Wilander v Cash: 1988 Australian Open Men's Final Highlights
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2013
- Highlights from the Australian Open men's final in 1988 between Pat Cash and Mats Vilander. A memorable match that saw Cash the runner up for the second year running despite a valiant effort against Wilander.
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It was a great match and great start to tennis at the new tennis centre. I was lucky enough to be there in the crowd. Too bad Cash could not quite pull off the victory.
This was actually quite an effort by Wilander, considering he had lost so many important matches to Cash before (Wimbledon 1984, ´86, ´87 and US Open 1984 among them).
The point starting at 0:34 is very typical for the problems Cash had on these kind of surfaces, though: He just couldn´t put away his (first) volleys, and thus gave his opponents far too many opportunities. It cost him dearly at the US Open ´84, and also in this match.
fundhund62:
you seem to know your stuff.
i also noticed Cash didn't put away shots that should have been, too, in that clip. you're not going to beat the best in the world playing that way, no matter the surface or the era. if you're good enough, you can figure out a way to do it. for instance, when the surface is slow, you can drop. for fast surfaces, you can hit deep, etc.
it too bad Cash didn't pull it off at the Australian, although i was a Wilander fan.
i think Cash had a lot of success and probably a major or majors, too.
Masya Allah, amazing Wilander.
Wilander so similar to Djokovic now. They both knew they could out last pretty much anyone. Once it went to five sets they both pretty much knew they'd won.
Pat was suffering from the jack in this match 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great match. Probably the better player on the day lost though
Go Sweden!!!
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It is still a mystery for me why Mats fall so deep after 1988 and never won anything again, I mean lost Motivation and all .. sure but SUCH a deep fall for a 7 time GS Champion ?? not normal....
He got other interests, such as golf and music, hehe (later he said that tennis was the only thing he excelled at, which is why he didn't quit entirely until the 90s)
For him being world no 1 was a goal not an identity as John Mac said I was told in his book. Wilander lost motivation badly and he didn't have firepower in his game - his biggest strength was his mind and exceptional stamina and consistency. With this and brutal power coming into the game mainly Sampras Agassi courier, he had very less chance...but sad he lost also to many unknown players too. His style of play needs 100 PC mental focus which he didn't have after 1988..
Pretty normal, actually. Laver didn't win another major after his calendar year slam in 1969, and McEnroe never won another after the US Open in 1984.
I think it basically gets down to motivation, there is nothing to push him further because he had achieved mostly what he wanted to. For him to keep up with the power game coming through would require a lot of motivation to practice, develop defences and extend himself. Seemed like he didn't really care so much for it.
It wasn't unknown. Borg and McEnroe also had very sudden falls from the top too. In Borg and Wilander's case, their games were very physically and mentally draining and it took a lot out of them.
:D
Bout.
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Wow, compared to today's players, these guys look high schoolers.