Top 10 best US OPEN players ever.

[GameSampras]

The Wimbeldon thread is a good one. I figured I might as well add this one as well.. Who are guys' picks

 

[leonidas1982]

Well, the US Open has played on 3 different surfaces, so there isn't much of continuity as there is in Wimbledon. However, Sampras and Federer have 5 each on hard courts, and Connors has 5 from 3 different surfaces. I'll give the edge to Fed, -- 5 consecutive wins and 100% wins in finals.

1) Federer
2) Sampras (Won in 3 different decades, and as a teen, twenties,
and thirties)
3) Connors

 

[boredone3456]

This is interesting...guess I'll list top 5 men and women as thats the Wimbledon thread trend

Men:
1. Bill Tilden
2. Rodger Federer
3. Pete Sampras
4. Jimmy Conners
5. Dunno...Maybe John McEnroe?

Women:
1. Chris Evert
2. Helen Wills Moody
3. Steffi Graf
4. Martina Navratilova
5. Molla Mallory

 

[Jonny S&V]

Men:
1. Tilden
2. Federer
3. Connors
4. Lendl (although he didn't win as much as he should've...)
5. Agassi (finals at 20 & 35-6, come on...)

Women:
1. Evert
2. Moody
3. Graf
4. Mallory
5. Navratilova

 

[Cesc Fabregas]

1.Tilden
2.Federer
3.Sampras
4.Connors
5.Lendl/Mac

 

[380pistol]

1. Sampras
2. Tilden/Federer (Tie)
4. Connors
5. Lendl

Yes Sampras. The best to ever play in Flushing. When he didn't didn't win it was something outside of his game, see injuries (Yzaga 1994, Rafter 1998, and DNP in 1999). While numerous people (see Borg and Edber for eg.) hated night night matches, Pete was the best to ever play under the lights. 20-0. enough said!!!!

Put them all at their best and I can't see anyone above him.


Women.
1. Wills Moody
2. Evert/Graf (Tie)
4. Court
5. Navratilova

 

[egn]

1. Tilden
2. Fed
3. Sampras
4. Connors
5. Mac

(lendl is 6 all those losses =[)

1. Evert
2. Moody
3. Graff
4. Navra
5. Court

 

[crabgrass]

any one of connors,tilden,federer,lendl,sampras would be a decent choice.
mcenroe won 4 titles compared to lendls 3 but ivan made 8 straight finals so for me his consistency places him ahead of mac.

 

[soyizgood]

Connors #1. Only guy that can say he won the USO on grass, clay, and hardcourts.

 

[egn]

Connors #1. Only guy that can say he won the USO on grass, clay, and hardcourts.

Valid point..connors could play on all the surface requiring he cared.

 

[abmk]

Open era:

1. Federer
2. Sampras
3. Connors
4. Mcenroe
5. Lendl

 

[chaognosis]

Glad to see Tilden at #1. I would continue to rank Connors second - narrowly ahead of Federer - narrowly ahead of Sampras. McEnroe/Lendl could go either way... Hard to rank a guy like Larned, but no doubt he was one of the very best.