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Who do you believe is the greatest mens carpet player of all time.
tough one. I believe Becker and Mac are the most accomplished?
Peak for Peak, I think Sampras was would eat everyone for lunch in history indoors (hard or carpet)
Hell, Just watching those '07 exos with Federer made me forget what kind of a BEAST Sampras really was on those fast indoor courts. I still haven't see anyone with that kind of aggression and strike first mentality to that same degree mixed with the mental toughness and pace of shots on medium-fast courts
tough one. I believe Becker and Mac are the most accomplished?
Peak for Peak, I think Sampras was would eat everyone for lunch in history indoors (hard or carpet)
Hell, Just watching those '07 exos with Federer made me forget what kind of a BEAST Sampras really was on those fast indoor courts. I still haven't see anyone with that kind of aggression and strike first mentality to that same degree mixed with the mental toughness and pace of shots on medium-fast courts
Lendl and Becker were indoor carpet kings!! Were there many carpet when Pete was around?
McEnroe has the best winning percentage and won the most titles, including the most important ones. He is followed by Lendl, Borg, Connors, Becker, Ashe and Sampras.
Edit: Gonzales, Laver and Rosewall are deserved by these stats because they concern the open era only. Laver is eight of the list, just behind Sampras, on the sole basis of his open era years.
McEnroe has the best winning percentage and won the most titles, including the most important ones. He is followed by Lendl, Borg, Connors, Becker, Ashe and Sampras.
Edit: Gonzales, Laver and Rosewall are deserved by these stats because they concern the open era only. Laver is eight of the list, just behind Sampras, on the sole basis of his open era years.
Sampras and Becker.
Never saw a higher level of carpet game.
Fed whined about carpet and ATP banned the surface.
Fed shows only a mediocre net game.
His preparation for his spinny strokes needs too much time on fast surfaces.
KR
Fed whined to ATP about carpet - too fast. It was banned.
He has no chance against good carpet players. Indoors he has no chance anymore against Nadal.
Fed is good on medium to slow surfaces as the base line player he is.
And i am happy i could not watch Fedal against Becker or Sampras on carpet.
They would have slaughter both, taking their time away.
KR
I'm not an expert on carpet players, but peak Becker could definitely hang with the best of them. I remember his victory over Pete Sampras at Stuttgart in 1996.