The Comparison Continues…
I have been watching and reading news article’s where comparisons between Pete Sampras, ”The Champion” and the current No.1 Roger Federer has been going around for a while. For me it’s really difficult to understand how any comparison can be made between any two players or any two teams of different two different eras.
But if you ask me who would be my personal favorite…I would definitely go for Pete Sampras who was ranked World No. 1 for 286 weeks (record). I guess Federer at 25 has many more years of tennis left in him and as of now has 9 grand slams to his credit compared to 14 in all for Pete. So considering the trend of the previous few years of competition faced by FedEx or to say the lack of it, I guess he would without doubt be crossing Pete’s 14 grand slams in the coming 2 years or so.
I would like to take you to the early nineties and the time when Pete started to make his mark on the tennis court…he definitely had much more fierce competitors than what Federer has now. To name a few Stefan Edberg who was at the fag end of his career, wasn’t playing that well but still was a force to reckon with, but you still had Boris Becker, Jim Courier doing well, the ace guys Goran Ivanišević, Richard Krajicek, Mark Philippoussis. Michael Chang who never gave up and of course you had the flamboyant Andre Agassi. You had players who were expert playing on only one surface like some of the Spaniards like Alex Corretja, Albert Costa, Carlos Costa, Sergi Bruguera who could play only on clay. You had Pat Rafter, Greg Rusedski, Tim Henman, Yevgeny Kafelnikov competing well, and then you had Marcello Rios to my surprise becoming the number one player at one time.
The fact of the matter is that Federer, with no fault of his, doesn’t have the same kind of opposition that Pete had during the nineties and thereby he is winning almost all tournaments.It’s just in the past year or so, Rafael Nadal has been giving him some kind of resistance, which is quite unfortunate.
I have been watching and reading news article’s where comparisons between Pete Sampras, ”The Champion” and the current No.1 Roger Federer has been going around for a while. For me it’s really difficult to understand how any comparison can be made between any two players or any two teams of different two different eras.
But if you ask me who would be my personal favorite…I would definitely go for Pete Sampras who was ranked World No. 1 for 286 weeks (record). I guess Federer at 25 has many more years of tennis left in him and as of now has 9 grand slams to his credit compared to 14 in all for Pete. So considering the trend of the previous few years of competition faced by FedEx or to say the lack of it, I guess he would without doubt be crossing Pete’s 14 grand slams in the coming 2 years or so.
I would like to take you to the early nineties and the time when Pete started to make his mark on the tennis court…he definitely had much more fierce competitors than what Federer has now. To name a few Stefan Edberg who was at the fag end of his career, wasn’t playing that well but still was a force to reckon with, but you still had Boris Becker, Jim Courier doing well, the ace guys Goran Ivanišević, Richard Krajicek, Mark Philippoussis. Michael Chang who never gave up and of course you had the flamboyant Andre Agassi. You had players who were expert playing on only one surface like some of the Spaniards like Alex Corretja, Albert Costa, Carlos Costa, Sergi Bruguera who could play only on clay. You had Pat Rafter, Greg Rusedski, Tim Henman, Yevgeny Kafelnikov competing well, and then you had Marcello Rios to my surprise becoming the number one player at one time.
The fact of the matter is that Federer, with no fault of his, doesn’t have the same kind of opposition that Pete had during the nineties and thereby he is winning almost all tournaments.It’s just in the past year or so, Rafael Nadal has been giving him some kind of resistance, which is quite unfortunate.
Many would disagree with this …but facts are facts and you cannot deny it.
As far as his record is considered...its amazing.
Grand Slams 14
Tennis Masters Cups 5
ATP Masters Series 11
ATP Tours 34
-GAG
posted by The Fite Klub @ 1:25 PM
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