[Volcana]

Let's suppose there's a tennis Hall of Fame.<br />Let's suppose it has a 'Pantheon' room, with only the greatest of the great. In order for another player to get in, one has to go.

Who gets in?

My picks

Court<br />Graf<br />Navratilova<br />Moody

Which means I left out

Evert<br />King<br />Connolly<br />Seles and<br />Lenglen

All of whom an arguement could be made for.<br />What say you?

 

[Rollo]

I'll bite at the bait. Only 4? My "mega-goddesses" would be

1. Wills(Moody)
2. Graf
3. Navratilova
4. Evert
5. Lenglen
6. Court

If you limit me to 4-I'd stick with your list because it has balance, with 2 baseliners(Wills-Graf) and 2 who could play serve-volley(Court-Navratilova), plus diversity of nations, if you think of Martina as a Czech.

King , Seles, and Connolly would be goddeses in my tennis "pantheon", with Hingis types a minor deity!

Those beyond the top 6 are never talked about as the VERY best of all time-except for Mo Connolly, because she won a grand slam in 1953.

BTW Volcana, your "Overrated top 10" post was pretty funny



November 19, 2001: Message edited by: Rollo

 

[Volcana]

King vs Lenglen - Just on tennis ability. Who's better?

 

[Rollo]

Tough one-so I'll hedge. King on Center Court, Wimbledon(Lenglen never had to face serve-volley) and Lenglen in front of French fans on clay. Lots of fireworks from both on court!

What do you think?

 

[disposablehero]

King vs Lenglen - Just on tennis ability. Who's better?

Lenglen. She drank during changeovers and was as mentally fragile as they come. But she lost about once in 6-7 years. King had great tennis ability, but also had the edge of being mentally tough.

 

[Ballbuster]

This is obviously an old farts thread.

I'll take a bow.

 

[disposablehero]

Actually, it WAS an old farts thread. Now we are all a couple years older so it is a really old farts thread.

 

[Ballbuster]

Actually, it WAS an old farts thread. Now we are all a couple years older so it is a really old farts thread.

You're so childish......to be a veteran.