yeah...you know, so many would say, "boring, Sampras just serving his way to another ho-hum win", but I could, and did :) watch him serve all day long...a work of art he would often say in the press conferences afterward, "I was in a pretty good rhythm"...indeed
Those were great days for Sampras when he was getting into his prime while their were still many of the 80s players like McEnroe, Gilbert, Wilander or Mayotte around who had no idea on how to deal with power tennis. In the 80s Lendl and Becker were the only hard hitters but by the time Sampras came of age tennis was a totally different sport. It must have been tough for older guys like Gilbert who played a technically sound style that still couldnt do a whole lot against the modern power game.
Admire ur comment on Sampras... Yeah I grew up with Sampras' game but he was about serving mostly--which is tennis mostly. Sampras would have annihilated players like Djoker nowadays...
I think Gilbert was a very elegant and smooth player. Playing against Sampras, who was young and more aggressive in terms of power tennis, outclassed Gilbert. But you can learn a lot. From Gilbert how to play simple and effective tennis if you are a beginner or intermediate level
Yeah Gilbert's game was all about making you uncomfortable and forcing you to hit really hard shots in order to win. The problem with Pete is that he was so unbelievably good he could hit those shots, and hit them so well and consistent as to win matches and tournaments and Slams with his ability, so Gilbert really had nothing he could do other than get steamrolled. Pete's whole game was to play low percentage tennis at a high percentage. Gilbert never stood a chance.
Gilbert had a way of imposing his style of play on his opponents. He is clearly doing it here slowing Sampras' game down, pusher style.There are a lot of club players who fit this mould where I play.You are amazed that they win sometimes.They look shit doing it though!
The reason they win at club level is because they have developed consistency while power players who hit the ball better have not.The trouble with pushers is that they have a low ceiling. I have never seen a pusher win anything major in my area
+Stephen Cross In advanced tennis there are no pushers, they are called counterpunchers.But there is a beauty in a pusher (the most feared opponent at club level), as you say they developed consistency and play in a smart way, beating power players that have beautiful strokes. I love it.
Sampras , greatest athlete , best first serve , best second serve , had best first volley ever , best mover on the court on land and air , best running forehand of all time , lethal forehand , best overhead of all time . Dominated a golden era of champions , serve z as and volleying . Had taken care of his rivals . No one did it this way . The same way no one did it the way Jordan , Tyson or Ayryon senna . In a class of his own forever , and he did so fluently so effortlessly that people back then took it for granted . But the thing about time is that it never lies , as time goes on the legend of Pete Sampras grows and grows.
Put the drugs down! Sampras had the best second serve. Federer was a much better athlete and had as good or better of a first serve. EdBerg,McEnroe and Rafter were all much better velleyers than Sampras. Best mover on court? wtf are you talking about? His movement is nowhere near as good as Federer or Djokovic. Which is the main reason Sampras never even got to a French Open final. Sampras didn’t dominate his era. Sampras was basically the best player in the world for 2 weeks a year. Get him on a clay court or slow hard court and he could lose to practically anyone. He’ll he lose to Jaime Yzaga and Peter Korda at the US Open.
@@MrPernell27 I don't think you watched a lot of tennis from that era obviously. Yeah the clay court ran for 45 weeks sure and the rest of the surfaces for two weeks maybe right ? Pffft . You must be new to tennis or a generation Z or typical millennial .
I think Gilbert must have been having a very off day. He could barely direct the ball and was missing easy put aways. Sampras would have outclassed him any match but this must have been a particularly bad day for poor brad. Maybe he was intimidated by Pete.
+Pete Agassi I played a guy who's nuts actually hung out of his shorts they were so f-ing tight! I always wanted to say something, but it was just awkward
+J.J McQuade LOL! That's hilarious. But seriously, what's wrong with you? if you are not a child and are even remotely friends with that person or just an average functioning adult, you should have bee able to tell the person "hey, your package is showing, tuck it in bro". How hard would that have been? Or, "you're showing down there, can you take care of that. Thanks". Like a person doesn't know their genitals are hanging out. He probably was doing it on purpose to entice or throw you off.
Eclectic Media yeah I don't know man, I just couldn't get myself to say anything. The funny thing was that other people noticed it too, and no one said anything. They just turned away and laughed. The guy used to do that stretch where he puts his leg up on the net and stretches, where he brings his head down to his knee. That's when I just lost it one day and had to walk off laughing. You're right though, someone should have said something. Hope the guy doesn't still wear shorts like that. I haven't seen him in years, so I have no idea.
I kinda see Brad's playing style . . he hits it somewhat slower and tries to either put the ball deep or hit more unnatural angles from his position which he can get away with since he hits a more "floaty" ball . . .anyone else see this? But none of this is going to work on Sampras though . ..
No one in the comments seems to recognize that players have bad days. This was a particularly bad day for Brad. He normally was a much better player. Having said that, Pete is way better than Brad any day.
There is a top pusher at my club who I beat regularly by imposing a mostly serve volley game on him.He is the archetypal pusher,trash talk, low level intimidation, cheating on various points if he's losing I could go on! He knows other players are technically better but delights in beating them. The reason these players lose is that they try and blow him off the court with a power game with low consistency.They also let this joker play at the net and in the midcourt which is his strength. They deserve to lose
Soooo… Are you just trying to brag (nothing to brag about really as real tennis players know that the concept of a “pusher”, or someone that defends well and makes their opponents always hit that one more shot, is a nonsense term that doesn’t actually imply a lack of skill but, rather, annoyance on the part of the opponent who probably lost to that person more than a few times) on a thread where your statements have nothing to do with the video or are you actually calling Brad Gilbert (you know, a guy who was once No. 4 in singles) a “pusher” (now that’s a new level of foolish)? Either way, I don’t get it🤷🏻♂️
Soooo… Are you just trying to brag (nothing to brag about really as real tennis players know that the concept of a “pusher”, or someone that defends well and makes their opponents always hit that one more shot, is a nonsense term that doesn’t actually imply a lack of skill but, rather, annoyance on the part of the opponent who probably lost to that person more than a few times) on a thread where your statements have nothing to do with the video or are you actually calling Brad Gilbert (you know, a guy who was once No. 4 in singles and was clearly having an off-day here) a “pusher” (now that’s a new level of foolish)? Either way, I don’t get it🤷🏻♂️
Not a dumbass joydivsion77. Brad just belonged to a different generation of players who hit with not much power, mostly flat, with little to no topspin. Check out the way he holds his stick on the forehand and backhand. With the rise of such players as Sampras who hit with topspin, using more modern rackets, swung the racket with so much head speed, generating so much power and accuracy on serves and generally hit with so much topspin, power and aggression, players like Gilbert had little or no chance, they were dinosaurs, about to be extinct. Nobody hits like them (Gilbert) today now. Many played like them in the 60's and 70's even up to the 80's. The onset of space age materials for rackets and strings ushered in styles of play like Sampras, and now players like Nadal, Djokovic, Murray and most of all Federer. No, not a dumbass, far from it, just outdated or obsolete in terms of style of play. They were replaced by a newer, bigger and badder style of 21st century Tennis, that's all.
+Ryan Wade That was not well said. The stuff that JoyDivision called Brad Gilbert a dumbass for had nothing to do with different generations or different style of play. Double faulting has nothing to do with different style of play or modern game anything, but rather making errors unnecessarily. Hitting right down the middle of the court like a beginner or 3.0 player has nothing to do with being outdated or a dinosaur about to be extinct. But rather in playing like a neophyte. Stupidly hitting into a person's strength has nothing to do with 21st century tennis. JoyDivision called Brad a dumbass because he feels he was playing dumb. Mitchdep's comment is perfectly summed up in the phrase, barking up the wrong tree.
+Eclectic Media to clarify, I was commenting on mitchdep's analysis of Brad Gilbert's style of play. My comment merely applies to that and nothing else.
+mitchdep Sampras racket wasn´t modern in 1993. It was a racket first introduced in 1984. And his strings were the old natural gut. Sampras advantage at the time wasn´t technology.
This was not the Sampras era. Besides the fact that Gilbert was playing pathetically even by his own standards on this day. I hate when people comment who know nothing about a subject.
what? Becker, Stich, Bruguera, Ivanisevic, Lendl, Korda, Edberg..,.... THE LIST OF SUPER-PLAYERS GOES ON AND ON!!!!!!!!!!! ..,........ Yeah, you're right ! A really " WEAK " era of tennis the 90's ..,.......... Wake the f up!.,..... Sampras played in THE TOUGHEST ERA THAT'S EVER BEEN. PERIOD!
Bob Usualis Wow, that is very interesting. I've been watching Pete Sampras play Tennis since 1997 and I never knew he was Jewish in ethnicity or religion. I thought he was simply Greek. Maybe that is why he was so ridiculously successful and is now so heavily rich, since Jews are God's chosen people or whatever, so maybe God worked his biased magic and made him automatically successful over non-Jews. And of course Jews have this reputation from others of being greedy or avaricious. Though that wouldn't explain why he would win over a fellow Jew. LOL! Maybe he was a better Jew than Brad. Don't know.
+Bob Usualis Pete's grandmother on his father's side happened to be Jewish, everyone else is Greek Orthodox, including Pete. Pete's Religion is Greek Orthodox and was raised in the Greek Orthodox church. It makes sense that having one Jewish paternal grandmother would not be a part of his career narrative? Makes sense that people would refer to Sampras as Greek because he is Greek.
Gilbert looked like a member of the chippendales, haha. The footwork and athletic of the players in the 90es was terrible, they would have absolutely no chance against todays players.
gumbo That's not what you were talking about though. You said Sampras would smoke the tour "today"...yeah, obviously if someone like Djokovic or Murray were to go back 25 years and play their game they wouldn't do nearly as well, but that's not the point. Sampras would not be able to compete with the top players right now with his game, in fact considering how much he liked to serve and volley he'd probably be around Querrey's level.
A landmark for Pete. This is where he reached the milestone of top rank. Thank you for sharing.
looks like Brad brought a knife to a gun fight. But Brad is a great coach and commentator, no shame losing to Pete.
just see the slow motion replay at 5:16...What a thing of beauty
yeah...you know, so many would say, "boring, Sampras just serving his way to another ho-hum win", but I could, and did :) watch him serve all day long...a work of art
he would often say in the press conferences afterward, "I was in a pretty good rhythm"...indeed
@@betpow Boring? Sampras is with Federer the most interesting and beautiful player ever.
Interesting to see that they didnt take a break when the set ends like how they do now.
Pete Sampras!! The legend.. he treated BG like a junior player.
Those were great days for Sampras when he was getting into his prime while their were still many of the 80s players like McEnroe, Gilbert, Wilander or Mayotte around who had no idea on how to deal with power tennis. In the 80s Lendl and Becker were the only hard hitters but by the time Sampras came of age tennis was a totally different sport. It must have been tough for older guys like Gilbert who played a technically sound style that still couldnt do a whole lot against the modern power game.
Eric0816 Even Agassi was shocked at first by Sampras, at the 1990 US Open final. He was blown away.
They were all way past their prime in the 90's, what are you talking about?
In fact sampras was on team lendl as a junior, he trained with lendl with tony roche as coach.
Admire ur comment on Sampras... Yeah I grew up with Sampras' game but he was about serving mostly--which is tennis mostly. Sampras would have annihilated players like Djoker nowadays...
@@curlymyherono, I don’t think he would have. Djokovic would have completely locked him down
I think Gilbert was a very elegant and smooth player. Playing against Sampras, who was young and more aggressive in terms of power tennis, outclassed Gilbert. But you can learn a lot. From Gilbert how to play simple and effective tennis if you are a beginner or intermediate level
Gilbert rocking those Killer Loops...
Seems like Pete acknowledges the camera at 9:18 , never seen that before.
8:00 to 9:30 just wow. Sampras used to train with Lendl as a junior, Gilbert was simply a piece of cake for him.
Yeah Gilbert's game was all about making you uncomfortable and forcing you to hit really hard shots in order to win. The problem with Pete is that he was so unbelievably good he could hit those shots, and hit them so well and consistent as to win matches and tournaments and Slams with his ability, so Gilbert really had nothing he could do other than get steamrolled. Pete's whole game was to play low percentage tennis at a high percentage. Gilbert never stood a chance.
Brad is hitting like he's there as a warmup for Sampras.
若き日のサンプラスと、アガシのコーチとして有名になったギルバートの現役時代！貴重な映像ですね。
Short shorts and cycling shorts are kindly cool.
I’m very tempted to wear this combination but these days would look too funny , bike shorts with the short shorts
Gilbert said 「Dont hitting more aces!」
Gilbert had a way of imposing his style of play on his opponents. He is clearly doing it here slowing Sampras' game down, pusher style.There are a lot of club players who fit this mould where I play.You are amazed that they win sometimes.They look shit doing it though!
+Stephen Cross The reality is, at club level pushers win very often (not only sometimes).
The reason they win at club level is because they have developed consistency while power players who hit the ball better have not.The trouble with pushers is that they have a low ceiling. I have never seen a pusher win anything major in my area
+Stephen Cross In advanced tennis there are no pushers, they are called counterpunchers.But there is a beauty in a pusher (the most feared opponent at club level), as you say they developed consistency and play in a smart way, beating power players that have beautiful strokes. I love it.
Gilbert was the ultimate club player. Amazing that he even made a dent at the pro level with his weak strokes.
brad wasn't the best there was, but at least he had style... lmao
that court is so fast omg
I’m less than 2 1/2 minutes in and I can’t watch anymore
this was hard to watch.
Losing Ugly
+EXDRA100 LOL
Sampras , greatest athlete , best first serve , best second serve , had best first volley ever , best mover on the court on land and air , best running forehand of all time , lethal forehand , best overhead of all time . Dominated a golden era of champions , serve z as and volleying . Had taken care of his rivals . No one did it this way . The same way no one did it the way Jordan , Tyson or Ayryon senna . In a class of his own forever , and he did so fluently so effortlessly that people back then took it for granted . But the thing about time is that it never lies , as time goes on the legend of Pete Sampras grows and grows.
Absolutely true 😊
Put the drugs down! Sampras had the best second serve. Federer was a much better athlete and had as good or better of a first serve. EdBerg,McEnroe and Rafter were all much better velleyers than Sampras. Best mover on court? wtf are you talking about? His movement is nowhere near as good as Federer or Djokovic. Which is the main reason Sampras never even got to a French Open final. Sampras didn’t dominate his era. Sampras was basically the best player in the world for 2 weeks a year. Get him on a clay court or slow hard court and he could lose to practically anyone. He’ll he lose to Jaime Yzaga and Peter Korda at the US Open.
@@MrPernell27
I don't think you watched a lot of tennis from that era obviously. Yeah the clay court ran for 45 weeks sure and the rest of the surfaces for two weeks maybe right ? Pffft . You must be new to tennis or a generation Z or typical millennial .
8:00 Impressive banana shot by Pete.
I think Gilbert must have been having a very off day. He could barely direct the ball and was missing easy put aways. Sampras would have outclassed him any match but this must have been a particularly bad day for poor brad. Maybe he was intimidated by Pete.
They should've made it illegal to wear short shorts with those kind of legs.
+Pete Agassi I played a guy who's nuts actually hung out of his shorts they were so f-ing tight! I always wanted to say something, but it was just awkward
+J.J McQuade
LOL! That's hilarious. But seriously, what's wrong with you? if you are not a child and are even remotely friends with that person or just an average functioning adult, you should have bee able to tell the person "hey, your package is showing, tuck it in bro". How hard would that have been? Or, "you're showing down there, can you take care of that. Thanks".
Like a person doesn't know their genitals are hanging out. He probably was doing it on purpose to entice or throw you off.
Eclectic Media yeah I don't know man, I just couldn't get myself to say anything. The funny thing was that other people noticed it too, and no one said anything. They just turned away and laughed. The guy used to do that stretch where he puts his leg up on the net and stretches, where he brings his head down to his knee. That's when I just lost it one day and had to walk off laughing. You're right though, someone should have said something. Hope the guy doesn't still wear shorts like that. I haven't seen him in years, so I have no idea.
@@j.jmcquade5278 oh come on. Are you catholic church representstive? Or bored? Or just searching for something to talk about?
I kinda see Brad's playing style . . he hits it somewhat slower and tries to either put the ball deep or hit more unnatural angles from his position which he can get away with since he hits a more "floaty" ball . . .anyone else see this? But none of this is going to work on Sampras though . ..
Bad Tennis can’t believe know one is in the crowd
That first double fault tho... ooof
When/where was this ?
Cyril Brocard Tokyo, 1993, final, 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 for Pete. After this tournament, he became No. 1 for the first time in his career.
Alexander Arsov Thank you :-) Poor Brad got slaughtered on this one...
No one in the comments seems to recognize that players have bad days. This was a particularly bad day for Brad. He normally was a much better player. Having said that, Pete is way better than Brad any day.
Rather watch grass grow than watch Gilbert play
Who is this beginners playing vs Sampras?
year ?
Gilbert could have been the GOAT, but those shorts held him back.
GOAT
that is fun :)))
There is a top pusher at my club who I beat regularly by imposing a mostly serve volley game on him.He is the archetypal pusher,trash talk, low level intimidation, cheating on various points if he's losing I could go on! He knows other players are technically better but delights in beating them. The reason these players lose is that they try and blow him off the court with a power game with low consistency.They also let this joker play at the net and in the midcourt which is his strength. They deserve to lose
Soooo… Are you just trying to brag (nothing to brag about really as real tennis players know that the concept of a “pusher”, or someone that defends well and makes their opponents always hit that one more shot, is a nonsense term that doesn’t actually imply a lack of skill but, rather, annoyance on the part of the opponent who probably lost to that person more than a few times) on a thread where your statements have nothing to do with the video or are you actually calling Brad Gilbert (you know, a guy who was once No. 4 in singles) a “pusher” (now that’s a new level of foolish)? Either way, I don’t get it🤷🏻♂️
Soooo… Are you just trying to brag (nothing to brag about really as real tennis players know that the concept of a “pusher”, or someone that defends well and makes their opponents always hit that one more shot, is a nonsense term that doesn’t actually imply a lack of skill but, rather, annoyance on the part of the opponent who probably lost to that person more than a few times) on a thread where your statements have nothing to do with the video or are you actually calling Brad Gilbert (you know, a guy who was once No. 4 in singles and was clearly having an off-day here) a “pusher” (now that’s a new level of foolish)? Either way, I don’t get it🤷🏻♂️
The shorts these guys use to wear .... it’s a wonder they ever had kids!
Gilbert kinda sucked that day didn’t he .....
Not a dumbass joydivsion77. Brad just belonged to a different generation of players who hit with not much power, mostly flat, with little to no topspin. Check out the way he holds his stick on the forehand and backhand. With the rise of such players as Sampras who hit with topspin, using more modern rackets, swung the racket with so much head speed, generating so much power and accuracy on serves and generally hit with so much topspin, power and aggression, players like Gilbert had little or no chance, they were dinosaurs, about to be extinct. Nobody hits like them (Gilbert) today now. Many played like them in the 60's and 70's even up to the 80's. The onset of space age materials for rackets and strings ushered in styles of play like Sampras, and now players like Nadal, Djokovic, Murray and most of all Federer. No, not a dumbass, far from it, just outdated or obsolete in terms of style of play. They were replaced by a newer, bigger and badder style of 21st century Tennis, that's all.
Well said
+Ryan Wade
That was not well said. The stuff that JoyDivision called Brad Gilbert a dumbass for had nothing to do with different generations or different style of play.
Double faulting has nothing to do with different style of play or modern game anything, but rather making errors unnecessarily. Hitting right down the middle of the court like a beginner or 3.0 player has nothing to do with being outdated or a dinosaur about to be extinct. But rather in playing like a neophyte.
Stupidly hitting into a person's strength has nothing to do with 21st century tennis. JoyDivision called Brad a dumbass because he feels he was playing dumb. Mitchdep's comment is perfectly summed up in the phrase, barking up the wrong tree.
+Eclectic Media to clarify, I was commenting on mitchdep's analysis of Brad Gilbert's style of play. My comment merely applies to that and nothing else.
+mitchdep Sampras racket wasn´t modern in 1993. It was a racket first introduced in 1984. And his strings were the old natural gut. Sampras advantage at the time wasn´t technology.
This is true except for the part about Sampras using a modern racquet. He used a Pro Staff 85, extremely heavy and small head size. Not modern at all.
Brad Gilbert et son jeu de contre improbable.
Le vrai poison et le vrai ricain au niveau attitude.
Un jeu merdique mais très bonne carrière.
1:18:42 lol
Gilbert was so not athletic
And people say Sampras' era was tougher than Federer's lol
+what? This wasn't the Sampras era, moron. This was the pre-Sampras era.
Pete Agassi
So does Pioline making two slam finals in '93 and '97 count as the Sampras era?
+what?
What's wrong with Pioline?
This was not the Sampras era. Besides the fact that Gilbert was playing pathetically even by his own standards on this day. I hate when people comment who know nothing about a subject.
what? Becker, Stich, Bruguera, Ivanisevic, Lendl, Korda, Edberg..,.... THE LIST OF SUPER-PLAYERS GOES ON AND ON!!!!!!!!!!! ..,........ Yeah, you're right ! A really " WEAK " era of tennis the 90's ..,.......... Wake the f up!.,..... Sampras played in THE TOUGHEST ERA THAT'S EVER BEEN. PERIOD!
a very jewish final
+Bob Usualis
Peter Sampras is Jewish?
+Eclectic Media Yes. alot of people mistake him for Greek, but Sampras is a Jewish last name in Greece.
Bob Usualis
Wow, that is very interesting. I've been watching Pete Sampras play Tennis since 1997 and I never knew he was Jewish in ethnicity or religion.
I thought he was simply Greek. Maybe that is why he was so ridiculously successful and is now so heavily rich, since Jews are God's chosen people or whatever, so maybe God worked his biased magic and made him automatically successful over non-Jews.
And of course Jews have this reputation from others of being greedy or avaricious.
Though that wouldn't explain why he would win over a fellow Jew. LOL! Maybe he was a better Jew than Brad. Don't know.
+Bob Usualis Pete's grandmother on his father's side happened to be Jewish, everyone else is Greek Orthodox, including Pete. Pete's Religion is Greek Orthodox and was raised in the Greek Orthodox church. It makes sense that having one Jewish paternal grandmother would not be a part of his career
narrative? Makes sense that people would refer to Sampras as Greek because he is Greek.
+livadi23 His race is jewish.
Gilbert looked like a member of the chippendales, haha. The footwork and athletic of the players in the 90es was terrible, they would have absolutely no chance against todays players.
Lol, no. Sampras would smoke the tour today.
Found the Sampras fanboy. Guy never won a French Open and you think he would smoke the likes of Djokovic and Federer? Yeah okay
Djokovic would get absolutely destroyed on 90s grass. He would never, ever win Wimbledon in the 90s.
gumbo That's not what you were talking about though. You said Sampras would smoke the tour "today"...yeah, obviously if someone like Djokovic or Murray were to go back 25 years and play their game they wouldn't do nearly as well, but that's not the point. Sampras would not be able to compete with the top players right now with his game, in fact considering how much he liked to serve and volley he'd probably be around Querrey's level.
"around Querrey's level" LOL opinion discarded