With nothing but time to waste during this era of no tennis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, a new trend has developed in the Tennis Twitter universe: building your perfect tennis player.
The idea is to combine the best attributes of all players throughout history into a single entity, using the following categories.
Serve:
Forehand:
Backhand:
Return:
Volleys:
Movement:
Mental Toughness:
Various well-known members of the tennis world have already weighed in with their selections:
Some have offered more humorous takes:
So…. What does your perfect tennis player look like?
who ya using?
Forehand: Federer/Nadal (depends on the conditions really)
Backhand Drive: Nalbandian (Djokovic defends far better but Nalby’s controlled aggression was insane)
Backhand Slice: Federer or even Dimitrov
Serve: Isner/Karlovic
Movement: Federer
Volley: Edberg
Mental Toughness: Nadal
Return: Djokovic
The idea is to combine the best attributes of all players throughout history into a single entity, using the following categories.
Serve: Sampras
Forehand: Nadal/Del Potro
Backhand: Djokovic
Return:
Djokovic
Volleys: McEnroe
Movement: Monfils/Federer
Mental Toughness:Borg
Include Edberg in the volleys
Volley and touch: McEnroe!!!! Movement: Fed!!! Mental toughness: Rafa Competitive spirit: Ferrer & Rafa
2019 Rafa with the legs he had in 2005! 🙂
C’mon, Ricky, build your perfect player not your perfectly awful player.
PeRFect tennis player
Typo
:blush:
Serve: Isner
Forehand: Federer
Backhand: Wawrinka
Return: Djokovic
Volleys: McEnroe
Movement: Federer
Mental Toughness: Nadal/Djokovic
Mental toughness = Rafa but clutch goes to Djokovic.
Yes, that’s probably right. Plus, Rafa gets the edge because he’s had it his whole career, whereas Novak was pretty weak mentally for the first few years.