Better player- Davydenko or Kafelnikov

[navratilovafan]

Got to go w/Kafelnikov for these reasons as well; but, re: capriati, she should've won more slams, not fewer, given her potential. A lot of wasted years, back and forth. Her wins were against Hingis and Clisters, so not too shabby!

Clijsters was a pre-prime baby at the time of Capriati's slam final win over her in 2001. Capriati still barely won something like 14-12 in the 3rd. Kim should have won that one but choked. Prime Kim would destroy Capriati. The Hingis Capriati was doing well against in 2001-2002 was nothing like the 97-2000 Hingis. A series of tough losses for Hingis- 99 FO final, 2000 U.S Open final, broke her mentally, and had her even starting to lose to inferior players who were not tough matchups for her like Pierce, Capriati, and pre-prime Mauresmo.

Also if Capriati had been active from 94-99 she probably wouldnt have won anything since superior players to her like Graf, Sanchez Vicario, Davenport, prime Hingis, Venus, Serena, and Novotna (on grass and indoors mainly where she is superior to Capriati) were winning virtually all the big titles.

 

[nethawkwenatchee]

Davydenko/Kafelnikov are both greats. It's really discouraging to here some people slander these two all court warriors. I draw alot of similarities between them and I also remember watching both of them take down some of the greatest players of all time. In fact, I'm a huge Agassi fan and I remember watching that AO final in 2000 and thinking how great Kafelnikov mixed things up and battled to the dear end... loosing a very tough one to the legend. Just this past week Davydenko took down Nadal for another masters sheild. These guys are both awesome!

 

[BounceHitBounceHit]

Day in, day out.............Davy

For consistency, Davykenko. For peak acheivment: Kafelnikov. BHBH

 

[nethawkwenatchee]

How is davydenko a great player???

he is a very good player no doubt and can do damage. But honestly - do you see him winning a slam. He doesn't have the gut.

Interestingly enough, I have never considered Davydenko nervy, physically weak or lacking gut. On the contrary, he appears to be physically and mentally very tough. He, like all top players has lost in big matches in big situations but I wouldn't necessarily blame that on a mental underscore. In other words: I'm confident that he can handle multiple 3+ set matches for two straight weeks and I don't think his mental game will be a cause for blame but he will obviously run into players in QF on that are just as talented. Time will tell but I can definately see Davydenko finding his way to a French Open and possibly even a US Open in the next five or so years (we all know this brand of Russian player has stamina... I'll use Kafelnikov as an exibit )

 

[jms007]

Interestingly enough, I have never considered Davydenko nervy, physically weak or lacking gut. On the contrary, he appears to be physically and mentally very tough. He, like all top players has lost in big matches in big situations but I wouldn't necessarily blame that on a mental underscore. In other words: I'm confident that he can handle multiple 3+ set matches for two straight weeks and I don't think his mental game will be a cause for blame but he will obviously run into players in QF on that are just as talented. Time will tell but I can definately see Davydenko finding his way to a French Open and possibly even a US Open in the next five or so years (we all know this brand of Russian player has stamina... I'll use Kafelnikov as an exibit )

I don't know about that, Kafelnikov pretty much burned out by 28-29 years of age. He didn't do much after 2001.