Indeed a great female champion and the fairest tennis player of all time. Have fun!Sergio CruzYou
are welcome to visit my website at TennisCruz where you will find free tennis video
lessons, more tennis articles and instruction. If he lost (which he seldom did), his hand
shake at the net often came with a warning: "I will beat you the next
time!" The most competitive bully of all time. Steffi Graf was the exception, even when
injured and debilitated, she never mentioned it as an excuse for defeat and she would
rather compliment her opponents. The most graceful of all time and I must add two
others in this department Evonne Goolagong and Roger Federer.The power juggernaut and Grit:- You may
start to think about a,b or c player from today, but you have to go
back many decades to a man called Lew Hoad. Here I must join two lesser
heavy weights in this department, nevertheless ferocious competitors, Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe. They all
came out of the court baffled with his shot-making under pressure. Between meeting any one
of these three on a tennis court and sitting in a tub full of rattle
snakes, I would choose the latter.The fairness in professional sport:- Defeat for a professional tennis
champion is the most difficult part to accept and giving credit to your opponent is
even more challenging. These two women embarrass those men players with their courageous, relentless, top
level athleticism by having served and volleyed and attacked their opponents with giant hearts and
incredible guts! No question the very best ever and I must have requin tn Billy Jean King
join them.And how about Grace:- You can go around the tennis court and beat the
hell out of your opponents and nobody will ever give a hoot about you. If
there is any one player that could obliterate unceremoniously any player of any given era
with a very short score, Lew Hoad is such player. I would say he had
to be the most popular and charismatic tennis player of all time!About race and respect:-
Take Arthur Ashe an African-American man living in the USA in an era where he,
a world class tennis player, was not even allowed into the changing rooms of certain
tennis clubs in his own country. He was a natural born winner with a big
W. The first question that comes to mind could be, who is Nastase, Margaret or
Graf? Were they tennis players? Yes, they were top male and female tennis players.Second question
could be, why man or woman? Because in my view the best tennis player of
all time could be either gender, that is if we consider tennis as an inclusive
sport.Final question, is it not about the one with the best record in the grand
slams, Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon or US Open? Definitely not!In our relentless pursuit of
running faster, jumping higher, throwing further and beating record after record, we forget simple things
that are part of the fabric of any sport and that often are more important
then the sport itself or its record holders.Here some of those little things that make
tennis an extraordinary sport, besides a single person winning Nike Requin a bunch of Grand Slams or
ATP tournaments:- Race- Gender- Charisma- Personality- Popularity- Shot-making- Grace- Toughness- Grit- Guts- Coolness- Charm- Image-
Power- Athleticism- Spirit of sacrifice- Fairness- Bully-ness- Competitiveness- Respect- Record- ...and more.If one was to
limit this analysis to plain cold numbers and to one gender or the other it
would be simple, Bjorn Borg or Rod Laver - men, Martina Navratilova or Steffi Graff
- women.Tennis is a lot more than that, take for example charisma and popularity:- For
example, in 1974 Illie Nastase was playing on tennis court 6 in Barcelona against Roger
Taylor and Manolo Orantes (the super popular local matador) was playing Jose Moreno on central
court at the same time. Hands down, the grittiest hardest hitter of all time!The heart
of tennis, competitiveness and bully-ness:- There is no player in the history of tennis that
is regarded by his peers with as so much respect as fear and loath, Pancho
Gonzales. This man overcame all sporting challenges, all racial abuse, all social inequalities and became
a beloved son of his country and the world! The all-time most respected gentleman tennis
player of any race in tennis history.Tennis and shot-making:- We all know Rod Laver because
he is the only player to ever win 4 Grand Slam singles titles in the
same calendar year twice - in 1962 as an amateur and 1969 as a professional
- and he is the only male player during the open era to have won
a calendar year Grand Slam (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open).His opponents knew something
that the regular public could hardly come to grasp. Rod Laver, time and time again,
got out of the most daring situations many of them at match points by producing
the most incredible and least expected shots his opponents could ever imagine he would go
for! Indeed the best and pluckiest shot-maker ever!The Guts and Athleticism:- Two women come clearly
to mind Margaret Court and Martina Navratilova, to appreciate these two incredible women athletes, you
have to look at mens' tennis and see how the great majority of the ATP
professionals cower behind the baseline. No wonder she married Andre Agassi he was special in
that department too.There is plenty more but, I hope I gave you a sense of
how great the game of tennis is with all of these facets that so much
form a mosaic of where winning is important, but the record alone cannot represent the
whole sport.Now when you watch the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon or US Open, see
if you can identify any of those attributes or flaws in the players you are
watching. That was not the case of Maria Ester Bueno from Brazil, she charmed the
public with the beauty of her movement, fluidness of her game and some very sharp
volleying. Which court do you think was full and which was empty?Illie Nastases court was
full! The Spanish, are great lovers of great tennis and showmanship - Nasty - gave
it all to them. Please go to http://www.tenniscruz.comSergio Cruz is a tennis instructor, an ex
# 1 National Champion, Davis Cup Player from Portugal and former Coach Jim Courier ATP
World Ranking # 1 http://www.tenniscruz.com.
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