carpet

In the winter months, I play on fast indoor carpet courts like these. For the past two indoor seasons, I've played with specific carpet sole Nike Air Zoom Vapor 10's. These were fine but not great and are not going to last another full indoor season. I already knew there's hardly any carpet...

Pete Sampras beat Goran Ivanisevic 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, 6-7(5), 10-8 in the Grand Slam Cup semi-final, 1994 on carpet in Munich, Germany Sampras would go onto lose the final to Magnus Larsson. Ivanisevic would win the title the following year. The two had contested the Wimbledon final earlier...

Boris Becker beat Richard Krajicek 6-7(4), 7-6(3), 6-3 the Year End Championship (World Tour Finals) final, 1996 on carpet in Hanover, Germany Becker would go onto lose the final to Pete Sampras. Krajicek was the reigning Wimbledon champion Becker won 101 points, Krajicek 96 Krajicek...

Boris Becker beat Sergio Casal 6-4, 6-3, 7-6(3) in the Paris final, 1986 on carpet This was the first of Becker's eventual 3 titles at the event. Casal was a qualifier who beat John McEnroe and Tim Mayotte among others to reach the final Becker won 107 points, Casal 92 Casal...

Boris Becker beat Jim Courier 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-4 in Stockholm semi-final, 1991 on carpet Becker would go onto beat Stefan Edberg in the final to defend his title. Courier had won the French Open earlier in the year and would finish runner-up at the Year End Championship shortly after...

Guy Forget beat Pete Sampras 7-6(9), 4-6, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 in the Paris final, 1991 on carpet Forget had also recently beaten Sampras in the Cincinnati final. Sampras would go onto win the Year End Championship for the first time shortly after. The two would meet again after that in Davis...

Andre Agassi beat Sergi Bruguera 6-4, 6-4 in the Paris semi-final, 1994 on carpet Agassi would go onto beat Marc Rosset in the final. Bruguera had won the French Open earlier in the year Agassi won 75 points, Bruguera 68 Serve Stats Agassi ... - 1st serve percentage (39/64) 61% -...

Boris Becker beat Goran Ivanisevic 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6(4) in the Stockholm final, 1994 on carpet It was Becker's 4th and last title at the event and he defeated the top 3 ranked players in the world in winning it (#3 Michael Stich in the quarters, #1 Sampras in the semis and #2 Ivanisevic)...

Stefan Edberg beat Aaron Krickstein 6-2, 6-2 in the Stockholm semi-final, 1991 on carpet Edberg would go onto lose the final to Boris Becker. Krickstein was unseeded and had beaten, among others, Goran Ivanisevic and Michael Stich to reach the semis Edberg won 59 points, Krickstein 35...

Guy Forget beat Pete Sampras 7-6(11), 7-6(4) in the Stockholm semi-final, 1992 on carpet Forget would go onto lose in the final to Goran Ivanisevic. Sampras had recently beaten Forget in 5 sets at the US Open Forget won 81 points, Sampras 81 Sampras serve-volleyed off all first...

Henri Leconte beat Pete Sampras 6-3, 7-5 in the Paris second round (round of 32), 1992 on carpet Leconte was playing as a wild card and would go onto reach the quarter-final before which he withdrew. Sampras was the second seed and had a bye in the first round. The result saw Leconte...

Pete Sampras beat John McEnroe 6-2, 6-4 in the Philadelphia semi-final, 1991 on carpet Sampras was the defending champion and would go onto lose the final to Ivan Lendl in 5 sets. McEnroe was a former 4 time champion. The two had met not long ago at the previous years US Open semi, with...

Andre Agassi beat Marc Rosset 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 in the Paris final, 1994 on carpet It was Agassi's first title at the event and followed a recent title run in Vienna and took him to world number 2 in the ranking. Rosset led the head to head 2-1 going into the match Agassi won 135...

John McEnroe beat Ivan Lendl 6-7(4), 7-6(5), 6-2, 7-5 in the WCT Finals semi-final, 1989 on carpet in Dallas, USA McEnroe would go onto beat Brad Gilbert to win his record extending 5th title at the event, which was in its final year. He and Lendl had previously contested the finals in...

Boris Becker beat John McEnroe 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the Atlanta Invitational final, 1986 on carpet The Invitational event featured identical format to the Masters and was played just a week before it. Becker had also beaten McEnroe in the round robin stage Becker would go onto the lose...

John McEnroe beat Jimmy Connors 7-6(6), 6-3 in the San Francisco final, 1986 on carpet It was McEnroe's 12 straight win over Connors. Connors would go onto win the next 2 McEnroe won 77 points, Connors 66 McEnroe serve-volleyed off all 1st serves and about half his 2nds (Note: I'm...

Andre Agassi beat Boris Becker 6-2, 6-4 in the Year End Championship semi-final, 1990 on carpet in Frankfurt, Germany Agassi would go onto win the event, beating world number 1 Stefan Edberg in the final. Becker was ranked number 2 at the time Agassi won 62 points, Becker 41 Becker...

Michael Stich beat Stefan Edberg 2-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 in the Grand Slam Cup semi-final, 1993 on carpet in Munich, Germany Stich was the defending champion and would go onto lose the final to Petr Korda Stich won 133 points, Edberg 119 Stich serve-volleyed of all first serves and...

Michael Stich beat Pete Sampras 7-6(3), 2-6, 7-6(7), 6-2 the Year End Championship (World Tour Finals) final, 1993 on carpet in Frankfurt, Germany It was Stich's only title at the event. Sampras was playing his second final there, having won in 1991. He would go onto win the title 4...

Pete Sampras beat Boris Becker 3-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(4), 6-7(11), 6-4 the Year End Championship (World Tour Finals) final, 1996 on carpet in Hanover, Germany This was Sampras' third of 5 titles at the event and he had last won in '94 beating Becker in the final. Becker was the...

Andre Agassi beat Michael Stich 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the Vienna final, 1994 on carpet The two had recently contested the US Open final, with Agassi winning Agassi won 150 points, Stich 136 Stich serve-volleyed off all first serves and most seconds (Note: I've guessed or deduced...

Boris Becker beat Goran Ivanisevic 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in the Grand Slam Cup final, 1996 on carpet in Munich, Germany It was Becker's only title at the event. Ivanisevic had been the defending champion Becker won 83 points, Ivanisevic 63 Becker serve-volleyed off all first serves and rarely...

John McEnroe beat Ivan Lendl 4-6, 7-6(7), 6-4, 6-3 in the Philadelphia final, 1983 on carpet McEnroe was the defending champion and he would go onto win the next 2 editions of the tournament as well, beating Lendl in the '84 final again. Lendl had won a record 66 straight matches indoors...

Stefan Edberg beat Yannick Noah 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(4) in the Year End Championship (Masters) round robins, 1986 on carpet in New York, USA Edberg would advance to the semi-final, where he lost to Boris Becker. Noah was eliminated in the round robin stage, losing all 3 matches Edberg had...

Andre Agassi beat Goran Ivanisevic 6-4, 6-4 in the Vienna semi-final, 1994 on carpet Agassi, who had recently won the US Open, would go onto to beat Michael Stich in the final to win the title. Earlier in the year, Ivanisevic had been runner-up at Wimbledon Agassi won 64 points...

Pete Sampras beat Brad Gilbert 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 in the Grand Slam Cup final, 1990 on carpet in Munich, Germany It was the inaugural edition of the event, for which the 16 players who had the best results in the 4 Grand Slam events of the year qualified to participate. Sampras, the 19 year...

Boris Becker beat Stefan Edberg 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 in Brussels Indoor semi-final, 1992 on carpet Becker would go onto beat Jim Courier in the final to win the event. Edberg and Courier were the two top ranked players at the time. Edberg would go onto win defend his US Open title later in the year...

Tim Henman beat Roger Federer 7-6(5), 6-1 in the Paris Indoor quarter-final, 2003 on carpet Henman would go onto win beat fellow unseeded player Andrei Pavel in the final to win his sole Masters Series title. He'd also beat new world number 1 Andy Roddick in the semis, on top of having beaten...

Boris Becker beat Pete Sampras 6-4, 6-4 in the Stockholm Indoor semi-final, 1990 on carpet Becker would go on to beat Stefan Edberg in the final. Sampras had recently won his first Slam at the US Open. It was the pairs first match Becker won 62 points, Sampras 53 Becker serve-volleyed off all...

Stefan Edberg beat Yannick Noah 6-1, 6-0 in the Memphis Indoor final, 1985 on carpet Edberg was 19 and this was his second career title. He had beaten defending champion Jimmy Connors in the semi-final and would go on to win the Australian Open at the end of the year Edberg won 63 points, Noah...