I woke up early this morning and watched the 1994 USO match beteen Agassi and Chang. Enough said about Agassi... but I am always impressed by Chang's play. Fast, smart, resilent, solid net game too. Yet, people say he lacked 'power' 'knockout weapon' etc. So, I wonder if he had a physique/power of Boris Becker, would he have been 'almost invincible' (I mean something like Federer's level) during 1989-mid/late 1990s? That would have changed his playing style, too but to make it simple, it's still Chang but with much bigger body and power. Would it have threaten Sampras' reign?
If Chang had Becker's physique/power?
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Doesn't quite work like that. You can't just give someone a new body and expect them to move similarly. Giving him Becker's body might have actually slowed him down to the point he was uncompetitve at the top level.
A good example is Gerd Muller, one of the best strikers ever seen in football/socccer. No one would have thought of the guy as dangerous on the soccer field. He was stocky and had short legs even for his height. But his somewhat odd legs let him turn on a dime and sprint over small distances incredibly fast. There is no one in the world you would rathe rhave 20-30 feet in front of the net than him, even over Pele or Crujf. But what if you give him some more stereotypical forward physique in today's game(over 6 feet tall and lanky--long limbed). Well, Muller probably wouldn't have been half as good as he was.
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Just give him Federer, he has it all...
Becker had like size 16 feet and is reguarded as the slowest player in the history of the game.
Eh...who would be an example of a smallish player with tremendous power?
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Oi, you saying lanky guys can't poach goals? Have at thee! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeJdWEYK36g
