Bigtime ruin : Roddick, Hewitt
Partial ruin: Davydenko, Soderling
Indirect ruin: Rafa
Murray is in danger of making this list if he loses to Fed in one more slam final
Disagree, he DID ruin Roddicks career.
Safin to an extent.
Safin ruined Safin
women , parties, liquor , safin beat safin
MY future carrer of all the hours I have dedicated watching him instead of studying.
..............Indirect ruin: Rafa
women , parties, liquor , safin beat safin
Nadal is next. Both Wimbys he lost in the final, he wouldnt have lost to anyone else. That would give him 8 slams, and like 5 YE no 1's. That would easily put him in Lendl, Connors territory, if not higher
Bigtime ruin : Roddick, Hewitt
Partial ruin: Davydenko, Soderling
Indirect ruin: Rafa
Murray is in danger of making this list if he loses to Fed in one more slam final
This guy gets it. All others are beating around the bush .Pete Sampras
Pete Sampras
This guys gets it. All others are beating around the bush .
Roddick - definitely. He would have 6 or 7 majors and would have been a huge star in the US. I'm confident he could walk through a lot of malls in the US and no one would know him.
One other lesser victim is Nalbandian. There is a silly myth to some that Nalbandian actually owns Federer (LOL) but in fact it is Federer who has owned Nalbandian for the last 75 months now, and even with Nalbandians dominant 5-0 lead at one point he now trails 10-8 as Federer completely reversed that rivalry once he truly came into his own. More importantly he has stopped Nalbandian at an Australian and U.S Open he was a contender to win, and many times in Masters events which might have increased Nalbandian's confidence in slams had he won a few more earlier.
Owning isn't the right word, more like match up problem, the only person you can say that 'owns' Federer would be Nadal.
Fed in essence ruined Roddick's career...looking through
2003 Wimby..60/40 he beats the Aussie
2004 Wimby easily his.
2005 Wimby I give Hewitt a bit of an edge here..as he had Roddicks number.
Pete Sampras is still the greatest player in the Open Era and perhaps of All Time according to many people. Even if some rate Federer higher Pete is still regarded as just as much a legend of tennis as he had been previously. Federer has not stolen his spotlight, he has merely joined it.
I would also guess him winning Wimbledon 2003 and 2004, and not winning 2005. However I do have to disagree with you that Wimbledon 2004 was "easily his" as if it were a lock, especialy in light of your comments on Wimbledon 2003 and 2005. Do remember in 2004 his main opponent and likely final opponent would have been Hewitt, just like 2005. Hewitt was no worse in 2004 than 2005 either. The big difference is Roddick was playing alot better at Wimbledon 2004 than in 2005, which is why he probably wins in 2004 and probably not in 2005, but I wouldnt got as far as to say easily his. Hewitt would have still been a threat to him in 2004 as well.
Also Hewitt in 2004 would have been more a threat to him than Philippoussis in 2003. I think his odds in the 2003 final are alot better than 60/40 as well. I remember watching the semis and finals where each played Federer and while the final had 2 tiebreaks and the semi only 1, the semi overall was easily the more competitively played match, and the one Federer still reached a higher level of brilliance in too (he had to in order to clearly outclass Roddick in his form at the time). The final after the very good 1st set was a complete bore and mismatch, and the 3rd set going to a tiebreak was pretty much a fluke considering Federer missed an easy open court forehand on one break point, and Mark had a double fault overruled by the chair on another break point in another game. Roddick was so strong there and I dont see any matchup issues Mark would present. Roddick has the superior 1st and 2nd serve, superior return game (speaks more to how bad Mark's is than anything of course), superior ground game, superior movement, superior mental game despite being less experienced. Roddick was passing well enough he wouldnt be too worried about a volleyer of Mark's caliber (which wasnt all that high) coming in on him. Mark was already past his prime though he played a good Wimbledon, he had basically one really big win (Agassi round of 16) then a free ride to the final, but he was never going to win the final vs whomever he played IMO.
I agree and disagree. Hewitt in my opinion was playing far better in 05 than 04..Fed dropped the second set to Hewitt but watching the match it would be hard to have believed that happened. He was demolishing him most of the match..Roddick was actually keeping pace in 2004 well with Fed and could have won that match but he blew it. He had tons of opportunities.
I agree Roddick basically wins the final and odds are more like 70/30 but still I don't think it would have been as easy as Fed did. Roddick is still not a strong return of server and Mark would have been able to approach the net a lot more aggressively. Yet all in and all Roddick is more likely to win. I still think 2004 would have been easier than 2003 because Roddick was just that much better in 2004 than 2003 in my opinion.