@@thebigmonstaandy6644 There's no one perfect way to serve. It was a bloody good service motion, and IMO one of the more aesthetically pleasing motions out there. I wouldnt call it a break at the top, just a slight hesitation. Regardless at this point of his career, he was way too slow to compete at the top level after multiple knee problems (not that he was ever a gazelle). His only hope here would have been to serve perfect and somehow get lucky with a Nadal lapse in concentration
@@thebigmonstaandy6644 Well, Id take his motion. Not going to argue the names you mention aren't better motions. But he was a top 5 server most of his career with a lot of injuries. He's on the list of top 15-20 servers all time which is not too shabby. If i had the ability to take any motion, of course I'd take Pete's but id happily settle for Mark's. Krajicek also had a great motion...simple and direct. Didnt hurt that he was 6' 5" either. I think Goran's was also just as great as Kyrgios, but he really mentally struggled on the second serve at times...got too tight. Of course I could say that about his whole game.
Mark seems to be getting wrong-footed far too often in this match. But any weak backhand slice was just immediately pounced on by Nadal. Mark’s serve is on a whole other level compared to Nadal’s though. Definitely top 10 all-time in terms of technique and power.
I think a healthy flipper actually would've owned nadal more than not. He was one of the few pretty consist powerful guys and nadal frequently had trouble handling some of the biggest of the big hitters. The ones that can slam back running forehands at 82 mph
Despite being old, damaged and relatively unpracticed in this match compared to his competitor, Phillipoussis play by all measure a far superior match than Nadal. Not only did he serve vastly better, his ground strokes and volley’s were all at a higher level, not to mention the vastly more difficult to use one handed topspin backhand. Nadal by all accounts misshit nearly 50% of his shots and yet they kept dropping in. This was really the major turning point in tennis, where technology in the form of racquet design and string spin became a far more important component in the game than should have been allowed, as well as the two handed backhand. While Rafa was very solid athlete, he proved this to be true by having the career he did with essentially two shots, heavy top spin forehand and backhand. Suddenly 80 of the game wasn’t necessary.
@@seruresto1386 Yes. Mistah AC has no clue what he's talking about. To put it in perspective, this was a year Flipper was attempting to make a comeback...he played a bunch of challengers...in fact coming into the USO, his warmup had been a challenger, and he made the final before withdrawing - though he lost sets even in the challenger. He was ranked around 120 in the world for this match.....after this he would lose in the first round of a couple tournies...including to a guy ranked in the 300's. He was playing OK, but this wasn't the same player AT ALL who once was contending for slams. LOL.
Man Philippoussis Wimbledon 2003 was another player from this one.He was injured and at the end of his career in 2006,while in 2003 was one of the best grass players
@@HIMYMTR it's not like he wasn't already incredible, the difference was beefing up the serve It also fairly clearly shows his H2H against Federer is a matchup issue above anything else, considering at this point he was regularly beating him while losing soundly to people Fed demolished
Philippoussis' service motion was picture perfect!
He had break in trophy position.
This is not a perfect serve.
@@thebigmonstaandy6644 There's no one perfect way to serve. It was a bloody good service motion, and IMO one of the more aesthetically pleasing motions out there. I wouldnt call it a break at the top, just a slight hesitation. Regardless at this point of his career, he was way too slow to compete at the top level after multiple knee problems (not that he was ever a gazelle). His only hope here would have been to serve perfect and somehow get lucky with a Nadal lapse in concentration
@@Skiiiiiifreeeeeee Kyrgius,Sampras,Pancho Gonzalez,Rod Laver have perfect serve. But not Philipouses .
@@thebigmonstaandy6644 Well, Id take his motion. Not going to argue the names you mention aren't better motions. But he was a top 5 server most of his career with a lot of injuries. He's on the list of top 15-20 servers all time which is not too shabby. If i had the ability to take any motion, of course I'd take Pete's but id happily settle for Mark's. Krajicek also had a great motion...simple and direct. Didnt hurt that he was 6' 5" either. I think Goran's was also just as great as Kyrgios, but he really mentally struggled on the second serve at times...got too tight. Of course I could say that about his whole game.
@@Skiiiiiifreeeeeee you should see 1st serve % of this tennis players.than you would recognize who has better motion
Ah, young Rafael Nadal, such promise! I love seeing his early matches. Not too much of a crowd at first. He packs them in now 😊.
Mark seems to be getting wrong-footed far too often in this match. But any weak backhand slice was just immediately pounced on by Nadal.
Mark’s serve is on a whole other level compared to Nadal’s though. Definitely top 10 all-time in terms of technique and power.
1 minute Two straight aces
5 aces in a quick period of time
I think a healthy flipper actually would've owned nadal more than not. He was one of the few pretty consist powerful guys and nadal frequently had trouble handling some of the biggest of the big hitters. The ones that can slam back running forehands at 82 mph
13 aces
11 aces so far
Despite being old, damaged and relatively unpracticed in this match compared to his competitor, Phillipoussis play by all measure a far superior match than Nadal. Not only did he serve vastly better, his ground strokes and volley’s were all at a higher level, not to mention the vastly more difficult to use one handed topspin backhand. Nadal by all accounts misshit nearly 50% of his shots and yet they kept dropping in.
This was really the major turning point in tennis, where technology in the form of racquet design and string spin became a far more important component in the game than should have been allowed, as well as the two handed backhand. While Rafa was very solid athlete, he proved this to be true by having the career he did with essentially two shots, heavy top spin forehand and backhand. Suddenly 80 of the game wasn’t necessary.
Half this video are aces
More aces than rallies
5 aces in a row
Pls Federer vs Wang and henman same tournament
Philippoussis played great here but he just didn't have the mobility to beat someone like Nadal anymore
??? Historically Nadal has always been extremely vulnerable to someone with a power game on anything but clay.
@@seruresto1386 Yes. Mistah AC has no clue what he's talking about. To put it in perspective, this was a year Flipper was attempting to make a comeback...he played a bunch of challengers...in fact coming into the USO, his warmup had been a challenger, and he made the final before withdrawing - though he lost sets even in the challenger. He was ranked around 120 in the world for this match.....after this he would lose in the first round of a couple tournies...including to a guy ranked in the 300's. He was playing OK, but this wasn't the same player AT ALL who once was contending for slams. LOL.
Jaja 😂he did not played great here! He was semiretired
Philippoussis totally lost his mobility with time
Aces arent highlighta
Make your own highlights video or watch the wooden racquet days numnuts
@@TheThetechnician that answer won’t help u
It won’t change the fact about your video
Aces don’t count
You need help,
Is everything okay
Yes, aces are highlighta
This is Federer's competition in the weak era, dominated by a 20 year old kid, on a fast hard court
To be fair, this was not prime Philippoussis. He was completely wrecked by injuries at this point.
Man Philippoussis Wimbledon 2003 was another player from this one.He was injured and at the end of his career in 2006,while in 2003 was one of the best grass players
rafa was a 2x grand slam champ at this point, he was no slouch
didn't stop him getting smoked by mikhail friggin' youzhny here though lmaooo
@@anonymousLeroy on clay* he was still developing on hard courts
@@HIMYMTR it's not like he wasn't already incredible, the difference was beefing up the serve
It also fairly clearly shows his H2H against Federer is a matchup issue above anything else, considering at this point he was regularly beating him while losing soundly to people Fed demolished