re: Face it Federer is the GOAT

Thought he was 40 at the time. My mistake. Still pretty impressive when you think about it considering Jimbo was destroying his peers such as Rosewall. Laver was past his prime at that point.

As for Roscoe Tanner, he had a huge serve. Its also a little relative. He was making those big serves with wood racquets and Borg had to return them with a wood racquet. I'm not going to compare him to Sampras, but only mention him to point out Borg could handle a guy with a huge serve.

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And how many French's did Pete win? At least Borg made the open finals four times. Lost to Connors twice and then McEnroe twice. That is what it took to beat Borg. No losing in first few rounds because it wasn't your favorite surface.

Take away those improved racquets and I doubt Sampras fares as well. He did have a very good one-handed backhand that allowed him to place shots. Tanner was a one tricker as was Goran.