Legendarne mecze

[Kamileki]

To to był legendarny mecz, niesamowita rzeźnia. Najlepszy mecz PHM chyba. 5 godzin orki.

Dzisiaj Rafa łatwo by go sprzątnął. Wtedy jeszcze nie miał doświadczenia.

[Art]

[DUN I LOVE]

Obejrzałem fragmenty przed chwilą, koncentrując się przede wszystkim na reakcjach nakręconej do granic możliwości publiki. Asolutnie legendarne widowisko, nie wiem czy kiedykolwiek później doświadczyłem takiej atmosfery na trybunach, a przecież przeżyłem czasy rywalizacji Fabsterów. Ludzie dosłownie wariowali na trybnach.

Aż się nie chce wierzyć, że komuś to przeszkadzało i to tak, że postanowiono po tamtym finale zaorać stary Wimbledon.

[DUN I LOVE]

Coś dla absolutnych koneserów. Jeżeli podają czas NYC to za 45 minut kanał USO na YT pokaże mecz Rod Laver vs Tony Roche z 1969 roku. Rod wygrał tamten mecz i po raz drugi w karierze sięgnął po klasycznego Wielkiego Szlema.

[Damian]

[Damian]

[Damian]

[Damian]

Fantastic Finals: 10 memorable title matches in ATP history

Spoiler:

or the past 50 years, the ATP has entertained the world by producing a number of iconic and memorable finals between some of the greatest players in the sport's history.

As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ATP, take a trip with us down memory lane as ATPTour.com looks at the most memorable finals of the past five decades, outside of the Grand Slam events.

From Ken Rosewall’s game-changing match against Rod Laver in 1972 to Andy Murray’s winner-takes-all victory over Novak Djokovic in 2016, the following 10 finals have provided incredible moments and helped define the sport.













1972 WCT Finals, Dallas – Rosewall d. Laver 4-6, 6-0, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6
For many, Ken Rosewall's titanic battle against Rod Laver at the World Championship Tennis Finals is the match that made tennis in the United States.

Before their showdown in Dallas, the then-34-year-old Laver and then-37-year-old Rosewall had met 27 times, with left-handed Laver holding a 23-4 series lead in their rivalry.

However, Rosewall chose an unexpectedly massive stage to turn the tables on his rival in the 1972 WCT Finals title match. With the fourth and fifth sets extended to tie-breaks, the match stretched beyond 6 p.m., when millions of additional viewers tuned into NBC expecting to see the evening news broadcast, back then a staple for Americans.

With momentum ebbing and flowing throughout, the man known as 'Muscles' prevailed in one of the most entertaining matches of the decade, winning over millions of new fans in the process and boosting the profile of the fledgling pro tour.

1974 Masters Final, Melbourne – Vilas d. Nastase 7-6, 6-2, 3-6, 3-6, 6-4
World No. 1 Ilie Nastase entered the 1974 Masters grass-court final against Guillermo Vilas as the heavy favourite, having captured a staggering 16 trophies in 1973 and a further seven crowns in 1974. The Romanian had won titles on grass and had defeated the Argentine in their most recent meeting in Madrid.

Many observers thought Vilas had no chance, given that his previous seven titles had all come on on clay. However, rarely is the script so simple in sport and it proved to be the case in Melbourne, with the key factor the role of physical trainer Juan Carlos Belfonte.

After teaming with Vilas in 1973, Belfonte quickly targeted success on the grass in Melbourne. For 12 months, left-handed Vilas’ training programme was based on preparation for the event, with a focus on speed and physical resistance, which ultimately proved decisive. Vilas outlasted Nastase to triumph in five sets in a victory that triggered a tennis boom in Argentina, and Grand Slam victories in the future.



1983 WCT Finals, Dallas - McEnroe d. Lendl 6-2 4-6 6-3 6-7 7-6
During 1981 and 1982, Ivan Lendl had John McEnroe’s number. The Czech had defeated the American seven times in a row, including in two finals in the United States. However, 1983 will be remembered as the year McEnroe turned the tables, with no victory more significant than his win in the final at the World Championship Tennis Finals.

Competing on super-fast indoor carpet at the Reunion Arena, McEnroe prevailed in a four-hour, 35-minute epic that produced mesmerising shotmaking and fighting comebacks.

Lendl led 3-0 in the third set and forced McEnroe to deuce three times at 5-5 in the fifth set, but it was the American who came out on top, as he used his graphite racquet for the first time to capture his third WCT title. The American would go on to win the trophy again in 1984 and 1989.

1988 Masters, New York - Becker d. Lendl 5-7, 7-6, 3-6, 6-2, 7-6
Ivan Lendl had held the upper hand, but his rivalry with a young Boris Becker was beginning to turn by December 1988 when they met in the year-end Nabisco Masters final, in Madison Square Garden in New York.

Becker had lost to Lendl in the final in 1985 and 1986 and the Czech looked on course to once again down the German and capture his sixth title at the tournament when he led 7-5, 6-7(5), 6-3. However, in a gruelling match, which lasted four hours and 42 minutes and finished just before midnight, the 21-year-old refused to go away against Lendl, a finalist for the ninth consecutive year, to secure victory in a five-set classic.

Memorably, when serving on match point at 6/5 in the fifth-set tie-break, Becker and Lendl exchanged a 37-stroke rally that ended in a dead net cord winner off a Becker backhand.

“Beating Ivan in the final gave me even more satisfaction, he was incredibly dominant and an inspiration,” Becker said. “I was playing some of the very best tennis of my life. Physically, it was one of the hardest matches of my life.”















1995 Miami Open – Agassi d. Sampras 3-6, 6-2, 7-6
When it comes to the sport’s greatest rivalries, look no further than Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras.

With their contrasting styles, the Americans pushed each other to the limit throughout their careers as they battled it out for the biggest titles, with their meeting in Miami in 1995 no different.

Just one year earlier, Sampras had defeated Agassi in the championship match in Florida after the former World No. 1 refused to take a walkover and agreed to delay the start of final to allow for an unwell Sampras to take to court. A year later, 'Pistol Pete' overcame Agassi in the Indian Wells final in March 1995, with Sampras triumphing in the third set again.

With the eyes of the tennis world focused on their rivalry in March 1995 and Agassi’s determination at an all-time high, the American flipped the script in Miami. He won 17 consecutive points in the second set, before winning the last five points in the third-set tie-break to earn his fifth ATP Masters 1000 title and improve to 25-2 in 1995.

Agassi would beat Sampras again later in the year in the Montreal final as part of a lights-out 26-match winning streak that Sampras dramatically halted in the US Open final.

1996 ATP Tour Championships Final, Hanover - Sampras d. Becker 3-6, 7-6, 7-6, 6-7, 6-4
The gloves were well and truly off when top seed Pete Sampras met fierce rival Boris Becker in a final comparable to a heavyweight boxing clash between two of the generation's greats.

Sampras entered the season finale in the form of his life, having captured seven tour-level titles in 1996. The American had won three of their past four meetings, but Becker took hope from the fact he had defeated the 14-time Grand Slam champion on indoor carpet in Germany earlier that year.

In a titanic battle where the players arrived on court to the tune of the 'Rocky' theme song, it was Sampras who held his nerve to stand triumphant. The American was two points away from winning the match at 5-4 in the fourth set, before he eventually completed the job in the fifth set after four hours.

“Two heavyweights, playing great at the same time, and it came down to the wire,” Sampras said. “We played a couple of really tight points, tight games and I managed to squeak it out at the end. One of the best matches I’ve ever been a part of, a match I’ll never forget.”



2005 Internazionali BNL d’Italia, Rome - Nadal d. Coria 6–4, 3–6, 6–3, 4–6, 7–6
By the time a then-18-year-old Rafael Nadal arrived in Rome, his breakthrough season was gathering pace. The Spaniard had already proven he was capable of competing at the ATP Masters 1000 level, becoming the second-youngest champion in series history just weeks earlier in Monte Carlo.

Having defeated Guillermo Coria in the championship match in the Principality, the pair were fully aware of one another when they met in the Rome final. In a thriller on the Italian clay, Nadal showed his trademark fighting spirit to rally from 0-3 in the fifth set to defeat the 2004 Roland Garros finalist.

At 7/6 in the fifth-set tie-break, Nadal scraped back a high lob off a crushed Coria forehand, drawing the Argentine into a volleying error. When that volley sailed long, Nadal collapsed to the ground in celebration. It was the moment that marked a young prodigy stepping into the sun.

“I am very happy,” Nadal said. “I played today one of the toughest matches in my life.”

Fuelled by further confidence, the Spaniard went on to lift his first Grand Slam trophy at Roland Garros in June 2005. One year later on the same court, Nadal reprised that effort with another epic fifth-set tie-break win over Roger Federer in the final.

2005 Tennis Masters Cup, Shanghai - Nalbandian d. Federer 6-7, 6–7, 6–2, 6–1, 7–6
The task of facing Roger Federer in 2005 was monumental. The Swiss star held an 81-3 record heading into the Tennis Masters Cup final against David Nalbandian as he looked to equal John McEnroe’s record 82-3 mark in 1984, the highest single-season win rate in the Open Era.

Federer had also won his past 35 matches and 24 consecutive finals (including back-to-back season finales in Houston), an Open Era record dating back to his last title match loss to Jiri Novak on 13 July 2003 in Gstaad. However, Federer entered the match with an ankle injury, and although he still looked on course to claim his 11th title of the season after edging the first two sets in tie-breaks, Nalbandian refused to go away. The Argentine, encouraged by his 5-3 ATP Head2Head series lead against reigning World No. 1 Federer at the time, rallied to earn the biggest win of his career.

“Without a doubt that was the highlight of my career,” Nalbandian told ATPTour.com in 2018. The Argentine finished with a very respectable 8-11 ATP Head2Head record against the Swiss.

Despite the defeat of their beloved Federer, the match deepened Chinese fans' fascination with the sport. When Shanghai last hosted the season finale in 2002, fans were treated to another epic final, in which Australian Lleyton Hewitt held out Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero 6-4 in the fifth set.















2006 Internazionali BNL d’Italia, Rome – Nadal d. Federer 6–7, 7–6, 6–4, 2–6, 7–6
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal hold one of the greatest rivalries in all of sports. The pair has met 40 times across a time-span of 15 years, with the Spaniard leading 24-16 in their ATP Head2Head series.

To this day, though, their clash in the 2006 Rome final remains their only final-set tie-break.

Federer entered the match in the Italian capital aiming to avenge recent final losses to Nadal in Dubai and Monte-Carlo. However, the Spaniard was keen to keep a grip on his title, which he won in a dramatic fifth-set tie-break against Coria in 2005, and his hold over the Swiss star at that time.

Since emerging on Tour in 2004, Nadal had done what so few players had done and quickly got to grips with Federer’s game. The then-19-year-old seemingly thrived against the reigning World No. 1, producing fearless tennis against Federer and took a 4-1 ATP Head2Head lead into the Rome final.

In a high-quality clash that produced multiple comebacks, Nadal once again raised his level when it mattered most, rallying from 3-5 down in the decider to capture the crown. As a result of his five-set win, Nadal tied Guillermo Vilas’ Open Era record of 53 straight match wins on clay and improved his tour-level finals record to a standout 16-2.

2016 Season Finale, London - Murray d. Djokovic 6-3, 6-4
Andy Murray’s winner-takes-all 2016 clash against Djokovic was as pressure-filled as sport gets, with the prestigious season finale title and year-end No. 1 Pepperstone ATP Ranking hinging on the final match of the year.

The Scot entered the final with confidence at an all-time high, holding a 23-match winning streak, lifting trophies in Beijing, Shanghai, Vienna and Paris in the previous six weeks. Backed by strong home support in London at The O2, the Scot arrived at the event needing to emerge as the undefeated champion to wrestle the year-end No. 1 from Djokovic’s grasp should they meet in the final. With the pressure on, Murray produced a near-perfect performance against the Serbian to cap his standout season.

With so much on the line, Murray cemented his place in the history books by becoming the 17th player, and first Briton, to finish atop the Pepperstone ATP Rankings. The title put the icing on the 2016 cake for Murray, with the Scot lifting nine trophies that year, his record for a single campaign. The then-29-year-old also clinched three ATP Masters 1000 titles, while he won his second Wimbledon crown and second Olympic singles gold medal in a fruitful summer.

Murray's dramatic title run had echoes of Gustavo Kuerten's charge to the 2000 title run in Lisbon, when the Brazilian defeated Pete Sampras in the semi-finals and Andre Agassi in the final to become the first South American player to finish the season as World No. 1.

https://www.atptour.com/en/news/atp-50- ... s-longform

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Podaję wynik meczu, jeśli ktoś nie oglądał, proszę zatkać uszy.

[Nowitzki]

Tennis fans pick Wimbledon 2008 final between Nadal and Federer as the greatest match of all time

https://www.sportskeeda.com/tennis/news ... match-time

[DUN I LOVE]

Operacja się udała, pacjent zmarł.

[Kamileki]

Operacja się udała, pacjent zmarł.

Co czułeś gdy Rafa upadł na ziemię. Opisz.

[DUN I LOVE]

Jakieś 2 miesiące starałem się zaakceptować nową rzeczywistość.

Potężny cios, ale jeszcze młody byłem.

[Kamileki]

Jakieś 2 miesiące starałem się zaakceptować nową rzeczywistość.

Potężny cios, ale jeszcze młody byłem.

Nieźle. Mam nadzieję, że wysłałeś rachunek do zapłacenia Rafie za 2 miesiące wyrwane z życia.

[DUN I LOVE]

Fajny czas to był w sumie.

3 tygodnie wcześniej rozpocząłem życie ze swoją żoną, pojechałem z bratem i kumpami na Sunrise, forum Grandslam żyło pełnią życia. Super sprawa.

[Barty]

Z obecnym wyglądem znacznie lepiej byś przypasował do Sunrisa.

[DUN I LOVE]

Z obecnym wyglądem znacznie lepiej byś przypasował do Sunrisa.

Czy Ty mnie plasujesz na półce z karkami bezmózgami?

[Barty]

Z obecnym wyglądem znacznie lepiej byś przypasował do Sunrisa.

Czy Ty mnie plasujesz na półce z karkami bezmózgami?

Ogólnie nie, absolutnie, tylko podczas tych sześciu godzin dziennie, kiedy podziwiasz swojego bicka i klatę.

[Damian]

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