Who was the best indoor surface player ever?

[buscemi]

Nope. Navratilova had 88 singles carpet tournament wins! Out of her 167 total singles wins! Almost the same as Rafa's total tournament wins! If you included doubles, she would probably have over 150 indoor wins, out of her total 354 tournament wins!!!

And, on the men's side, if we include doubles, McEnroe would be the clear #1 with seven straight WTF doubles titles (the only seven times he played it).

 

[Drob]

Wholly Moses!! 167 singles titles? At WTA level or equivalent? Get outta here !!!.

You know, Ray Bowers, author of "Forgotten Victories", about the 1930s professional tennis tours, concluded that Martina Navratilova is THE G.O.A.T. He meant THE, not the "the female", GOAT. That was probably 12 years ago or more and the Djokovic career, but still . . .

 

[Drob]

And, on the men's side, if we include doubles, McEnroe would be the clear #1 with seven straight WTF doubles titles (the only seven times he played it).

If we include doubles on the men's side, it is still:

Laver
Gonzalez

Maybe Mac for third. But if we include doubles, for third maybe:

 

[TheGoldenEra1990’s]

Pete Sampras

 

[hoodjem]

One should look more into the early open era record of Nastase. He was extremely fast and had a fine, underrated serve and great reflexes, and indoors was probably his best surface, and by my count he won 30 indoor titles, and many big titles too, inclkuding 4 Masters, 2 Salisbury US Indoors, and Wembley resp. Dewar Cup. And surprisingly for a guy with often cited bad nerves, he won an open era reocrd of 42 five set matches.

Every once in a while, I wonder how much more Nastase could have won if only he had given up the clowning, kept it together, and buckled down.

He‘d probably say “but where’s the fun in that”?

 

[Sudacafan]

Nobody could tell because he always played behind closed doors.