Could Sampras or Agassi make it to a major final now?

[davey25]

Originally Posted by timnz

Agassi got close in 2005! He took a set off Federer in the US Open final that year!

and that was his last ever shot of winning a major. 2006 was clearly proof of that. Of course that is not to in anyway diss Agassi in this area, it is remarkable he was even a contender for slams as old as 35, and a reflection on the field at the time to some extent as well I might add. Still the 2005 U.S Open was clearly the last time he even had a slim hope of winning one of those majors, and as it was it had been almost 3 years since he had been in a slam final at that point. In 2006 he was clearly completely out of running to ever come close again, and his body was breaking down even further. So speculating he could come back to do something like that now in 2010 is of course ridiculous.

[abmk]

sampras is a worse matchup than fed for andre on the faster surfaces . But on the slower surfaces, fed's a worse matchup . Basically if they had to play equal no of matches on a variety of surfaces , andre would rather play sampras than fed