martina,Wade,Mandlikova,Cawley,King or Casals.

[kiki]

Originally Posted by WCT

Stockton and Vilas were mentioned earlier. Mid 70s I thought Dick Stockton had the best overhead in men's tennis, and I thought Vilas the best backhand overhead although Nastase's was excellent as well. Connors had a very underrated lob. He was an excellent lobber, although I'm not sure he was ever among the top couple lobbers in the game.

Good post.I don´t recall Stockton, but he ahd a pretty good record, one of the classical 1970´s players.I saw many times that Vilas BH OH and it was amazing, full of power, placement, he had a big jump because of extremely strong legs...as for Connros, I posted several times here that his lob was not just underrated, but possibly the best of his time along Orantes,Nastase and the aussies ( almost all of them gave great importance to that shot).In the 1980´s, lendl´s lob was very effective, probably the best of that decade.

[kiki]

Originally Posted by boredone3456

Grafs forehand is one of the best shots ever in the history of the womens game. It was feared by every single woman in the game and not one of them wanted to clash forehands with her (as if many of them could anyway). I didn't mention it because it was just so obvious, but it may be the best shot EVER in the womens game, and a top 10 shot in all of tennis all time.

Only a few other women had a shot as deadly/feared by opponents as the Graf forehand:

Serena's serve, both first and 2nd
Evert's Lob

I can't really think of any others that in their time were as deadly as the Graf's forehand was during hers. It was just stellar.

Agreed.The msot effective or determinant one single shot , at least in the last 30 years.Men or Women.