Your top three players in the Open Era?
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RSJfan
Professional
Patrick or John?
Vincent-C
Legend
I love a kidder! Keeps things fresh..
.. the way JMac could catch and place the ball on the FH volley was a wonder of the world. I'd put Eddy way ahead of him in a "for your life" contest, though.
big ted
Legend
sean?
Lleytonstation
Talk Tennis Guru
Big 3.
Vincent-C
Legend
what was the
RSJfan
Professional
Both Pat and John have a losing record against Becker each beating him 2x but John lost to him 8x and Pat only 7x so I wasn’t sure which McEnroe was on your list.
I don’t have JMac at the top of his own gen. I place both Borg and Connors higher.
NeutralFan
G.O.A.T.
1- Connors ( man started modern baseline tennis ) imagine what he could do with modern rackets, so much fight , biggest crowd entertainer
2-Pete
3-Nadal/ Sinner
2-Pete
3-Nadal/ Sinner
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Vincent-C
Legend
I love a kidder! Thank you.
Vincent-C
Legend
Wow, I did not know Patty Mac played Boris that many times. I do remember the former being dismantled
in a college match by a South African SMU player named Stefan Kruger- real good tennis, and a privilege
to see live (@ UCLA).
SamprasisGOAT
Hall of Fame
1. Djokovic
2. Sampras
3. Safin or Sinner
2. Sampras
3. Safin or Sinner
Vincent-C
Legend
Sampras is way up there, no doubt. That Kruger cat I mentioned above played some of the best tennis
I've seen.
RSJfan
Professional
Don’t know Kruger but UCLA always had some great players so he must have been a very good college player.
I kinda recall Pmac somehow developed a rep for being a tough out for Boris but really he was a Boris pigeon going strictly on the results. So was John but all their matches were 1985 and later.
NeutralFan
G.O.A.T.
There will be millions of baseline bots but Nobody will be like Pete. He's up there with anyone else.
Vincent-C
Legend
Stefan Kruger played for SMU under Dennis Ralston; the one time I saw him play was at UCLA, at some
kind of obscure event. Kruger's game and panache made quite an impression att. He took PMac
apart there without even breathing hard.. Kruger reminded me of a male Mandlikova.
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NeutralFan
G.O.A.T.
You used to be a Fed fan ?no
Vincent-C
Legend
NeutralFan
G.O.A.T.
he actually owned his rivals like nobody did and had a beautiful game than baseline bots or today. I will take itNo doubt, even if he did have the world's second-ugliest backhand.
Live in person? Was the match in black and white?
Vincent-C
Legend
That's an interesting perspective. To me the only truly beautiful shot Sampras had was his serve (and a beautiful shot it was).he actually owned his rivals like nobody did and had a beautiful game than baseline bots or today. I will take it
NeutralFan
G.O.A.T.
No offense but you never saw tennis back then. Nobody literally nobody thought Sampras had an ugly game, only baseline bots fan would think that way. He had a beautiful movement, running FH, volley and even his BH was elegant on grass.you are seeing his BH from baseline era's perspective i understand your point.
Tennfan123
Legend
Connors, Sampras, Federer
yash_chanda72
Rookie
Not only in open era, but from the time tennis is invented to the end of time:
1.) N. Djokovic
2.) R. Federer
3.) R. Nadal
Nobody, I repeat nobody is going past 20 slams ever again!
1.) N. Djokovic
2.) R. Federer
3.) R. Nadal
Nobody, I repeat nobody is going past 20 slams ever again!
ibbi
G.O.A.T.
Borg - The greatest.
Agassi - Success across the surfaces during the period such a thing was toughest to accomplish.
Federer - Was far enough in his development as a player that the 21st century switch in the game should have rendered him a relic like so many in his generation. His evolution was special, the way he played the game was unique.
Shoutout to James Scott Connors, who has somehow become criminally underappreciated with the passing of time.
Agassi - Success across the surfaces during the period such a thing was toughest to accomplish.
Federer - Was far enough in his development as a player that the 21st century switch in the game should have rendered him a relic like so many in his generation. His evolution was special, the way he played the game was unique.
Shoutout to James Scott Connors, who has somehow become criminally underappreciated with the passing of time.
TRUE! Statistically, the greatest players of the OE were the Big 3. Game wise, for me, would be: Pete, Roger and Rosewall.
Bill Lobsalot
Hall of Fame
Connors (won the most tournaments)
Djokovic (most slams)
Federer (most stylish/entertaining)
Djokovic (most slams)
Federer (most stylish/entertaining)
NeutralFan
G.O.A.T.
Stats means sht if they all played in different eras.
RaulRamirez
Legend
I respect all the greats who preceded the Big 3, and many other terrific players, but sometimes, the top 3 are obvious. If you asked who are my favorite three, each of Rog, Rafa and Novak would be considered, but it would be a different answer.
Women? Who I consider the Top 3 is a little more difficult, as I go back and forth among Serena, Steffi, Martina and Chrissie.
Women? Who I consider the Top 3 is a little more difficult, as I go back and forth among Serena, Steffi, Martina and Chrissie.
RSJfan
Professional
Vincent-C
Legend
You are mistaken: I started playing and watching tennis in 1969, at the age of ten. Laver and Rosewalls' matches
were some of the first I saw.
The Blond Blur
G.O.A.T.
RAFA
Ol’ Rog
Joker
Ol’ Rog
Joker
NeutralFan
G.O.A.T.
Lol
