meganfernandez wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 10:59 amWait, is ashkor your daughter??ti-amie wrote:Interesting. I just found out that my daughter is a huge Sampras fan.
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meganfernandez wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 10:59 amWait, is ashkor your daughter??ti-amie wrote:Interesting. I just found out that my daughter is a huge Sampras fan.
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Was she living in your house during his heydey? You didn't know she watched him and liked him? Who did you think she liked?ti-amie wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:51 pm Sampras in his later years was the reason I stopped watching tennis. I got sick of his over reliance on his serve. I never talked about Sampras with my daughter until recently and she went all sasaeng (Korean super fan) over how he could see the court, how he placed his shots and I was like "who are you?"![]()
Yes she was. I started taking her to the US Open when she was 8 or 9. It was after he was sick on court vs Corretja. Come to think of it her father and I always watched tennis so she had plenty of chances to see him.meganfernandez wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 4:01 amWas she living in your house during his heydey? You didn't know she watched him and liked him? Who did you think she liked?ti-amie wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:51 pm Sampras in his later years was the reason I stopped watching tennis. I got sick of his over reliance on his serve. I never talked about Sampras with my daughter until recently and she went all sasaeng (Korean super fan) over how he could see the court, how he placed his shots and I was like "who are you?"![]()
The one player I feel could give Novak some problems would have been Agassi. Novak has feasted on all these players that stand 6-8 feet behind the baselines. That means 12-16 feet of travel for the ball, and the subsequent extra time. With Agassi, who was always trying to come closer to the net and stood just at the baseline, Novak would have had a lot less time. Both Rafa and Daniil give him that extra split second for Novak to get ready.mick1303 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2023 6:50 pm Kyrgios is full of sh*t. 2001 version of Sampras was quite removed from his athletic best. Due to his health problems Pete could not sustain his physical prime all that long. Now about "What Djokovic would do to Sampras". He is correct if Sampras plays with 90s strings and sticks and Djokovic with modern ones. But is it a fair comparison? Aging Federer, who is stylistically quite close to Sampras, gave Djokovic all he could handle in 2019 Wimbledon final. When he was closer to his prime, in some matches he was able to just take the raquet out of Novak's hands completely - much like Pete done to his opponents.
Djokovic's prolonged success is due to the fact, that he continues to improve and incorporate more attacking tennis to his game. Today's Djokovic has more in common with Sampras than with Hewitt IMO.
There haven't been any, in this generation...for various reasons..the last of that ilk was McEnroemeganfernandez wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 10:43 pm Has Novak ever played a truly great serve-and-volleyer? Federer was probably the best he faced, and he didn’t charge constantly.
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