Is this poster actually Pete Sampras? 1 or 2 posts a year for 8 years where he always replies as Pete Sampras and his username is Pete Sampras:
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/member.php?u=377
Seriously, I know Sampras commented on someone's youtube video in 2007, and then had it taken down.
Too bad Sampras will never be a Tier 1 great like Federer, but Tier 2 is really nothing to sneeze at. Hell Nadal isn't even Tier 2 yet.
Your book means zero fortunately. Nadal is about to become Roland Garros GOAT.
Sampras is currently the only GOAT - lone leader with 7 Wimbledons.
Agassi and Federer rule Australia with 4 titles (Djokovic about to equal them perhaps).
Connors, Sampras, Federer are tied at the US Open with 5 titles each.
Nadal about to overtake Borg, and enough years left to get a huge GOAT lead.
I must admit, Sampras is the greatest US Open player of all-time, by a small margin.
I also admit, Sampras is the greatest Wimbledon player of all-time, by a huge margin. His best is simply untouchable, beyond anything we've ever seen. A lot like Nadal at Roland Garros.
It was a pretty cool match. Kind of sad that in a thread meant to discuss how awesome this match was the trolls like trollforthewin and NSK would look to further their own trolling agenda.
Ah, the day, they will learn.
Are you actually that naive ??
How is Sampras the best US Open player? he has same no. of titles as Fed and...Connors I believe?
And Wimbledon it's not a huge margin. Fed made 7 straight finals, with 6 titles, something not even Sampras can boast.
Umm because I watch tennis. Nobody is even close to Sampras at Wimbledon. He is a freak of nature, just as Nadal is at Roland Garros. US Open, as I said before, Sampras by a very small margin. This is just my opinion.
But GOATs are statistical, so Sampras can only claim to be GOAT of Wimbledon. There is no GOAT of the US Open, and no GOAT of the Australian Open. Players are tied for titles there. Soon there will be a GOAT of Roland Garros however.
I think you should talk to the mods about your ignore list not working, or are you always logged out and just happen to see my posts?
Nobody is even close to Sampras at Wimbledon. He is a freak of nature
In fact because of your charm, I actually log myself out every time I see a hidden post from you just because I know there is some hidden treasure I need to look at. I was doing well for a long time, I believe there was a period of about 3-4 months I did not respond to any of your posts. Then curiosity got the better of me .
Curiously enough, yesterday I watched the QF match Federer-Henman ( Wimbledon 2001 ), a very beautiful match. In fact, watching it, I remembered how much more fun tennis was back then at Wimbledon.
Sampras took it to five sets in the R16 match against Federer mainly because of his great serve (overall, he was not stellar at all that day and he almost lost in Round 2 to an unknown player).
The Henman-Federer match in the following round was more attractive because Henman had not that killer serve nor that killer forehand of Sampras, so he had to be very careful with all his shots and volleys, had to actually work perfectly well at the net just about every point.
In fact if you watch several Henman-Federer matches from 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 you can see how much more effective (and beautiful) Henman game was before the slowing down of conditions everywhere.
Henman, in those years (and before) was a truly great net player, he was great to watch because like Rafter or Edberg, he did not have a killer serve or a killer forehand, so he needed to actually volley perfectly all the time and be very clever with his approach shots, to be successful. He needed to be focused all the time, because he hadn't a killer weapon to win 2 or 3 straight points with one shot. In spite of that, he was good enough in his serve_and_volley game to put pressure on you all the time.
That is why Sampras (and Becker) were different (to Henman, Edberg, Rafter), but for me these three players were so fun to watch because they had what they had (great net skills) and they had to use it in every point to put the maximum pressure on you all the time, and they were great at it (when the conditions were faster than the last 8-10 years).
Henman was very streaky at the net though, he would make some of the most incredible volleys, then mess up routine ones. Sampras was different to Becker at his best he volleyed as well as Rafter (in my opinion). In fact, he won the 1993 Wimbledon never serving over 105mph because his shoulder was injured.
I must admit, Sampras is the greatest US Open player of all-time, by a small margin.
I also admit, Sampras is the greatest Wimbledon player of all-time, by a huge margin. His best is simply untouchable, beyond anything we've ever seen. A lot like Nadal at Roland Garros.