Originally Posted by airon
im guessing you didn't like pete sampras then huh? cuz they have the same style. quiet, silent guys who are upstanding guys and work their asses off but not as outgoing as other players
i like federer cuz he has great shotmaking abilities...i too get tired of him winning like sampras due to them being very mudane sometimes but then they also show that hard work and drive help make a winner. i cant believe federer is like almost 80-3 this year and has not lost in any final he's been in.
sad to see agassi lose, cuz hes been my favorite for the longest time, but its amazing he made it here in the first place. its been a great run, i dont think he has it in him for any more. after the match i went out and hit with my roommates
Nah I liked Sampras. Sampras was quiet but his game was just so good at things where he still seemed human. He was a classic serve-n-volleyer but like, with the amp cranked up to 11. Plus his personality was always humble even though he knew he could kick everyone's ass at any time.
MacEnroe dominated back in 1984 like Federer has done this year, but he was just such a dick that you gotta love him.
Federer is just plain boring. He makes those shots he shouldn't be able to make, he puts people away at points in the match where you just don't know where he pulled that momentum from, he wins his matches, and he says what he's supposed to say when to the press.
But I get the feeling that while he's obviously the best player there is right now, he just doesn't have the competition to deal with like back in the day. In the late 70s early 80s you had Connors, Borg, MacEnroe, Lendl, all at the absolute top of their game.
Going into the 80s and 90s you had Lendl still around (he went to 8 straight US Open finals), Connors popped up every once in a while, Becker, Edberg, Wielander, Courier, Rafter, Chang, Sampras, Agassi. You knew any of those guys at any time could pull off a grand slam.
Now today's top players are obviously really good, but I don't get the feelin that Nadal, Roddick, Safin, Hewitt and Coria are just as good as the top group of players in those previous eras. So Federer dominating this current scene doesn't seem as impressive as Sampras or any of those other guys.
I dunno, I just can't get myself to like Federer.