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Message: [QUOTE="huskyrob1, post: 2548961, member: 1226"] Disagree strongly that Borg was the greatest tennis player ever in his prime, to say he was better than Federer is nice to say but far from the truth. Borg was not as good on hard courts as he was on grass or clay. Grass and clay are similar surfaces, and grass courts will play even more like clay toward the end of a long tournament, when the grass gets really beaten up and plays like a hard dirt surface. Borg had very loopy shots which easily cleared the net, and he was a terrible net player. Those loopy shots however were critical in his five Wimbledon titles. He won the Canadian Open (played on hard courts) only once in 1979 against a very young John McEnroe who had just started playing on the tour, and made the finals only twice. Yet played it every year as did all the top players did as a tune-up for the US Open. As good as Borg was, good serve and volley hard court players like Roscoe Tanner or Vitas Gerulitus use to eat him alive on hard courts at the US Open and the Canadian Open. Because of his limitations at the net he never won a doubles title and IIRC only made the semi finals once in doubles. My top 10 all time in the modern era 1) Federer 2) Sampras 3) Borg 4) Llendl 5) John McEnroe 6) Nadal 7) Djokovic 8) Agassi 9) Stefan Edberg 10) Boris Becker A lot will disagree with me on who I think was the greatest ever in his prime, but I'll say it any way ...John McEnroe. He was almost untouchable in 1984, his dominance was very brief but unmatched IMO. Though a serve and volley type player, as a cocky brash young kid he came within a hair of being the first American to win the French Open since Tony Trabert in the 1950's, in what many think was the greatest single tennis match ever played. His opponents were some of the greatest ever, during tennis's golden age. [/QUOTE]

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