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he was 22, and he never reachd a grand slam semifinal yet. Everyone knew his talent (i remember in 2000 i wrote that he would become the next number one in the world, and i supposed it would happen in 2001-2002), but he wasn't the best player with no slam at all. Very strange statement... c.

lol, Nadal serves like Sampras, and i have Lendl forehand, of course :) c.

easy.. Borg :)

Agassi, imo

in my opinion Edberg had one of the best volleys ever, but Mac was better.

They both won 8 grand slam tournament, so we can compare them... In my opinion they are tied in an alltime ranking, about #14 and #15 alltime.

I think Agassi is one of the best 20 players of alltime... But i'm not sure, and maybe he's only #25: it's possible. 24 people better than Agassi? Tilden, Lacoste, Cochet, Vines, Budge, Perry, Kramer, Sedgman, Gonzales, Hoad, Laver, Rosewall, Newcombe, Borg, Connors, McEnroe, Lendl...

I was a Sampras fan and I care only about of one of his records: the 7 wimbledons. So yes, i hope Federer will never win his 7th wimbledon. For the other records, I don't care, Federer can break all Sampras records. But the record of majors won is not Sampras' 14 but 23-24 majors (Rosewall...

Krosero, you're a genius

Rios Nalbandian Leconte Mecir

Tilden and Kramer

Best player without any GS semifinal: Guy Forget.

you're great ;-)

I agree with Sgt. John too, but I cannot give the #1 spot to a player who reached only once the quarterfinals in a slam. I prefer performance over continuity, too. But , according to me, the #1 is Roddick. If possible, i would like to have 4 players tied as #1 ;-) But maybe it's just...

Even if I have in my mind a different method to evaluate tennis history and create an all-time (or at least an open-era) ranking - just in my mind, because i don't have a complete database to work with - I'm very grateful to you all for these kinds of threads. They always show not only ability...

just to understand tennis, not to be a great coach :) I'm asking you this, cause in an italian forum every 'good' player (not a pro player anyway) seems to say that only who play well can understand something about tennis. So I just would like to know if, how can i say, here it's the same ore...

it's possible?

Understanding tennis witohout being a good player? it's possible?

Federer is good, but not the best in close contests Federer has won 55% of 5 set in his career, 62% from 2004 Sampras has a career 70% Borg has a career 85% c.

obviously federer is not soft in important matches. He's probably not as good as sampras, or borg, in tight 5 sets. He's not perfect, psychologically. I think Sampras feeled the control of the match as long as he was able to depend on his serve. So, even in 0 set to 2, 5-6, but serving...

it's a race for 4 players. Roddick was #1 player for atp ranking (Federer #2), the atp player of the year and the itf player of the year. Tennis Magazine has Roddick-Ferrero-Agassi-Federer, in that order. Imo, Roddick close #1 over the 3 others. Federer is not even a clear #2. We...

With Tilden, he has been the player who dominated tennis for the longest time. In my opinion, he's the Goat, but obviously i'm not certain. He's one of the best ever, I think only Tilden, Budge, Kramer, Laver, Sampras, Federer and maybe Borg's career can compete with Pancho's. Hoad...

And after Llodra, my dear coaches, Stakhovskiy win a tournament. Yeah, it's impossibile to win with serve and volley if you are not a GOAT. It's more difficult? Yes. It's impossible? No, the reason players do not have a decent volley is that tennis coaching is usually not a professional...

Nice post , Tym. Maybe Borg does not think the same things about it :D

In matchups with top10 players, Roddick is not a top10 player. In grand slam tournament, he only beated Ferrero in 2003 and #10 Ancic in 2007. So, at this level he's not only non equal to Federer and Nadal, but to Djokovic, Gasquet, Ferrer, Nalbandian, Gonzalez, Philippoussis, Hewitt and...

When you retire after winning a grand slam,it's obvious that he retired a little early. A grand slam champion obviously can compete to win other slam tournaments the next year. But it happens in every sport, I don't think that a Zinedine Zidane now can not compete in a competitive soccer...

Sampras hit a 120 mph serve with a wooden racket. It's possible and probable that Vines and others served with that speed. It's not probable that they did it very often, because wooden racket give less control, at the same level of power. Sampras said that groundtrokes were different with the...

Before the match vs Federer in 2007, Djokovic lost 1 set in 3 matches, with Udomchoke Before the macth vs Federer in Us 2007, Djokovic lost 3 sets in 6 matches, with Stepanek and Monaco Before the match vs Federer in Australian 2008 , Djokovic lost 39 games and 0 sets in 5 matches. The...

A similar question has been done to Nadal. 'Rafa, Federer has ever played like Tsonga Today?' 'Roger is great, but i think it's difficult to play better than Tsonga today' So people who think it's a stupid question, maybe, can try be nicer when they answer... c

very interesting as ever.. glad to see you here again