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What a list…Beer Belly Dent. Serve Bot Sam. Interesting taste.
Who is your favourite never-top-ten player?
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BauerAlmeida
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What a list…Beer Belly Dent. Serve Bot Sam. Interesting taste.
Taylor Dent was one of the few serve and volley players left around that time, like Muller, Mahut, etc.
And Querrey had a great game at his best, he was more than a servebot. He had great performances against Djokovic and Murray at Wimbledon.
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I really thought he was a future top player back after his Paris and Wimbledon runs.
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I also liked M-K G. And PHM. Another fav of mine that made it to #12: Arnaud Boetsch.
Tshooter
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Yes, those three did S+V a lot so I see now why you might enjoy all three. Only Dent did it on every single point.
Muller has the impressive 2008 run from qualies to USO QF losing to Peakerer. And Mahut does have a nice looking game. Querry was a pure serve bot IMO. Nice guy but his game to me was meh to watch.
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I remember watching the beat-down that Agustín gave Ferrero to keep the tie against Spain alive in the Davis Cup semis in Málaga. Calleri played an amazing match.
Then Gaudio and Moyà went on the court to play the rubber match, and the latter played a match that seemed like a highlight reel of his career as a tennis player, just like Calleri.
That Sunday was strange.
"Argentina’s Agustin Calleri, who was not even supposed to compete in singles, played flawless tennis to stun world No 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain in straight sets (6-4, 7-5, 6-1). To achieve that feat, Calleri hit an unbelievable 109 winners. This unexpected win leveled the score, bringing the teams to a 2-2 tie. Although fellow Argentine Gaston Gaudio eventually lost the decider against Carlos Moya (6-1, 6-4, 6-2), this amazing performance remained Calleri’s biggest achievement, according to his own words."
The day Calleri stunned world No 1 Ferrero in Davis Cup - Tennis Majors
On this day in 2001, Agustin Calleri hit more than 100 winners in a three-set victory over world No 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero to cause a major upset in the Davis Cup
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Gilles Muller is best known for his trilogy of Wimbledon matches against Nadal (Muller winning 2 of them, and playing the highest level of tennis in the first 2 sets in the other), and for beating Roddick in the first round of the 2005 US Open in straight sets. Muller's serve on grass was a bit of a nightmare for Nadal, just the whole power, trajectory and style of it.
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Gilles Müller is also a commentator on Tennis TV and he's by far my favorite. He's inciteful, gives a lot of inside tips on various courts across the world and is very clam and pleasant. He's an excellent commentator. For Europeans, he also appears on Amazon Prime for the UK and SkySports.
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So glad Baghdatis was just too good at tennis to be eligible for this thread.
So I’ll have to say Dustin Brown, Max Cressy, and JJ Wolf. Oh, and Marcus Willis.
So I’ll have to say Dustin Brown, Max Cressy, and JJ Wolf. Oh, and Marcus Willis.
Excuse me, i see this is former player thread..
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I remember watching the beat-down that Agustín gave Ferrero to keep the tie against Spain alive in the Davis Cup semis in Málaga. Calleri played an amazing match.
Then Gaudio and Moyà went on the court to play the rubber match, and the latter played a match that seemed like a highlight reel of his career as a tennis player, just like Calleri.
That Sunday was strange.
"Argentina’s Agustin Calleri, who was not even supposed to compete in singles, played flawless tennis to stun world No 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain in straight sets (6-4, 7-5, 6-1). To achieve that feat, Calleri hit an unbelievable 109 winners. This unexpected win leveled the score, bringing the teams to a 2-2 tie. Although fellow Argentine Gaston Gaudio eventually lost the decider against Carlos Moya (6-1, 6-4, 6-2), this amazing performance remained Calleri’s biggest achievement, according to his own words."
The day Calleri stunned world No 1 Ferrero in Davis Cup - Tennis Majors
On this day in 2001, Agustin Calleri hit more than 100 winners in a three-set victory over world No 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero to cause a major upset in the Davis Cup
That performance was insane.
Another similar one was against Hewitt at the USO hitting like 65 winners.
Or when he beat Agassi in Miami and the first set was a 6-2 despite serving like 35% first serves lol (Agassi couldn't get a single BP despite being one of the best returners ever against an awful first serve %).
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Sorry, I can‘t help. @Sudacafan is the only poster authorized to grant dispensations.
BauerAlmeida
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Forgot about him. Beat Federer at the AO and pushed Djokovic to 5 at Roland Garros.
Sudacafan
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Porca miseria!
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Vincent-C
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Boy howdy! Thanks for those clips- I did not know of Calleri.
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And who would that be?
BauerAlmeida
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Yep, he was known as a bit of a giant killer back in the day. He had ridiculous performances like that one but he would make Kyrgios or Gulbis look consistent. I remember him losing to someone ranked around 250 in the world at one point. He also was constantly injured and had terrible stamina and would often run out of steam in long matches aside from losing some incredible matches from winning positions.
Unfortunately, there aren't good highlights from the performance against Ferrero in Davis Cup.
Vincent-C
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Another big Taylor Dent fan here. That boy could throw it down! I remember him losing some final to Ginepri in high heat and humidity.
edit: Indy, it was.
BauerAlmeida
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He almost retires without a title but was able to win a few in his mid-30s (right after losing an incredible final with Karlovic first).
I remember watching the beat-down that Agustín gave Ferrero to keep the tie against Spain alive in the Davis Cup semis in Málaga. Calleri played an amazing match.
Then Gaudio and Moyà went on the court to play the rubber match, and the latter played a match that seemed like a highlight reel of his career as a tennis player, just like Calleri.
That Sunday was strange.
"Argentina’s Agustin Calleri, who was not even supposed to compete in singles, played flawless tennis to stun world No 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain in straight sets (6-4, 7-5, 6-1). To achieve that feat, Calleri hit an unbelievable 109 winners. This unexpected win leveled the score, bringing the teams to a 2-2 tie. Although fellow Argentine Gaston Gaudio eventually lost the decider against Carlos Moya (6-1, 6-4, 6-2), this amazing performance remained Calleri’s biggest achievement, according to his own words."
The day Calleri stunned world No 1 Ferrero in Davis Cup - Tennis Majors
On this day in 2001, Agustin Calleri hit more than 100 winners in a three-set victory over world No 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero to cause a major upset in the Davis Cup
That was a stunning performance, alongside him ending Agassi's 19 match winning streak at Miami in 2004 bullying him from the back of the court and firing 47 winners, and his win over Hewitt at the USO in 2007 hitting 65 winners (Hewitt had never failed to reach the last 8 there from 2000-2007.
The 2003 Davis Cup SF in Malaga was a bizarre tie, with Gaudio losing 14 consecutive games against Ferrero on the opening day, looking to throw in the towel, and receiving a huge amount of criticism from the Argentinian media afterwards.
He was clearly talented, hit with a lot of power and his backhand when firing was a joy to watch. But he liked his food and often had a lax approach to fitness work.
And of course he was mentally frail, notably committing a horrendous choke vs. Massu in the 2002 Buenos Aires final when leading 6-2 5-2 with 2 match points at 15-40 on Massu's serve. Also despite being a fan, I found his choke against Koubek in the 1st round at Sopot in 2007 to be hilarious, with him leading 6-0 4-0, and serving for the match 3 times, having 4 match points. but still losing. Soon afterwards he lost to Kohlschreiber at Cincy after having 2 match points one of which he blew with an easy smash, and then to Blake at New Haven after having 3 match points on serve (Blake from his facial expressions couldn't believe his luck).
If there was one match that he played in and lost that I'd love to change the outcome of, it would be that doubles rubber with Nalbandian in the 2008 Davis Cup final though.
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How hasn’t Paire been mentioned
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This is kinda hard but
Men: Kohlschreiber, Taylor Dent, El Aynaoui
Ladies: Lisa Raymond, Sabine Lisicki, Sania Mirza
Men: Kohlschreiber, Taylor Dent, El Aynaoui
Ladies: Lisa Raymond, Sabine Lisicki, Sania Mirza
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As have I (a couple of times if you include UTS, obviously a slightly different scenario), he’s sound, pal.
BauerAlmeida
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He also choked against Ljubicic in the Davis Cup in what would have been another epic memorable win. 2-0 up and in the 3rd set tie break he was 4-1 up, but lost it and then collapsed in the last 2 sets unsurprisingly.
Ljubicic at home was one of the toughest players to beat in Davis Cup.
Regarding the doubles rubber, true, but Mancini screwed up putting Acasuso against Safin in 2006 and Verdasco in 2008 and leaving Calleri on the stands both times. I have no doubt he would have won ONE of those.
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Just as I suspected. Thanks for confirming!
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Amazed no Fabrice Santoro shout outs
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