Borg Vs McEnroe

[jayfey77]

i am to say cause lendl beat connors and mcenroe when he buffed up and started lifting weights he dominated them and he would have done the same thing to borg all those 3 guys could beat lendl till lendl got stronger.

[sledge999]

Borg made me start playing tennis, like many others. I copied his grip and I still put massive topspin on the ball today. Great great player. A baseliner who forced himself to volley on grass and won Wimbledon a zillion times!

[bjornsiborgsi]

you are wrong my friend to think this way. borg played a lendl when he was inexperienced and thin. had he played the lendl of 1985-8 he would have been killed.

[ivodsf]

@bjornsiborgsi wrong

[stubarron]

McEnroe was the last (and only one I can remember) that was ranked #1 in the World in both Singles and Doubles. That has to count for something.

[altfratuben]

Instead of arguing who is the best of all times, I prefer regarding some players remembered. Federer will still be remembered 30 years from now, as Borg is today.

[teflonmagnet]

if you havn't played competitively with a wooden racket then you have no idea what the diffrerence is between today's equipment and yesterday's. it's like comparing a revolver to an uzi (with uncanny accuracy). if borg or mcenroe had today's equipment their games would up to the challenge, but mcenroe's fitness would be seriously lacking and he wouldn't last like borg.

[KingCast65]

Correction: McEnroe's fitness back then was not the highest of his peers, but it is now. He's a bad-assed fitty year-old.

[LesYeuxDeDarius]

and those players are legends ... with that game style ? Boy ! McEncroe play shitty with the forehand and Borg has a damn strange style ...

those are legends ... pff... i just look at the new players and they have much more skills, the tennis actually is much better !

[IricForset]

Im going to stand in unlike all the other morons and say true. Tennis is better, but people probably arent as creative because the speed of play is just too much for players to handle sometimes. Unless your name is Fed, Nadal Djoko etc. But Tennis IS much better.

[LesYeuxDeDarius]

true ^_^ it looks like the intensity of the game is getting too high ^^

[strangebeavis]

They are using different racquets, strings and balls than what players use today. Try hitting with a racquet from 1982, then try hitting with a modern racquet. The difference in how you can hit the ball with the two different racquets makes a huge difference in how you play the game and how you swing the racquet.

[LesYeuxDeDarius]

i play sometimes with a wood racket like Nastase played, i can do the same swing i do with my nBlade racket its only a lil bit harder to hit in the sweet-spot.

[Schrittwieser]

Sampras played his entire career with a Wilson Prostaff made in 1980.

[GeneSimmons20]

It's unfortunate the Bjorn called it a carrer by 1983. He had the skill to beat McEnroe but the drive was no longer there. He looked almost lost at the 1981 U.S. Open Final. I think he was still having a tough time getting over the Wimbledon loss in a match that he should have won.  What he did on grass was brilliant. He was not a natural grass court player and to go from the slow clay where he was untouchable to the fast grass courts at Wimbledon making 6 finals in a row is incredible.

[KingCast65]

That's a good one.

Anyway, there's no question that McEnroe is the most entertaining player to watch. Every stroke was an adventure in artistry, that moonball he served up to Bjorn was awesome. He looks so stiff as a player and everything was just so precision, goddamn bloody amazaing stuff.

The other tennis artists don't have records like Mac. Edberg, Mecir, Nastase. Who else can even be said to have that kind of touch on the ball.

[altfratuben]

@KingCast65 maybee marcelo rios.

[symba]

@KingCast65 Laver?

[KingCast65]

@symba

Of course!

[teflonmagnet]

was that the only point borg won that open final?

[strangebeavis]

I think that's the only one that McEnroe didn't complain about anyway.