CAMELOT FANTASIES

Kafelnikov was an amazing player. I think he is one of the few to have won both the singles and doubles at RG. not an easy feat since RG is so grueling.


pete was from another league on quicker courts. he did not just beat them. he destroyed them.

of course he was just invincible on grass. his serve is the best of all time.

Kafelnikov was also the one who took out my Pete from RG semi in 1996. That hurt deeply. I really think if Pete were fresh by the time he met with Yevgeny and didn't have to play 3 five setters just to get to the semi, he would have beaten Yevgeny too. And later Stich in the final. Though I must tell you, Stich was one of the two guys who held the H2H against Sampras though by a narrow margin but still. It was a very tough draw for anyone to face and Pete was unlucky in the sense that the draw panned out exactly the way it looked initially. That was a loss that took me weeks to recover. And just add the loss at Wimbledon in the same year to Krajicek. It was just awful. Pete went on to win the USO though and retained his No. 1 ranking so in retrospect, it wasn't too shabby but very hurtful nonetheless.