Rod Laver was an insane monster!

[Fredrik]

Originally Posted by TMF

Yeah, Neanderthal and Homosapien are more intelligent than us.

Epic fail

Only way you can be excused is if you are 7 years old. Judging by your posts, that is your mental age, anyway.

[NadalDramaQueen]

Originally Posted by Fredrik

Epic fail

Only way you can be excused is if you are 7 years old. Judging by your posts, that is your mental age, anyway.

Is your post any better?

As for the decline of intelligence, we better hurry and come up with solutions to our problems for the benefit of our idiot descendants. We'll leave a detailed readme.

[urban]

Exactly, **** sapiens is more intelligent.

[pc1]

We are typically getting off the topic when that one poster tends to post his same old litany.

Mick3391 who started the thread realized that Laver was a tremendous player after finally viewing him. He saw what many of us saw over the years and came to the conclusion that Laver was great.

So I do salute him in that he was open minded.

There is no need to keep responding to the same tired argument that happens in every thread here it seems. It's really not a part of THIS thread.

[Goosehead]

Originally Posted by TMF

WORLD POPULATION

Year millions
1900 1,650
1950 2,519
1955 2,756
1960 2,982
1965 3,335
1970 3,692
1975 4,068
1980 4,435
1985 4,831
1990 5,263
1995 5,674
2000 6,070
2005 6,454
2010 6,972

world pop went past 7 billion since then..is'nt it a laugh.

[NadalDramaQueen]

Originally Posted by pc1

We are typically getting off the topic when that one poster tends to post his same old litany.

Mick3391 who started the thread realized that Laver was a tremendous player after finally viewing him. He saw what many of us saw over the years and came to the conclusion that Laver was great.

So I do salute him in that he was open minded.

There is no need to keep responding to the same tired argument that happens in every thread here it seems. It's really not a part of THIS thread.

To be fair, threads in this forum go off topic pretty much every time, regardless of whether or not TMF has made a post. There was a time when every thread became a Rosewall/Hoad debate.

Also, there are many people who think Laver was great but not necessarily the greatest. There shouldn't be any hard feelings.

[TMF]

Originally Posted by pc1

We are typically getting off the topic when that one poster tends to post his same old litany.

Mick3391 who started the thread realized that Laver was a tremendous player after finally viewing him. He saw what many of us saw over the years and came to the conclusion that Laver was great.

So I do salute him in that he was open minded.

There is no need to keep responding to the same tired argument that happens in every thread here it seems. It's really not a part of THIS thread.

What about the thead doubles GOAT ?

There were plenty of posts that went off topic. But since it was about the B. Brothers, you didn't mind the thread was hijack. Funny you would never "solute" the OP, but you would had the thread was related to any players during Laver's era, lol.

[kiki]

what tennis has earned at the ground level, it has lost at the top.

[kiki]

I was looking at the 25 ' 1975 Dallas finals link, where we could see how great was Laver, even at 36, losing an extremely close match to peak Borg.

but he was not perfect.The only real big title he never won was precisely the WCT Finals.He lost the 1971 and 1972 finals to Ken Rosewall, and lost the 1973 semis to Smith and that 1975 semifinal match against Borg.

Charlton Heston, the narrator mentions that this may have been the second best match at Dallas, after the 1972 final.I think the 1983 final that pitted Mc Enroe and Lendl is just as close.

[v-verb]

I haven't watched a lot of tennis in the last 5-10 years.

Watched the 2013 AO. Was bored silly. WTF has tennis come to? Long boring rallies, few kill shots, zero excitement.

Courier, Sampras, Goran, Safin etc. They were exciting players.

This modern lot of players is hampered by the sludgy courts and the need to hit loopy topspin every freakin' shot. Speed up the damn courts already.

And Laver? One of the top 5 in any era.

IMO.

[kiki]

Originally Posted by v-verb

I haven't watched a lot of tennis in the last 5-10 years.

Watched the 2013 AO. Was bored silly. WTF has tennis come to? Long boring rallies, few kill shots, zero excitement.

Courier, Sampras, Goran, Safin etc. They were exciting players.

This modern lot of players is hampered by the sludgy courts and the need to hit loopy topspin every freakin' shot. Speed up the damn courts already.

And Laver? One of the top 5 in any era.

IMO.

Great point of view.Unfortunately, not many TT posters share it.