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Welcome to Grass Court season

Ranking the Greatest Grass Court Players of the Open Era

As the grass court season begins, tennis enthusiasts around the world turn their attention to the lush, green courts that have hosted some of the sport's most iconic moments. Grass courts, with their fast pace and low bounce, require a unique set of skills and strategies, making victories on this surface particularly noteworthy. Let's delve into what made some of the greatest grass court players of the Open Era so successful.

1. Roger Federer: The Maestro of Grass

Roger Federer stands at the pinnacle of grass court tennis. His record eight Wimbledon titles and unparalleled 105 match wins at the tournament underscore his dominance. Federer’s game is characterized by his fluid movement, precise footwork, and an almost poetic serve-and-volley technique. His ability to play aggressive yet controlled tennis, combined with a powerful serve and impeccable net play, allows him to dictate points and keep opponents on the defensive.

One of the most memorable moments in Federer’s illustrious career was the 2017 Wimbledon final, where he defeated Marin Čilić 6-3, 6-1, 6-4. This victory was significant not only because it marked his eighth title, but also because Federer became the oldest player in the Open Era to win Wimbledon without dropping a set throughout the tournament.

2. Pete Sampras: The Serve-and-Volley King

Pete Sampras ruled Wimbledon in the 1990s with his powerful serve and aggressive net play. His serve-and-volley style was perfectly suited for the fast-paced grass courts, allowing him to dominate points quickly and keep rallies short. With seven Wimbledon titles to his name, Sampras was the epitome of grass court excellence during his era.

A particularly standout performance was his 1999 Wimbledon final against Andre Agassi, where Sampras won convincingly 6-3, 6-4, 7-5. This match showcased his superior grass court prowess and solidified his reputation as one of the greatest ever to play on the surface.

3. Bjorn Borg: The Ice Man of Wimbledon

Bjorn Borg’s five consecutive Wimbledon titles from 1976 to 1980 are a testament to his mastery of grass courts. His game was a blend of relentless baseline play and exceptional footwork, allowing him to excel on grass despite it being less common for baseline players to dominate on this surface.

Borg’s iconic victory over John McEnroe in the 1980 Wimbledon final, where he won 1-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-7(16-18), 8-6, remains one of the greatest matches in tennis history. This match exemplified his incredible resilience and mental toughness, qualities that made him a formidable opponent on grass.

4. Novak Djokovic: The Modern Master

Novak Djokovic’s seven Wimbledon titles highlight his adaptability and excellence on grass. Known for his extraordinary agility, defensive skills, and mental resilience, Djokovic has been able to translate his all-court game to grass with great success.

His triumph in the 2019 Wimbledon final against Roger Federer, winning 7-6(5), 1-6, 7-6(4), 4-6, 13-12(3), was the longest final in Wimbledon history and showcased his unparalleled endurance and mental toughness. This victory not only added another title to his collection but also solidified his legacy as one of the greatest grass court players of all time.

5. Rod Laver: The Versatile Champion

Rod Laver’s versatility and powerful groundstrokes, along with his strategic use of the entire court, made him a dominant force on grass. Laver’s adaptability and mastery of different surfaces, including grass, were key to his success.

Laver’s back-to-back calendar-year Grand Slams in 1962 and 1969, the latter achieved in the Open Era, included victories at Wimbledon, underscoring his dominance. His ability to seamlessly transition between different styles of play allowed him to outmaneuver opponents and control matches on grass.

6. John McEnroe: The Volatile Genius

John McEnroe’s serve-and-volley game, characterized by his exceptional touch and volleying skills, was ideally suited for the fast and low-bouncing grass. His ability to control points with his serve and quick reflexes at the net made him a formidable grass court player.

McEnroe’s dramatic victory over Bjorn Borg in the 1981 Wimbledon final, winning 4-6, 7-6(1), 7-6(4), 6-4, ended Borg’s five-year reign and marked McEnroe’s emergence as a grass court legend. His intense on-court demeanor and competitive spirit were hallmarks of his game, driving him to excel in high-stakes matches.

7. Boris Becker: The Young Wunderkind

Boris Becker’s aggressive style and athleticism made him particularly effective on grass, where his big serve and bold approaches to the net paid dividends. Becker’s ability to play with high intensity and his knack for performing well under pressure made him a tough opponent on grass.

His victory in the 1985 Wimbledon final at just 17 years old, where he defeated Kevin Curren 6-3, 6-7(4), 7-6(3), 6-4, made him the youngest ever male Wimbledon champion, a record that still stands. This win marked the beginning of an illustrious career and established Becker as a force to be reckoned with on grass courts.

These tennis legends have each brought their unique styles and strategies to the lush lawns of Wimbledon, etching their names in the annals of tennis history. As we celebrate the start of the grass court season, their remarkable achievements and distinctive playing styles continue to inspire players and fans alike.

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YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT

[...] [DFW, Infinite Jest, 2b]

To ensure the composure with which he sat waiting in light in his chair he focused his senses on his surroundings. No part of the insect he'd seen was now visible. The clicks of his portable clock were really composed of three smaller clicks, signifying he supposed preparation, movement, and readjustment. He began to grow disgusted with himself for waiting so anxiously for the promised arrival of something that had stopped being fun anyway. He didn't even know why he liked it anymore. It made his mouth dry and his eyes dry and red and his face sag, and he hated it when his face sagged, it was as if all the integrity of all the muscles in his face was eroded by marijuana, and he got terribly self-conscious about the fact that his face was sagging, and had long ago forbidden himself to smoke dope around anyone else. He didn't even know what its draw was anymore. He couldn't even be around anyone else if he'd smoked marijuana that same day, it made him so self-conscious. And the dope often gave him a painful case of pleurisy if he smoked it for more than two straight days of heavy continuous smoking in front of the Inter-Lace viewer in his bedroom. It made his thoughts jut out crazily in jagged directions and made him stare raptly like an unbright child at entertainment cartridges — when he laid in film cartridges for a vacation with marijuana, he favored cartridges in which a lot of things blew up and crashed into each other, which he was sure an unpleasant-fact specialist like Randi would point out had implications that were not good. He pulled his necktie down smooth while he gathered his intellect, will, self-knowledge, and conviction and determined that when this latest woman came as she surely would this would simply be his very last marijuana debauch. He'd simply smoke so much so fast that it would be so unpleasant and the memory of it so repulsive that once he'd consumed it and gotten it out of his home and his life as quickly as possible he would never want to do it again. He would make it his business to create a really bad set of debauched associations with the stuff in his memory. The dope scared him. It made him afraid. It wasn't that he was afraid of the dope, it was that smoking it made him afraid of everything else. It had long since stopped being a release or relief or fun. This last time, he would smoke the whole 200 grams—120 grams cleaned, destemmed — in four days, over an ounce a day, all in tight heavy economical one-hitters off a quality virgin bong, an incredible, insane amount per day, he'd make it a mission, treating it like a penance and behavior-modification regimen all at once, he'd smoke his way through thirty high-grade grams a day, starting the moment he woke up and used ice water to detach his tongue from the roof of his mouth and took an antacid — averaging out to 200 or 300 heavy bong-hits per day, an insane and deliberately unpleasant amount, and he'd make it a mission to smoke it continuously, even though if the marijuana was as good as the woman claimed he'd do five hits and then not want to take the trouble to load and one-hit any more for at least an hour. But he would force himself to do it anyway. He would smoke it all even if he didn't want it. Even if it started to make him dizzy and ill. He would use discipline and persistence and will and make the whole experience so unpleasant, so debased and debauched and unpleasant, that his behavior would be henceforward modified, he'd never even want to do it again because the memory of the insane four days to come would be so firmly, terribly emblazoned in his memory. He'd cure himself by excess. He predicted that the woman, when she came, might want to smoke some of the 200 grams with him, hang out, hole up, listen to some of his impressive collection of Tito Puente recordings, and probably have intercourse. He had never once had actual intercourse on marijuana. Frankly, the idea repelled him. Two dry mouths bumping at each other, trying to kiss, his selfconscious thoughts twisting around on themselves like a snake on a stick while he bucked and snorted dryly above her, his swollen eyes red and his face sagging so that its slack folds maybe touched, limply, the folds of her own loose sagging face is it sloshed back and forth on his pillow, its mouth working dryly. The thought was repellent. He decided he'd have her toss him what she'd promised to bring, and then would from a distance toss back to her the $1250 U.S. in large bills and tell her not to let the door hit her on the butt on the way out. He'd say ass instead of butt. He'd be so rude and unpleasant to her that the memory of his lack of basic decency and of her tight offended face would be a further disincentive ever, in the future, to risk calling her and repeating the course of action he had now committed himself to.

He had never been so anxious for the arrival of a woman he did not want to see. He remembered clearly the last woman he'd involved in his trying just one more vacation with dope and drawn blinds. The last woman had been something called an appropriation artist, which seemed to mean that she copied and embellished other art and then sold it through a prestigious Marlborough Street gallery. She had an artistic manifesto that involved radical feminist themes. He'd let her give him one of her smaller paintings, which covered half the wall over his bed and was of a famous film actress whose name he always had a hard time recalling and a less famous film actor, the two of them entwined in a scene from a well-known old film, a romantic scene, an embrace, copied from a film history textbook and much enlarged and made stilted, and with obscenities scrawled all over it in bright red letters. The last woman had been sexy but not pretty, as the woman he now didn't want to see but was waiting anxiously for was pretty in a faded withered Cambridge way that made her seem pretty but not sexy. The appropriation artist had been led to believe that he was a former speed addict, intravenous addiction to methamphetamine hydrochloride [1] is what he remembered telling that one, he had even described the awful taste of hydro-chloride in the addict's mouth immediately after injection, he had researched the subject carefully. She had been further led to believe that marijuana kept him from using the drug with which he really had a problem, and so that if he seemed anxious to get some once she'd offered to get him some it was only because he was heroically holding out against much darker deeper more addictive urges and he needed her to help him. He couldn't quite remember when or how she'd been given all these impressions. He had not sat down and outright bold-faced lied to her, it had been more of an impression he'd conveyed and nurtured and allowed to gather its own life and force.

[...] [DFW, Infinite Jest, 2c]

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जोकोविच ने सैम्प्रास की बराबरी की: छठे साल वर्ल्ड नंबर-1 रहने का रिकॉर्ड, नोवाक बोले- बचपन का सपना पूरा हुआ Hindi News Sports Novak Djokovic Equals Pete Sampras's Record Of Year end World No. 1 नई दिल्लीएक घंटा पहले

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जोकोविच ने सैम्प्रास की बराबरी की: छठे साल वर्ल्ड नंबर-1 रहने का रिकॉर्ड, नोवाक बोले- बचपन का सपना पूरा हुआ Hindi News Sports Novak Djokovic Equals Pete Sampras's Record Of Year end World No. 1 नई दिल्ली24 मिनट पहले

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Pete's tеnnіѕ саrееr bеgаn whеn hе wаѕ а сhіld, рlауіng іn hіѕ hоmе’ѕ bаѕеmеnt. Тhеn, hіѕ fаmіlу ѕіgnеd іn wіth thе Јасk Кrаmеr Теnnіѕ Сlub, whеrе Реtеr Fіѕсhеr mеt Реtе Ѕаmрrаѕ аnd thеn соасhеd hіm. He ѕtаrtеd hіѕ рrоfеѕѕіоnаl саrееr іn 1988, lоѕіng hіѕ fіrѕt gаmе іn thе U.Ѕ. Рrо Іndооr tо Ѕаmmу Gіаmmаlvа Јr. Іn thе ѕаmе ѕеаѕоn, hе dеfеаtеd Тіm Мауоttе, whо wаѕ rаnkеd 8th аt thаt tіmе, аnd Реtе fіnіѕhеd hіѕ fіrѕt ѕеаѕоn rаnkеd 97.

Іn 1990, he fіnіѕhеd thе ѕеаѕоn wіth а UЅ Ореn tіtlе, аnd hе wаѕ thе уоungеѕt mаlе еvеr tо wіn thе сhаmріоn, аnd thе Grаnd Ѕlаm Сuр, rаnkіng аѕ thе 5th bеѕt wоrld рlауеr. Іn 1993, He wаѕ thе wоrld’ѕ bеѕt рlауеr, аnd thе fіrѕt tеnnіѕ рlауеr tо ѕсоrе mоrе thаn 1,000 асеѕ іn 1 ѕеаѕоn.

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