What is the oldest tennis match you have watched live on TV that you still remember vividly?
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Fiero425
Legend
Saw all 3 finals; '88-90! It should have been 4, but Stich defeated Edberg in SF of '91 in 4 sets; 3 TB's with no break of Stefan's serve!
mental midget
Hall of Fame
hard to remember chronological order of matches but i think this is a good one for me too. wasn't this the match where wilander served like 90 something % first serves?
Fiero425
Legend
I totally missed it live! I went out thinking I'd catch the end! Sampras made such quick work of Agassi, I had to wait years to see the replay on TCC! It was just 1 1/2 hours!
Winners or Errors
Legend
1984, Milan final - young Stefan Edberg destroying Mats Wilander. So impressed with Edberg's game in that match that it made me a fan for life.
Bronze Ace
New User
1502. I watched the Florence Open at Leonardo da Vinci's.
Rafa4LifeEver
G.O.A.T.
I agree. Although I was merely pointing out that this platform lacks young blood in large numbers.
toby55555
Hall of Fame
Don’t remember that feature but was intrigued at the time that he chose as a tactic to slice the majority of his backhands.
Bhagi Katbamna
Legend
I don’t remember the entire match but I remember the war of 1816 Borg McEnroe 1980.
I remember the 1982 Wimbledon final more.
I remember the 1982 Wimbledon final more.
slipgrip93
Professional
Graf vs. HIngis, the 1999 FO final.
I saw the bad line call weirdness, and the meltdown at the end, and with that jeering crowd reaction of that bizarre end of the match.
I felt sorry for Hingis with her unfortunate and surprising loss of composure, and her mom
came out to help console, but I also wanted Graf to win so much.
And yeah, "Martin(k)a" was the prettiest top wta player to me at that time, until Sharapova to me I'd admit. But Hingis needed or should have developed more
muscle and power over her career, imo.
And oldschool style of Graf vs. the newer spinnier control from a light racquet, the wave that HIngis was maybe a pioneer or precursor of.
Graf using a 362g swingweight maxg200 dunlop, then later an oldschool wilson prostaff custom for her using oldschool heavy racquets and with her hard "greman-slice" which she could sometimes attack with, is part of why I stick with the wilson kps88 today.
I saw the bad line call weirdness, and the meltdown at the end, and with that jeering crowd reaction of that bizarre end of the match.
I felt sorry for Hingis with her unfortunate and surprising loss of composure, and her mom
came out to help console, but I also wanted Graf to win so much.
And yeah, "Martin(k)a" was the prettiest top wta player to me at that time, until Sharapova to me I'd admit. But Hingis needed or should have developed more
muscle and power over her career, imo.
And oldschool style of Graf vs. the newer spinnier control from a light racquet, the wave that HIngis was maybe a pioneer or precursor of.
Graf using a 362g swingweight maxg200 dunlop, then later an oldschool wilson prostaff custom for her using oldschool heavy racquets and with her hard "greman-slice" which she could sometimes attack with, is part of why I stick with the wilson kps88 today.
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Clay lover
Legend
Maybe not vividly, but the first match I watched pretty seriously was Puerta vs Nadal RG final.
Remember rooting for Puerta because he was kinda the underdog with great upsets and a super heavy topspin forehand (roids or not I feel his forehand and form were underrated for that tournament) and then getting annoyed at Nadal for getting frigging everything back - there was just no way to hit through him.
Little did I know he would go on to become by far the greatest on the surface.
Remember rooting for Puerta because he was kinda the underdog with great upsets and a super heavy topspin forehand (roids or not I feel his forehand and form were underrated for that tournament) and then getting annoyed at Nadal for getting frigging everything back - there was just no way to hit through him.
Little did I know he would go on to become by far the greatest on the surface.
stringertom
Bionic Poster
I didn’t watch many matches from game 1 to MP until the Wimbledon’75 final when Ashe upset Connors. Good timing on my part.
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