Battle of the Tennis Players

[Magrat Garlick]

Must admit I didn't expect Pancho Gonzales to get whitewashed.

Emerson and Rosewall both triumph 4-0 4-0.

First round, battle fifteen

Jimmy Connors

US Open 1974, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983 (final 1975, 1977, doubles 1975)
Wimbledon 1974, 1982 (final 1975, 1977, 1978, 1984, doubles 1973)
Australian Open 1974 (final 1975)
4 French Open semi-finals
Masters Cup 1977
Career record: 1241 - 277 (82 %)
Career titles: 109 ATP + 30 other singles + 15 doubles
World No 1 for 268 weeks from 1974 to 1983 including three consecutive years

Sir Norman Brookes

Wimbledon Champion 1907, 1914 (final 1905, 1919)
Australian Champion 1912
Wimbledon doubles Champion 1907, 1914
Australian doubles Champion 1924
US doubles Champion 1919
Davis Cup 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1914

First round, battle sixteen

Andre Agassi

Australian Open 1995, 2000, 2001, 2003
US Open 1994, 1999 (final 1990, 1995, 2002, 2005)
French Open 1999 (final 1990, 1991)
Wimbledon 1992 (final 1999)
Masters Cup 1990
Olympic gold 1996
17 Masters series titles (incl 6 times Miami)
Davis Cup 1988, 1990, 1992
Career record: 870 - 274 (76 %)
Career titles: 60 ATP + 8 other singles + 1 doubles (Cincinnati)
World No 1 for 101 weeks between 1995 and 2003, including one full year

Pat Rafter

US Open 1997, 1998
Wimbledon final 2000, 2001
2 Masters series titles
Career record: 358 - 191 (65 %)
Career titles: 11 singles + 10 doubles
World No. 1 for one week in 1999

 

[_Ed_]

Connors & Agassi.

Rafter a bit unlucky.

 

[superkingdave]

Connors and Aggasi

 

[BoyBrumby]

Connors was quite unlucky his career co-incided with Borg & latterly McEnroe and Lendl or he could've won twice the amount of slam titles he did.

Agassi pretty comfortably in the second, although I liked Rafter a lot. Had the perfect serve-and-volley game for Wimbledon, but never quite landed the big one.

 

[grecian]

Jimmy & Andre

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Connors and Rafter

 

[duffer]

Connors and Agassi.

 

[Anil]

connors and agassi

 

[Jono]

Connors & Agassi

 

[ohtani's jacket]

Pancho was screwed so badly.

Emerson wasn't as good as Laver or Rosewell, while Pancho was the best player in the world for 8 straight years.

"In that period, Gonzales won the United States Professional Championship eight times and the Wembley professional title in London four times, plus beating, in head-to-head tours, all of the best amateurs who turned pro, which included every Wimbledon champion for 10 years in a row."

Nobody would consider Emerson the greatest player of all-time, but Pancho was considered so from 1954-1970.

Gonzales was eight years older than Emerson when Roy turned pro and beat him 12 times thereafter!

He beat Conners at age 43 when Jimmy was 19 -- playing from the baseline!!

 

[Simon]

Brookes and Rafter

 

[headhunter]

Agassi

 

[Mister Wright]

Connors & Rafter

 

[biased indian]

Connors & Agassi.

 

[ripper868]

Connors and Rafter,

Rafter unlucky to come up against agassi.

 

[Mister Wright]

They had some great matchups in their time.

Will never forget the Wimbledon Semi in 2001 when Rafter was down a break in the 5th and Agassi was serving for the set and Rafter came out and broke him with some brilliant chip-charging and then went on to win the set. One of my favourite Rafter moments.

 

[ripper868]

My fav rafter moment was at the aus open (1999?) First round night match vs Jeff Tarango. Was in the crowd and rafter went 2 sets to love down. Came back to win in 5, got out of RLA about 1:30, 2 in the morning. Great atmosphere

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Connors 4-0 4-0
Agassi 4-0 4-2

First round, battle seventeen

Mahesh Bhupathi

Career record (doubles only): 504 - 243 (67 %)
Career titles: 43 doubles
French Open doubles 1999, 2001
Wimbledon doubles 1999 (final 2003)
US Open doubles2002 (final 1999)
Australian Open doubles final 1999
11 doubles Masters series titles
World No 1 for 4 weeks in 1999

Marat Safin

US Open 2000
Australian Open 2005
5 Masters Series titles
Davis Cup 2002, 2006
World No. 1 for 10 weeks

First round, battle eighteen

Marcelo Ríos

Australian Open final 1998
5 Masters series titles
Grand Slam Cup 1998
Career record: 391 - 192 (67 %)
Career titles: 18
World No 1 for 6 weeks in 1998

Michael Chang

French Open 1989, youngest ever male Grand Slam winner
4 appearences in Grand Slam finals
7 Masters Series titles (including Indian Wells 3 times)
Davis Cup 1990
Career record: 662 - 312 (68 %)
Career titles: 34
Highest: World No. 2

 

[grecian]

Not the greatest quality, compared to some of them, but

Safin

Rios

 

[Anil]

safin and chang