That final was quite cool.

it was!

i missed it. i thought it was gonna play in the evening.

same :(

if you find the recording online somewhere let me know plz

doesnt tiger have 13 majors atm? hey optimus prime, you just got owned ;-) HAEHAHEHAEHAHEHAEHAHEAHEHAHEHAE

fucking fanboys

I know he has 13 majors.

agreed. bestest of all times

i still think pistol pete would own him.

I heard something about ppl who were planning to organize a friendly game between pete and roger :)

would be fun to watch, Pete's still my fav player ever along with Pat Rafter :)

FUGITIVE

yeah, would be nice to see him back in action doing some high air smashes. :)

You can find those smashes on youtube :D
pretty fun to watch ;)

They will face each other on Nov. 22 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Gonna be awesome!

that's pretty cool. too bad both can't be in their prime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD8nYSXn6_8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dycMdabVXE&am...mp;search=

Sampras isn't totally out of shape :-)

Will probably be a bit like purri vs shub-nigga.

yeah, will be really great. poetry in motion.

When he is finished with his career people will call him the greatest tennisplayer that ever lived.

they allready do.

some people still consider sampras the best. but i think this will change once federer (eventually) beats sampras's record.

i agree, federa coulda been a pro football player as well, well they say that, but he quit the school of excellence just like me, like an idiot in 1 sense, but not now considering his tennis career! I on the other hand am still the idiot!

PS. Ive always preffered sampras as a professional tho

Federer is IMBA, I don't even like to watch his matches anymore. Altho it was kinda nice how he made 3 breaks in a row when he was 2 breaks down against Davydenko.

Best tennis player ever imo.

Sampras was my previous favourite but Roger is much more complete. He has the same strong serve, killer forehand and good volleys but his backhand is much better than Pete's. Also has more natural topspin in this strokes and so plays very well on gravel. He's just such an amazing talent with a cat-like, natural and elegant movements.

I predicted him being no.1 when he was still no.40 and beaten by Hewitt all the time. He only had to improve his mental toughness but his talent was very obvious to someone who plays on a competitive level.

everyone knows becker > *

agreed. best ever.

i think federer is a better tennis player, but sampras i think was a better 'professional' tennis player, he treated it like a business and didn't become emotionally attached, which i think federer does.

yep.. that really seems to gimp federer's game a lot

shut up
he does interviews when asked and he doesnt flame the ref/linesmen, thats all the professional a tennis player needs to be

emotionally dead != professional

i like that he cares and i think most his fans do

never said either one was better, comparing them in that way is retarded

"i think federer is a better tennis player, but sampras i think was a better 'professional' tennis player, he treated it like a business and didn't become emotionally attached, which i think federer does."

emotional? you're lucky if you even see him punch the air in his matches. I would say Federer is the coolest player on tour, ever.

he cried @ wimbledon

during his matches is what I am referring to.

he also said he was very nervous which is being emotional
you might not see him upset but you see when hes playing bad compared to normally

So what? You don't need to be a robot to be the champion. And because he's not a robot people have even more respect for him because he handles stuff so well.

read what ive been saying earlier idiot

cba you dird.

Who the fuck cares about tennis? Pussy sport...

good comment there buddy.

Yes.

yeah DOTA is for the real men

Damn right it is.

:/

:)

I used to like you lock :<

Good news: you still do! =D We may have our differences, but we still love each other thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis much! *huggies*

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I don't think he should be considered better than Sampras. At least not yet.

Also, Sampras had many more real opponents throughout his career, whereas Federer only has Nadal on clay.

true
i still remember great matches vs. agassi ... the 3-setter in wimbledon ? best match in wimbledon ever.

he had a whole lot of worldclass opponents in his carrer.

true in sampras good days you had agassi, rafter, philippoussis, becker, chang, courier, pioline, martin, ivanisevic moya (in his good days), kafelnikov and so on ;)

You forget Federer beat Sampras and Agassi multiple times. You could argue Agassi wasn't in his prime anymore but he still got to the US Open final and got a bit schooled by Federer. Awesome match though, they were both hitting the ball like crazy, I think the 2nd set was one of the best sets I ever saw.

Becker was also the real stuff but the rest of the names you mentioned were not consistent top players. Really liked Pioline, Goran and Rafter but they excelled only on occasion.

kafelnikov was consistent afair

True, but not at the level of Federer / Sampras / Agassi / Becker.

i remember that Sampras struggled the most against Magnus Larsson, although he wasn't a real topplayer. He was good but he somehow lifted his game when playing Sampras...

I can remember our own Richard Krajicek has the best track record against Sampras. Just looked up the stats: http://www.geocities.com/hovav13/head_to_head.html

Edit: Federer's stats:

http://www.tenniscorner.net/index.php?corner=...rid=FER001

Bad vs Nadal and Canas. Used to have trouble with Nalbandian and before that with Hewitt.

Ivanisevic was certainly consistant at hitting aces =)

I remember throwing my shoes through the room when he was screwing up his matchpoints at wimbledon :) Luckily he did win after all, he deserved a wimbledon title.

btw. Federer and Sampras will face off against each other this November in a "Clash of the Times" show match :

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/186845/...vs_Federer

It's not the competion that is bad, it is Federer who is THAT good. The skill level is still rising, you can see how i.e. Safin and Henman struggle to keep up. Nadal is also a phenomal player, though I really dislike his style :)

yea nadal's style is ugly :/ but effective. kinda like watching monica seles (who was fantastic in her prime)

Top 10 Best of Roger Federer
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zZRQEtAyiTM

Good stuff. Love number 9 :P

haha, No. 7 reminds me ...
when you're like 12yrs old and try everything to defeat your coach in a point, and everytime you make a good shoot he has the exact appropriate answer ... SO ANNOYING :)

lol.. i remember so many occasions where i've tried to win a point against my tennis coach like that. he seemed like a god to me back then... picking up everything i put across the net. a few years later when i had gotten a lot better and actually won a match against him, it was kinda like winning a tournament ;)

where's the ball? lol

9 was good

oh, and btw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM6RUfeGLIE

djokovic owns. we just might see him taking a few slams away from federer soon. he's playing incredible tennis.

tennis sucks donkey balls

another btw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtBPCMX-yhc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npxP6Jej9iE

they are both great players , but at the end of his career roger federer will be THE LEGEND in tennis

if he wins paris he will be above sampras

cooller is better than federer and sampras combined

so true, so true.

Cooller is disqualified for being on the juice.

oh fook :(

when he bothers to turn up that is ...

cooller doesn't have to turn up

federer and sampras both have a single handed backhand which means they automatically pwn everyone else.

comparing them is hard. it does look like sampras has the edge since he had a much bigger list of well known players gunning out for him but talent wise, i think they're rather evenly matched. federer vs sampras in his prime could go either way imo.

besides, "best player of all time" is rather ridiculous in any sport imo. different circumstances, different generations.

just like best gamers in quake, cs or unreal...but nobody seems to get that ;)

UNRESPECT!

POLOZ IZ RULES!!

umm...sounds more like Tiger owned Roger.

so cut 8<

tennis *yawn*