Agassi Sampras French Open 1992

QF Andre Agassi vs. Pete Sampras

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Tennis
• Grand
• Slam
• Roland
• Garros
• French
• Open
• Agassi
• Sampras

[splendid1000]

@89Pleasek

I agree, he'd have less slams. But I highly doubt Fed would have 16 slams at such a young age in the 90s either. I think he's capable of winning on fast 90s grass and US Open but I dont think he'd win as many because of the much harder and more diverse competition between s&v and baseline. I personally dont think the current tour with the slower courts is a real tennis circuit. I think the variety of 90s surfaces is how tennis was meant to be played.

[89Pleasek]

ye, im really lolling at the sampras fans who make sampras look as he was unbeatable in his best years, some or so biased that actually claim that pete would defeat federer on clay

[RafaGates10]

fuck you sampras

[splendid1000]

Sampras really only trained especially hard for the French during the first half of his career, and during all his decent quarter final and semi final runs he played well, only losing to former and future multiple French Open champions and finalists like Agassi, Brugera, Courier, Kafelnikov ...

[splendid1000]

LoL. Its no secret that Fed was better on clay. Sampras had several factors going against him before he even set foot on the court. He strung his racket at 75 - 80 lbs and used an outdated racket with an 85 sq in head which is anything but ideal for slow, high bouncing courts LOL. He also had a legitimate blood - iron defficiency that really did affect him during matches with long rallies. Thats one of the main reasons he started playing a lot more S&V during the second half of his career.

[911801111801]

Sorry, Nadal'd have beaten Federer on Rebound Ace at the 2009 Australian Open anyway... no matter what ''if'' you put there, that wouldn't change (unless under the ''if Nadal had been limping'' hypothesis...)

[911801111801]

29 straight GS QF now!!!!!

[Scoclamor]

@89Pleasek And even Djokovic and Murray the way they're playing this year! Talk about competition! And Federer keeps reaching GS semi-finals. Actually, he's reached 28 straight GS QF! Another record. Even at almost 30, Fed keeps setting records against players that are coming into their own!

[Scoclamor]

Lets see, we got Sampras with 9 losses, 3rd round or earlier and Fed with 3 so far (2011). But one of them was against Kurten who won this thing three times.

I think Federer wins the argument with Pete here, don't you?

[Scoclamor]

If they had sped up Wimbledon, could it be argued that Fed wins Wimbledon in 2008, so he wins7 STRAIGHT Wimbledon? Could it be argued that Fed wins in 2008 and 2009 Australian Open if they didn't take out the Rebound Ace surface and replace it with Plexicushion Prestige?

I know for a fact Federer would have more French Opens if he played in the 90s. Or came along after Nadal. Hell, look what Novak is doing this year,

until he ran into Fed FO SF!

[Scoclamor]

Sampras' French Open losses: 1991, Champion (1,3,1 btw), 1992 AGASSI (7-6, 6-2, 6-1, btw, and then Agassi got destroyed by Courier in the SF), 1993 BRUGERA, 1994 COURIER, 1995, Shaller (first round), 1996 (KAFELNIKOV, finally in the SF, but only because Sampras took advantage of a fast clay that year, 99 ACES), 199, Norman, (3rd round), 1998, Delgado (2nd round), 1999, Medvedev (2nd round), 2000 (Phillapouses (first round), 2001, Blanco (2nd round), 2002, Gaudenzi, (2nd round)