it is in fact easy for him with that kind of serve. you could probably have a serve and volley career in the amateur circuit with his second serve alone demolishing everyone
Marcos Villavicencio He will probably at the end of the year.They said at the ATP World Tour that he played Hamburg,Halle and Stuttgart for the last time this year,he lost 3 years because of injuries
Haas has been on the pro circuit since 1996. Massive respect that he is still playing in 2017. He said he will play his favourite tournaments one last time this year and then retire (I think he will retire at the Us Open).
Nothing old about Sampras at 31 and nothing to do with medicine. The only difference is that top players these days have a better entourage to keep them motivated and fresh: coaches, cook, dietician, massage therapist, greater prize money, bigger sponsorship deals etc Sadly at 31 Sampras was burned out and wanted out to start a family.
He also had a genetic anaemia, you can see visible he swaps between looking like barely trying on some points, to as soon as sensing a weakness/opportunity putting in maximum effort and looking 10 years younger like at 19.55
This one bh of TH to make it 4 all in the 4th set would never have been a winner in today' s tennis. Sampras barely had to move. Yes it was deep close to the baseline but players these days are so much more adept to taking the ball early right after the bounce. Yes, Sampras served almost as good and accurate as Federer these days but there has always been the odd shot from the baseline that bounces high just behind the T and is not been changed into a winner in one of the corners.
Haha my friend I think you don't know nothing about tennis ,please don't compare the sampras server to federers its a sin!!backhand you can say that has much better,today players also stands 4 meters behind baseline,imagine Pete what he could do,the sad is that he didn't change his racket and strings was using,imagine the pace and his serve from 135 mhp sure to 145 what he could do!!!!destroy all to the fast courts..
4:01 This rally here and especially the forehand at 4:17 shows why Sampras would not really challenge Rafa, Fed and Nole in today's tennis. In his era maybe he would considering how poor was the game at that point, going only for serve and volleys with the super surface speed, but in today's baseline game I don't see this guy anywhere near top 4. Agassi however would do just fine today in 2017. He had the baseline game.
NLLeFa Rafa and Novak would be nowhere near the top of the game if they played in Pete's era, with faster courts, lighter balls, and heavier racquets. Try having Rafa generate his FH with a heavy Wilson pro staff 85 square inch racquet. In Pete's prime, he had the best running FH in the game, which was hard to do with such a heavy racquet. And with the faster courts, Rafa and Novak would not have their precious time to defend and keep making balls. And Pete was a very good baseliner. It's what separated him from the likes of Becker, Edberg, Stitch and McEnroe. He had that ability, to go along with his serve and volley play. That's why he owned winning records over the top baseliners like Agassi, Courier, and Chang. If courts were still fast and Sampras was in his prime, he'd definitely be near the top today, due to the fact that he could win with the serve and from the baseline.
You have a point, but you miss one big factor. Had the courts been as fast as in Pete era, Rafa and Novak would have adjusted to them. Big players can adjust to all type of conditions. Sampras failed however when it comes to clay courts. He was shit.
NLLeFa Highly doubt they adjust. Rafa can't adjust his FH. It has a big wind-up and requires time. Something that he wouldn't get lot of with balls skidding through. Not to mention, with both Novak and Rafa being rushed, they would probably give up a ton of short balls which would allow guys like Pete, Edberg, or Becker to get in and put away the point. And Pete could adjust. The fact was that clay actually played like clay, which was a polar opposite of faster conditions. Not to mention, he dealt with a wider variety of clay court specialists, like Bruguera and Kafelnikov, and even Courier. If Rafa and Novak had to deal with Wimbledon grass playing as fast as it did in the 90s, going against grass specialist like Krajicek, Ivanisevic and Rafter, it wouldn't matter how much they adjusted. Just like Pete isn't a natural clay courter, Rafa Novak aren't natural grass courters. Just look a Ivan Lendl. He worked tirelessly to adjust to the grass at Wimbledon, as he wasn't a natural grass-courter, and tried to come forward more. And he still kept falling short to grass-courter specialists like Edberg, Becker and Cash. Making the adjustment is not as easy you might think.
Not having much time to read all your comment, but using your own logic, Sampras wouldn't have adjusted his style to today's tennis so it's the same. Anyways Nadal>Sampras by some distance. Djokovic probably too. More complete players imo.
NLLeFa They're considered better players only because the courts mostly all play the same which mean they can get away with playing the same style of play at all the big events. Easy to be a better all around player when you can play the same way at Wimbledon that you play at RG. If court speeds differed and played really slow at RG and really fast at Wimbledon or like at this USO, they would not be considered better all around players. Only Fed would be competitive. He beat Pete at his own game on the fast Wimbledon grass in 2001, and he won his first Wimbledon coming to net repeatedly. And then in subsequent years, he managed to win Wimbledon from the baseline with the slowed down grass. And with Fed's game, much like with Pete and other players from that era, he's trying to win the point with aggressive play. He's not waiting for his opponent to lose the point in an endurance fest.
Have never seen Sampras loosing a overhead,plus his slums dunking were kind of a beauty
Huge Sampras fan! Glad he had his glory days.
Sampras is the best of all the time ♥️♥️
fact! the greatest champion
Awesome thanks for the upload
i honestly think Sampras was among the best ever (federer, nadal + Djoko). He just had a shorter career unsurprisingly.
Absolutely true story ! He's Serve , please!
Totally agree, what Sampras did up until age 31 wasn't much different than Federer, Djokovic, Nadal at age 31
Definitely would’ve gotten 20.
He's my favorite all time tennis player, but he never could win the French Open. So to me, he was not as good as Federer, Nadal, or Djokovic.
the overhead of sampras is great.
INCREIBLEEEEEEEEEEE♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Habéis dado con esto antes que con mi Instagram, tiene mérito! Buen finde.
2:41 Sampras hits something like a SABR
It’s too bad Sampras, retired here, he could have played so many more years
Sampras makes serve and volley look easy. As an 8 year tennis player I can verify............It IS NOT.
Kenneth Halsted that’s the difference between a pro and an amateur
almost no coaches can teach volley.
Monsta Andy volley is easy. Look up Oscar wegner on coachtube.com, he teaches volley technique really well
It helps to have the GOAT serve
it is in fact easy for him with that kind of serve. you could probably have a serve and volley career in the amateur circuit with his second serve alone demolishing everyone
Nice highlights, big Haas fan.
Shouldn't Haas retire in 2018?
Marcos Villavicencio He will probably at the end of the year.They said at the ATP World Tour that he played Hamburg,Halle and Stuttgart for the last time this year,he lost 3 years because of injuries
Haas has been on the pro circuit since 1996. Massive respect that he is still playing in 2017. He said he will play his favourite tournaments one last time this year and then retire (I think he will retire at the Us Open).
20:31 lol who said "yusss"
2:43 SABP: sneak attack by pete, more than a decade before it was cool
many players do that on those years! Agassi,Kafelnikov,Korda,Ríos,etc
I imagine if he thought his record was even going to be touched he would have hung around a couple more years.
Yeah he retired too early, he could have also been one of the best players of the 2000s
Brett S No way
I don't think that was part of his thinking. The losses we starting to be more frequent
Pete had some trouble with his back after 1999 ,it was obvious,he turned his game into Serve and Volley since
@@capricornmagic63 He lost all motivation after 2000, said it himself. Had there been somebody threathening his records, he might have played longer.
Sampras looks like that curly haired kid from Entourage!
Sampras played so old back then, like he was in his 40s. Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic all played younger than Pete here
Brett S It is not secret that medicine has improved a lot since then.
An old Sampras was good enough to win his last tournament Us Open
Nothing old about Sampras at 31 and nothing to do with medicine. The only difference is that top players these days have a better entourage to keep them motivated and fresh: coaches, cook, dietician, massage therapist, greater prize money, bigger sponsorship deals etc Sadly at 31 Sampras was burned out and wanted out to start a family.
He also had a genetic anaemia, you can see visible he swaps between looking like barely trying on some points, to as soon as sensing a weakness/opportunity putting in maximum effort and looking 10 years younger like at 19.55
This one bh of TH to make it 4 all in the 4th set would never have been a winner in today' s tennis. Sampras barely had to move. Yes it was deep close to the baseline but players these days are so much more adept to taking the ball early right after the bounce. Yes, Sampras served almost as good and accurate as Federer these days but there has always been the odd shot from the baseline that bounces high just behind the T and is not been changed into a winner in one of the corners.
your crazy Federer will never be as great and legendary as Sampras and most certainly doesn't have petes untouchable serve.
Haha my friend I think you don't know nothing about tennis ,please don't compare the sampras server to federers its a sin!!backhand you can say that has much better,today players also stands 4 meters behind baseline,imagine Pete what he could do,the sad is that he didn't change his racket and strings was using,imagine the pace and his serve from 135 mhp sure to 145 what he could do!!!!destroy all to the fast courts..
Please take your meds before writing. It would save everybody the nonsense.
Sampras played like an old man
Lol
Yes he did here. Conditions where hot and super humid. Still managed to win the match though. And the tournament.
4:01 This rally here and especially the forehand at 4:17 shows why Sampras would not really challenge Rafa, Fed and Nole in today's tennis. In his era maybe he would considering how poor was the game at that point, going only for serve and volleys with the super surface speed, but in today's baseline game I don't see this guy anywhere near top 4. Agassi however would do just fine today in 2017. He had the baseline game.
NLLeFa Rafa and Novak would be nowhere near the top of the game if they played in Pete's era, with faster courts, lighter balls, and heavier racquets. Try having Rafa generate his FH with a heavy Wilson pro staff 85 square inch racquet. In Pete's prime, he had the best running FH in the game, which was hard to do with such a heavy racquet. And with the faster courts, Rafa and Novak would not have their precious time to defend and keep making balls. And Pete was a very good baseliner. It's what separated him from the likes of Becker, Edberg, Stitch and McEnroe. He had that ability, to go along with his serve and volley play. That's why he owned winning records over the top baseliners like Agassi, Courier, and Chang. If courts were still fast and Sampras was in his prime, he'd definitely be near the top today, due to the fact that he could win with the serve and from the baseline.
You have a point, but you miss one big factor. Had the courts been as fast as in Pete era, Rafa and Novak would have adjusted to them. Big players can adjust to all type of conditions. Sampras failed however when it comes to clay courts. He was shit.
NLLeFa Highly doubt they adjust. Rafa can't adjust his FH. It has a big wind-up and requires time. Something that he wouldn't get lot of with balls skidding through. Not to mention, with both Novak and Rafa being rushed, they would probably give up a ton of short balls which would allow guys like Pete, Edberg, or Becker to get in and put away the point. And Pete could adjust. The fact was that clay actually played like clay, which was a polar opposite of faster conditions. Not to mention, he dealt with a wider variety of clay court specialists, like Bruguera and Kafelnikov, and even Courier. If Rafa and Novak had to deal with Wimbledon grass playing as fast as it did in the 90s, going against grass specialist like Krajicek, Ivanisevic and Rafter, it wouldn't matter how much they adjusted. Just like Pete isn't a natural clay courter, Rafa Novak aren't natural grass courters. Just look a Ivan Lendl. He worked tirelessly to adjust to the grass at Wimbledon, as he wasn't a natural grass-courter, and tried to come forward more. And he still kept falling short to grass-courter specialists like Edberg, Becker and Cash. Making the adjustment is not as easy you might think.
Not having much time to read all your comment, but using your own logic, Sampras wouldn't have adjusted his style to today's tennis so it's the same. Anyways Nadal>Sampras by some distance. Djokovic probably too. More complete players imo.
NLLeFa They're considered better players only because the courts mostly all play the same which mean they can get away with playing the same style of play at all the big events. Easy to be a better all around player when you can play the same way at Wimbledon that you play at RG. If court speeds differed and played really slow at RG and really fast at Wimbledon or like at this USO, they would not be considered better all around players.
Only Fed would be competitive. He beat Pete at his own game on the fast Wimbledon grass in 2001, and he won his first Wimbledon coming to net repeatedly. And then in subsequent years, he managed to win Wimbledon from the baseline with the slowed down grass. And with Fed's game, much like with Pete and other players from that era, he's trying to win the point with aggressive play. He's not waiting for his opponent to lose the point in an endurance fest.