hawkeye63

I think you’re wrong on both counts.

Federer has intimated several times that he values more Wimbledon titles over anything else and Rafa values the French titles over any other slam. No way he’d take a non […]

I’m a fan Alison.

Cast a spell on the racist misogynist for me if you please.

Exactly LS. Well said.

I remember Rafa being so happy after winning Wimbledon in 2010 talking to McEnroe about getting it done at the USO. He was beaming with confidence and he was right.

Confidence is […]

Wow. Great observation!

Olly, respectfully, you are talking to a racist and misogynist. Two examples of litterally hundreds he’s posted here. Your choice of course but I just wanted to let you know. The rest of us tend to ignore his […]

My vote is that it’s simply between his ears i.e., mental.

Not at all an “equalizer”.

Sampras would beat Federer more often than not on fast grass. He owned it. Virtually unbeatable. That’s a fact lol.

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Not only the speed but the consistency and evenness of the grass.

It was a different game than it is today.

Tough to compare given the other variables like wooden racquets.

How many did each of them face?

That will give you the answer to a more telling question.

Exactly lucky.

Still, I believe that had the roof remained opened (as it should have), Murray would have righted the ship and beaten Federer on that day. He had the belief and epic matches like Wimby finals can […]

Lucky, it is only fedfans who say this so bias is the reason why.

Exactly lucky. How many players in the modern era made it to five straight Wimbledon finals of events entered. Only Borg, McEnroe, Fed and Rafa.

Doesn’t matter about five sets. It matters who wins.

Same for Federer. No guarantee that he’d be the same on the faster, less consistent grass where the ball wasn’t so predictable preventing him from taking the ball so early.

I think as long as his knees were […]

I’d say he was excellent on grass in 2011 also where he only lost in the final (in his fifth consecutive Wimbledon event) only losing to Novak in a form that nobody could touch at the time.

Goes waaaaay beyond just the bottles and I’m guessing your wink acknowledges that.

Much better than it used to be however. He’s kept the rituals that don’t cost him time and energy.

I love Murray but I wouldn’t put him in the same grass elite as mentioned above. Becker is not quite in that strata either imo as great as he was.

None taken.

Nor did he have the uniform grass surface as it is today that allows players the ability to take the ball on the rise.

Perhaps the best grass court player of all time along with Sampras and Laver. Even MacEnroe, Nole, Federer and Rafa’s best on grass would challenge that elite group.

Just so everyone is clear:

You have taken everything out of context and claim that I insinuated that you were homophobic which is a blatant lie. Nothing new.