Which was the strongest/weakest era?

[captainbryce]

Which of the tennis "eras" listed were the STRONGEST and WEAKEST eras in open era tennis?

*I listed the eras in 5 year increments, and highlighted the names from each era that one multiple grand slam tournaments.

Late 1960s: Rod Laver (5), Roy Emmerson (5), John Newcombe (2), Manual Santana (2)

Early 1970s: John Newcombe (5), Ken Rosewall (3), Jimmy Conners (3), Ilie Năstase (2), Stan Smith (2)

Late 1970s: Bjorn Borg (7), Jimmy Conners (2), Guillermo Vilas (4)

Early 1980s: John McEnroe (6), Jimmy Conners (3), Bjorn Borg (3)

Late 1980s: Ivan Lendl (6), Mats Wilander (4), Boris Becker (4), Stefan Edberg (3)

Early 1990s: Pete Sampras (5), Jim Couier (4), Stefan Edberg (3), Andre Agassi (2), Sergei Brugera (2)

Late 1990s: Pete Sampras (7), Andre Agassi (3), Pat Rafter (2), Yevgeny Kafelnikov (2)

Early 2000s: Roger Federer (4), Andre Agassi (3), Pete Sampras (2), Lleyton Hewitt (2), Gustavo Kuerten (2)

Late 2000s: Roger Federer (9), Rafael Nadal (6)

Early 2010s: Rafael Nadal [8], Novak Djokovic (7), Roger Federer (2), Andy Murray (2)

In my opinion, the strongest era was the early 90s since it had five multiple GS winners, while the weakest era was the late 2000s since it only had two. On the other hand, what I listed as weakest era contains arguably the two GOATs with the most GS titles. What say you?

 

[Nathaniel_Near]

I'd tend to rate it based on the amount of elite (not necessarily GOAT level) tennis anomalies that exist during a period, with perhaps bonus points for when a player has some serious GOAT talent credentials. The depth below these elite anomalies doesn't bother me too much, so it doesn't matter to me that there's generally more strength in depth these days than some (most) earlier times, because it's still only generally the elite anomalies who win most of the big tournaments. After that, I'd gauge the level of combined dominance from the elite anomalies over a period of time. Therefore, despite questionable tier 2 player depth in the recent era (players like Wawrinka) I'd rate it as one of the best in history. It would have been better had del Potro, Soderling and Davydenko remained healthy. Much of the '80s was tremendously strong and the late '70s.

Those periods stand out to me.

 

[TennisManiac]

Everyone has an opinion. And that's all they are.... opinions.

 

[nguyentuanson16792]

The level of tennis is increase year after year. There is no such thing called "Weak Era" Thing that need to discuss instead of "weak era": Raquets technology, Balls, Surface change and adaption of Tennis player