What were the top 10 rivalries in Tennis where Opponents Disliked/were at loggerheads each other and it was intense ???

Drob

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Connors and Ashe (individually and as head of the ATP) were involved in various lawsuits against each other during the 70s litigation period in tennis. I still don’t think when it all passed there was any great animosity between them other than Connors had a beef with the entire tour :giggle: but you’d have to ask Connors.

You both could be right. But there was a major lawsuit and Ashe was the named individual defendant. Then Ashe said Jimmy was "unpatriotic" for not playing Davis Cup. (I actually remember this, but see p. 219 of "The Outsider).

You read "Days of Grace" by Ashe and it is clear that after Arthur retired, he and Jimmy got on better. But Ashe also recounts how Jimmy treated him alternatingly as a non-entity or as the cause of Jimmy struggles during the couple of Davis Cup ties he played with Arthur as his captain. Reading "The Outsider" I get the impression that Jimmy had very little respect for Arthur. Sill, this is not the same as a rivalry of spite and there are probably better choices to make the list..

"Arthur Ashe later wrote that whenever he walked past me during Wimbledon in 1974 he wanted to smack me in the mouth. Oh, Arthur, settle down" - The Outsider, p. 165 (Kindle ed)

"Ashe didn't like me . . . Well, that speaks volumes, doesn't i? All he had to do was come up and talk to me face to face, man to man, but he chose not to." pp 223-24

(On Davis Cup) "The captain, Arthur Ashe, didn't help matter by ignoring us and letting our issues fester . . . When Ashe finally showed up . . . with my racquet I wrote **** OFF ARTIE in the clay. pp 401, 404.
 
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Mustard

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Off-court he was well liked by most of his peers.
By Jimmy Connors? LOL.

Connors - Ashe? What was that about?

I had always heard Ashe was one of the few Connors respected.
Connors and Ashe (individually and as head of the ATP) were involved in various lawsuits against each other during the 70s litigation period in tennis. I still don’t think when it all passed there was any great animosity between them other than Connors had a beef with the entire tour but you’d have to ask Connors.
Connors and Ashe had a complex relationship.

I dunno if this fits, but for a while there was this huge rift between Sharapova and most of the other top Russian Women who all seemed to feel, to varying degrees, that she wasn't a "Real Russian" giving she spent most of her life in the USA. I think Myskina at one point made a snide remark that she didn't even know the language yet called herself a Russian. Myskina was probably the most vocal about her issues with Sharapova and her father, at one point saying if Sharapova was put on the Russian Fed Cup Team that she would refuse to play. Other Russian Players also weren't exactly happy that Sharapova seemed to constantly pull out of Fed Cup Ties for many years.
Yet Sharapova continued representing Russia, which I think caused her to be banned from tennis for 15 months in 2016-2017 for meldonium.
 

Mustard

Bionic Poster
Did Edberg and Wilander have any animosity? Didn't Edberg steal Wilander's girlfriend?
Not animosity, just a professional rivalry, but they were also Davis Cup team mates for Sweden. I believe Mats and Annette had separated months before Annette started with Stefan. Mats first met his future wife Sonya at the 1985 US Open, and it must have been around then when Stefan and Annette got together. Mats and Sonya got married in 1987, but Stefan and Annette not until 1992.
 

Mustard

Bionic Poster
You both could be right. But there was a major lawsuit and Ashe was the named individual defendant. Then Ashe said Jimmy was "unpatriotic" for not playing Davis Cup. (I actually remember this, but see p. 219 of "The Outsider).
Some ugly culture stuff could result from that too. The working class/lower middle class white lad from Belleville, Illinois with a "me against the world" attitude and street mentality, learned from his mother who used to say "They're out to get us, Jimmy", and the black lad from Richmond, Virginia with slave ancestors, who was a victim of racism and segregation in his younger years, and who had a burning desire to fight injustice.

Ashe was a diplomat at heart though. Connors was a street fighter at heart.
 

THUNDERVOLLEY

G.O.A.T.
Some rivalries/spats/feuds:

Jimmy Connors vs. John McEnroe
Jimmy Connors vs. Ivan Lendl
John McEnroe vs. Ivan Lendl
Pat Cash vs. Ivan Lendl
Jimmy Connors vs. Andre Agassi
Ivan Lendl vs. Andre Agassi
Andre Agassi vs. Pete Sampras
Boris Becker vs. Michael Stich
Vitas Gerulaitis vs. Wojtek Fibak
Thomas Muster vs. Horst Skoff
Thomas Muster vs. Brad Gilbert
Thomas Muster vs. Andre Agassi
Thomas Muster vs. Wayne Ferreira
Thomas Muster vs. Pat Cash
Guillermo Coria vs. Gaston Gaudio
Patrick Rafter vs. Pete Sampras
Jim Courier vs. Andre Agassi
Boris Becker vs. Andre Agassi
Michael Chang vs. Andre Agassi
Lleyton Hewitt vs. Alex Corretja
Lleyton Hewitt vs. David Nalbandian
Lleyton Hewitt vs. Juan Ignacio Chela
Lleyton Hewitt vs. Guillermo Coria
Lleyton Hewitt vs. Jose Acasuso
Marat Safin vs. Andy Roddick
Andy Murray vs. Juan Martin del Potro
David Nalbandian vs. Tim Henman
Rafael Nadal vs. Robin Soderling
So many people did not get along with Agassi. Not a surprise.


Zed v TTW

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^ All moral people on earth cannot stand that violent offender.
 

THUNDERVOLLEY

G.O.A.T.
During her interview after a 6-4, 7-5 victory over Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario last night, Hingis fired a point-blank jab back at Serena Williams.

For background: Earlier this week, Hingis said Serena’s father Richard Williams has a “big mouth” for predicting an “all-black” Open final between his two daughters. Serena retorted that Hingis actually has the big mouth and it’s because she doesn’t have a “formal education.”


Evert once said Hingis was uneducated, too. Hingis' history of dumbass statements would prove the observation had merit.
 

Mustard

Bionic Poster
During her interview after a 6-4, 7-5 victory over Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario last night, Hingis fired a point-blank jab back at Serena Williams.

For background: Earlier this week, Hingis said Serena’s father Richard Williams has a “big mouth” for predicting an “all-black” Open final between his two daughters. Serena retorted that Hingis actually has the big mouth and it’s because she doesn’t have a “formal education.”
I do hate that kind of snobbery about "education". It's typical of US Democrats since the 1990s in particular, who are nowhere near as tolerant as they think they are. They are increasingly the party of rich, educated coastal elites who outsource industrial jobs by the millions while destroying social security (like Clinton's NAFTA, Obama's attempted TTIP and TPP).
 

RSJfan

Hall of Fame
I do hate that kind of snobbery about "education". It's typical of US Democrats since the 1990s in particular, who are nowhere near as tolerant as they think they are. They are increasingly the party of rich, educated coastal elites who outsource industrial jobs by the millions while destroying social security (like Clinton's NAFTA, Obama's attempted TTIP and TPP).
Donald “I love the poorly educated” is a real man of the people. :D
 

RSJfan

Hall of Fame
He at least acknowledges them. The Democrats don't. And Bernie Sanders failed to fight to the end.
He’s a very stable genious. He will formally acknowledge them — if he can — by shoving another tax cut for the .001% down their throats. :) They get platitudes, private equity keeps their “carried interest” favorable tax treatment. :sneaky:

Bernie should run for Prez somewhere in Scandinavia next time.
 
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Mustard

Bionic Poster
He would acknowledge the Devil if he thought it would gain him the support of Devil worshippers.
He does have the initials DT, like the anti-Christ (i.e. son of Satan) in The Omen. That's why it's hilarious that Trump has all these Christians eating out of his hand.
 
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