gonzalez should be 3rd, gimenon 4th.
Okker,Segura and of course Butcholz did absolutely nothing to be top tenners.
Okker,Segura and of course Butcholz did absolutely nothing to be top tenners.
Buchholz is the easy one. Pro Slam title at age 22 in 1962, beating Segura in the final. Made nine other Pro Slam semifinals in the decade, then two Slam quarterfinals after the merger. Nobody's saying he's a superstar, but he's in any top 10 discussion.
Compare that to a Santana, who didn't play against any pros until the merger and subsequently did nothing, and I'll take the Pro Slam title winner.
kiki, You can't compare Okker and Buchholz with the great Segura!!!
Sorry to break your heart again.Butcholz must be having more fans now than in the 60´s, but HE AIN´T NO TOP TEN.He is your basically David Ferrer, nice guy but a top ten position are too big boots for him to fill over a whole decade.
If Butcholz is top 10, Neale Fraser is GOAT as simply as that
kiki, Who is Butcholz? The brother of Buch?
Fraser's best ranking was a No.9, Buchholz' best rankings was a No. 4 besides of several No.5 places.
Sorry to break your heart.
By the way, Buchholz is a German name (Bookwood translated) and actually there was an Ernst Buchholz a German Davis Cup player in the 1950s...
I knew there should be a rare explanation for your liking Bucholz so much: his origins.Now I get it.
What about Froehling?
kiki, Please note: I'm not German. By the way, there was another BuchHolz: Horst Buchholz, a famous German movie actor who acted in "1-2-3" (Billy Wilder) and other Hollywood films.
Froehling was a rather weak player equal if he had a German background or not.
Yes, but Horst Buchholz I remember him in western films, isn´t it? wasn´t him one of the Magnificient Seven? Butch certainly wasn´t a Magnificient Seven in tennis..
Let me check: Newcombe,Roche,Ralston,Pilic,Drisdale,Bucholz,Barthes and Taylor?
Or The Handsome 7 + Tony Roche
How did the NTL led by Mc Call and with Laver and Rosewall, the old pros group react? I think they both merged by 1971, so WCT was left with the only concurrence of the Gran Prix organized by the ITF
NTL was founded end 1967 or early 1968. George McCall became the promotor, who had been DC captain for the USA. The old pros had more credit in him, than in George Dixon, who acted for Lamar Hunt and put together the WCT handsome 8. On Dixon's behalf, the WCT had some crazy concepts, like VASS scoring, coloured courts and shirts.
Jack Kramer had made his exit out of pro tennis in 1961 i think, when Gonzalez retired for a while. In 1962 the pro tour had a big crisis, and could not establish a full circuit. The pro champ Rosewall played only around 50 matches that year, ca. half of his normal schedule. End 1962, Rosewall and Hoad lured Laver into the pro ranks, by offering their own money as guarantee. Later the pro tour was run by Tony Trabert and Frank Sedgman. In 1964 they put together an US circuit around the new home of the US pro at Boston. The banker Ed Hickey played a vital role here.
Very good indeed, Kiki. There are just two minor observations I can make:1/Laver
2/Rosewall
3/Emerson
4/Gonzales
5/Newk
6/Santana
7/Fraser
8/Gimeno
9/Hoad
10/Stolle/Roche
Very good indeed, Kiki. There are just two minor observations I can make:
- as you start in 1960, there's a chance Gonzales could be third ahead of Emerson. It depends much on the inclusion of 1960, as it's unclear which decade it belongs to.
- Santana could be ahead of Newcombe and, again, it depends on 1970: if included I agree, if not I'd prefer Santana.