Now imagine Federer had the competition Sampras had. Forget about 20 slams....all the big three would have maybe 10-15 slams if they faced the caliber of oponents Sampras had...
It's not like Sampras faced the greatest in their prime to win all of his grand slams. By 1995 Edberg was done, same for Becker after 1996. And from this point, who did Sampras faced apart from Agassi (who was non existent in 97-98) ? The likes of Kafelnikov, Rafter, Ríos, Moya, Ivanisevic. Sure they were great players don't get me wrong, but they were about the same caliber as Hewitt/Safin/Roddick/Wawrinka/Del Potro. You can tell me I'm wrong but numbers say otherwise, so at the end of the day it's really about opinion. If a single member of the big 3 had to face the 90s competition with their current equipment I don't think they would win less than 20 slams honestly. Don't forget that the big 4 all had to *face each other* which itself represents tremendous obstacles.
People forget Henman was a crafty lil bastard. Great player and great guy.
Beautiful tennis 👏👏
Rare racket smash at 6:19
Impressive tiebreak
buen partido de Henman. una pena no se le haya dado un wimbledom, pero de los mejores pegados a la red
First Federer's defeat as world number 1.
*Federer's first defeat
and Last Tim's victory against Roger.
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Now imagine Federer had the competition Sampras had. Forget about 20 slams....all the big three would have maybe 10-15 slams if they faced the caliber of oponents Sampras had...
It's not like Sampras faced the greatest in their prime to win all of his grand slams. By 1995 Edberg was done, same for Becker after 1996. And from this point, who did Sampras faced apart from Agassi (who was non existent in 97-98) ? The likes of Kafelnikov, Rafter, Ríos, Moya, Ivanisevic. Sure they were great players don't get me wrong, but they were about the same caliber as Hewitt/Safin/Roddick/Wawrinka/Del Potro. You can tell me I'm wrong but numbers say otherwise, so at the end of the day it's really about opinion. If a single member of the big 3 had to face the 90s competition with their current equipment I don't think they would win less than 20 slams honestly. Don't forget that the big 4 all had to *face each other* which itself represents tremendous obstacles.
Sampras playes tennis players outside of top50 to win Wimbledon 2000.Only Rafter was top20