Creating your Perfect Player

Wynter

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So taking the core attributes of what makes up tennis players and combining them into what you believe the ultimate player would be. For example taking Agassi's Backhand and Federer's Forehand etc;

Serve: Sampras
Forehand: Federer
Backhand: Safin
Volleys: Laver
Slice: Rosewall
Speed: Hewitt
Mentality: Nadal
Point Construction: McEnroe
Lob: Hewitt
Flexibility/Agility: Djokovic
Return of Serve: Agassi

What makes up your perfect player?
 
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This isn't a new concept, but it's always fun.

Serve: Sampras
Forehand: Federer
Backhand: Edberg
Volleys: McEnroe
Slice: Rosewall (though I would make this the standard bh)
Speed: Chang
Footwork: Borg<--You forgot this.
Mentality: Gilbert
Point Construction: Young Actually, Federer--I know, I cheated
Lob: Murray<--This is a new stat
Flexibility/Agility: Djokovic<--So is this.
Return of Serve: Agassi<--You forgot this. ;)<
 
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Wynter said:
So taking the core attributes of what makes up tennis players and combining them into what you believe the ultimate player would be. For example taking Agassi's Backhand and Federer's Forehand etc;

Serve: Sampras
Forehand: Federer
Backhand: Nalbandian
Volleys: Edberg
Slice: Federer
Speed: Toss-up between Nadal and Chang
Mentality: Nadal
Point Construction: McEnroe
Lob: Hewitt
Flexibility/Agility: Djokovic

What makes up your perfect player?
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Just fixed a little bit. :)
 
edberg volleys said:
Just fixed a little bit. :)
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Haha, never seen any Edberg videos but Lavers volleys were great

Agree to disagree over speed though ;)

And Manus I added lob because It's a great shot, and Djokovic has taken flexibility to a whole new level, felt it should be mentioned :)
 
First Serve: David Ferrer
Second Serve: Andy Murray

Forehand: Gilles Simon
Backhand: Roger Federer

Overhead: Novak Djokovic
Return of Serve: Ivo Karlovic

Speed: Milos Raonic
Mentality: Fabio Fognini

EDIT:

Court Positioning: Rafael Nadal
Stamina: Grigor Dimitrov

I'd love to see this player :)
 
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Backspin1183 said:
First Serve: David Ferrer
Second Serve: Andy Murray

Forehand: Gilles Simon
Backhand: Roger Federer

Overhead: Novak Djokovic
Return of Serve: Ivo Karlovic

Speed: Milos Raonic
Mentality: Fabio Fognini

I'd love to see this player :)
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Lol, you are underestimating Simon's FH. He can hit it quite powerfully despite his chicken arms. :)
 
There should be a durability category. The perfect player needs to consistently win.
 
Wynter said:
Isn't that consistency? Durability is being able to not be injured

And aren't we forgetting Paire's FH people? ;)
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I meant win in the sense that he can play at his full potential, but I don't see consistency or durability in your list. Is it just too early in the morning for me?
 
Wynter said:
So taking the core attributes of what makes up tennis players and combining them into what you believe the ultimate player would be. For example taking Agassi's Backhand and Federer's Forehand etc;

Serve: Sampras
Forehand: Federer
Backhand: Safin
Volleys: Laver
Slice: Rosewall
Speed: Hewitt
Mentality: Nadal
Point Construction: McEnroe
Lob: Hewitt
Flexibility/Agility: Djokovic
Return of Serve: Agassi

What makes up your perfect player?
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Serve: Sampras
Forehand: Sampras
Backhand: Agassi
Volleys: McEnroe
Return:Agassi
Mental strength: Sampras
Hitting power: Sampras
Most topspin: nadal
Passing shot: nadal
Overhead: Sampras
Speed: nadal
Stamina: nadal
Movement: federer
 
serve: Sampras
forehand: Sampras
backhand: Korda
volley: Edberg
return: Agassi
drop/stop volley: McEnroe
halfvolley: Sampras
slice: Santoro
dropshot :Santoro
overhead:Sampras
lob:Hewitt
movement: Mecir
mental: Hewitt
stamina: Borg
 
Serve: Federer (but slightly faster)
Forehand: Federer
Backhand: Nalbandian (but 1H)
Volleys: Llodra (prefer his style to mac's)
Return:Agassi
Mental strength: Sampras
Hitting power: Sampras
Passing shot: Federer
Overhead: Sampras
Speed: Monfils
Stamina: Nadal
Movement: Federer
Agility: Monfils
 
Serve: Karlovic (Roddick for normal size people)
Forehand: Federer
Backhand: Agassi
Volleys: Edberg
Return: Murray
Mental strength: Pancho Gonzalez
Hitting power: Del Potro
Passing shot: Nadal
Overhead: Sampras
Speed: Monfils
Stamina: Borg
Lob: Hewitt
Footwork: Federer
Touch/Artistry: Nastase or Santoro
 
Serve: Sampras
Return of Serve: Djokovic
Forehand: Federer
Backhand: Nalbandian
Volley: Paes
Mentality: Nadal
Agility: Djokovic
Foot work: Federer
Foot speed: Borg
 
edberg volleys said:
Lol, you are underestimating Simon's FH. He can hit it quite powerfully despite his chicken arms. :)
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Yep, he clearly don't watch him play and doesn't know what s(he)'s talking about.
Paire, Gasquet (just for french players) have way worse forehands, his FH is quite decent.
But according to the same poster (in the other thread), he's also a huge grunter, the first time i heard that so at the end, you can't be surprised by his/her ignorance...
 
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Including only current players:
Serve: Karlovic
Forehand: Federer or Nadal
Backhand: Djokovic
Volleys: Federer
Return: Djokovic
Mental strength: Nadal
Hitting power: Del Potro
Passing shot: Nadal
Overhead: Federer
Speed: Murray
Stamina: Nadal
Lob: Hewitt
Footwork: Federer
Touch/Artistry: Dustin Brown
 
Serve: Bill Tilden
Forehand Drive: Tom Okker
Backhand Drive: Ivan Lendl
Forehand Slice: Fabrice Santoro
Backhand Slice: Ken Rosewall
Half Volley:John Mcenroe
Volleys: Stefan Edberg
Overhead: Pete Sampras
Return Style: Jimmy Connors
Drop Shots/Fancy Shots-Roger Federer
Lob-John Newcombe
Speed: Michael Chang
Footwork: Roger Federer
Mentality: Jimmy Connors
Point Construction/On-Court Intelligence: Bill Tilden
 
My unbeatable player!!!!

First Serve - Karlovic
Second Serve - Sampras
Fh - Federer
Bh - Agassi
FH volley - Mac
Bh volley - Edberg
Return - Murray
Passing shot - Nadal
Speed - Young Nadal
Footwork - Young Federer
Mental - Borg
Lobs - Nadal
Stamina - Borg
Overhead - Sampras
Flexibility - Djokovic
 
I can't believe there are people choosing Nadal for stamina. It has been proven, Murray, Djokovic and Coria could outlast him.
 
Serve: Karlovic (essentially I want height lol)
Forehand: Del Potro
Backhand: Gasquet
Volleys: Edberg
Slice: Federer
Speed: Coria
Mentality: Nadal
Point Construction: Federer
Lob: Hewitt
Flexibility/Agility: Djokovic
Return of Serve: Djokovic
 
Serve: Sampras
Forehand: Federer
Backhand: Rosewall
Volleys: McEnroe
Slice: Rosewall
Speed: Chang
Mentality: Muster/Sampras/Connors
Point Construction: Wilander
Lob: Hewitt
Flexibility/Agility: Djokovic
Return of Serve: Connors
 
Serve: Sampras
Forehand: Fernando Gonzalez
Backhand: Murray
Volleys: Sampras
Slice: Federer
Speed: Hewitt
Mentality: Nadal
Point Construction: Nadal
Lob: Hewitt
Flexibility/Agility: Nadal
Return of Serve: Hewitt
 
Why bother with this when you have Wawrinka no? Afterall he is the new GOAT beating SorebackblisterDal. He is the perfect player - GOAT in all areas.
 
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