Who has the best forehand-backhand combination in history?

[Olli Jokinen]

Is this thing still going? Just mute the guy and move on.

 

[Third Serve]

Y’all getting baited hard here.

Shoutout to the one guy who actually agreed with the troll tho

 

[Winner Sinner]

Y’all getting baited hard here.

Shoutout to the one guy who actually agreed with the troll tho

The funny thing is that since the bot opened its campaign Nadal best baseline player in history, in the poll in question Nadal has not received any more votes after it was initially a balanced 3-way challenge between Djokovic, Agassi and Nadal himself.

Anyway, yes, I gave it too much importance, from now on I deliberately ignore it.

 

[Tennis Devolution]

I agree. Djokovic is just very good at everything but other than his BH, he's not really top 5 (stroke wise) in his era at anything. There are 5-10 guys with bigger forehands than him, but he's gotten much more accurate and powerful later in his career. He may be the greatest player ever because he had top 10 strokes all around AND was the fastest, most flexible player with the best returns.

Okay well I would say novak djokovic has one of the best forehands ever only behind rafael nadal and roger federer so when it come to the baseline, novak djokovic has the second best baseline game ever with Rafael Nadal having the GOAT BEST baseline game ever because you CANNOT EVER win FOURTEEN ROLAND GARROS TITLES by pure baselining without THE GOAT BEST BASELINE GAME of Rafael Nadal!

 

[Tennis Devolution]

Y’all getting baited hard here.

Shoutout to the one guy who actually agreed with the troll tho

I know that it SUCKS to have NO ARGUMENTS.

 

[Tennis Devolution]

On paper, Nadal is not in the conversation. His forehand could be overpowered and his backhand mostly only went crosscourt. But watching him is a whole different matter. Like Djokovic, you couldn't hit anything past him but he was much better than Djokovic for most of their careers at playing aggressive and taking over a rally once he's given the chance. For this first half of Djokovic's career, he'd waste 1/3 of short balls by hitting them back up the middle and continuing a rally. If you hit a short ball against Nadal, it was over. He'd drag the opponent around like a rag doll

Completely forget about the completely subjective irrelevant BS nonsensical "buh buh buh forehand/backhand potency stats" that these other completely argumentless posters keep completely argumentlessly holding onto for their lives. The forehand and backhand of Rafael Nadal could overpower anyone including novak djokovic and the only place where you would see rafael nadal relatively struggle was on indoor hard court where the power of the serve over baseline rallying was at its highest and the bounce of the ball was most reduced which obviously does not counter at all the complete outright dominance of rafael nadal on the surface of clay where baseline rallying is at its highest importance which novak djokovic never possessed. You do not ever need to even watch Rafael Nadal play or watch tennis in general to know that the only actual mathematical objective statistic ON PAPER that ACTUALLY MATTERS is the GRAND SLAM COUNT and in the GRAND SLAM COUNT, Rafael Nadal was won FOURTEEN ROLAND GARROS TITLES with just pure baseline rallying on the surface of clay where baseline rallying is at its highest importance so Rafael Nadal is the GOAT of baselining, CASE FREAKING CLOSED!

 

[Aabye5]

There should only be two players here

 

[nolefam_2024]

There should only be two players here

Sinner Alcaraz?

 

[Aabye5]

Sinner Alcaraz?

If you have to ask...

Spoiler: Those who know...

Djokovic or Agassi

 

[mental midget]

andre, novak, sinner looking good w smaller sample size.

borg/connors both great too.

 

[Donkus_Reborn]

Forgot about Safin. It would be Safin when he's focused. In his era, Agassi was widely agreed to have the best combo of bh/fh but I've seen a match (can't remember which one) where Safin completely overpowered Agassi on both sides.

I've seen a couple of matches. Madrid 2004 Safin dominated Agassi from the baseline. I've also seen it reversed. AO 2004 Safin's serve was the difference - as well as him tanking the 4th set during the end to conserve energy on what was a lost cause.

 

[Linelicker]

LOL, whether you like it or not, the TRUTH will be EMPHASIZED!

Absolutely not.

 

[Tennfan123]

Seles