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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...

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...

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...

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...

they don't call him the BIG CAT for nothing....

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...

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...

^^^^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%.

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...

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