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| Apr-19-06 | | AlexanderMorphy: one of my all-time fav' tennis players~ |
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| Apr-20-06 | | VishyFan: Great acrobatic player...... :) |
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| Apr-20-06 | | Petrosian63: Becker was good but Lendl was better... :D |
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Apr-20-06
 | | chancho: <Becker was good but Lendl was better... :D> Not in the 1986 Wimbledon final, nor the 1989 US Open. :-) |
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| Apr-20-06 | | Petrosian63: But overall over their great careers, Ivan Lendl was better :p |
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| Apr-25-06 | | AlexanderMorphy: Sampras was better than both of them! |
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| Apr-25-06 | | Jim Bartle: If we're only considering these three, it's:
1. Sampras
2. Lendl
3. Becker
No shame in being #3 on that list, though. |
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| Apr-25-06 | | sciacca khan: Make way for Roger Federer. |
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| Apr-25-06 | | Jim Bartle: No need, he already arrived a year ago. I'd be watching out for Rafael Nadal now, as Roddick, Hewitt, Safin and Ferrero seem to have fallen by the wayside. |
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| Apr-25-06 | | technical draw: Best of all? Bjorn Borg. All the rest are also rans. |
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| Apr-25-06 | | Jim Bartle: There's no way to compare Borg and his wood racket with today's players with their rocket launchers with giant sweet spots. Borg was of course a great player, unbeatable on clay and had five straight Wimbledons, but he never won the US Open. What Borg had was a level of concentration and will that no other player could match. |
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| Apr-25-06 | | weisyschwarz: Do Jimmy C. or Johnny Mac have a place on the list? |
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| Apr-25-06 | | Jim Bartle: Yes, very high places, both of them.
McEnroe played a long time using touch, speed and a wooden Wilson Kramer even as Lendl and Becker were developing their power games. Connors was amazing in that he could hit hard and still control his shots with that Wilson T-2000 trampoline--nobody else could. From that era I'd give also high marks to Guillermo Vilas in the 70s and Mats Wilander in the 80s. |
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| Apr-25-06 | | apawnandafool: What I like about this game is that 2.Qh5 was incorrect, and Kasparov decides to show Becker how it was supposed to be done, with 14...Qh4+. Because, that's how good he is. Becker's queen move 2.Qh5 is correct in the Defense called Damiano's Dementia. This is when senile white forgets about the intervening moves in Damiano's Defense. Forget something Boris?
Damiano's Defense
Greco vs NN, 1620
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Apr-26-06
 | | alexmagnus: To me, 2.Qh5 in becker's game was a thing of preference, but what the hell was 3.Qf3?????That's what he forgot: (3.Bc4 g6)4.Qf3 Nf6 5.Ne2 d6 6.h3 Bg7 7.Nbc3 etc. |
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| May-06-07 | | Crowaholic: A truly amazing player, both on the court and at the board. In 2000, he managed to escape checkmate for 17 moves against Garry Kasparov himself, something that no other German tennis player with the initials B. B. had ever done before. :-) |
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| May-06-07 | | goldenbear: While Becker is a sentimental favourite, tennis is a funny game and his style was not built for tournament play. This impacted his results considerably, and he did not achieve enough to be among the top tier in tennis. There is a case to be made (not necessarily the correct one)that Bjorn Borg is the third most dominant athlete of all time -- behind Nicklaus and Jordan. |
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| May-06-07 | | goldenbear: I will say that Becker at his best was so good he could be competitive today with a wooden racket. "His best" was just too fleeting and fickle, that's all. |
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| Aug-22-08 | | whiteshark: <I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.> -- Boris Becker |
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| Aug-22-08 | | Jim Bartle: An admirable sentiment. I wonder if he made an exception to the "losing" part in the case of Ivan Lendl. |
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| Mar-14-09 | | Augalv: He is my favorite tennis player of all time. |
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| Mar-16-09 | | Jim Bartle: Unfortunately neither Borg nor Sampras played Lendl in his prime. In fact, Sampras' defeat of Lendl in the quarterfinals of the 90 US Open marked the end of Lendl's time as a Top 3 player. |
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Mar-16-09
 | | valiant: <Jim Bartle said: Borg was of course a great player, unbeatable on clay and had five straight Wimbledons, but he never won the US Open.> Yes, Björn Borg really showed that he was the best tennis player both on the fastest surface, the grass at Wimbledon before 2002, and at the French Open on clay (winner 6 times).
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/a... B. Borg was also unbeatable in Davis Cup; 34 wins in a row in the single-play. <Jim Bartle said: There's no way to compare Borg and his wood racket with today's players with their rocket launchers with giant sweet spots.> Maybe, but it is nice reading for a Swede to compare the stats data between Borg vs Lendl and Sampras vs Lendl ... |
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| Mar-16-09 | | Jim Bartle: Borg was just unbeatable at the French Open. The funny thing is he had three chances to the US Open on clay (75-77) and couldn't do it. My reply to valiant's post on Lendl is above. How did I do that, you must be asking. |
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Mar-16-09
| | chancho: Connors and McEnroe got the better of Borg in those US Open finals. It's too bad he never won at Flushing Meadows. But other great players failed to win one particular event. Sampras never won the French Open. Winning 11 slams with the tennis rackets back then is impressive stuff. |
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