Too many players get into the Hall of Fame
There should be a special room for a STRICTLY limited number of uber-influential players. The eight most accomplised, most game changing, most influential players, most important are get in. To get in another one, someone has to drop.
Sure eight is a low number, but I'm deliberately trying to insure that ONLY the players who HAVE to mentioned to cover tennis history are in that room.
So here are my 'gotta haves' moving forward in time.
Wills Moody
Lenglen
Gibson
Court
King
Evert
Navratilova
Graf
Of course, you immediately get people screaming Seles, Connolly, Goolagong, Bueno but hey, styles make fights. The only player on that list you can't say is ESSENTIAL to covering tennis history is Steffi. Of course, the 22 GS titles argues in her favor, being such an extreme total.
There should be a special room for a STRICTLY limited number of uber-influential players. The eight most accomplised, most game changing, most influential players, most important are get in. To get in another one, someone has to drop.
Sure eight is a low number, but I'm deliberately trying to insure that ONLY the players who HAVE to mentioned to cover tennis history are in that room.
So here are my 'gotta haves' moving forward in time.
Wills Moody
Lenglen
Gibson
Court
King
Evert
Navratilova
Graf
Of course, you immediately get people screaming Seles, Connolly, Goolagong, Bueno but hey, styles make fights. The only player on that list you can't say is ESSENTIAL to covering tennis history is Steffi. Of course, the 22 GS titles argues in her favor, being such an extreme total.