kiki
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Golden Era had many outstanding players, most of them not spoken about here and many underrated.But they were a very good addition to the stablished champions and it wouldn´t have been GE without them.
They had a game or personality that would be much more outstanding in dull eras but could not flourish in as much because of obvious circumstances.I just thought about throwing names that I inmediately associate with Golden Era; many of them were truly great players with a clear unique identity.
I hope seasoned experts who, like me enjoyed the 70´s and early 80´s will feel identified with them , will comment their vision of those players or will throw some other names we can also give opinions about.
Vijay comes inmediately to mind because of his rare and fantastic mixture of power and touch, he had magic in his game and while he never played a major final ( except the 74 and 87 DC titles he lost), he was unique in himself and absolutely all 1970´s greats were scalped by him, from Laver and Rosewall through Borg and Connors and until Mc Enroe, whom he was one of the 3 guys he defeated in Mac´s best ever year ( 1984).
On grass, he was not only at his best, dangerous and flourishing but very appealing and he also had great indoor and hard court success.He was definitely a WCT stelwart and, by 1974 some journalists targeted him as one of the next three big names along Connors and Borg...he was, of course, the only one of that lot that missed it.
He and Krishnan were a joy to watch and it would have been wonderful if they had won the 1987 DC final against the strongest ever swedish team...
They had a game or personality that would be much more outstanding in dull eras but could not flourish in as much because of obvious circumstances.I just thought about throwing names that I inmediately associate with Golden Era; many of them were truly great players with a clear unique identity.
I hope seasoned experts who, like me enjoyed the 70´s and early 80´s will feel identified with them , will comment their vision of those players or will throw some other names we can also give opinions about.
Vijay comes inmediately to mind because of his rare and fantastic mixture of power and touch, he had magic in his game and while he never played a major final ( except the 74 and 87 DC titles he lost), he was unique in himself and absolutely all 1970´s greats were scalped by him, from Laver and Rosewall through Borg and Connors and until Mc Enroe, whom he was one of the 3 guys he defeated in Mac´s best ever year ( 1984).
On grass, he was not only at his best, dangerous and flourishing but very appealing and he also had great indoor and hard court success.He was definitely a WCT stelwart and, by 1974 some journalists targeted him as one of the next three big names along Connors and Borg...he was, of course, the only one of that lot that missed it.
He and Krishnan were a joy to watch and it would have been wonderful if they had won the 1987 DC final against the strongest ever swedish team...
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