Yeah - I'm quite sure that's the one I said I should know, but am drawing a blank on.
Probably because I never really liked watching him play .
Yeah - I'm quite sure that's the one I said I should know, but am drawing a blank on.
Yeah, the American GS winners in the second and third row were ones I got even at that age. Also an easy one in row 1 (position 2). The others that I'm pretty certain of other than that are the first row (position 1), and the third row (position 1).dmforever wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 9:13 pmYou definitely know all 5 guys in the top row. They are just a lot younger than what you are used to seeing. And the second and third row each have a very famous American GS-winning player. Again, they are just very young.JazzNU wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 8:30 pm I can confidently name 3. Fairly certain I can name a 4th and 5th if allowed 3 chances to guess each. Although for one, I think I can get it on the 1st try, but he looks so young (and honestly, better), it's hard for me to have any faith in getting it on the first try.
I couldn't get to 14 if I was given 100 tries, so older or not, well done Kevin.
Kevin
I didn't see Kriek, but I do see the others that you mentioned. Did you just know because of the year? That is truly impressive. I think Nystrom is there but I thought he was in the second row. There is another Swede who I think was in that group whose name I can't remember right now. It's bugging me, so I'm going to have to go down that rabbit hole.meganfernandez wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 9:17 pmGood hints. There are some names I feel like are here - like Nystrom, Kriek, Pernfors, Mayotte - but I can't figure out who they are. Is Nystrom in the third row, middle, with the blonde mullet? And Mayotte at the end of that row?dmforever wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 9:13 pmYou definitely know all 5 guys in the top row. They are just a lot younger than what you are used to seeing. And the second and third row each have a very famous American GS-winning player. Again, they are just very young.JazzNU wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 8:30 pm I can confidently name 3. Fairly certain I can name a 4th and 5th if allowed 3 chances to guess each. Although for one, I think I can get it on the 1st try, but he looks so young (and honestly, better), it's hard for me to have any faith in getting it on the first try.
I couldn't get to 14 if I was given 100 tries, so older or not, well done Kevin.
Kevin
Some impressive work there on the spoilers, but not only does that one person not look like Alex Corretja (I thought it was Lendl before I saw Lendl), Corretja was 13 in 1987.Deuce wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 9:19 pmWithout any hints, I got 14 for sure, I believe - probably 15, and possibly 16 if I got the bushy blonde right...meganfernandez wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 4:11 pm How many do you recognize? I only got 9 for sure.
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Here's what I got, if anyone wants to peek into the spoiler:
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Okay, I have not looked at anyone else's guesses. I have zoomed in on the photo, which does help, I'm much more certain than I was on the other guy in Row 3, but I still can't name the entire top row. 1, 2, and 4 I can get. I can honestly say that #3 looks very familiar and I know I've seen him before, but don't know his name based on this photo, but potentially, may not know him by name if I see him now either. Number 5 is a blank seriously, but based off of your clues, I could take a guess, but I keep looking at him and thinking, it can't possibly be.dmforever wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 9:12 pm Row 1 = the top
Y'all know the top 5 for sure. They have all won at least 1 slam. In row two, there is a very very famous American player. He has won multiple slams. He's just very young in that pic. In row 3 there is an equally famous American player, and he and another row 3 occupant do commentary for ESPN. Yes, there are two French players, on in row 1 and one in row 2. Row 5 has a GS finalist not from the Americas or Europe. Row 2 may have a Grand Slam champ from South America, but I'm not sure. Maybe not. Row 2 also has a European player with an Italian nickname that still gets thrown out every once in a while on ESPN when they reference big guys who move deceptively well.
Kevin
Number 5 you have seen sitting in the Wimbledon Box many times, I'm sure. They always show him.JazzNU wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 12:23 amOkay, I have not looked at anyone else's guesses. I have zoomed in on the photo, which does help, I'm much more certain than I was on the other guy in Row 3, but I still can't name the entire top row. 1, 2, and 4 I can get. I can honestly say that #3 looks very familiar and I know I've seen him before, but don't know his name based on this photo, but potentially, may not know him by name if I see him now either. Number 5 is a blank seriously, but based off of your clues, I could take a guess, but I keep looking at him and thinking, it can't possibly be.dmforever wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 9:12 pm Row 1 = the top
Y'all know the top 5 for sure. They have all won at least 1 slam. In row two, there is a very very famous American player. He has won multiple slams. He's just very young in that pic. In row 3 there is an equally famous American player, and he and another row 3 occupant do commentary for ESPN. Yes, there are two French players, on in row 1 and one in row 2. Row 5 has a GS finalist not from the Americas or Europe. Row 2 may have a Grand Slam champ from South America, but I'm not sure. Maybe not. Row 2 also has a European player with an Italian nickname that still gets thrown out every once in a while on ESPN when they reference big guys who move deceptively well.
Kevin
Now, I know this is pitiful, but I I will also say a bit in my defense, besides being somewhat younger than many on here, I think this is also a bit on the tennis coverage we get nowadays. When we had Wimbledon on HBO, for instance, rain delays were mostly a time for them to play a rerun of some old spectacular match, not the match that they just finished airing a couple of hours earlier. It's how I watched what many consider the greatest tiebreak in tennis history, for instance. TNT would also do way more retrospective stuff, I'd see a bit more of players in their prime and what they looked like at the time. ESPN really doesn't do that now, and on Tennis Channel, I think they do that at times, but it's not during live coverage windows, I'd have to seek it out.
Reference photo since we're on a new page -
Yep - that was the GS finalist who isn't from the US or Europe, which was Kevin's clue. I still didn't get it... I think he lost to Wilander in 88. Shoudl have known because Wilander in 88 is one of my earliest tennis memories. I loved him (because my older brother did) and he won 3 that year.
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