Henri Leconte vs Boris Becker Roland Garros 1988 4th round PART 5
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Great match between old friends Leconte and Becker! Finally I was able to upload more of this wonderful match (look for Parts 1 - 4 on my channel). Enjoy!
Je trouve que Leconte a le plus beau jeu du tennis français, il était très redouté par les meilleurs, il a un beau palmarès mais avec un meilleur mental il aurait gagné des grands Chelems.
un peu grass?
Henri was always fun to watch. epitomized French flair.
Thank you sweet memories
Le service de Becker Boum boum puissance gigantesque 👍👍👍. Dany 53 ans
Mecir Leconte Nalbandian
Trois styles différents
trois des plus grands talents connus
Qui battaient à la régulière les meilleurs joueurs de leur époque
Ils n ont pas gagné de grand slam .. Et alors
Ils jouaient un tennis exceptionnel
L un endormi miroslav
L autre bondissant Henri
Et un peu enrobé David
Le mangeur de pizza
Ils avaient en commun
Quelque chose
Une main et un oeil exceptionnels !
Pour les rabats joie traitant
De loser Henri Leconte
Bcp de joueurs auraient aime avoir son génie de la loose !!
Demandez à Mc enroe
Ce qu il pense de Leconte
J adore ces joueurs love tennis
Je pourrais en parler pdt des heures
2 great players. The four most fluent, beautiful and efficient serves in tennis are these two and Stich and Sampras.
I do not really know why Sampras' serve is often referred to as being very fluent. I would not really say so, because he turned his left foot to the right when serving and as a result he stood almost parallel to the baseline when making contact with the ball. This is a quite complicated move in my view. Michael Stich's service motion was indeed very fluent and he stood more head-on to the net than Pete Sampras. Italian Omar Camporese also had a very smooth and simple service motion, which is my favourite motion in fact.
What about Jay Berger and Courier?
@@MultiStar83
Sampras' serve had very little upper body movement in my view. Certainly efficient. His second serve was incredible. Almost indistinguishable from his first.
Leconte looked like McEnroe out there with those lefty delightful volleys. Watching a contest like this makes you wonder what went wrong with modern tennis, why can't guys with good hands/instincts/esthetics make it on tour instead of the one dimensional robots of the baseline
Part of the problem is that no one encourages personal style today. Back in the day, people like Edberg and McEnroe were "allowed" to play in their very own, distinct way.. but today, if you refuse to adopt the almighty semi-western forehand, 90% of club trainers will kick you to the curb.
Plus, it is all about results and percentages today. If you can make more money playing a boring one-dimensional baseline game, that´s what parents/ coaches will teach you to do.
No one cares about tennis being an artfrom, which can be mastered and developed, anymore.
That´s why a guy like Djokovic frequently gets mentioned as a GOAT contender, yet his volleying technique is not remotely as good as that of almost any top 100 player of the 1980s (Jelen, Mayotte, McNamara, Gehring, Warwick, Stewart, Eberhard.. you name it!)
Also slower bounce of balls nowadays help baseliners set, get ready and be in position for their passing shots.
Calling that one BS. The strings of today allow players to hit the ball with more spin and hence pace. If you approach the net today with your opponent on anything other than a defensive block, you're toast.
I like the athleticism of today's game. I enjoyed the mix of a base liner vs serve volleyer. But two serve volley players is brain damage...have a rewatch of Pete v Fed at Wimbledon...its risible.
Answer in two words: polyester strings
@@FoobsTon “risible”?
you’re a snob and a goon. Federer vs Sampras was a sublime match.
Leconte était capable de battre n’importe qui , c’était un instinctif ce qui lui a paradoxalement posé aussi des problèmes dans sa régularité
comments from Michel Drey and Jean Paul Loth, famous duo for tennis in France as well... it bring back memories!
p'tain, m'en parle pas ! j'avais 18 ans, je m'en souviens comme si c'était hier de ce match. Haaaaa nostalgie, quand tu nous tient...
Ah oui Jean-Paul et Michel, c'était mon duo préféré, mythique 😀
@@amaiurjarauta969 Chaque année on les retrouvait au micro avec plaisir, c'était comme une petite fête... Et des commentaires techniques qui n'ont pas pris une ride avec le temps
Wow, the great era of serve and volley tennis. Today serve and volley is dead. Tennis is boring.
Good old time when there were no commercial each court side changeover...
Beware, spoiler : for those who want to know, Becker wins 7/5 in the 4th set, and Leconte finally wins in the 5th set 6/4.
Merci ! Frustrating not to have the end of the match!
La fameuse volée de revers d Henri, une merveille...
I sometimes think Shapovalov is this era's version of Leconte. Both very talented and flashy lefthanders. Both very inconsistent.
Shapovalov can only dream of having a tenth of Leconte's talent.
Je n'aimais pas Henri Leconte que je trouvais arrogant mais je reconnais que c'était un l'un des meilleurs volleyeurs de l'époque et qu'il avait un sacré talent
trop de fautes directes et pas le mental d'un grand champion hélas
really great stuff. just subscribed!
Becker looks so out of his element on clay, yet he still made it to the French semifinals 3 times. His window was just plain over after his 3rd try in '91, though. Way too many clay court specialists in the 90s (Bruguera, Muster, Kuerten, Moya) along with more all-around players like Kafelnikov, Courier, Chang, and Agassi who were too good on clay.
Don't forget Lendl, he would have destroyed Becker on that surface
I think Beckers ego got in the way of progressing to a final or more in Paris. He refused to predominately come to hos strength, netplay. He felt he could rally with the best base liners of the day on clay time and time again. Edberg in 89 and McEnroe in 84 showed what going to Paris and fucking convention and playing to your strengths could bring.
@@jasoncowell5133
Yeah...Mac Always mentions that Sampras refused to change his raquet size for RG that would have given him a shot Henman also serve vollyed his way to a semi there.
Edberg really must regret 89. Should have won.
Jason Cowell indeed. Edberg dismantled the highly fancied Alberto Mancini in the 4th round of the 89 French. Mancini had won the lead up Italian and Monte Carlo Opens (beating Agassi and Becker in the finals) and was considered a clay court master.
@@jasoncowell5133 Stich also stupidly tried to outplay Kafelnikov from the baseline.
What a wonderful match. I`d take this over Federer-Nadal any day of the week!
Me too. Much more variation and contrast of styles back then. Even though this here was a match between two offensive players, but they also knew how to play from the back of the court.
Was sind das für Hühnerkäfige am Rand
des Spiels?
Boris simply played his best on grass or hard courts, clay just wasn't his cup of tea
Becker reached the semifinals of French Open three times and competed against many claycourt specialist,Becker was a decent claycourt player imo.
Lecont ein super Typ. Auch früher Tennis 🎾 vom feinsten. 👍
thanks, but only the 4th set ?? not possible to have more about this game ?
I would like to do so, but I have problems uploading videos with my laptop...
@@MultiStar83 Well, just try again or split it into several parts. To valuable of a match not to be present at the net, in my view. Many thanks, btw., for uploading this gem ! :)
@@argokan There is good news. I have just managed to upload another part of this match - set 1. I hope I will be able to upload more, but I cannot promise.
@@MultiStar83 Again, eternally thankful for your effort... if you would need any assistance with the problems regarding the uploading or video conversion, I would be pleased to help... :)
Tennis changed so much... There is almost no magic today compare to this.
@Achim Wurst
Written by someone who in clearly too young to have watched that generation.
Which makes you all of 10 years old in 1985.
Do the math!
@Achim Wurst
Fair enough. Every era has great tennis players. Maybe the dominance of Nadal Djok and Fed is that this era doesn't have enough?
@Achim Wurst
None.
Tell me who from the current tour can serve volley like Mcenroe or Edberg.
Exactly ! I love watching these old matches , Leconte was playing pure magic art tennis
A good surprise.
merciiiiiiii !!!
Lecomte qui jouait hélas trop souvent contre deux adversaires, dont lui-même ! Dommage, car potentiellement un N°1 mondial.
1988, l'année où Leconte disait espérer (après la finale perdue contre Wilander) que le public avait enfin compris son jeu.
Ce qui lui a valu un accueil chaleureux à Bercy lors du match contre Mac
il n'y avait rien à comprendre. Tout est dans la tête. Il n'avait pas le mental.
@@marilou20091 C'est malheureusement vrai. Mais quel joueur quand ça lui prenait !
The most i remember Leconte for is beeing inconsistent. In this match against Becker he played at his best, in the final against Wilander he played extremely bad.
A lot of players did that in 88, play bad against Wilander I mean.
And Wilander played extremely well. Maybe made two or three unforced errors the whole match against Leconte...
Willander had 97% first serves in. Deliberate tactic. As Leconte was crushing all his op 2nd serves. More like Willander did not allow Leconte to play his best game.
Wilander was a tactical genius that played tennis like a game of chess.
Qui a ganee?
Logiquement, avec sa forme de l'époque, Leconte aurait dû être injouable sur gazon à Wimbledon 1 mois plus tard..Tim Mayotte et Ivan Lendl n'auraient pas existé sur gazon devant ce Leconte là.....
great blast from the past. and here australian open 2018 Henri Leconte:ruclips.net/video/iu8usSFaTMo/видео.html Enjoy!
Is this Leconte's best match? Becker looked sluggish here.
It´s difficult to single out one match, but if you consider the importance of the occasion, this and his win over Sampras in the Davis Cup final 1991 spring to mind.
Otherwise, his match against Becker in Hamburg 1988 (two weeks prior to this one!), and also his back to back victories against Lendl and Wilander at the World Team Cup 1985 (on clay!) were also very good! Or his 1986 German Open final against Mecir. Or his 1985 French Open five-setter against Noah.
Some nice ones to chose from..
I would also add Leconte Noah 1985 RG. A very fun match. Crazy amount of winners from Leconte if I recall.
@@mathexpert2366
Agree👌
Boris Becker lève le doute.
Beckers tung are pointing to the corner he will serve to
Leconte ......too many unforced errors
J ai perdu pourtant j ai mieux joué que lui !
Leconte le "LOSER"👎
Tu en fait un sacré loser toi ✌️
So Leconte only capable of serve-volley? Too boring!
Haha, i hope you're joking, otherwise you're probably just a Nadal fanboy type.
:Leconte was one of the most exciting players to watch. He could do it all, sometimes that's a flaw. You go watch your modern day robots play..and get excited.
+Neo Roman0 No one in today´s top 100 (including Federer) is capable of playing serve & volley as well as he did! And yet, he was not even the best at it in those times (Becker, Edberg, McEnroe and Cash say hello..).
absolutebore - are you trying to tell me my preferences? I think I can decide for myself what I like and feel pretty good about it too, and I'm telling you I find Leconte one-dimensional, arrogant and boring. And why would I like Nadal, that doper? No, no, you watch Federer to see virtuoso tennis, now that's enjoyable!
fundhund62 - I see a flaw in your logic, either Leconte was the best at serve & volley or he isn't. If he was, I guess, in that era he should have won some Wimbledons. Anyway, enjoy him if you like him, I don't!
+Neo Roman0 Did you even read what I wrote?? No, Leconte was not the best serve & volleyer of his generation! I stated that very clearly, and I even gave the names of four players who did it better than him.
My point was that even though he was not the best in his time, he was still way better at serve & volley than any of today´s players, including Federer.