Re: Re: marcelo rios
by kamal sachdeva on Jun 04, 2009 04:18 PM
because none of them were good at clay or won any clay court titles. Marcelo rios did win a lot on clay
Re: Re: marcelo rios
by easwaran easwaran on Jun 04, 2009 08:34 PM
When did Sampras reach semi finals of French open? to the best of my knowledge he never reached semi finals of French.
Re: marcelo rios
by achint chowdhary on Jun 04, 2009 05:01 PM
Because what we are talking about here is a list of those players who at some point in their careers were strong favourites to win the French Open due to their strong clay court form at that time. As we all know Edberg, Sampras, Becker and even Mckenroe were never known as specialists of clay and never even considered as favourites to win at Roland Garros. Hence the ommission
Re: Re: marcelo rios
by Anil Kumar on Jun 05, 2009 11:54 PM
duh? they wtf is federer mentioned as automatically qualifies in the list. He is no clay specialist either but we expect him to win. So was sampras. The author of this article started following tennis since last night. Damn him.
we are sure this time is the time of roger and he will win the french open. He is the best player and a fine person. We have not seen any one like him on and also off the court. We wish him the best!
Re: Re: roger u win
by bitu singh on Jun 05, 2009 05:17 PM
I bet roger cant win he is not the best.Nadal is the best at 23 nadal won six slams and at same age Fedex won only one.So you can easily come out of dream.This year french open winner wil be gonsalvez or soldering.
Has won all the three majors but agonisingly lost to Chang in a five setter in 1989. The best gentleman the tennis world has ever seen. Infact the sportsmanship award is named after him.
Re: Stefan Edberg
by Bhasmasur Rakshas on Jun 04, 2009 01:50 PM
What about Mats Wilander?? I thought he was a real gentleman....who took with good grace his humiliation at successive Wimbledons....
Re: Stefan Edberg
by Ronny vaz on Jun 04, 2009 06:04 PM
Edberg is not the best coz he refused to tour India during a davis cup tie at late 90's....he issued statement that his coach got ill eating food in India so he cannot tour.
Re: Stefan Edberg
by aishwarya patil on Jun 04, 2009 03:00 PM
I agree with you. Stefan Edberg was a cool sweet, sober, handsome & Stylish player with great serve-and-volley game.
Re: Stefan Edberg
by So Flam on Jun 04, 2009 04:26 PM
Indeed those were the days mate!!! Becker Vs. Edberg ... best during Wimbeldon finals ... who cares who won ... it was class written all around!!
Roger Federer is the modern day Borg. Cool, excellent temperment and can rip through any rivals, beit grass, artificial or clay. I pray he bags this one for his would be new born baby. After marriage it would be icing on his tennis career. I and so his million fans would like to se him hold on to the French Open. May all tennis students inherit this man qualities as a player on and off the court. I have not see Borg play but I can now picture what he was.
