Anyone but Federer....pls.....
The pre-emminent tennis championships of the world....WIMBLEDON!!!...
Wimbledon Male Single's Trophy(Challenge Cup)
ALL THAT MATTERS!
Wimbledon Male Single's Trophy(Challenge Cup)ALL THAT MATTERS!
Roger Federer.... what can I say about him, but, superhuman... And yet, when I sit back and think about that statement that I have just made, I begin to think...superhuman?....Federer???
Take a look at the times when tennis was played the way it is supposed to be played....The era of the greats...the era of the fine art called 'serve and volley'. Names of legends spring to mind...Borg, Edberg, Becker, Mcenroe, Connors, Lendl, Courier and finally the peach of the lot - Pete Sampras...
Well yeah, Nadal reached last years final...Yeah Roddick plays best on grass... Yeah Djocovic could turn out to be a young pretender...but still the fact remains...none of these players are,at the moment of the same class as say a Becker or a Macenroe or a Connors or an Agassi.
But that does not mean that I am questioning Federer's talent...no way...All I'm saying is, to say that he is a better player than Pistol Pete or Borg, based on these four(and maybe five) crowns is rubbish!...
People compare Federer's four year unbeaten streak at Wimbledon to that of Sampras and Borg. But while Borg battled the likes of Becker and Edberg and Mcenroe and Connors and Lendl en-route to winning those five crowns and Sampras went through Becker and Ivanisevic and Courier and Agassi and Rafter among others, Roger Federer has as major opposition - no one!!!!...
Would he have displayed this same level of consistency and domination had he come up in the time when Sampras was at his peak???...People could debate yes, but I very much doubt it. But do remember...a young Fed-ex with long hair held up by a bow, did stop Pistol Pete's attempt at one last hurrah at Wimbledon, back when Sampras was looking to equal Borg's record of ruling the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club Championships for five straight years.
But by that time, Sampras was past his best...Without a doubt Federer defenitely isn't at the moment...But still that same dream of Sampras that a young Swizz by the name of Roger Federer thwarted, is the same one that he is going for this time...Could we find a new, young dark horse, springing up and spoiling the Swizz maestro's party???...Again, I very much doubt it.....But I sure hope so!!!...
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3 comments:
"But while Borg battled the likes of Becker and Edberg and Mcenroe and Connors and Lendl en-route to winning those five crowns..."
Borg left Wimbledon in 1981, Becker entered in 1985. Edberg's successful run at Wimbledon was in the late-eighties.
Borg was a baseliner, according to Wikipedia on "Serve_and_volley".
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Well i dunno who u r Mr. Anonymous...
but wat u say is quite rt....
It was actually edberg vs becker...they had they're famous battles while it was borg vs mcenroe vs connors...and at times lendl....
my mistake...srry....
and abt borg bein a baseliner...well he was a baseliner if u look at things from the point of view of tat age....but atleast he was a good volleyer wen he came up 2 the net...unlike say a nadal...
Even i dont feel federer could have beaten a sampras at his prime. sampras had just perfected everything..serve, volley , smash, drop shots..u name it..
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