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Originally Posted by dlish
apparently not. it was a slaughterhouse!
lendl won on every surface but wimbeldon. i still think he came close to being the best ever at acertan period. the start of the end for him was losing to pat cash in 87 wimbeldon.
this is demorilizing for federer and i dont think he'll beat nadal in france on clay.
pan you forgot edberg and becker era towards mid to late lendl career
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Good point with Stefan and Boris. I think they were just as the peak was reached. I lost interest about midway through the 90's Sampras and Agassi were good and a few others but there weren't any true "great matchups". It wasn't like waking up on Wimbolden Sunday or US Open Sunday to watch Connors/McEnroe/Borg/ and so on. They had fun, played hard and I was glued to every point. To every McEnroe outburst, to Connors being the original brat, to the sheer elegance that was Borg. That was tennis. Lendl's methodical wear you opponent down play.
None of that exists today. It's not fun to watch anymore. It's just "tennis" now. Shame really, such a great sport that peaked and never recovered.
But then again, it culd just be there aren't any USA players to root for.
Even the women's with Evonne Goolagong, Navritlova, Evert, Tracy Austin, that was fun. They went farther with Seles, but once she was stabbed women's tennis declined.