who will win french open

  • nadal

    Votes: 71 38.8%
  • joker

    Votes: 59 32.2%
  • roger

    Votes: 26 14.2%
  • other

    Votes: 27 14.8%

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Liu Kang

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:wtf:

Borg won 5 wimbledons and 4 straight at FO and Wimby. 4 2nd place finishes at US Open and only played AUS once cuz he didnt feel like it. He won 83% of his W-L, 90% of matches in GS's and 41% of all GS's entered. Won 3-4 GS's without losing a set and he retired at 26 to pimp hoes.

Watch your slander of the Ice Man. :ufdup:He's a GOAT candidate.
I was not throwing shade at Bjorn and I know his resume. I was simply stating that from a pure statistical point of view, Nadal winning 9 of his 14 slams is comparable to other greats and that can't be used against him. I mean Sampras was considered the GOAT in the 90s (and was mine) and he never even reached a final at the French and only had a semi in '96 where he was blown by Kafel.
 

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I was not throwing shade at Bjorn and I know his resume. I was simply stating that from a pure statistical point of view, Nadal winning 9 of his 14 slams is comparable to other greats and that can't be used against him. I mean Sampras was considered the GOAT in the 90s (and was mine) and he never even reached a final at the French and only had a semi in '96 where he was blown by Kafel.

Fair enough. Just sayin that the comment insinuated (to me anyway) that borg was somewhat surface specific. He was great everywhere. Usually when I go about ranking players all time I use peak skills + achievements + duration (some combination). If I think that, at their best, a specific players peak was very very high then Ill rate them higher than some players who may have a better overall resume and consistency.
 

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how you placin all these bets and getting paid out? :patrice:

im in ct. my tennis center is taking a bus trip there, might go if im still in the state at the time
5dimes and various creative yet safe methods :mjpls:


now to watch murray/peers take home the dubs title :blessed:
 

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Let's not forget that the case of Nadal and his "inflated" GS titles number is the same as Sampras with Wimby (7/14), Emerson and the Aussie (6/12), Connors and the USO (5/8), Borg and the French (6/11) and even Novak with the Aussie (5/8). The Nadal case is not rare at all and there are greats who just are too good on some surface in the era they play.

Anyway, let's get back to that female final. Serena with 3 doubles already :heh:

Nadal is lucky as hell Juan Martin del Potro is injured :heh:
 

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Fair enough. Just sayin that the comment insinuated (to me anyway) that borg was somewhat surface specific. He was great everywhere. Usually when I go about ranking players all time I use peak skills + achievements + duration (some combination). If I think that, at their best, a specific players peak was very very high then Ill rate them higher than some players who may have a better overall resume and consistency.
It was not really not shade considering I was putting Sampras there too and he was (and still is) my fav player growing up. Also considering how different were surfaces back then, Borg winning back to back French-British was incredible so that was definitely not my point.
 

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It was not really not shade considering I was putting Sampras there too and he was (and still is) my fav player growing up. Also considering how different were surfaces back then, Borg winning back to back French-British was incredible so that was definitely not my point.

:smugfavre:

Hes got so many records that he's gotta be top 5 :yeshrug:i think he only lost to world #1s in finals too :wow:

saw him play at a legends tournament on har-tru and i thought i was witnessing a god on earth..prompted me to buy his racquet and use it when i was a kid
 
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