The Legendary Tennis Players Of All Times
Posted on April 23, 2010
Filed Under Tennis
Tennis seems to have changed a lot over the years. The style of play is a lot different to what it used to be like and the racquets have changed a lot too, I suppose a lot of the change seemed to occur around about the Eighties.
Let’s just take a look back at some of the great players of the Eighties; not necessarily the best players of the Decade, but still some of the well known players.
The 1980′s has to be synonymous with undoubtedly the greatest ever player to have graced the Tennis courts, that is until his retirement at an early age. This could only be the one and only Bjorn Borg.
Another great Swede to entertain us all on the Tennis courts had to be none other that Stefan Edberg. This man could serve and volley for fun, and it was this talent that eventually got him to the number one spot in Tennis, but that was more to the end of the Eighties.
Then there was a young German teenager, with his Jump serve that astonished everybody by going on to win the most famous grass court tournament in the world, yes Wimbledon! Boris Becker was that man, although that was not his only achievement, not by a long way.
Ivan Lendl is the next person that I remember, as this Czech player had an amazing base line play. He was such a steady player, and he also won quite a few tournaments and a few grand slams as well.
Who could forget John McEnroe, now that man could play. He could also argue, but no one will ever forget the amazing shots that he could play. If they were called out though, boy was there an argument!, but I suppose you have to be a little highly strung (sorry about the pun) to be a great Tennis player.
All of these five players had a major impact on the game of Tennis, especially in the Eighties, and some still have an impact on today’s players as well; but these are not by all means the only ones, these are just a few that I have chosen to remember.
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