Sampras vs Courier 1996 Men's quarter-final Full Match | Roland-Garros
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Really glad to see RG giving Sampras some love, highlighting one of his most heroic runs, even if he didn’t make the final. Wasn’t expecting this. And in general I’m glad they are giving attention to this period. The 90’s & early 2000’s French Open’s are really overlooked, it was a colorful period.
It's not really over looked, but this is a what have you do for me lately world.
what is RG??
airkuna Roland Garros, the place the event is held.
Best tennis period.
love Courier on mic at the end talking to himself “Wimbledon all over again; the guy’s in his grave and he’s serving bullets; 190mph bullets…” … just goes to show how good the Sampras serve was, and how frustrating it was for his opponents…
Sampras's serve never ceases to amaze. His smoothness generated so much power and accuracy. No stutter no waste of movement. Plus his toss was a great disguise. Just perfect. The Great Fed is right up there with him. Many great servers but Sampras's serve is a beauty to watch.
safin's was nice as well.
Pete was always so calm and focused on court. Amazing mentality, super skills and very beautiful player overall.
The perfection of Pete's movements always leaves me shocked
I hope all these classic Grand Slam matches that are being uploaded to these official channels STAY HERE after the pandemic
I think it would be silly if they did, especially if their uploads are monetized. If we lose this by them taking these down, so do they.
you can get Realplayer and record videos from RUclips.
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3:35:41 Jim Courier on match point ranting to himself lol: "it's fucking Wimbledon all over again. The guy is in his grave and serving bullets, 190mph bullets". And boom. Ace.
Been waiting for this absolute classic in such quality, I can't thank you guys enough from the bottom of my heart!
legends
I was always used to seeing Sampras play serve and volley at Wimbledon but seeing him here he was also a fantastic baseline player too.
A great performance from Sampras. Courier a shadow of the player that he was in the early 90s, especially mentally.
Especially against Sampras against whom he had a very bad record...he had some kinda inferiority complex against him...
@@jeremie2020 I think it was just a matter of Pete being better.
@@uncletony6210 yeah but he souldnt have so much problems against sampras on clay, courier had the game to overcome samprass in that, grass and fast court i get it would be 9/10 for Pete tho
@@diegosotomiranda4107 I think when Pete serves like that there's not much you can do (unless you can return like Andre, which Jim couldn't). In fact, I think Pete also beat clay-court champ Bruegera earlier this tournament. I think he beat Tommy Moo at RG before also.
Jérémie actually Sampras knew of couriers weakness which was his change of grip from his forehand to backhand. Sampras took great advantage of this
God I love the sound of PETE's forehand. That thing was a clubhammer, like Del Po's.
Pete tried hard in French Open from 1992-1994 and lost in quarter finals to Agassi,Brugera and Courier.Look at the pedigree of players he had to face in Paris,despite the fact his game was not suited to clay.He beat Brugera and Courier in 5 sets.He was leading in first set tie-break in SF and ran out of gas.He never made an effort after 1996.His H2H record against Kafelnikov was 11:2 and he lost the most important match in his life.It is ok that he made an attempt,beat 2 French open champions in 1996 and never won French Open.
He would not have been save in the final though, bc Michael Stich played like a magician in this tournament, kicked out the huge favourite for the title Thomas Muster before.
3 FO champions in a row. Muster was the defending champion!
Courier, Bruguera and Muster were the last three winners in RG.
Yes, Sampras has really tried hard. Thalassemia was partly the reason why he couldn't recover after exhausting games. He would deserve one title in RG. But this is a competition, a lot of players are very talented, work and try hard, and Stich deserved the title.
Is it just me or did these guys play much more attacking tennis than today's players, even on the clay? There are no endless interplays; as soon as there is a smallest possibility to attack, they go for it.
The 1990s players had a different mentality and approach. A bit less cautious and cagey than it ended up the last 10 years.
It’s because back then they didn’t have poly strings which give the player more margin for error, and makes it easier to hit passing shots.
The 1996 french open was incredibly fast due to the heat. It played more like a hardcourt. Sampras, stich and rosset made the semis
Don't forget you're watching Sampras and Courier 😉 they were fucking good
It’s because there weren’t that many great groundstrokes in the 90s. If you were Michael Stich or Kraijeck, would you rather be at the net or baseline???
The joys of commentary-free tennis.
I totally agree, Roland Garros have doen a tremendous job. Its like being at the matches and you make own decisions about how the match is going without being "guided" by a commentator.
You are so right !!!!
I prefer commentary nbc is best.
So true, most commentators are a disgrace except McEnroe
Sampras is one of the smoothest tennis players I ever saw
Well, you haven't seen me play then!
@@decimustv4257 hAAHAHA
Just before that last point, Jim said: “F*cken Wimbledon all over again, the guy’s in his grave & he’s f*cken serving bullets.” 😂😂
I never liked Courier , Pete was a much nicer guy on and off court
I can kind of understand Jim Courier. It was just sheer frustration on his part. He had lost close matches to Sampras so many times. Australian Open 1995 after leading by 2:0 sets as well and to Agassi at the Australian Open 1996 for example. And Sampras often looked dog-tired and still served many aces. Alex Corretja can tell you the same story (US Open 1996)...
@@MultiStar83 Yeah but Pete never faked. He had Thalassemia minor which severely limited his fitness. He threw up on court in the Corretja match. His ability to get up and serve aces was as much about survival as it was his clutchness. He didn't have a panic button.
@@farid1406 Okay, Pete probably did not fake, but he had a history against Jim Courier when he was not feeling good, but in the end blew Courier more or less from the court. I think it started at the 1992 US Open semifinal when at the end of the match he had a lot of trouble with dehydration or a virus (in a rather quick match on a cool evening). Then the story with his coach Tim Gullikson at the 1995 Australian Open where he came bake from 2 sets to 0 down to beat Courier and then here at the 1996 French Open quarterfinal. So, I can more or less understand that Courier was a bit frustrated, because that happened quick often against Sampras.
@@MultiStar83 Yeah, I can get that too. Again though I think the reason Pete would snap out of it and bomb aces was because he had to. He wasn't going to last very long if he kept trying to play long points or rallies with Jim. Blowing him off the court was the only option left.
This was 1 of Sampras' best matches. Clay was his worst surface and he rallied from 2 sets down to defeat a 2 time French Open champion.
@gehteuchnichtsan8306 Sampras' ground strokes were not consistent enough to carry him through 7 rounds of the French Open. There were too many clay court artists who could withstand Sampras' attacking style on clay.
@@seveglider8406 which is weird because one might assume he had one title in him at the French
@@ShamyTV5K The truth be told; there were too many clay court artists who could defeat Sampras on clay and it did not surprise me that he never won the French Open.
He had beaten another 2-time RG champion (Bruguera) in R2
@@retrofan2264 It doesn't change the fact that he never won the French Open!
Thank you for sharing this awesome match! The quality is amazing. Sampras was never that great on the Clay but this particular day coming back from 2 sets to love, He was AMAZING!
And to beat 2-Time French Open Champion on clay was a huge feat!
Wow! Both players using PS 85. Unlike today, pro rackets range to 98-100.
I don't know how you achieved in recording that sound, but you must bring it back. It is exquisite.
In this match, when either player had time to line up their forehand, it was often no chance for the other guy. They both hit their forehands extremely hard.
No sun protection then for the players at change-overs at Wimbledon or the French Open! Only at the Australian and US Open that was common. For the semifinal at the French Open that year 1996 I believe for the very first time they had umbrellas at change-overs, because it was 33 degrees of Celsius that day...
I remember 1996 french open ,the courts were quicker than normal , and Stich and Sampras & a few other serve and volley players doing well
Due to the hot and dry conditions
man, i love the 90s Nike pajama collection Sampras had. So Stylish especially for a player like him. I need to get these short he wore here. Such a class act Pete was. If hed only won the 96 RG...
I love the sound on this recording! Like the racquets have their own mics...can even here the strings click as they reset them
I was 11 years old, picked a random player to root for, it was Courier, I had tears in my eyes when he lost this match, but some time later became a big Sampras fan.
I appreciated them both.. Courier was always highly underrated.. dude was a fighter like Jimmy Connors was... I was always rooting for Sampras because he was my idol but nomatter who won the match.. the Fans won tickets to a great match.
I’ve always admired courier for his work ethic and fighting spirit. In some ways I felt it was more relatable than the superhuman talents of Sampras and Federer
Anyone who watches Roy Keane pontifcate on Sky Sports will know Roy will approve of Sampras and Courier's demeanour at the start of the match in the tunnel and the coin toss. Very serious, very tense, both want to win. Today's players like in other sports, much more friendly, much more smiley, not as much edge.
As a former Courier fan, I do remember this match of course, it was a painful one... Jim should have never lost it, especially on this surface, in his garden, and against his pet peeve, his best 'enemy'...:(
Do you remember the reason why Courier didn't give the handshake to the chair umpire at the end of the match?
@@ermattia he thought that the line judges were helping Sampras on critical points
@@coinrotator Thank you Mark
3:35:42 What does Courier say? I hear "it's f** Wimbledon all over again. The guy is in his grave and then he's serving bullets. 190 MPH bullets"(?) (And then Sampras just serves an ace and dispatches him)
Yup, complaining of gamesmanship from Pete. And I think he is right. On a few occasions Pete did hustle his opponents into thinking he was down for the count only to produce winners out of nowhere.
@@dramamur Yup.
@@dramamur Having watched Pete his whole career I really don’t think it was gamesmanship. The fact is his serving technique was so good he could serve bombs regardless of what physical state he was in. He often would serve like that when genuinely fatigued
Jim won RG twice
@@dramamur Pete did not want to be down TWO sets - he just dug deeper when needed
Sampras was very much a difficult match up for Courier, no matter the surface.
For courier and anyone else on the other side of that net. Pete has got to be top four all time I would think. If not better.
@@JK-vc7ie Krajicek, Ferreira had very good H2H against Sampras
In fact, Pete was very difficult match-up for a lot of guys
Solid case for the 4th best ever. It's a shame he didn't play longer
Fantastiques tous ces matches sans commentaires, ça vous change la vie.
That’s right. Kafelnikov was in the best shape back then. After destroying Sampras, he went on to dispatch Stich in three straight sets and won his first major Grand Slam. He was unstoppable then. I remember the French press called him “Kalashnikov.” It is sad that such great player like him ended up with only two slams.
I was sad Sampras lost, but I was happy for Kafelnikov. He was playing amazing tennis. When he beat Stich, I think Stich told him he must learn French so that he could speak to the crowd. Stich, like the rest of us, probably felt Kafelnikov would win many more French Opens.
@@jgamez5023 Sampras was my absolute favorite player but Yevgeny was like a machine out there... I had a TON of respect for him.. Stich also had one of the prettiest techniques ever... he was also underrated..
Kafelnikov didn't destroy Sampras; he even referenced the fact that Pete had been through multiple five-setters. Stop disrespecting such a great champion.
That was because kuerten was his nemesis he lost 3 times against him at roland garros
Was a huge Kafelnikov fan, back in the day..very very closely followed him..I remember a 1994 news article that nicknamed him Kalashnikov coz of his firepower and he sort of delivered.. He was very very talented,great backhand,smooth forehand, very good in baseline and very good volleyer but was bit of a mental midget..His duels with Kuerton and Agassi testify that.. Should have won the matches against Kuerton in FO but choked...
I wish Pete hit more sharp, short angle volleys in his career, especially at the French. The classical power style is great, but at a place that neuters power, the short angles really shine and would have helped him shorten points and maybe win a title.
he won a title, and was 1 of the best ..don't be silly
@@airkuna He never won the French Open which is what I was talking about.
Yes show pete sampras how to volley
@@warcraft-px5zq I'm one of the biggest Sampras fans around. I can also make a simple observation about his game.
He wasn't showing him how to volley, he was commenting about a change of tactics.
I remember this match, that was very hard for both players. But finally Sampras war a little bit more strong.
Sampras played a couple of five-setters including this one with Courier. That cost him semifinal loss to Kafelnikow. Before that semifinal he said “I was already tired before the match started. “ As a result of it he could keep up with Kafelnikow only one set, which he lost in tiebreaker. He just gave up the following ones losing them 6:0 and 6:1.
I think you downplay how good of a player Kafelnikov was, especially tactically. He participated in the French Open 11 times, and out of those 5 times when he reached the quarter final or better, he won the title once, and lost to the eventual champion the other 4 times.
Kafelnikov had a terrible head to head ratio against Pete, granted, but out of the two times he won against him (out of 13!), both were on clay in 1996, and the total head to head on clay ended up 2-2. So there was really no shame in losing to Kafelnikov on that day.
@@Apanblod tactically he was not that great.he attacked al most every ball and if he had a good day,he was able to win vs everybody.but on bad day ,he was useless and he lost to Nr.190 with 61 62.
@@thebigmonstaandy6644 I just don't agree. I definitely don't think he 'attacked almost every ball', and he possessed a huge variety of shots and had great tactical awareness.
You're right that he was uneven and inconsistent though, he could sometimes lose matches that he should have won in his sleep.
@@Apanblod he was one of the most agressiv players ever.Only Engvist was more aggro.if he would able to change sometimes his tactic ,he would be much better.that why he had no chance vs Hewitt : with Hewitt you need to go long rallys before you make winner.i am from Russia,but i dont like Kafel : he was not sympatic
In fact, Sampras lost to Kafelnikov in the 1996 Roland Garros semifinals 6-4, 6-0, 6-2
let just appreciate the fact of the quality in these videos ,realising we can watch it in better quality conditions than those who wacthed in 1996
3:35.40 - Courier caught on mic saying : "It's f****** Wimbledon all over again, the guy's in his grave and he's f****** serving bullets......190mph bullets" ............lmao
Courier was so unlucky he was up two sets in Aus 95 was up a break in the 4th set but still lost and after this fiasco he could never come back mentally again.
Oops. Lol.
LOL!!!
Ambiance de western... on a les coups de feu, manque que la musique ! Un bon souvenir de ma vie d'étudiant à Paris, en tout cas. J'avais dû m'absenter à 2 sets à rien pour Jim et je balisais grave pour Pete. Quelle joie de lire le lendemain dans l'Equipe qu'il s'en était tiré !
Moi j'étais dépité.....:(
@@jeremie2020 vous étiez fan de Jim alors ? Moi aussi je l'aimais bien, c'était un type super attachant. Mais je voulais tellement que Pete gagne son Roland cette année-là...
I thought this was very much like the McEnroe/Lendl final in 1984. The heavy ground-stroker vs. the serve & volleyer. Sampras had a much more devastating serve than Mac, though.
Before match point:
Courier: "The guy's in his fucking grave & he's serving bullets. 190 mph bullets".
Sampras: ACE.
😂
This is how to hit a low forehand volley, tennis lesson for the day 1:08:50
Yeah, so so easy to do. If your are Pete Sampras.
even on clay he still plays at volley....he got some b***s
Notes taken
Clearly pure talent, done with an old 85 racket .
They were wacking the ball pretty hard for 85 sq.in rackets
True story I found a Wilson 6.0 85 Pro Staff in a used sporting good store in Vancouver for $20.00. This racquet had the best sweet spot IMHO. That why a lot of pros played with it.
Federer used the same racket up until 2003
I have two 85s and they are brilliant - I call each 'Excalibur' :) I've added lead tape, like Sampras, because I wanted to make them even heavier :)
i had the samprass shorts and T-shirt... got them for my 14th birthday and wore them as much as possible on court ha ha
G.O.A.T OF TIME SERVE & VOLLEY
サンプラスのサーブは今の時代からしてもクオリティが凄い高い。
Watching this makes me want to drink Colombian coffee and play Super Tennis on Super Nintendo.
How would have Sampras done in today's game...2023 or any other time? Quite well thank you!
He wouldnt get the past the qf in today's era aggasi would fare much better
@@sharifs649 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@GGGinJe How many serve and volleyers are in the top 10 compared to baseliners today?
At 1:21.00, a Courier one-handed backhand cross-court pass! Classic technique! Maybe he should have used it more often....
Are you telling me that there is one guy whose only job is to call let? That is fantastic.
no let, but net!
@@airkuna still all the time , it sounds like let.
@@ediccartman7252 well definitely.. it's called a Let but all they are announcing is that the ball hit the net. then the linejudge would say "Out" if it wasn't a let. But yeah I get it.... Net and Let sound similar especially on the older recording equipment
I love the sound of Courriers forehand -awsome
Such great serve Pete Sampras
Courier fan , but Pete just had Jim’s number , most cases . Met Both guys in Person same day , Photos too 👍🏻
Courier, the 2 time RG champion "overplayed" in a few service game and that was too costly because Sampras served too well the entire match.
Go and watch the 92 US open quarter final between Agassi and Courier, thats the real Jim Courier, the true no1....unfortunately he played terrible against sampras in the semi's.
Courier shouldve won the 92 US Open, sampras wasnt the 94/95 version, and courier was able to deal with Edberg.
@@TheKwod no disrespect.. Courier is one of my all time favorite players of all time.. dude is often wildly underrated and underappreciated... but it wasn't that he played terrible against Sampras... Sampras was a horrible matchup for Courier... he says so himself... there were many many matches where they played and he was like "The 1st 2 sets were probably the absolute BEST tennis I was capable of.... You can be as mentally tough as you want......... you just can't handle that serve"
@@Eliath1984 I tried watching sampras vs courier us open semi 92 after watching aggy vs courier in the quarters.
I gave up watching cause courier was playing poorly, it wasn't sampras doing anything amazing, and remember that the sampras of 93 was a far better player than before.
2:56:46
Nice view for that rally!
Gives more relation to the impressive speed..
1:56:11 what a shot on break point.
It's called Sampras running forehand
@@srees9874 the best in tennis history, hands down
Agassi V Sampras 1992 French Open QF please
fantastic! could you upload also Boris Becker vs. Stefan Edberg 1989 SF? .... Serve and Volley at Roland Garros.... Yeah !!!
1:49:17 love how they simply ignore the linesman's bad call
Haha yah.
I* love.
This one was for Tim, just like the AO 95 semis. This FO should have been won by Pete. His dear friend died just 4 weeks prior to this match. But life is not a fairy tale sometimes.
We all love Sampras and God bless him and his family :-)
what is AO and FO?
are you kidding, he got destroyed next round 7-6, 6-0, 6-2
@@airkuna Australian open and French open respectively
Not good enough to win the French Open sadly.
Funny how Courier on the final point got frustrated with Sampras on a minor delay ... good thing he never played Nadal
Great Sampras' win on the worst surface for him but much respect to Courier for being such a warrior. I mean, the dude was just above average for Tennis talent but was top of the scale for determination, will and promptness to suffer on each damn point. Jim and Thomas (Muster) back then were in a Warrior League of their own, none of the two would have never accomplished anything in their Tennis career if they had Kyrgios or Fognini's attitude. Ciao!
Jim was a talented player. His inside out forehand is one of the 5-10 best in the open era. He wasn't on the Agassi/Sampras/Big 3 level of talent but I mean who is? He was much more talented than the Roddick and Hewitts of the world though.
I am used to do endurance sports such like mtb and running with continous effort. I wonder how good/bad can it be for the body to cut movement and sit down to rest.
2:08:44 is it fully continental grip or little western?
je peut vous donner quelques idées pour les matches en intégral si vous les possedez
Lendl-McEnroe de 84 (plus belle finale de l'histoire du tournoi a mon avis) Lendl-Wilander de 87 Wilander-Agassi 1/2F de 88 Becker-Perez Roldan 1/8 de F de 89 sur le court1 (je recherche ce match) Chang-Connors 3è tour de 91 Agassi-Becker 1/2F de 91 Leconte-Kulti 1/4F de 92 Muster-Agassi 2è tour de 94 Stich-Muster 1/8F de 96 Edberg-Chang de 96 j'arrête là car la liste serait trop longue ça serait sympa j'ai moi même quelques matches de Roland sur ma chaine youtube vous pouvez me contacter en mp si vous voulez
Moi je recherche Pecci Vilas quart 1979,Lendl Clerc demi 1981,Vilas Noah quart de finale 1982
3:24:22 What an amazing return.
The best serve ever - Pete Sampras
Exactly
Merci à vous pour cette diffusion fort plaisante une nouvelle fois ! Par hasard, la diffusion d'un match de Coria (comme contre Agassi 2003 ou Moya et non contre Gaudio 2004) ou de Rios vous serait-elle possible ? Merci à vous par avance :)
Can we get the First round match between Roger Federer and Patrick Rafter in 1999 if you have the footage? If im not mistaken its Federers 1st grand slam match plus any Rafter footage would be amazing because those volleys should be preserved
The classic match on for tomorrow. It’s a watch till the end.
22:15 "Hey, excuse, can you get me a wet towel ? You understand ?". Cool, didn't know Pete could say "excuse me" in french. 😂
A wet towel ? Maybe he wanted to towel whip Courier in the showers after the match.🤣
purée je l'avais completement oublié ce Jim Courier.....a quel moment il a disparu ?
This was the year when the extreme heat made it one of the fastest french opens in living memory.
...and alsobaggravated Pete's thalassemia condition, making his run to the semis by beating 2 former champions in 5 sets all the more legendary
fastest? how? also this match was 5 sets man...
airkuna he means the speed of the court
That year Marc Rosset played against Michael Stich in one Semi-Final, Sampras vs Kafelnikov in another. Clearly fast court players.
@@isvanmartinezcadavid8136Kafelnikov was a Clay specialist... dude had a great all around game but he was a grinder on clay..VERY underrated player
Hola amigos que tal, seria increíble que pudieran subir a su plataforma la final de Roland Garros de 1990 de Andres Gomez vs Andre Agassi, conmemorando que se cumplen 30 años de la hazaña del zurdo de oro ecuatoriano, ojala lo puedan hacer, como ecuatoriano estaría muy agradecido, de antemano muchas gracias, saludos.
3:18:20 Sampras backhand, 3:18:39 off forehand.
they each play the same racket - Wilson Pro Staff 6.0, 85 sq inch head
A have one. When you hit the sweet spot you feel like Pete Sampras/Jim Courier. Federer, Edberg and Mary Pierce used the same racquet. I wish Wilson would re issue it.
@@davidpayumo23 Federer later increased the string surface
I played with the pro staff original 85 for 20 years, still have five of them new
This was Pete's biggest win at Roland-Garros beating Jim who was rock solid on clay. You can see how spent Pete was as he suffered from Thalassemia which is a blood disorder not allowing his body to produce enough hemoglobin thus making him run out of gas faster than normal. If he had not had this condition I think he would have won the French at least once in his career and several more Grand Slams. Unfortunately this was the closet he came at the French. He got blown out by Kafelnikov in the Semis as he was spent after this match.
Ca fait un set et demi que courier ne passe pas plus qu'une seule première balle par jeu de service... son adversaire passe les 3/4 du match a renvoyer des 2nd balles... c'est normal ?
Mcenroe, Edberg, Sampras, Rafter - I always hoped ONE of them would win on this surface. Too bad.
Chang got it though... and that still makes me happy
El mejor de la historia.
je ne peux m empècher de trouver cette epoque fantastique; derniere decenie du xx eme siecle; j aime les etats unis, le rève et les sud américains
Que espectacular el sonido de los golpes de Sampras
Courier had a sailor's mouth during this match, lmao.
What do you mean?
@@ermattia He was yelling "fuck" on numerous occasions. It's surprising considering how eloquent he is as a commentator, but I guess it makes sense considering he was playing his rival in a grand slam QF.
@@kifinov1239 Plus I don't think he liked losing to PETE on clay, as it was well-known clay was Jim's best surface and Pete's worst.
@@farid1406 Exactly, i think Courir realized he is no elite anymore. In shape, Sampras couldnt have beaten Courir on clay.
@@farid1406 honestly Courier didn't like losing against ANYONE.... that's what we call Highly Competitive personality... Jimmy Connors was the same way.
Best attacking tennis on clay ❤
What happened to Jim Courier?
"Reprise"?
Meaning "time"?
yes reprise = time to play
2 grandes. Sampras no ganó R. Garros porque en esos años había especialistas en cada superficie de tenis y eran muy buenos. Ganarles a todos juntos era muy complicado. Hoy es muy diferente. Se juega igual en cualquier superficie. Los jugadores parecen máquinas y clones los unos de los otros. Federer la única excepción
Some serious hard hitting in a scorching sun on clay with those racquets..
Se quedó sin gasolina en semifinales!! Lamentablemente grande Pete leyenda
2:41:31 Petes forehand grip slowmo
Minor gripe : Is it 40-30 or 30-40 ? I don't know because RG forgot to display it alongside the sets and games boxscore. But, still, appreciate the full match historical matches like these.
The year Sampras did better at the French Open than at Wimbledon.
3:15:18 nice slow-mo of Sampras forehand return, short backswing.
What a terrible camera angle. Why can't they put cameras closer to the action?
3:27:02 Sampras Backhand topspin grip
just watching the slo mo of Sampras' serve and I see a lot of videos on here giving instructions on how to hit an effective serve or a particular type of serve and they all seem to focus on pronating, firstly isn't that something that happens to the arm naturally as part of the whole serving sequence? why give an individual something else to clog up their brains? The second thing isn't pronation something that happens with the feet?
Are you asking about Sampras' serve in particular? Or how to improve your own serve?
If you are talking about Sampras serve, what makes his serve unique is the ball toss, which he throws straight above his head or very slightly to the left. This means on his fast serve down the middle on the deuce court, he naturally imparts more spin than many of his opponents, making it more difficult to handle. On the ad court, Sampras stands close to the centre line, allowing him to bend the ball with slice down the middle away from the returner's forehand. In other words, if an opponent wants to consistently return that serve, they have to "cheat" by inching over that side anticipating the serve, they cannot get there from the normal standing position. That's why playing Sampras is a guessing game when he is serving, because with the same ball toss he can hit all six targets of the service box, and he can hit a kick serve without giving too much away in the ball toss. Sampras’ serve also jumps off the surface a lot, decreasing reaction time for the returner, due to the extra slice and topspin at pace.
Other than that, Sampras has a flexible shoulder and good knee bend. Pronation applies to the arm as far as I'm aware. John McEnroe once said Sampras hits the serve like an inside out forehand, he called it an inside out serve. Unless Sampras serves the body serve, the ball on both courts is always moving away from the returner, so I can see the “inside out” analogy.
Another thing to note Sampras starts off with much more of a side on motion like McEnroe, most pros and amateurs have a front on motion, they face the court more when they serve.
You can apply some of these principles to your serve, especially the ball toss above your head. A lot of amateurs and even some pros throw the ball to the right when serving, I wouldn't recommend that as can it make the serve inconsistent. Many top WTA players over the years have had tremendous problems tossing the ball to the right or too far to the right.
I like the side on motion but not everyone can do that so that is one aspect of the Sampras serve which is too technical for most amateurs and many pros.
Have a look at 1:08:52 watch how side on Sampras is when he serves, also, watch how Courier inches to the right, anticpating the serve down the middle before Sampras serves the ball, Courier knows he can only get there if he moves before Sampras serves the ball. Many serves down the middle today angle into the forehand, making it relatively easier for returners to deal with.
Never seen Sampras was so serious in clay court. He could have won 96 French open. But lost in semis.
I think he ate pizza the night before the semis, smh
He was cooked when he arrived in the semi. And they play early afternoon against Kafelnikov, at the warmest time of the day.
No he couldnt win the french open 1996. Thats why he lost in the semis
twain27 plus playing bruguera early on didn’t help , 5 sets
@@spirg WHY did it take Pete 5 sets to beat Bruguera? Wasn't he up 2 sets to love? *sigh*
they don't seem to like each other....am i wrong? especially at the very beginning when jimbo uses the stairs, not even a look to Petros...
What the hell did Courier say just before the match point ?
2:08:44 Sampras forehand grip
5:11 A perfect clay court point.
The way clay court tennis should be played LOL More seriously its always been possible to hit aces on clay.
You are so funny
Honestly, Roland Garros channel; did your admin even remember that today is your 12th Grandslam champion's birthday? I hope not