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user's latest post:
Pete Sampras playing with a wood...
Published (2009-11-25 07:20:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by JoelDali This person you quote has no idea what they're talking about again and again. Its painful to witness and saddens me to no end to think people new to tennis may take his advice or believe what hes saying. Absolutely devastated. isn't it? he never, ever played a wood racquet and Pro staff. While the PS 85 has a solid feel like wood, it shares less characteristics. I think he reads all sorts of...
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Sampras without his serve and...
Published (2009-11-27 05:50:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by scotus Well, he did not say "serve and volley" or "serving and volleying". Which makes it very likely that his phrase "serve and volleying" refers to the S&V strategy rather than taking away both the serve and the volley from Sampras' arsenal. But why am I analyzing someone else's sentence (After all, he is no Immanuel Kant)? Let him come up...
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Sampras without his serve and...
Published (2009-11-27 06:21:00)
I'm not sure what to make of this thread. The serve and volley game is a game of the Sampras style and makes Pete what he is, the greatest player of the 1990's. Sampras held serve by percentage more often than anyone in the 1990's and he didn't do it by staying at the baseline after serving. That being written, Sampras obviously had a lot of great physical talent. The guy was a very smooth and quick movement with a very...
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How many grand slams would Graf...
Published (2009-11-25 13:58:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by FedSampras Let's face it Condi, the stats you are using were generously aided when graff reclaimed the number one, by default, from monica, when seles was stabbed...... graff went from a 1-8 record in Grand Slams for the better part of the early 90's, as seles went 7-8, ... Graf won Wimbledon 1991 & 1992. So no 1-8 for Graf. Graf won the most prestigious tournament in EACH of Seles's TWO best...
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what do you prefer?
Published (2009-11-27 18:08:00)
they don't call him the BIG CAT for nothing....
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Gonzalez Serve - Page 3 - Talk...
Published (2009-11-27 13:06:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by LeeD Leap on the serve... One view would be that the older players who weren't allowed to leap actually played a tennis game that allowed their wind to stay within reason, so they were NOT as out of breathe as the new players. Their whole game was slower, they walked slower in general, and were NOT huffing and puffing as they served. When NOT huffing and puffing, heartbeat up to the working max, you are more...
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Gonzalez Serve - Page 3 - Talk...
Published (2009-11-27 18:26:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by gzhpcu The jump rule was changed in 1960. What I have not managed to find is a video of how Gonzales was serving after 1960. I would think he probably jumped but retained the crossover step, as did many initially. Would be nice to find some old footage of his record 1969 match against Charlie Pasarell in Wimbledon. I would also die to find that match. BTW, Charlie Pasarell also had one of the most efficient and...
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Pete Sampras playing with a wood...
Published (2009-11-26 08:43:00)
^^^^LOL! JoelDali, now that's funny and a PROFOUND way of putting it, with the caveat that most folks that have played with both frames have NOT also had such varied experiences when it comes to love making. I'd agree 100%.
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So which slam with wood? - Page...
Published (2009-11-24 23:26:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by pc1 Think of it this way Josh. In professional baseball what type of bats do they use? They use wooden bats. Why? Because the aluminum bats that they use in college and many of the amateur ranks would not allow the pitcher any sort of chance at having a decent earned run average. In tennis today (and incidentally as a hacker I love the rackets today) almost any decent player can hit a winner off somewhat deep shot...
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Greatest Players of the Decade
Published (2009-11-25 10:22:00)
1920- Tilden and Lenglen 1930s- Perry and Wills Moody 1940s- Kramer and Betz 1950s- Gonzales and Connolly 1960s- Laver and Court 1970s- Borg and Evert 1980s- Lendl and Navratilova 1990s- Sampras and Graf 2000s- Federer and Serena Williams
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Latest active threads on Former Pro Player Talk::
Started 1 week, 3 days ago (2009-11-21 07:31:00)
by hoodjem
Don't forget "precision tennis": Laver versus Roche at the 1969 AO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHaN2h21ANs
Started 6 days, 10 hours ago (2009-11-25 09:05:00)
by LeeD
Crook is cocked. You release it when you feel like it.
Low consistent toss doesn't need you to stare at it, ala Tanner. Pulling your head down lowers your ball arc, so maybe he's hitting high, but pulling it down with his head.
His grip is conti because he's anticipatin a VOLLEY. Conti's work best, next best is conti towards EFH side, and conti towards EBH works worst, except for ...
Started 1 week ago (2009-11-24 12:36:00)
by LeeD
Nah, just an old style serve.
If you go back another 50 years, you'll see top pros hitting underspin forehands without any footwork. They were the top in their day, but that day has past.
M-1 Garand was the rifle of choice in 1943. Nobody would use one now. Couple years ago, M-1A2 was working on it's 5th gen. Progress keeps going, the past is just history.
Started 5 days, 10 hours ago (2009-11-26 08:35:00)
by LeeD
Just look at more modern pics, like '01, of JuanIgnacioChela.
Started 1 week, 2 days ago (2009-11-22 11:58:00)
by Mansewerz
Let me ask you this question: How good would Federer be without his forehand, how good would Ivanisevic be without his serve, etc?
True greatness is measure upon the player that a person is, not the player that he could be.
Started 6 days, 9 hours ago (2009-11-25 09:43:00)
by Joe Pike
Quote:
Originally Posted by ATPballkid
1880s Renshaw / Sears -- Bingley Hillyard
1890s R. Doherty / Wrenn -- Dod / Atkinson
1900s L. Doherty / Larned -- Douglass Chambers
1910s Wilding -- Douglass Chambers / Mallory
1920s Tilden -- Lenglen
...
Started 5 days ago (2009-11-26 19:00:00)
by Mustard
A great guy is Goran, and one of my all-time favourite players
Started 1 week ago (2009-11-24 10:17:00)
by urban
Its a good list. I have a bit of problems with the timing. I think, the
30s, end of the 50s, end 60s to begin 70s, and end 80s, begin 90s had the
best competition of top 6 to top 8. Around 1970 i would add Newcombe
(overall stronger than for instance Vilas) and Ashe (maybe Gimeno and
Roche, too). Around 1980 i wouldn't rank Lendl among the others Borg, Mac
and Connors. I think, at his peak, he ...
Started 3 weeks, 3 days ago (2009-11-07 11:37:00)
by mandy01
“I get an undeniable satisfaction from harming myself…After decades of merely dabbling in masochism, I’m making it my mission.” Wow....this quote is just..I dont really know what to say.
Sad.....
Also a pity he could never og to school..Must be hell living in that family.
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Hot threads for last week on Former Pro Player Talk::
Started 1 week ago (2009-11-24 12:36:00)
by LeeD
Nah, just an old style serve.
If you go back another 50 years, you'll see top pros hitting underspin forehands without any footwork. They were the top in their day, but that day has past.
M-1 Garand was the rifle of choice in 1943. Nobody would use one now. Couple years ago, M-1A2 was working on it's 5th gen. Progress keeps going, the past is just history.
Started 1 week, 5 days ago (2009-11-19 18:48:00)
by hoodjem
Quote:
Originally Posted by samprasvsfederer123
sampras could have a dazzling game even without serve and volleying.
I wonder.
Sampras is generally regarded as having one of, if not the greatest serve is the history of the game. His volleys are considered very strong, probably second tier (behind McEnroe, ...
Started 3 months, 3 weeks ago (2009-08-11 06:04:00)
by Fedfan1234
I think you should change well respected historian into something less flattering, like the worlds most overrated historian.
His opinion has probably something to do with her not being from the good old USA. Some Americans are this way, if she was an American the story would be completely different. He is just saying if Seles was still around. Well she wasn't! Don't count slams she did not win...
Started 6 days, 10 hours ago (2009-11-25 09:05:00)
by LeeD
Crook is cocked. You release it when you feel like it.
Low consistent toss doesn't need you to stare at it, ala Tanner. Pulling your head down lowers your ball arc, so maybe he's hitting high, but pulling it down with his head.
His grip is conti because he's anticipatin a VOLLEY. Conti's work best, next best is conti towards EFH side, and conti towards EBH works worst, except for ...
Started 1 week, 2 days ago (2009-11-22 11:58:00)
by Mansewerz
Let me ask you this question: How good would Federer be without his forehand, how good would Ivanisevic be without his serve, etc?
True greatness is measure upon the player that a person is, not the player that he could be.
Started 1 week, 2 days ago (2009-11-22 14:18:00)
by CyBorg
This would never happen. Using wood would be an injury risk.
Think about it. It's like asking a pitcher who throws overhand to switch to submarine. You'd kill his arm.
Started 2 months, 1 week ago (2009-09-21 13:36:00)
by bluetrain4
We just did this topic about three weeks ago (and a month before that, and four months before that, and two months before that, and five months before that, and on and on and on).
Started 6 days, 9 hours ago (2009-11-25 09:43:00)
by Joe Pike
Quote:
Originally Posted by ATPballkid
1880s Renshaw / Sears -- Bingley Hillyard
1890s R. Doherty / Wrenn -- Dod / Atkinson
1900s L. Doherty / Larned -- Douglass Chambers
1910s Wilding -- Douglass Chambers / Mallory
1920s Tilden -- Lenglen
...
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-11-22 20:31:00)
by the little dasher
I agree. The Oz sucked at around that time. Give it to the masters.
Started 1 week ago (2009-11-24 10:17:00)
by urban
Its a good list. I have a bit of problems with the timing. I think, the
30s, end of the 50s, end 60s to begin 70s, and end 80s, begin 90s had the
best competition of top 6 to top 8. Around 1970 i would add Newcombe
(overall stronger than for instance Vilas) and Ashe (maybe Gimeno and
Roche, too). Around 1980 i wouldn't rank Lendl among the others Borg, Mac
and Connors. I think, at his peak, he ...
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