Who made it look the most easy/effortless? (all time)

[yokied]

Simon

Came here to poast exactly this. Fed, Fog, Bernie are the other smooth operators on tour. Those four graces are joys to watch for all the different reasons.

Honourable mentions to Mac and Edberg, although Mac's jerky, heaving groundstrokes do cost him some points in this GOAT conversation.

 

[skaj]

1.Mecir(the groundstrokes, the volleys, the movement, the shot selection...)
2. Ashe
3. Goolagong
4. Rios
5. Okker
6. Federer
7. Nalbandian
8. Sampras
9. Mandlikova
10. Karlovic
11. Hingis
12. Hsieh
13. Kucera
14. McEnroe
15. Davenport
16. Pioline
17. Gasquet
18. Nastase
19. Fognini
20. Safin/Stosur

 

[Oval_Solid]

its Gustavo Kuerten the most effortless player ever
hes so relaxed u fall asleep watching him especially on clay
federer is smooth but kuerten took it to another level

 

[NatF]

No Rosewall?

 

[Krish0608]

Nobody made it look more effortless than Federer.

 

[King No1e]

Well no one's perfect, not even the King of Swing.

But really, he made tennis look like a video game at times. Just perfect execution of a gameplan eveyone know it's coming but can't do anything about it. Even Fed in some of his best matches, played a lot of long rallies, Pete just cut them short.

Efficiency personified

 

[King No1e]

Only correct answer is Dominic Thiem

 

[Phoenix1983]

Me.

 

[skaj]

Only correct answer is Dominic Thiem

I don't know, there's also Nadal, Murray, Djokovic, Hewitt... Not to mention Sanchez Vicario.

 

[King No1e]

I don't know, there's also Nadal, Murray, Djokovic, Hewitt... Not to mention Sanchez Vicario.

I think Murray might be a winner in this department. No pro player made hitting a ball over a net look quite as miserable an experience as Sir Andy did.

 

[vive le beau jeu !]

no love for the way the nadal makes cheating look so natural ?

 

[Phoenix1983]

I think Murray might be a winner in this department. No pro player made hitting a ball over a net look quite as miserable an experience as Sir Andy did.

Misery comes naturally to Scotsmen.

 

[WYK]

I dunno who made it look easy, but Ferrer sure as hell made it look hard.

 

[King No1e]

Misery comes naturally to Scotsmen.

But not to any TRUE Scotsman

 

[Lavs]

In terms of effortlessness:
Serve - Pit, Roger
FH - Roger, Andre
2HBH - Marat, Nalby
1HBH - Stan
Volley - Mac
Lob - Andy (M)
Movement - Roger

 

[skaj]

In terms of effortlessness:
Serve - Pit, Roger
FH - Roger, Andre
2HBH - Marat, Nalby
1HBH - Stan
Volley - Mac
Lob - Andy (M)
Movement - Roger

Some people are obviously missing there.

Serve - Karlovic, Ashe.
Forehand - Stosur.
2HBackhand - Hingis, Mecir.
1HBackhand - Laver, Goolagong.
Volley - Nastase, Goolagong, Mandlikova, Pioline.
Lob - Hingis, Nalbandian.
Movement - Mecir, Okker, Goolagong, Pioline, Rios.

 

[OldschoolKIaus]

Gilles Simon and Sureshs.

 

[Deleted member 744633]

Novak Djokovic, the most effortless player of all time.