Battle of the Tennis Players

[Anil]

bjorkman and edberg

 

[ripper868]

awta

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Edberg wins 4-0 3-2
Björkman leads 0-4 3-1 1-0 (final set runs until 14.00 UTC, everyone except ripper can vote)

 

[BoyBrumby]

Bjorkman then.

 

[Johnners]

Jonas

 

[Mister Wright]

Bjorkman

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Björkman wins 0-4 3-1 4-0

First round, battle thirty-one

Andy Roddick

US Open 2003 (final 2006)
Wimbledon final 2004, 2005
4 Masters series titles (incl Cincinnati twice)
Davis Cup 2007
Career record: 436 - 136 (76 %)
Career titles: 26 singles + 3 doubles
World No 1 for 13 weeks

Richard Krajicek

Wimbledon 1996
3 Grand Slam semi-finals
2 Masters series titles
Career record: 411 - 219 (65 %)
Career titles: 17 singles + 3 doubles
World No 4 in 1999

First round, battle thirty-two

Jacques Brugnon

Australian doubles champion 1928
French doubles champion 1927, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1934
Wimbledon doubles champion 1926, 1928, 1932, 1933

Mark Woodforde

US Open doubles 1989, 1995, 1996
Australian Open doubles 1992, 1997
Wimbledon doubles 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000
French Open doubles 2000
Olympic doubles 1996
Doubles Championship 1992, 1996
Davis Cup 1999
Career titles: 4 singles + 67 doubles
World No 1 doubles at intervals between 1992 and 1997

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Roddick and Woodforde

 

[_Ed_]

Roddick & Woodforde

 

[Mister Wright]

Roddick and Woodforde

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Roddick and Woodforde.

 

[Anil]

roddick and woodforde

 

[grecian]

Roddick & Woodforde

Dire rounds, though......

 

[BoyBrumby]

Might've gone for Krajicek if it were closer as he was the man to interrupt Sampras's Wimbeldon hegemony, but will go Roddick & Woodforde to hurry things along.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Second round, battle one

Pete Sampras

US Open 1990, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2002
Wimbledon 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
Australian Open 1994, 1997
Masters Cup 1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999
11 Masters series wins (including Rome on clay 1994)
Davis Cup 1992, 1995
Career record: 762 - 222 (77 %)
Career titles: 64 singles + 2 doubles
World No. 1 for 286 weeks including a near 2-year unbroken period

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

Second round, battle two

Leander Paes

Wimbledon doubles 1999
French Open doubles 1999, 2001
US Open doubles 2006
Singles career record: 99 - 98 (50 %)
Doubles career record: 473 - 245 (66 %)
Career titles: 38 doubles + 1 singles
Doubles World No 1 from June 1999 to March 2000

Björn Rune Borg

French Open 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981
Wimbledon 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 1980 (final 1981)
4 US Open finals
Davis Cup 1975 (33 consecutive unbeaten singles matches, an all-time record)
Career record: 597 - 127 (82 %)
Career titles: 62 ATP + 37 unofficial + 4 doubles
World No 1 for 109 weeks in six stretches between 1977 and 1981

First battle family-sized.

 

[Goughy]

Tough round given all 4 are deadset legends.

Sampra...no..Conne..no...Sampras and Borg

 

[headhunter]

Sampras
Borg

 

[grecian]

Tough on Jimbo, but he was always a tad obnoxious.....

Sampras & Borg

 

[Anil]

sampras and borg

 

[Mister Wright]

Connors & Borg