abmk
Bionic Poster
This is just his opinion, not a scientific truth. An over-30 Rosewall has beaten a top-form Rod Laver a lot of times, that is enough in my opinion. Moreover, these champions like to be modest nowadays. Rod Laver said that he would love to be the ball boy in a Tilden-Rosewall match. Does that prove anything?
laver clearly lead their h2h from 64 onwards ...no doubt while rosewall-laver was competitive, its obvious laver's peak level was better ...
what rosewall said wasn't modesty, it was reality ... and most , if not all of the players and experts at that time felt the same way ...
In my opinion, abmk, you are angry with BobbyOne because he left Federer out of his top-10, but as I said, two wrongs won't make a right. If you try to despise Rosewall with your thousands of undemonstrable theories, that will not give Federer more credit. You should defend Federer instead of attacking Rosewall.
At the end, you are both wrong: no way Rosewall or Federer could be left of from any serious list.
eh, no , that has nothing to do with it ... I did mention rosewall in the top 10 for both peak play and obviously achievements ...so I;m not leaving him out of any list ...
Again, you are talking about science fiction, you can not demonstrate anything. The only certain thing is that Rosewall has won Majors on any surface of his time, while Sampras and McEnroe didn't. Also, Rosewall won 34 consecutive Majors matches, while Sampras and McEnroe didn't.
yeah, no, we were talking about peak level of play on those surfaces .. so that does come into the picture ...hell, even on clay, mac was wreaking havoc in 84 and it took all of lendl's considerable skill and fight to take that RG final ...
achievements wise in singles , mac isn't near rosewall, we know that ...
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