Most overrated player in recent times

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Grand Slams are over, its time to remember whom disapointed us at most in recent years.

I believe first place most definately should go to Donald Young, the hype around him was endless and he fail to deliver big time. He is a good top 50 player, he makes a decent living but people expected so much in 2007-2008.

Worth for mention is Gasquet who is solid top 20 for almost a decade now but often people leave the expresion that he is someone who should win a slam or two but I dont get it. He never ever looked like a threat apart from 2005 when he was on par with Nadal almost and his results never really suggest something like that. Even last year he had just THREE top 10 wins, two against Ferrer and he reached London. So even being as one of the top proffesionals out there, I believe that people slighly exaggerated his quality because of his incredible backhand.

And no bashing towards Dimitrov, he is great :)
 
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If you're still capable of being disappointed by Donald Young, it means you still have significant expectations of him, which is a strange thing in itself.
 
Raonic , Tomic , Berdych , Verdasco...


They are noot good until they win GS. End of the line.
 
Berdych is the most overrated for me. Th guys is just a ballbasher who doesn't have a plan B, when bashing the ball gets him nowhere.

Also when other guys improve to become slam champions, Berdych has no answers to them. He lost his last 2 slam meetings with Stan after the swiss improved and he also lost his last 2 slam matches with Cilic, after the croat improved.

His losses this year alone shows how overrated he is. He lost in straight sets in the last 3 slams and he didn't even lose to the Big 4.

He can barely win any small titles as well. He can't even beat Raonic and Berlocq to win these small events.

I never understood all the hype surrounding him. Since his lone slam final in 2010, he hasn't done anything worth mentioning
 
Dimitroverated? and i remembre when people where going bananas @ Some Dave Overratedman.... :)
 
The fellow in my avvy... :cry: :cry: :cry:

Nah, seriously, that must be Gasquet. I remember well that as a youngster the hype on him was enormous. He was due to winning several GS, be a future #1, etc. Most peculiar was to see a lot of fans hanging on to those beliefs for a very long time, it's only since recently they seem to have let down their expectations.

Donald Young of course was a big hype, too, and I think it's early enough now to state that the hype will never run true.
It might still happen with Dimitrov (who to be honest is in a fine stage of his career right now) and Raonic.
 
Murray. He's won 2 slams which is a great achievement but he is closer to Wawrinka and Cilic than he is to Federer and Nadal. Djokovic is another one.
 
BHBeguile said:
Berdych and (though it pains me to say) Gasquet.
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I don't think Berdych is overrated. He's just inferior to the top 3 but how many grand slams SF did he reach, quite a few + many QF. He actually has been very consistent the last 3 or 4 years on hardcourt. He's more vulnerable on clay and grass though.

But I agree about Gasquet (unfortunately).
 
I like Dimitrov, but unless he wins something big and really makes an impression on the tour, he will stay overrated. (not that it's his fault that he has been overrated by the Tennis fans and the ATP)


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There are several groups of extremely overrated players who are ridiculously touted buy butthurt Fedal fans as even greater ane indefinitely more talented than Djokovic or Murray or Del Porto for example (especially Djokovic who alone has more slams than all listed below combined):
1. All recent one slam fluke wonders (Cilic, Wawrinka, ...)
2. Supposed next generation of "super" talents (Dimitrov, Tomic, Janowicz, ...)
3. "Giants" from Fed's peak time. In reality the weakest field ever (Roddick, Hewitt, Nalbandian, Safin, ...)
 
Chico said:
There are several groups of extremely overrated players who are ridiculously touted buy butthurt Fedal fans as even greater ane indefinitely more talented than Djokovic or Murray or Del Porto for example (especially Djokovic who alone has more slams than all listed below combined):
1. All recent one slam fluke wonders (Cilic, Wawrinka, ...)
2. Supposed next generation of "super" talents (Dimitrov, Tomic, Janowicz, ...)
3. "Giants" from Fed's peak time. In reality the weakest field ever (Roddick, Hewitt, Nalbandian, Safin, ...)
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Worse than Pioline, Stich and Rafter?

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NatF said:
Inb4 someone says Federer or Nadal.
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Guys with double digit slam and several accomplishments cannot be overrated unless the poster is trolling or has some sort of mental disorder.

Even guys with multiple slams like Murray, Hewitt or Safin cannot be overrated, Winning a slam is extremely hard, let alone repeat that...
 
Chico said:
Also Nadal is often overrated when compared to other tier 1 all time gretas.
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He is not .. 14 slams, second of all time tied with sampras, but played more finals

HE completed career slam/golden slam at 24 years old... if that is not spectacular I dont know what it is.. Record of Master 1000 won... 3+ slam finals on every grand slam (only behind federer), only player in history to win at least 1 slam for ten years in a row, only player to reach 2+ grand slam finals in 8 different calendar years (in a span of a decade), the following player has only 6.

Highest winning % of all time... 83,5% ..ahead of borg, Federer and sampras... yes even comparing at their respective ages..

h2h record of 61-34 against the rest of the big 4. and 25-7 in grand slams..
 
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Gasquet & Tomic

Dimitrov is getting there. A few more early losses and he'll be among this elite group of tennis players.
 
I think Monfils is overrated. And Gasquet, obviously. Another frenchman, Laconte, is the most underrated.
 
Chico said:
There are several groups of extremely overrated players who are ridiculously touted buy butthurt Fedal fans as even greater ane indefinitely more talented than Djokovic or Murray or Del Porto for example (especially Djokovic who alone has more slams than all listed below combined):
1. All recent one slam fluke wonders (Cilic, Wawrinka, ...)
2. Supposed next generation of "super" talents (Dimitrov, Tomic, Janowicz, ...)
3. "Giants" from Fed's peak time. In reality the weakest field ever (Roddick, Hewitt, Nalbandian, Safin, ...)
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Sure thing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTGPSmfmDz4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5VwlI3dWyA

:lol:
 
Tennis_Monk said:
All the ATP tour players are overrated.
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That is a brilliant response. And so true. Have we all gone mad? Worshiping people who hit a round object.

Einstein, Chopin, those guys were brilliant.

And we all could be pros here. It's just a matter of training. But, to be Einstein or Chopin? Very rare.

It's say, we here are wasting our potential worshiping those false gods, instead of doing something out there.

Yes, we overrate those guys and with this underrate ourselves.

You have given me real motivation now, to quit watching tennis and go out there and do something :).
 
Djokovic is the most overrated on these boards by far. People talk like he is basically a combination of Nadal on clay and Federer on grass and hards lol.
 
I think many people expected Tomic to perform better but who knows? It's not over.
The same goes for Dimitrov, Dolgopolov and Raonic.

Donald Young high on that list. Harrison? Perhaps. I would say Berankis as well.
 
Rafeal Nadal - Dominated a weak clay era and was only able to win at any of the other slams because of how much the courts/balls have been slowed down. Once Djokovic emerged, we saw he wasn't special on any other surface, and not unbeatable on clay, either.

Andy Murray - Despite plenty of natural power, he generally prefers to play backboard tennis and many of his matches aren't really on his racket.

Gasquet's a good one.

David Ferrer - There should be tons of people just as good at what he does as him.
 
Federer20042006 said:
Rafeal Nadal - Dominated a weak clay era and was only able to win at any of the other slams because of how much the courts/balls have been slowed down. Once Djokovic emerged, we saw he wasn't special on any other surface, and not unbeatable on clay, either.

Andy Murray - Despite plenty of natural power, he generally prefers to play backboard tennis and many of his matches aren't really on his racket.

Gasquet's a good one.

David Ferrer - There should be tons of people just as good at what he does as him.
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Federer -- won 4 grandslams between 2003 and 2004 when the next best player is a Fox News sports pundit, which proves ultimately the reason why he is even in the talk for GOAT.
 
objectivity said:
Federer -- won 4 grandslams between 2003 and 2004 when the next best player is a Fox News sports pundit, which proves ultimately the reason why he is even in the talk for GOAT.
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A FOX Sports news pundit with a 140+ MPH serve and 100+ MPH FH at that time. Look how far up the rankings stiffs such as Milos Raonic and John Isner have gotten with just a serve these days. Imagine if they could move and play from the back the way Roddick did.
 
Recent times? Federer. I think his ranking is blown out of all proportion, and he'd struggle even to compete with the majority of the top ten or so over 5 sets when they're fully healthy.
 
ibbi said:
Recent times? Federer. I think his ranking is blown out of all proportion, and he'd struggle even to compete with the majority of the top ten or so over 5 sets when they're fully healthy.
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Was everybody's ranking in 2013 blown all out of proportion because Federer had back issues?
 
Federer20042006 said:
A FOX Sports news pundit with a 140+ MPH serve and 100+ MPH FH at that time. Look how far up the rankings stiffs such as Milos Raonic and John Isner have gotten with just a serve these days. Imagine if they could move and play from the back the way Roddick did.
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Yeah. This pundit did really well against Federer in the 2007 AO SF. showed off all his incredible potential and skills.
 
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