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    Unbelievable Ignorance of Some Posters

    Unbelievably stupid statement. Bradman may have been the greatest batsman but there are far more complete cricketers. Sobers is the name that springs first to my mind.
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    Korda's drugs case

    At the 1999 Australian Open he was pretty much ostracized by the other players (except Agassi). I was just wondering if those players on the ATP council were also responsible for letting Agassi get away with the meths thing. I seem to recall that Todd Martin was president of the players...
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    Max Robertson

    He was a BBC commentator at Wimbledon from 1946-86 as far as I can tell from his obituary on the BBC website. I'm wondering if here anyone remembers him.
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    Clay Court GOAT

    There's a nice quote from Hans Gildemeister, a very talented clay-court player in his day, after he was beaten in straight sets by Borg at the French Open. "I've never played so well, but I've never felt so tired and I've never had to run so much, and I've played Vilas over 5 sets."
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    Just Skimmed Through Andre's Book

    Considering that this person thinks there are people in this world who are mindless robots, I wouldn't give him a Pulitzer Prize just yet. Maybe he has been hanging around a ward that still practices lobotomies. That attitude stinks of someone who thinks a person can't be suicidal unless they...
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    A billion Reasons why Sampras is the GOAT.

    Whenever Sampras was sick on court, or looking like he was about to break down or die, I always had more sympathy for the other guy. It's like a McEnroe tantrum. What can you do? Go up to the umpire and say "this is ridiculous, do something about this guy" knowing that they will just let the...
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    Clay Court GOAT

    Maybe Borg fans should just give up trying to convince Vilas fans that their man had better results in 1977. At least they can go home and watch Borg humiliate Vilas in some very prestigious clay-court tournaments.
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    Clay Court GOAT

    When you look at Vilas' FO record, you can either see him as an underachiever or overrated. For someone who is supposed to be the 2nd best clay player of his generation... 1975 - Lost to Borg 1976 - Lost to Solomon 1977 - Won 1978 - Lost to Borg 1979 - Lost to Pecci 1980 - Lost to...
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    WORLD NO. 1 (by year)

    You are punishing Connors for Panatta and Orantes losing. That's my opinion of what you are doing. I want you to either admit it or tell me I'm wrong.
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    WORLD NO. 1 (by year)

    But Connors did win tournaments in 1976 when Panatta and Orantes were in the draws. Should we blame him for their inconsistencies?
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    WORLD NO. 1 (by year)

    In reply to your opinion that Borg's loss to Connors was due to the stomach muscle injury he suffered at Wimbledon I would like to adapt Bruguera's view on some injured players. "These players who are reaching major finals with injuries, well those are injuries I'd love to have"
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    WORLD NO. 1 (by year)

    Here are the top players in draws for Borg and Connors tourament wins. They are all the players who feature in the 1975 and 76 year-end top 10 Jimmy Connors Wembley Connors Nastase Ramirez Orantes Solomon Gottfried Tanner Dibbs...
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    WORLD NO. 1 (by year)

    For all the years post 76 we've been looking at statistics and strength of tournaments and w/l records and head-to-head records and drawing our conclusions based on those. We may not always agree with each others conclusions because we have not always interpreted the statisctics in the same...
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    WORLD NO. 1 (by year)

    Surely you've done the work before if you've come to your conclusion.
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    WORLD NO. 1 (by year)

    Connors won a tournament either side of the WCT Finals 1976. Why would he be worried about his form? The only big tournaments Borg won outside of Wimbledon was a very strong tournament in Boston and the WCT Finals (which was hardly near full-strength). Connors meanwhile won the US Open...
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    WORLD NO. 1 (by year)

    Vilas leads Connors 1-0 in 77 (2-0 if you include Masters Jan78 ) Also I count 8 tournament wins for Connors including the Masters. He also had 7 losses (excluding retirements and RR) Borg has 11 tournament wins and 6 losses (excluding retirements) including the Masters and also superior...
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    WORLD NO. 1 (by year)

    At first I thought I'd pretty much made up my mind to give 1983 to Wilander but the more I look at it the more undecided I become. For a start the fact that Wilander, McEnroe, and Lendl entered the AO that year disguises the fact that almost no other top player turned up. So I think it's...
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    WORLD NO. 1 (by year)

    And your logic says that 1 bag of money equal another. It doesn't matter that one contains £1000000 and the other 1 penny.
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    WORLD NO. 1 (by year)

    It's a bit misleading to say one tournament is equivalent to a Masters event and another one isn't. Just look at the draws and come to your own conclusions which was better. IMO Monte Carlo and Cincinnati had stronger fields than any tournament McEnroe won outside of Wimbledon while Forest...
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    WORLD NO. 1 (by year)

    Do you know anything about tennis?
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    WORLD NO. 1 (by year)

    If the tournaments counted for points the way they do today Vilas would have been number 1 in 77 because he played and won a lot more tournaments than Borg. However, in that case, who knows how players would have structured their years in those conditions. Borg might have played more...
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    WORLD NO. 1 (by year)

    Even though Wimbledon was a much more important title than the Australian Open in 1983 I just find it very difficult to belittle the achievement of defeating McEnroe and Lendl in the SF and F respectively. I'm one of those people who count the Jan84 Masters as part of 1984 so McEnroe's claim is...
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    WORLD NO. 1 (by year)

    In 1976 I have Borg with 6 tournament wins and 11 losses and Connors with 12 tournament wins and 6 losses. If these stats are accurate then I see Connors as no.1 on his own for 1976 also considering his wins over Borg that year.
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    WORLD NO. 1 (by year)

    In 1977 Vilas won 2 majors to Borg's 1. But the French Open that year was severely depleted. No Borg. No Connors who had won the 76 US on green clay. No Gerulaitis who had just won the title in Rome. No Orantes who would surely have been one of the favourites. Also I sometimes wonder...
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    WORLD NO. 1 (by year)

    I don't think a match that was played in 1984 should have any bearing on who is ranked no.1 in 1983.
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    Clay Court GOAT

    Borg was so far ahead of his rivals on clay from 77-81 and this really was the clay court era. So many tournaments played on clay and players whose strongest surface was clay. All those big North American tournaments played on green clay throughout the summer, the 2 big Spanish touraments in...
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    WORLD NO. 1 (by year)

    Some thoughts 1983 I might give to Wilander. He did have a 3-0 record against McEnroe that year, more tournament wins, fewer losses, performed better at 3 of the 4 major touraments, a better Davis Cup record. Are you including the Masters played in January 84 as part of your argument? I...
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    Sampras Correctja 1996 match, were not allowed to drink in tiebreaker?

    Corretja won the ATP Sportsmanship Award that year. Watching this match it's easy to see why. I mean how much time was Sampras taking between points? Corretja didn't complain once.
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    Connors and Collins in 1978

    Your not going to get a great insight into the real Nadal if you ask him a question in English and expect a response in English. By the way, this is not an attack on Nadal's language skills. It seems the slighest thing can provoke some people.
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    Becker's most disappointing defeats

    Lendl's destruction of him in the 1986 Masters Final cut Becker down to size. Since the US Open that year Becker had been on a hot streak winning 3 indoor tournaments and bragging that he would consider himself the no.1 player in world if he won the Masters. Also the media was all too willing...
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