This Was Me...... Now

[380pistol]

Or This Is Me....Then, I was wondering which modern day players, from playing style to physical stature resemble those of yesteryear.

Many say Sampras with his game and physical stature was a modern day Pancho Gonzales. Both serve and volleyed, behind great servesand underrated ground games.

While I've heard many liken Boris Becker to Lew Hoad. Both powerful players, taking it to new heights in their respective times.

2 that were striking were Ivan Lendl to Bill Tilden. Both somewhat tall, very good serves, and both dominated from the baseline.

Another one was Ellswerth Vines and Michael Stich. Both tall and very slim, fluid serve motions, hard servers who played attacking tennis.

Anyone more???

 

[Rickson]

I'd say Rafa is a modern day Jimmy.

 

[Azzurri]

Andy Murray and Brad Gilbert. I can't tell them apart. Both have the same hair to boot.

 

[Rickson]

Murray is the guy who fired Gilbert.

 

[treblings]

Or This Is Me....Then, I was wondering which modern day players, from playing style to physical stature resemble those of yesteryear.

Many say Sampras with his game and physical stature was a modern day Pancho Gonzales. Both serve and volleyed, behind great servesand underrated ground games.

While I've heard many liken Boris Becker to Lew Hoad. Both powerful players, taking it to new heights in their respective times.

2 that were striking were Ivan Lendl to Bill Tilden. Both somewhat tall, very good serves, and both dominated from the baseline.

Another one was Ellswerth Vines and Michael Stich. Both tall and very slim, fluid serve motions, hard servers who played attacking tennis.

Anyone more???

Ellsworth Vines and Michael Stich? i am not old enough to have seen Vines play, and i hope you aren´t either but do you have seen any good videos of him to make that judgement?
i would be very interested to see him in action on video.should i check youtube?

 

[380pistol]

Ellsworth Vines and Michael Stich? i am not old enough to have seen Vines play, and i hope you aren´t either but do you have seen any good videos of him to make that judgement?
i would be very interested to see him in action on video.should i check youtube?

No I'm not that old, but have see some clips on youtube and seen pics of Vines. He was tall and rather slim in his physique like Stich. They both had fuild serve motins as well as very good and powerful serves, and played an attacking brand of tennis.

Wouldn't hurt to check youtube.

 

[urban]

Vines service action has more resemblance to Sampras. Stich reminded me more of Stan Smith. Also Budge and Lendl had quite similar games with clean power strokes, Budge a bit more fluent, less mechanical. Laver modelled his game after Hoad, and was himself the model of fellow lefties like McEnroe, Leconte and Korda. Mac's half-volley style on all shots was similar to Cochet's. Sometimes players inspired the following generation of compatriots: For a while all Swedes (except Edberg) played like Borg, and Borg had a carbon copy in Peter Lundgren. Lendl had a similar facial outlook as Stepanek.

 

[thalivest]

Roddick reminds me of Roscoe Tanner.

Agassi reminds me of Connors.

Courier in his prime reminds me of Lendl.

When he was playing his best Kucera reminded me of Mecir.

 

[wyutani]

I'd say Rafa is a modern day Jimmy.

no, hes vilas...

 

[Rickson]

I'm pretty sure Rafa's backhand looks more like Jimmy's.

 

[Rabbit]

^I don't see it.

Great analogies, all. I think Nads is more of a Borg than a Vilas...and certainly not a Connors in any respect.

Agassi -n- Connors would make Connors choke as he pretty much doesn't like Agassi.

Wilander -> Nalbandian?

 

[Rickson]

Mine wasn't that serious as I was just looking for 2 lefties with 2 handers. Carry on.

 

[treblings]

No I'm not that old, but have see some clips on youtube and seen pics of Vines. He was tall and rather slim in his physique like Stich. They both had fuild serve motins as well as very good and powerful serves, and played an attacking brand of tennis.

Wouldn't hurt to check youtube.

definitely didn´t hurt me to check youtube, but sadly no results

i like the comparison of Stan Smith with Michael Stich, although Stich imo had more fluid strokes.
Also Kucera and Mecir.
I remember an interview with Vilas, where he compared his game to Muster, saying that had he played with modern graphite rackets, he would have played exactly like Muster.

 

[380pistol]

Vines service action has more resemblance to Sampras. Stich reminded me more of Stan Smith. Also Budge and Lendl had quite similar games with clean power strokes, Budge a bit more fluent, less mechanical. Laver modelled his game after Hoad, and was himself the model of fellow lefties like McEnroe, Leconte and Korda. Mac's half-volley style on all shots was similar to Cochet's. Sometimes players inspired the following generation of compatriots: For a while all Swedes (except Edberg) played like Borg, and Borg had a carbon copy in Peter Lundgren. Lendl had a similar facial outlook as Stepanek.

Yeah that is true. I read that Sampras' serve motion resembled Vines, but in physical stature, Stich would resemble him more. Vines was 6'2" 155 lbs long and thin. Also tall for his time when players usually didn't crack 6 feet. Sampras at 6'1" is tall, but somewhat normal for tosay's(his day's) standards. Stich was 6'4" and thin, similar to Vones.

But nice post.

 

[380pistol]

^I don't see it.

Great analogies, all. I think Nads is more of a Borg than a Vilas...and certainly not a Connors in any respect.

Agassi -n- Connors would make Connors choke as he pretty much doesn't like Agassi.

Wilander -> Nalbandian?

I see Murray in Wilander for some reason. Defensive, solid returners, defensive minded, move well.

 

[chaognosis]

Laver modelled his game after Hoad, and was himself the model of fellow lefties like McEnroe, Leconte and Korda.

To push this lineage back even farther, Hoad himself once wrote that as a boy he had modeled his game after a player from Sydney who was supposedly a carbon copy of Jack Crawford, stylistically.