3 best tennis players by 3 different eras??

[dgold44]

Just thought I typed this up off my head to see what reaction I would get.

I divided the Tennis history into 3 eras ( Pre-WW2 era- teens to early 40's), ( Mid-era the late 40's to the open era of 1969 or so) and finally the (modern era from 1969 to present.)

Pre-WW2 era- Bill Tilden by far--- then Vines then Budge

Middle Era- Laver- Pancho G- Ken Rosewall. Very tough to pick between LAver and Pancho but I picked Laver and yes I know he won the GS in the open era. Rosewall is also very forgotten.

Modern era- Roger Federer, Pete Sampras, Nadal.

There you go. I have typed my opinions
Hopefully you find this somewhat ok.

Can I pick a GOAT ?? NO, its impossible but if I had to it would be Bill Tilden. !!!!

 

[A _Kevin]

Bill Tilden? That disgusting pedo? Why would you even pick someone who you haven't even watched a single match of? Dudi Sela would destroy that disgrace. LOL, Tilden.... What a joke. Stop living in the past, the game has evolved. No player before the open era is the best tennis player idiot.

 

[dgold44]

Bill Tilden? That disgusting pedo? Why would you even pick someone who you haven't even watched a single match of? Dudi Sela would destroy that disgrace. LOL, Tilden.... What a joke. Stop living in the past, the game has evolved. No player before the open era is the best tennis player idiot.

First of all , you clearly are a simple minded fool who knows zero about the history of the game
Second I am talking about only his on court greatness not the delusional fantasies in your mind !!!
Sela would be to weak to even warm up these players before a match

 

[A _Kevin]

First of all , you clearly are a simple minded fool who knows zero about the history of the game
Second I am talking about only his on court greatness not the delusional fantasies in your mind !!!
Sela would be to weak to even warm up these players before a match

Who gives a **** about on court greatness. How can Tilden, a player who dominated an extremely weak era of tennis, where players wore pants and had to serve with their feet staying on the ground, when professionalism wasn't even necessary back then, be the greatest? Not to mention the pathetic draws in their lame tournaments. Nonathletic chumps compared to the players of today.

Federer is the greatest, Sampras and Nadal behind him.

 

[dgold44]

Who gives a **** about on court greatness. How can Tilden, a player who dominated an extremely weak era of tennis, where players wore pants and had to serve with their feet staying on the ground, when professionalism wasn't even necessary back then, be the greatest? Not to mention the pathetic draws in their lame tournaments. Nonathletic chumps compared to the players of today.

Federer is the greatest, Sampras and Nadal behind him.

You cannot form a rational thought !!!
Every era has superb greats and athletes

In 50 yrs from now another ignoramus will be saying the same comments about today's players .

 

[dgold44]

Kevin !! Respect the legends of the game and their greatness

 

[A _Kevin]

You cannot form a rational thought !!!
Every era has superb greats and athletes

In 50 yrs from now another ignoramus will be saying the same comments about today's players .

Ah, no. There's a ceiling to how far the game can evolve, and we are definitely near it.

 

[dgold44]

Ah, no. There's a ceiling to how far the game can evolve, and we are definitely near it.

You give today's greats a wooden racket and they would lose to prime old players in their days

 

[RFGOAT1992]

federer nadal and djokovic makes up the modern era. pete sampras although has more slams but he is not totally dominant, no RG

 

[A _Kevin]

You give today's greats a wooden racket and they would lose to prime old players in their days

LOL, what is that? How stupid. Based on what exactly? How do you know what would happen? I'm going off the eye test here, the only reasonable and logical choice in this matter.

 

[Gary Duane]

Just thought I typed this up off my head to see what reaction I would get.

I divided the Tennis history into 3 eras ( Pre-WW2 era- teens to early 40's), ( Mid-era the late 40's to the open era of 1969 or so) and finally the (modern era from 1969 to present.)

Pre-WW2 era- Bill Tilden by far--- then Vines then Budge

Middle Era- Laver- Pancho G- Ken Rosewall. Very tough to pick between LAver and Pancho but I picked Laver and yes I know he won the GS in the open era. Rosewall is also very forgotten.

Modern era- Roger Federer, Pete Sampras, Nadal.

There you go. I have typed my opinions
Hopefully you find this somewhat ok.

Can I pick a GOAT ?? NO, its impossible but if I had to it would be Bill Tilden. !!!!

Your wasting your time posting this here. The people who know something about history are in the Former Players section...

 

[dgold44]

Your wasting your time posting this here. The people who know something about history are in the Former Players section...

I know because I learn from them

 

[Gary Duane]

I know because I learn from them

But that's the trouble you're running into here - your "audience" is too young.

 

[dgold44]

But that's the trouble you're running into here - your "audience" is too young.

I agree ..it was a failed experiment !!!

 

[Deleted member 3771]

The 3 eras could be the wood era, the graphite pre-poly era, and the poly era.