Greatest Tennis Players

Yousha · **Posted:** Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:51 am

were any of you lucky enough to watch any of those matches ? mustve been a sight ...

Yousha · **Posted:** Mon Jun 27, 2011 2:32 pm

i think Novak definitely gets an hon mention , if not a spot .... if roddick gets a mention , then he DEF should .....

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4168

yes of course... two grand slams, a 43 game win streak, reaching semis in 11 of last 17 grand slams, and consistently going toe-to-toe with arguably the two best ever is enough to get you a spot

Yousha · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:30 pm

where'd you think he'd go ? i think the list could be expanded to 50 ......

Yousha · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:33 pm

seeing mr. number 30s records , with his streaks which were broken with the use of an illegal racket and a lot of titles, he could perhaps raise a bit ....

Cruz · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:45 pm

How the heck is Roddick an hon. mention?

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4168

reaching 5 grand slam finals is not bad... that's more than hewitt, safin, chang, rafter, kuerten, kodes, quist, or kafelnikov can claim, for example... being arguably the greatest server of his generation counts in his favor, too, i think. if anyone is least deserving of an honorable mentions spot, it's probably muster.

rockvirtuoso · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:36 pm **Posts:** 2375

haha muster i love that guy. i remember when everyone was blowing up because he'd reached #1 (prob after he won the french) but had never ever gotten past the first round at wimbledon :lol:

but seriously i dont have a prob with any of the hon mentions, there could even more. roddick could be #3 server behind sampras and goran all time

Georgi · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:37 pm **Posts:** 7274

I remember Mac listing his top 8 servers of all time on tv here this week. Obviously Goran, Pete and Roddick were there. He mentioned Becker too, Karlovic, maybe Isner too.

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4168

also bill tilden and pancho gonzales were the dominant servers of their eras (both way ahead of their time)

Nick · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 2:10 pm

Speaking of Goran, could we add him to the honourable mentions?

Yousha · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 4:20 pm

Nick-ola wrote:

Speaking of Goran, could we add him to the honourable mentions?

Yuss !!

in actuality - expand list ? i think we can do it ..... till 50 ?

Nick · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 12:06 pm

Does John McEnroe's formidable doubles record have something to do with him being above people like Lendl and Agassi?

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4168

possibly... to be honest, i was afraid he'd yell at me if i put him any lower.

also, rv made me realize that i underrated the hell out of ken rosewall. and, i'll try to find a place for djoko in the top 30 for next edition. any other comments or suggestions? alternative lists are welcome. i feel like a bunch of you know tennis much better than i do anyway.

btw, good resource:
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=353974
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/forumdisplay.php?f=37

also, speaking of lendl, another interesting thing to consider: he was 22-13 against connors, and 21-15 against johnny mac. of the three, i still think connors is greater, but i can see lendl going ahead of mcenroe, going by longevity and consistency.

Nick · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 2:23 pm

ok, i can now rephrase my earlier post/question. Shouldn't John McEnroe's formidable doubles record place him above Ivan Lendl given their roughly similar singles careers?

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