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All great men loses to youth eventually. Tennis is a boring sport after Roger/Rafa/Novak. These guys gave the fan lots of joy and excitement for a long time. It's sad to see them all gone.
 

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All great men loses to youth eventually. Tennis is a boring sport after Roger/Rafa/Novak. These guys gave the fan lots of joy and excitement for a long time. It's sad to see them all gone.
Are you predictiing no more majors for joker ?
 

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Going to just be Alcaraz and Novak for the next 4-5 years until Novak ages out.

Carlos will make a run at 20 majors. The rest of this crew is pathetic. I think Carlos wins US Open.
 

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Nice job Carlos . Now try not to lose to a +3000 dog next week
 

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All great men loses to youth eventually. Tennis is a boring sport after Roger/Rafa/Novak. These guys gave the fan lots of joy and excitement for a long time. It's sad to see them all gone.
Andy Murray was a great great player. I would say better than Pete Sampras he was just born into wrong generation.

The fact he even made it to #1 when those 3 were still in prime says a lot. Wrong era and that hip injury and he gets forgotten in history.
 

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Djoker/Alcaraz will be interesting in US Open
Med might be able to do something on hard court. Will need to see where is head is at though...

It will likely by those 2 but if one of those 3 don't win it---would be real shock.
 

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Andy Murray was a great great player. I would say better than Pete Sampras he was just born into wrong generation.

The fact he even made it to #1 when those 3 were still in prime says a lot. Wrong era and that hip injury and he gets forgotten in history.
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Pete Sampras was arguing the best server the game has seen. And incredible net play . Sampras, on his day, could beat ANY of Nadal, Fed, Nole at Flushing Meadows or the old grass at Wimbledon .
 

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Andy Murray was a great great player. I would say better than Pete Sampras he was just born into wrong generation.

The fact he even made it to #1 when those 3 were still in prime says a lot. Wrong era and that hip injury and he gets forgotten in history.
Strongly agree. Going to be historically under-appreciated

Beat Djoker in straight sets at Wimbledon I believe
 

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Med might be able to do something on hard court. Will need to see where is head is at though...

It will likely by those 2 but if one of those 3 don't win it---would be real shock.
Not a big believer in revenge factor, but I gotta think Joker might be a little extra motivated for this one
 

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lol

Pete Sampras was arguing the best server the game has seen. And incredible net play . Sampras, on his day, could beat ANY of Nadal, Fed, Nole at Flushing Meadows or the old grass at Wimbledon .
Sampras wasn't even close to those 3. He never even made a semi-final at RG let alone won one.

Never heard anyone mention him as the best server of all-time. That is kinda nuts. The best servers are the really tall who tend not to move well(why they never win much in major tournaments)---aka John Isner.

edit: my mistake. I guess he did make 1 semi-final at RG.
 

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Of course he didnt have the game for clay ,backhand was average . But on HC or the old fast grass at Wimbledon ? He could take anyone down

His serve? You follow tennis ? Of course karlvoc / Isner were faster . But I'd take sampras' serve over both of there's ,placement /variety /could kick it. And the 2nd serve?
Read up on it


Whats nuts ? Praising murray
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Of course he didnt have the game for clay ,backhand was average . But on HC or the old fast grass at Wimbledon ? He could take anyone down

His serve? You follow tennis ? Of course karlvoc / Isner were faster . But I'd take sampras' serve over both of there's ,placement ,could kick it. And the 2nd serve?
Read up on it


Whats nuts ? Praising murray
Haha
Murray would beat him at Wimbledon in his prime.

Of course Sampras has an excellent serve. All the top players do---just have never heard anyone say Pete had the best serve of all-time.
 

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Murray would beat him at Wimbledon in his prime.

Of course Sampras has an excellent serve. All the top players do---just have never heard anyone say Pete had the best serve of all-time.
Youd be betting on the dog , hahaha

We all know Murray's resume in finals . Is what it is

You British ?
 

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the best server of all time is opinion based , of course. aint 1 +1 . But here's an article that does use numbers . Im assuming you didnt watch much of the Sampras era , lol

FOURTEEN GS titles and on theold fast grass at Wimbledon?--turn out of lights . His second serve was often a weapon , he loved the kick serve, again had variety

second article provided , notes Pete


 

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Sampras can be an all time great and Murray be underrated
Both of those statements can be true .

Would have loved to see AM play an injury free career

If he had all 3 of the big 3 would have several less GS titles .

At one point they called it the big 4 before changing it to the big 3 after injuries ruined him
 

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they slowed the grass at Wimbledon, allowed the likes of Nadal to win there .

Murray just wasnt good enough. It's that simple . The narrative of ; 'he played in the wrong era' , supports that . :)
 

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Andy Murray was a great great player. I would say better than Pete Sampras.
2 greats?
Lol
He doesn't even get 1 great.
No way better than Sampras.
Andy Murray is like Andre Agassi crowd favorites & they give 100% just mediocre players.
 
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lol

Pete Sampras was arguing the best server the game has seen. And incredible net play . Sampras, on his day, could beat ANY of Nadal, Fed, Nole at Flushing Meadows or the old grass at Wimbledon .

they slowed the grass at Wimbledon, allowed the likes of Nadal to win there .

Murray just wasnt good enough. It's that simple . The narrative of ; 'he played in the wrong era' , supports that . :)
100% Correct!!
 

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