Il avait perdu contre Vilas en finale. Je l'avais vu en 1979 contre Borg lors de la coupe Davis. Il a commencé à être connu en 1980. Il avait "pulvérisé" Solomon 6/1-6/0-6/0 lors de l'US open. Il avait battu Mc Enroe en coupe Davis et Borg à Bâle.
Mats Wilander, Stefan Edberg, Pat Cash, and Boris Becker gave him hard times in Grand Slams. Connors and Borg earlier on. McEnroe, during his transition from Champion, has potential to super champion.
Great player with great work ethic. Sampras trained with him and was influenced by him. He made Andy Murray into a better player and encouraged Murray to go for winners instead of playing not to lose tennis. Underrated compared to McEnroe and Becker- but after his French Open comeback win, he spanked McEnroe consistently. IMHO Lendl would still compete at a high level against today’s players using better equipment and modern training methods, whereas McEnroe would be relegated to doubles and unable to play singles in today’s era.
Def the player I liked most growing up...I started in 1980 so caught tail end of Bjorn....But Lendl was my guy growing up....very misunderstood person Ivan is....Great sense of humor...VERY intelligent.....Nice video....except for the mispronouncing of Wilander
Slavic hatred in tennis is real . Look at Djokovic. Look at how you feel about the Ukrainian players. The proud slav has always dominated tennis but rarely gotten credit during their career .
Beside tennis which he is the best ever at, Djokovic is just another ignorant redneck in most other arenas of life. Ironically it was medicine which he knows nothing about that saved his career, when he was diagnosed celiac disease after which he adjusted his diet and went on to become the best ever. Ignorance and arrogance in is just as prevalent in Slavic culture as anywhere else
maybe because of the sour dour attitude mixed with a self-confidence that goes over the border of arrogance? Certainly with Lendl that was the case (!). I like Djokovic and his composure on court but contrary to Lendl's court demeanor.. you could also argue that he (Djokovic) is very much fishing for the kind of appreciation that somehow came natural to Federer and Nadal. Also, earlier in his career he threw too many matches to make health issues a credible reason. Such a thing doesn't sit well with other players (Roddick in particular being vocal about it) and the public alike simply doesn't forget such developments. Perhaps it's a slavic thing to rationalize the consequential dynamic ('Nadal Federer being more popular, getting better results - at the time - and out of what sounds like an inferiority complex, point fingers to others and speak of "slavic hatred". I don't think Djokovic expresses himself in these terms but his fans clearly do. What you wrote about "the proud slav rarely getting credit during their career" speaks volumes in that regard; it sounds stupid because it's simply not true. Having said that, I think Djokovic - compared to Federer and Nadal - is underappreciated for his playing in general, what he has achieved (!) and for the great ambassador of the sport that he is. He is a likeable down to earth guy with an incredibly competitive mindset who is unarguably the goat of tennis (!) I'm sure he has a lot of great tennis in him still and I'm sure a lot of tennis fans world wide are looking forward to see him play/win 😀
As a lifelong fan, I think the video is pretty accurate regarding how Ivan was perceived and portrayed, even saying or implying that it was largely unfair.
Top 8 greatest of all time. Never got the recognition he deserved! Loved watching this man play!
My favorite all time. Love his focus and stoicism.
Ivan the greatest of all time
Ivan never got the attention and appreciation he deserved but always was a professional.
I remember Ivan playing the Kneissl Whitestar in Kitzbühel in the late 70ies - he was so young, so good!
Really? Wow, great memory! 👍🏻 Did you see the match live? Thanks for commenting
Il avait perdu contre Vilas en finale.
Je l'avais vu en 1979 contre Borg lors de la coupe Davis.
Il a commencé à être connu
en 1980.
Il avait "pulvérisé" Solomon
6/1-6/0-6/0 lors de l'US open.
Il avait battu Mc Enroe en coupe Davis et Borg à Bâle.
Eterno numero 1
Why-Lander?!?! And I thought I knew all the big players of the 1980's but there is always one elusive one :)
Mats Wilander, Stefan Edberg, Pat Cash, and Boris Becker gave him hard times in Grand Slams. Connors and Borg earlier on. McEnroe, during his transition from Champion, has potential to super champion.
The Brilliant no one become his place The great 👍🏼 player IVAN
Great player with great work ethic. Sampras trained with him and was influenced by him. He made Andy Murray into a better player and encouraged Murray to go for winners instead of playing not to lose tennis. Underrated compared to McEnroe and Becker- but after his French Open comeback win, he spanked McEnroe consistently. IMHO Lendl would still compete at a high level against today’s players using better equipment and modern training methods, whereas McEnroe would be relegated to doubles and unable to play singles in today’s era.
Interesting 🤔. Great points. Thanks for your comments
I remember on the cover of Sports Illustrated they called him "The Champion no one cares about". I found this sad.
How wrong they were. Lendl today is considered “the grandfather of modern tennis”.
Yes, they were wrong. @@hymansahak181
I actually wanted John McEnroe to win against Ivan Lendl at the 1984 Rolland Garros. @@hymansahak181
Ivan is pronounced iván not aivan… Wilander is pronounced vilandr not wailander…
Def the player I liked most growing up...I started in 1980 so caught tail end of Bjorn....But Lendl was my guy growing up....very misunderstood person Ivan is....Great sense of humor...VERY intelligent.....Nice video....except for the mispronouncing of Wilander
0:18 "giant lumbering strides".
That's not very nice! Accurate, though. 😅
It would help if you pronounced it i-VAHN.
Vee-lahnder. TF is wrong with you?!
2:57 Spell check Rolland Garros please not Ronald Garros. Craving Le Big Mac or Royale With Cheese are we?
Funny that you tell people they spell something incorrectly while spelling it incorrectly yourself. It is 'Roland" with one "l", not "Rolland".
he had to wotk 8 hours a day for that what Johnny McEnroe was born with. My mother adored him.
Slavic hatred in tennis is real . Look at Djokovic. Look at how you feel about the Ukrainian players. The proud slav has always dominated tennis but rarely gotten credit during their career .
Beside tennis which he is the best ever at, Djokovic is just another ignorant redneck in most other arenas of life. Ironically it was medicine which he knows nothing about that saved his career, when he was diagnosed celiac disease after which he adjusted his diet and went on to become the best ever. Ignorance and arrogance in is just as prevalent in Slavic culture as anywhere else
maybe because of the sour dour attitude mixed with a self-confidence that goes over the border of arrogance? Certainly with Lendl that was the case (!).
I like Djokovic and his composure on court but contrary to Lendl's court demeanor.. you could also argue that he (Djokovic) is very much fishing for the kind of appreciation that somehow came natural to Federer and Nadal. Also, earlier in his career he threw too many matches to make health issues a credible reason. Such a thing doesn't sit well with other players (Roddick in particular being vocal about it) and the public alike simply doesn't forget such developments.
Perhaps it's a slavic thing to rationalize the consequential dynamic ('Nadal Federer being more popular, getting better results - at the time - and out of what sounds like an inferiority complex, point fingers to others and speak of "slavic hatred". I don't think Djokovic expresses himself in these terms but his fans clearly do. What you wrote about "the proud slav rarely getting credit during their career" speaks volumes in that regard; it sounds stupid because it's simply not true.
Having said that, I think Djokovic - compared to Federer and Nadal - is underappreciated for his playing in general, what he has achieved (!) and for the great ambassador of the sport that he is. He is a likeable down to earth guy with an incredibly competitive mindset who is unarguably the goat of tennis (!) I'm sure he has a lot of great tennis in him still and I'm sure a lot of tennis fans world wide are looking forward to see him play/win 😀
You mispronounce his name in the very first sentence. WTF?
Whylander? I believe it is pronounced Vi Lander
This video is ridicolous: it tends to make Lendl appear like a player with no talent and skills at all, and this is bullshit!
As a lifelong fan, I think the video is pretty accurate regarding how Ivan was perceived and portrayed, even saying or implying that it was largely unfair.