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Surface Slants: Grass Geniuses, Grazers, and Goats
By: masterclass Date: December 1, 2013, 7:34 am
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This will be a thread to discuss players' performances on grass,
whether they are/were geniuses (phenomenal), grazers (average),
or goats (the worst), or anything between. Players can be from
any era.
Be creative, make your lists on best and worst, give your take.
Have at it and enjoy!
Respectfully,
masterclass
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Re: Surface Slants: Grass Geniuses, Grazers, and Goats
By: Clay Death Date: December 1, 2013, 9:53 pm
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absolutely brilliant idea. truly a thread for the ages.
we will enjoy it for many years.
I will start out with the best ever on grass in no particular
order at this point:
***johnny mac
***roger Federer
***pistol pete
***laver
***borg
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Re: Surface Slants: Grass Geniuses, Grazers, and Goats
By: Embla Date: December 2, 2013, 4:17 am
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Boris Becker is my favorite grass court player.
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Re: Surface Slants: Grass Geniuses, Grazers, and Goats
By: Clay Death Date: December 2, 2013, 10:42 am
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I should have added him to the list.
he was tough as nails on grass.
;D ;D
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Re: Surface Slants: Grass Geniuses, Grazers, and Goats
By: masterclass Date: December 5, 2013, 3:05 am
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Great choices so far!
Again, there have been some wonderful grass players through all
the years.
From the Open Era, I'll add Jimmy Connors (Wimbledon 1974,
1982), Stefan Edberg (Wimbledon 1988, 1990)
Respectfully,
masterclass
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Re: Surface Slants: Grass Geniuses, Grazers, and Goats
By: britbox Date: December 5, 2013, 7:03 am
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Good call on Edberg. Stefan won a couple of Australian Opens on
grass too, so has four grass court majors - more than Mac and
Boris.
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Re: Surface Slants: Grass Geniuses, Grazers, and Goats
By: Clay Death Date: December 6, 2013, 8:22 pm
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folks roger's 13 grass court titles is probably tops in the open
era if you want to go by the titles.
13 and counting.
what about Roddick? how many grass titles is he sitting on?
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Re: Surface Slants: Grass Geniuses, Grazers, and Goats
By: Emma Date: December 8, 2013, 7:32 pm
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Sampras won 7 Wimbledon out of 8 - from 1993 to 2000. Federer
also won 7 but from 2003 to 2012.
Here's a look at their grass achievements:
Roger Federer’s opponents in the Wimbledon finals:
Mark Philippoussis (2003) – 1 Time Wimbledon finalist
Andy Roddick (2004, 2005 and 2009) – 3 time Wimbledon Finalist
Nadal (2006 & 2007) – 2 time Wimbledon Champion
Murray (2012) – 1 Time Wimbledon Champion
Pete Sampras’ opponents:
Jim Courier (1993) – 1 Time Wimbledon finalist
Goran Ivanisevic (1994 & 1998) - 1 time Wimbledon Champion and 1
time finalist
Boris Becker (1995) – 3 time Wimbledon Champion
Cedric Pioline (1997) – 1 time Wimbledon Finalist(Sampras was
coming off beating Becker and Pioline was coming off beating
Michael Stich)
Andre Agassi (1999) – 1 Time Wimbledon Champion
Patrick Rafter (2000) – 2 time Wimbledon finalist
In his prime, Sampras was almost unbeatable at Wimbledon winning
7 out of 8 in succession while staying at No. 1 from 1993 to
1998 but he also, beat different opponents and met with Goran
only twice.
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