CAMELOT FANTASIES

that is an unbelievable video.

I need to watch it again before I hit the sack later tonight.


he was simply unbelievable at the net and also off the ground.


i can understand the power he generated off his running forehand. the technique was near flawless and he was strong as hell.


i did not see any weakness off his backhand wing. he could go over the ball with spin.  or he could drive it with just sheer pace.

and he could slice it.

emma how would Federer have fared against peak Sampras on grass?



I was just looking at the video you posted. I see damn near no weakness in pete's game.

he was a machine built to destroy on grass and on hard courts.

affirmative.


pistol pete had it all.


he had incredible athletic ability as well. he moved around the court like the wind.

he also covered the net like a circus tent. nothing was allowed to get by.

Sampras also missed AO a couple of times and the year Tim fell sick, he couldn't win AO because he was too upset about it, though he later dedicated that win against Courier to Tim. Federer, on the other hand, I don't think ever missed a Slam either due to injuries or for personal reasons. He also has longer career than Sampras. He doesn't have the record as holding the No. 1 ranking for 6 straight years which is a gruesome deal itself and can take a lot of a player. Also, physically Sampras was a bit more compromised as he had a condition in his blood that wasn't ideal for slower surface and longer rallies.

Finally I rest my case with these.



Looks so easy and yet it's so accurate, deceptive, powerful and lethal. It had always his opponents guessing.

Finally I rest my case with these.



Looks so easy and yet it's so accurate, deceptive, powerful and lethal. It had always his opponents guessing.

good heavens. the elevation he gets on those jumps is ridiculous.


and evidently he did quite a few of these slam dunks.


too good.

his serve is out of this world.

no wonder lendl hired him to come to his house and hit him serves all day.

lendl knew that he needed to learn to return serve better in order to dominate the sport so he hired pistol pete help him achieve that.

well sometimes there is no way to control one's emotions as they may overflow and overwhelm you.

just guessing here as I am not really all that emotional on the average. but that is just me.

pete held so much inside that maybe he could not hold it anymore.

anyway I would have to agree about fed and pete on grass:

pete was too strong mentally and his serve was nearly unbreakable. he would have held his own against fed's weaker wing with his serve.

a decisive edge would have gone to pete in the tiebreakers on grass.

pete was also very sure of himself at the net. very confident and very adept at the net. so a slight edge to pete going forward.


lets say they are both at their peak on grass and they play 7 matches. and the grass is relatively fast:


I would have to give pete 5 matches and Federer 2.

herc, Pete found out just the night before that Tim had brain cancer and was going to die in a few months. That was some heavy information for Pete to take and he had no time to deal with it. He was on the verge of pulling out of AO that night but Tim encouraged him to play. Pete was struggling from the get go in that match against Courier and lost the first two sets in TBs. In the 3rd set he had slightly better handle on his emotion and broke Jim and went on to win the 3rd and 4th set. It's during the 5th set when a fan called out to Pete "do it for Tim, Pete!" that broke Pete down completely. All this time he had bottled it up but after hearing that, he wasn't able to control his emotion anymore. Tim meant a great deal to him. He was like his father, friend, coach everything to him. And it took Pete a while to deal with his death afterwards. If anything it showed that he had a great heart that was capable of great love and care for others.

Fans, especially obnoxious fans, are just a bunch of ignorant people who prefer to shoot their mouths off without being completely aware of the situation. If there's one thing true about Pete then it is by all means the fact that, he was never the person to ploy things against his opponents to get the momentum back just so that he can win. This is just one thing among many he was known for. He was competitive but never to the point that he'd make a pact with the devil.  He almost never complained about anything and very rarely he'd argue with the umpires. Fans who talk about him in this manner are the fans who have absolutely no idea about him and most of these comments are based pure hatred and jealousy.