Thread: Agassi says he tanked matches, calls Sampras one dimensional, calls Connors a name

Quote: Originally Posted by NamRanger No one ever said Sampras had to be McEnroe, but the dude made Henman's personality exciting. I for one liked Timmy, even if he was a bit bland.

Quote: Originally Posted by TheFifthSet but they all lashed out at agassi because they thought the same -- they thought agassi was slighting sampras' game. read their original posts -- they misunderstood the exercpts as well. AGassi has done that before when comparing Sampras and Fed. Kind of subtle jabs but jabs nonethless. It wouldnt surprise me at all if Andre's remarks were not about Sampras' game. Theres no doubt Andre is...

Quote: Originally Posted by Bjorkman & Johnny Mac Well I think its uncalled for. Sampras has shown nothing but respect to Andre over the years.. Even calling AGassi the best player hes ever played against. You wouldnt know it though considering how many times Pete had the advantage over Andre in the h2h during his career. Sampras could have just as easily called Andre one dimensional and if everything was clicking for him he would...

Sampras had a very EFFECTIVE game on FAST surfaces. On SLOW surfaces his weaknesses became VERY easy to see. Sampras can be happy that the 90`s had some of the fastest surfaces ever seen. I think Sampras was a good athlete, huge serve, a good forehand and decent volleys. Nothing more nothing less.

Quote: Originally Posted by ksbh Fifth . What makes you think they've misconstrued Agassi's statment? gsf , cesc , and tennisandmusic could be objecting because they don't find Sampras' personality one-dimensional either?! Is that so diffcult to accept? Most of their posts are regarding to objecting the game part of it if you'd bothered to read the thread . Except for cesc's one post comparing fed's and...

Quote: Originally Posted by JeMar Guys, stop arguing over a moot point. He wasn't referring to Sampras' tennis, he was referring to Sampras' personality. I wasn't sure after reading it at first either, that's why I posted it here for people to interpret...I didn't know so many people would get so butt hurt so quickly... LEAVE PETE ALONE!!!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by Bhagi Katbamna ... I suspect Agassi probably means personality wise too because he uses the word "robotic". Yes, to call Pete robotic on the court would be ridiculous. I agree he meant Pete's personality. I guess in a public way, Pete's more on the Edberg/Borg side, where Agassi is more on the Boris, Noah or Mac side of the spectrum (worldly, fairly sophisticated for an athlete). Nothing...

^^^Don't worry too much about, quest. He thinks Ivanovic could out-power Roddick from the baseline on red clay.

Quote: Originally Posted by Bjorkman & Johnny Mac Well that is true.. Federer is a hardly a paparazzi's personality dream like a Safin or McEnroe I think even Nadal has more personality than Fed and I can barely make out a damn lick of a sentence Nadal spews he speaks so fast in english. Both Fed and Pete seem much more introverted than others but probably to their advantage. Back to the Australian Open. It should be taken into...

Quote: Originally Posted by Fearsome Forehand The Sampras tip thing is funny. There was a post here years ago, maybe on the old board, by a guy who was either a low level employee of a tournament or a guest services/concierge employee of the resort where the tournament was held. He wrote that Sampras had a day(s) off and wanted someone to show him around the area. (I'm thinking it was Scottsdale or Palm Springs but maybe it was another...