Who is/was your favourite tennis player ?

Giggsy PO

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For me it was Michael Stich. I don´t have any favourite player now. They all look the same (only Federer´s style is different, classic).
 
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BIOGRAPHY
No player in history has been more gifted or mystifying than the Bucharest Buffoon, Ilie Nastase, noted both for his sorcery with the racket and his bizarre, even objectionable behavior. He was an entertainer second to none, amusing spectators with his antics and mimicry, also infuriating them with gaucheries and walkouts.
 
not to mention Johnny Mac...

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don't know what it is about him! but i swear to Tom, if any other yank came to England and mouthed off the way he did...he'd be leathered one foot out the Wimbledom gates!

but we loved him :D
 
Sampras was wonderful on grass....as was Goran Ivanesevic who was for a long time me favourite player. Edburg was a great player too. Federer's me favourite right now....In the WTA, I enjoy watching Henin play..
 
Sampras was methodical, more like a machine and Agassi was tad overrated.
McEnroe used to my previous favorite and when Curran knocked him out, I switched my allegiances and and started liking Becker from the 1985 Wimbledon final. If he had concentrated more he would’ve won more Grand Slam titles. Evert used to my favorite player, followed by Sabatini and now Sharapova.
 
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She was about as much a tennis player as that guy who walked out and had his photo with the united team before a European match a few years ago.

She was just a fit blonde who got lost on her way to the catwalk.

For me got to be Seles, anyone who can come back from being stabbed in the shoulder during a match and get back in to the top 5 in the world has unbelievable guts
 
When I was a young fella it was Sampras. Moved onto anyone but Sampras after he started dominating. Michael Chang was an extremely entertaining player who made the simple look challenging and the impossible look commonplace. Stefan Edbeg had an elegant style. Also followed the Australians of course with Rafter being everyone's favourite and Phillipoussis the player Aussies all loved to hate. Not me though, he's a Melbourne boy and that's good enough for me.

On the women's circuit my favourites have been Graf, Seles and Pierce. Saddening to think of the classic Graf/Seles encounters we could have had but for circumstances.
 
Grandad was a huge Hingis fan when she first came onto the scene. He was a tennis follower all his life and insisted that she'd become the greatest player in the game's history, and in fairness, it looked that way at one stage.
 
Used to be Aggassi and Ivanisevic in the mens and Hingis and Graf in the womens... Nowadays it's Hewitt, Ferrerro and Nadal in the mens with Sharapova, Hantuchova and Clijsters in the womens.
 
Haven't watched tennis in years..........but the Borg, McEnroe, Connors era was great.

I liked Borg best.......no dramas, just got on with the job of battering em.

McEnroe was always great entertainment on account of his explosive temper as much as skill, but head to head with Borg i always cheered on The Iceman.


Sampras would've battered em all, according to McEnroe these days.
 
Borg, McEnroe, Connors for me as well

tennis was a lot better in the 70's / 80's, the game had characters, now they are all like robots with very little charisma
 
Nialler said:
Borg, McEnroe, Connors for me as well

tennis was a lot better in the 70's / 80's, the game had characters, now they are all like robots with very little charisma
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The next generation of Lendl, Edberg, Wilander, Becker, Agassi, Sampras Chang etc were also characters. Now a days the quality as well as the entertainment value has come down... More Mechanical.
 
Always liked sampras for obvious reasons and also patrick rafter for his game and also just what a professional he was.
But federer for me is something else. Just poetry in motion. Its like watching ronaldhinio. Just the brilliance of the man. Generally if he has a good day, hes going to win. And im beginning to believe that holds true on clay. He had a great clay season, beating alot of the top clay court specialists. Even against nadal, you could see he had it in him to win it, but just made too many errors.
 
Jim Courier - absolute battler. My favourite, hands down.

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I was lucky enough to grow up, and play US Juniors tennis tourneys, in Southern California during the hey-day of locals Sampras and Chang, Las Vegas' Agassi, and Fla.'s Courier. With Ivanesivic, the end of Edberg, Stich, and the like...it was a great time for the game.
 
Edberg and Kraijcek. Don't have one in particular these days but I like Ferrero, Roddick and yes, Henman.
 
nealn said:
Used to be Aggassi and Ivanisevic in the mens and Hingis and Graf in the womens... Nowadays it's Hewitt, Ferrerro and Nadal in the mens with Sharapova, Hantuchova and Clijsters in the womens.
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isn't that some kind of chocalate?

or maybe i just don't know the guy..
 
Enjoyed watching stefan edberg play the game. That one US open final when he whipped a young pete sampras in straight sets was an astonishing lesson in serve and volley on hardcourts.
 
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