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    Roger : best ever, The four of us? That’s a really difficult call.

    Some have noted that in several of my posts I may be angry, rude to some people. This is because these people have been disrespectful, insulting, etc ... in the first place. I am never disrespectful, rude to someone who is well mannered. Those NaTf, ARFED, Drob here and phoenix1983 earlier, have...
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    Roger : best ever, The four of us? That’s a really difficult call.

    Here again you make a misinterpretation. I never said that we should ignore records in important events such as the Olympics, the Masters, the WCT Finals, the Davis Cup and even Masters 1000. I just made comparisons between pre-open era players and open era players about the majors. The modern...
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    Roger : best ever, The four of us? That’s a really difficult call.

    In 1974 I consider that the 4 greatest events were 1) Wimby, 2) USO then far behind 3) Roland Garros (with "only" 15 Top20 players : Newcombe, Laver, Connors, Rosewall, Okker missing) but it was a Slam event. At the 4th place I have no clear opinion. The GP Masters was open to everyone (as the...
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    Roger : best ever, The four of us? That’s a really difficult call.

    The initial Masters 1970 wasn't a competition between the best six players in the world : Kodes and Franulovic weren't in the Top6. They weren't even in the Top10. Look for instance at Kodes' record in 1970 which was absolutely poor : his only performance were his win over Franulovic at Roland...
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    Roger : best ever, The four of us? That’s a really difficult call.

    (6) 1964 U.S. Pro Semifinal. Sorry, but here I have to stop you. This match was fraught with significance. In his second season, Laver had caught up to Rosewall and appeared to be passing him. The U.S. Pro was a huge title. Rosewall had missed it for several years in order to spend longer time...
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    Roger : best ever, The four of us? That’s a really difficult call.

    I completely approve this.
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    Roger : best ever, The four of us? That’s a really difficult call.

    And so what ? The Grand Slam Cup in 1990's offered much much more money than any other contemporary event and even more than modern events 30 years later. Should we consider for each year from 1990 to 1999, the Grand Slam Cup as one of the 4 majors, ejecting therefore a Slam tourney from the...
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    Roger : best ever, The four of us? That’s a really difficult call.

    So once again this is you who are wrong and not me : your stats are erroneous not mine. Considering MSG 1968 or the TCC matches as among the 4 more important events of the years 1968 and 1970 is a pure nonsense. You wander Sir. You are definitely WRONG : 10-6 is surely better than your 13-16...
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    Roger : best ever, The four of us? That’s a really difficult call.

    I would like to know how you can conclude such a statement. I can't understand what you took from my arguments to state that. Did I write that if a player is unbeaten he can't never be defeated again ? Frankly I am puzzled by your claim. Please next time select precisely what I wrote to make...
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    Roger : best ever, The four of us? That’s a really difficult call.

    Hello, I have absolutely no respect for the weeks spent as n°1. The ATP should never have labelled its rankings in the course of the year as official rankings. The only world rankings that should count are the rankings that sanction the results of a whole year. Players such as Kafelnikov, Rios...
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    Roger : best ever, The four of us? That’s a really difficult call.

    It is not evident at all that Vines and Perry were better than Nüsslein (though I admire Vines who was so talented in so many different sports, not only tennis and golf) in 1937 and 1938. Far from that. The German didn't meet them in 1936-37-38 but in 1939 he met Vines twice (Wembley and...
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    Roger : best ever, The four of us? That’s a really difficult call.

    Because the draw was clearly stronger. At the 1963 US Pro, Gonzales was present but he was the shadow of himself : he played and lost his only match of the year. He was completely rusty that year and possibly outside the ... World Top30 (pros & amateurs). Exactly the same observation for Segura...
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    Roger : best ever, The four of us? That’s a really difficult call.

    Thanks I don't have the courage to search in my World Tennis collection but this is in the summer of 1964 (so about one year and a half later) that Hoad claimed in an interview with World Tennis that Rosewall was so confident to beat rookie Laver in January 1963 that he didn't want to shorten...
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    Roger : best ever, The four of us? That’s a really difficult call.

    When I see your different posts related to me I don't think your statement here is honest. All your negative reviews let me think otherwise. I stated earlier that "Federer is superior to Nadal ... on true fast (indoor) courts". I recognize I haven't been precise enough. I should have written...
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    Roger : best ever, The four of us? That’s a really difficult call.

    Now I reply to your two arguments about the GOAT debate. I disagree with you on both points a) Of course there can be only one GOAT, the #1. But I disagree with you : there can also be a GOAT list with a #1, a #2, a #3, etc with eventually tied players. In my opinion Sampras is in a GOAT list...
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