That's it. The overall playing field had far more room for upsets. Top 10 meant something back then.
I know its the US open next, that is neither players favourite surface as I said. Demolition job or not, it is up to Federer to close the gap as he has beaten him on clay before. Nadal has managed to do it to Federer.
Hardcourt seems to favour Federer more. He has beaten Nadal a few times on hardcourt.
Think head to head stands at 3-2.
Precisely, the top 10 seeds for this year's wimbledon:
Ah yes, Davy-fecking-denko. Sure-win semi-final sacrifice once every year for Federer... or anyone in the top 10 back 10 years ago... a joke.
If you read my post you'll see I said I didn't think the opposition was that much better, rather than claiming as you are suggesting that they were better than what Sampras faced. For me Courier and Agassi are the Djokovic and Nadal of today's game. The rest are decent players, who have it in them to pull out the occasional grand slam, not unlike Hewitt, Safin and Roddick.
A few here have. Wasnt me though. I'm just saying its a possibility that if he dominated the competition he faced so easily he may have done the same with those Sampras faced. Its not inconceivable at all.
Roddick is garbage. He is your typical all brawn and no brains type of player with a brash yank attitude. Comes with automatic self destruct mode.
Roddick is so poor that I am not gonna discuss him.
WTF? Is that list serious? fecking hell.
He wasnt that bad a few years back. Neither was Hewwit who had a good record against Federer till a point.
Precisely. Davydenko. Played impressively right up to the semi finals, and giving you expectation that he might give federer a game at least. No, no such luck.. straight sets demolition.
He would have rose among those players as well. But it would have been tougher and he certainly won't have featured in every grand slam final. Nowdays he does not have to break a sweat before semis, there were much more upsets in the 90's.
Agreed. he was decent a few years back, but even then, he's limited. Typical big serving yank, but couldn't manage a few groundstrokes to save his life. Gave free points on unforced errors. Tried to serve and volley but failed miserably.
Agreed, he is a pretty poor player in comparison to his peers. But firstly, you're the one who mentioned him in a comparison. You also don't want to discuss him, but you seem happy to discuss Ivanisevic, who had the same number of slam victories, and Rafter, with just one more(and Roddick's career isn't even over-ok, that's daft, I admit
). Yes. that's the top 10 seedings for this year wimbledon. No joke. And you have the likes of berdych (who the feck is that?!), gonzalez, wawrinka (is this a toy??), mathieu, stepanek, youzhny, lurking from the 11th to 20th seeds.
How were Rafter and Ivanesavic (apologies for the spelling) not limited? Ivanesavic was a gangly fella who served unbelievably. Rafters groundstrokes were awful. He just chipped and charged all the time. His had no power in his game at all.
The top 3 are on the level of the top of the sampras era. It's the rest up to the top 20 or 30s that have regressed. Back then you had established sub-top players who were talented and just missed that little bit of extra to win as consistently as the top. There were so many dark horses that were extremely dangerous.Yes. that's the top 10 seedings for this year wimbledon. No joke. And you have the likes of berdych (who the feck is that?!), gonzalez, wawrinka (is this a toy??), mathieu, stepanek, youzhny, lurking from the 11th to 20th seeds.
Ivanesevic is only about his serve. agreed.
At his best hes amazing. Such a complete game. But hey, Federer has always faced rubbish players so he must be too.
did you even see that match
on his day safin is better/classier than anyone in todays mens game
Hewitt and Roddick were always one-dimensional players a la chang who would get found out. I said this when Hewitt won wimbledon, he'd get found out and go the chang road soon enough.
amolbhatia100 what do my thoughts on Beckers commentary have to do with Safin?Quoted two posts instead of one.
Its 5 am. Need sleep.
Anyone remember the last serve and volleyer? Henman?One more thing: serve and volleyers actually existed back then. Today it's all baseliners.
agreed.
did you even see that match
on his day safin is better/classier than anyone in todays mens game
If the grass courts going to get slower it's going to favour returns to feet making serve/volley more difficult, they should go back to a slicker surface, make the game different.One more thing: serve and volleyers actually existed back then. Today it's all baseliners.
Both Rafter and Goran were excellent serve and volley players. Certainly better than Roddick. Hewitt had a phase when he was good to excellent, took advantage of a change of guard so as to speak. I would put him on par with someone like Kafelnikov.
All this Safin wanking is nonsense. Even talent wise he has got nothing on Nadal or Federer. He could have been up there right now, the injury didn't help but since then he has only got himself to blame.
did you even see that match
on his day safin is better/classier than anyone in todays mens game
