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Originally Posted by thaskalos
I've been a tennis fan since high school...and my all-time favorite player is Ivan Lendl. His serve, his groundstrokes...he had it all. They had to invent the net-game in order to beat him.
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Lendl has turned into a pretty good coach as well. Taking Murray's game into winning Wimbledon twice. Very mercurial player and coach. My favorite player goes WAY back to Ken Rosewall, just played a soft defensive game to frustrate his opponents. Not sure that would work with the big hitters of the last 20 years. At one point in a major, Rosewall was down two sets and match point to Stan Smith in Wimbledon semi's and came back to win. Guy was relentless, and still ranked #2 at 40.