Tennis: Players Records Vs. Top 10 at Slams ...

Fair call. Given his incredible dominance and consistency i don't think he's that much behind Sampras right now tho. His efforts in the French (the one neither has won) have also been much stronger. Two very supreme players.

 

The Mac would kick both of their butts on a fast surface

I love tennis, BTW. I think the Fed is the best ever!

 

Disagree with the 'beaten as good opposition' bit here. The talent pool is deeper now. The number 30 guy is superior to the equivalent 10/15 years ago. Federer far better on clay too, Pete's big weakness. Roger won 12 grand slams since 2003. Far better average than Sampras managed.

 

At his peak he was amazing, but i can't see him getting past Fed and Sampras. Maybe on grass.

 

Federer and Sampras would dust Mac on grass.

 

Seles was 3-1 over Graf in Grand Slam finals at the time of the stabbing. From 1990 to the stabbing Seles had won 8 Grand Slam events and Graf 5. Seles was defintely on track for a lot more having nabbed 8 in under 3 years. Navratilova got to 18 i think and i reckon Seles would have got very close, if you meant Graf we are looking at 22. With a streaking Seles not being taken out Graf's titles would of course have been noticably reduced. At the time Graf had her own troubles and was flattening out a bit while Seles if anything was still improving.

Well they only ever played on grass twice with Graf being victorious. Stef did beat her well at Wimbledon tho when Seles was playing strong. Even so tho Wimbledon is just one of 4 grand slam events per year and Seles had no probs with the others.

Graf was actually my fave woman player, but Seles certainly would have made a good run at history given a fair shot. Graf may have still finished ahead in slams but rest assured it would have been very tight.

 

Yeah, definitely.

 

Probably but it's still Mac's best chance. Federer would handle his serve on cement and Mac would be dominated overall from the backcourt by him. Sampras too has a huge hardcourt game. My entire thinking is that McEnroe's best chance is on grass as he has more chance to hold serve and might sneak thru a few tiebreaks. I think Federer and Sampras could break him enough on hard court to win comfortably most of the time. On grass there's bugger all baseline rallies and tho Mac could live back there Fed would definitely dominate him from the back. I really don't think Mac's groundies would hold up to these two.

 

While I agree that the stabbing prevented Seles getting closer to Graf I don't think she'd have beaten her at Wimbledon. I've always rated Martina (yes, hated her too) as the top man. :good

 

Hahaha, dad did too

Yeah Graf beat Seles well in their one Wimby final and had that cutting slice backhand which was very effective on clay as opposed to a more defensive weapon on other surfaces.