pc1
G.O.A.T.
Good post. I know I'm responding years late but I wanted to toss out something that occurred about Agassi and your opinion on it. I think on paper Agassi, with his incredible stroking ability on both sides is comparable or superior to many of the all time greats. He had a very good although not great serve and he was fast enough although he wasn't as quick as greats of recent years like Federer, Nadal and Djokovic to gave a few names.no, the main argument is Agassi won Wimbledon, Lendl did not .... not that I necessarily agree with it ....
Again, agassi's edge on the BH is quite a bit more than lendl's edge on the FH ...and again just as lendl's serve trumps agassi's by quite a bit, agassi's return trumps lendl's by quite a bit ....
peak to peak, I'd give clear edge to lendl on clay, carpet
slight edge to lendl at flushing
edge to agassi on rebound ace, grass
My thought is this, on paper with Agassi's super strokes on both sides, great return, very good serve and just plain machine-like power groundstrokes that he should be competitive with perhaps any player that ever lived on any surface. Could it be that we often tend to rank him on what he should have been? He was great but I think he should have done so much more.