Every Men's Championship Point from the 80's | Australian Open
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2024
- Every men's championship point from the 80's at the Australian Open.
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Rafas 21 was the most epic tennis come-backs of all time, one of the best matches of all time and the absolute best showcase of a mental giant of all time that is Rafa! Lets go Rafa 23! Everything is possible, when Rafa is still holding the racket!!
Waiting for Djokovic's toxic fans to make an appearance!
@@Abhishek08_ Because Djoko is playing, they have nobody to throw their blame at 😂
Cool throwbacks- always good to have these archived in high quality, just like we don't want the tennis matches these days to be forgotten good to have the matches back in the day showcased and saved as well! Some great players here and good stories
Wilander, the relentless scheming assassin cooly inflicting death by a thousand cuts, and Mecir, the silky web-spinning magician. I miss them both so much.
I thought cash won in Australia… but now I remember she won Wimbledon, right? What a stadium the kooyong. I never saw it on tv, when I started following Tennis, the italian channels did not showed AO. I start remembering from the triple lendl’s 6-2 vs the talented Mecir. Sorry for my english. Viva il tennis 80/90!
The Swedish legends Mats Wilander (7 Singles Slams) & Stefan Edberg (6). Legendberg also made the AO Final in 1990 (retired injured), 92 and 93.
Can't help but feel for Aussie Pat Cash not winning the finals on home ground.
It's funny, back in the early 80s big tennis stars didn't play the AO. The reason being the bad rep from financial troubles and the inconvenient time of the year. I was a big tennis fan back then and I have no idea who Denton or Kriek were.
I know Kriek, but never heard about Denton.
They may not have been big stars, but Kriek was inside the top 10 in the mid-80s and Denton was just outside. Not no-names at the time.
Please do the 90s next 😊
to see the Serve volley of Stefan Edberg and Pat Cash and the big cat, Miloslav Mecir. true quality players
Love the trip down memory lane!!
Kriek’s legs!! 🥵
As you can see from the first few years, the Australian Open was very much the poor relation of the grand slams for a long time. It tended to attract weaker fields and didn't get a full 128 draw until 1988. The top players often stayed away. Borg and Connors never played in the 80s and McEnroe was sporadic. It wasn't held at all in 1986 when it switched slots from December to January.
Top men's players started coming in '83-'84 (after Chris and Martina started coming in '81 and '82), but yes it was the "weak sibling" of the Slams for DECADES. Another reason why you just can't blindly look at "who won the most Grand Slams" to determine the mythical GOAT of tennis
@@nujeru99for a period it was less important than other tournaments such as the Davis Cup, Masters / Year End Championships, WCT Finals, Philadelphia, Rome etc. Gerulaitis said he valued his Rome titles above his Australian Open, Wilander said that his frustration at losing the 1983 Davis Cup final (in the same venue at Kooyong) overshadowed his joy at winning the Australian Open a few weeks earlier, in some of the same years that Connors and McEnroe were skipping the Australian Open they were travelling down to Australia at other times of the year to play in the Sydney Indoor event etc.
You’re 100% right that it makes no sense just to look at the number of grand slam titles won. The grand slam count only became a big deal when Sampras closed in on Roy Emerson’s record in the mid to late 90s which was hyped up, probably to drum up interest as the sport lost a lot of popularity in the 90s compared to the 80s (Sampras attracted poor TV ratings in his own country unless he was playing Agassi).
@@Gizo02 Absolutely. I remember seeing an interview with Bjorn Borg where he said he'd won all the bigger tournaments apart from the US Open. He listed them (including Rome and Monte Carlo) and didn't include the Australian Open.
@@nujeru99 After Chris won the Australian Open for the first time in 1982 she said to Martina 'I've finally won it, thank God I don't have to come back now.' When she gave her runner up speech, Martina rather undiplomatically repeated to the crowd what Chris had said. Chris did indeed not return in 1983.
omg is ivan lendl smiling
Just imagine how many Slams Federer would have won if they had kept being played on grass
Sampras as well.
Was just thinking of this
The lack of supporters in the early 80s is wild
Love the Marlboro sponsorship
Tennis and ciggies!
The good Old days before we knew what smoking would do to us.😊
Vilas final 1977
Vilas champion 1978
Vilas champion 1979
Marlboro ...mmmmm nice
They stopped to say thank you to the ballboys.
Look at those beautiful Kooyong courts, and compare with the 1988 replacement we still have to this day: the ugly Melbourne concrete.
But the Kooyong courts is why many players didn't attend the AO tournament. AO wasn't respected as much. The winners and legends in these clips could've had more Grand Slams attached to their name if they attended more of them. Chris Evert only attended 6 AOs, didn't compete in approx 10 more. The switch to Melbourne improved the facilities, the crowds, the calibre and competitiveness of the AO.
@@imalwaysright Players didn't attend AO because of when it was scheduled (at the end of the season) and because it paid very little prize money.
@@JD-jc8gp the scheduling during holiday season was another factor. But the facilities sucked too. The press and broadcasting facilities sucked. It had small crowd capacity. The crowd almost doubled it when it moved to Flinders in 1988. The new facilities (for crowd and players) were considered some of the best of the Slams. All that allows larger prize money.
@@imalwaysright All very true. Nevertheless, look at the beauty and the simplicity of the Kooyong courts. It's delightful.
@@imalwaysright I agree with you Kooyong so out of date, you could compare it to Forest Hills ln NY before they built the new one at Flushing Meadows, and right end of season, and prize money too wasn't the best, I don't know what year in the eighties had no top ten men playing. The Australian open has come along way since then, with the new stadium prize money, I would say the AO is best tournament in the world and keeps improving.
昔は全豪も全米も芝✨🌿🌿 今や芝はウィンブルドンなど僅かで貴重。環境には芝(農薬散布があるので)以外が優しいんだろうけど。