The Greatest of All Time

[Favpack]

The greatest tennis player in the history of the sport -

Roger Federer

He will play in his 5th straight Grand Slam final - a first in this sport. He won his Wimbledon semi-final match in 71 minutes in two, love and two. He is simply on another planet.

But...

Raphael Nadal may beat him. Nadal has not lost a set at Wimbledon this year, and has only had like two break points against him.

Federer will be remembering Paris - and he will respond and win - and keep winning.

[lonny23]

Roger is hard to beat...and I thought this was going to be a thread about me!:D

[cougardude]

I plan to be up Sunday morning watch this match. I would like to see Federer avenge his French open loss to Nadal. Roger is 55-0 against everyone else this season and 0-4 against Nadal, with three of those wins coming on clay.

[slorch]

I would contend that this era pales in comparison with the Borg, McEnroe, Connors and Lendl era. I beleive he dominates as Sampras did because there are no other "greats" to challenge him consistently.

[southlake thug]

I hope you are speaking about men's tennis only? I am not a big tennis fan in particular, but I do know enough to know that Martina Navratilova won 18 singles grand slam champoinships, and like 30 doubles championships. She won Wimbledon 9 times! 6 of them in a row. She is in my opinion in a different world then Roger Federer. And Steffi Graff isn't to far behind her either, or i guess alot of people would say ahead on Martina. That is up for debate.

But where do you put Sampras on the list of greatest male players? If he isn't first he is a easy second.

[lonny23]

I would contend that this era pales in comparison with the Borg, McEnroe, Connors and Lendl era. I beleive he dominates as Sampras did because there are no other "greats" to challenge him consistently.
Lack of competition can make a team look greater than they are like the Patriots winning 3 titles without playing the Packers and 49ers like Dallas had to do.

Sampras had to play Agassi all the time and I watched a good show about 90's tennis a few days ago.

I think half of it is how good Federer is, but he also doesn't have a consistent rival, but Nadal might be that guy if he wins Wimbledon.

I really don't have much interest in tennis right now. Agassi has been my favorite since 1990, but I liked the 80's and 90's a lot more than today.

[Favpack]

Federer won in 4 sets - I did not see a point, but it appears Nadal had a few chances to make it closer. I think this will be a great rivalry - too bad there are absolutely no Americans in the male mix right now.

[Reaganrattler07]

eh, I hate Federrer, but he is good.