Sampras vs Stich: ATP Finals 1993 Final Highlights

[@farid1406]

Good heavens Michael's backhand was incredible!

[@jayanthony3006]

One of the best, if not the best, one handed backhand players of his time ,or even t this day!

[@MrSheduur]

Yeah probably the most lethal one handed backhands we ever saw. He was so precise with it and while for many player that cross court backhand shot from a defensive hustle is a tough shot, it looked like Stich loved these moments to completely unravel his opponent with shots like that. He could play every crazy angle with that backhand.

[@amistaddeltacds]

I miss this elegant kind of tennis

[@ivannunez8738]

this is tennis , a mix of a serve and volley and a good baseline play . Not the crap that we have today of only baselines players waiting for an unforced error.

[@trupiil]

agree. Tennis today is dull and boring.

[@viteksubert8064]

I have never heard a more stupid statement about tennis... congratulations

[@g2tennis]

Tennis today is far from "Waiting for the error", players hit as hard as ever, the game is agressive and super fast, you have no clue of what you're talking about

[@woswasdenni1914]

exactly, one of the reasons you dont see much serve and volley anymore is because players became so dam good in passing shots. also back in the 90s everyone basically hated serve and volley. that is dull and booring. we just saw highlights of 4 sets. but whatch liek 3 matches in a row. serve - ace, serve winner, serve volley winner,..serve... oh tiebreak as usual.... then the occasional break. you break you win the set.

[@JH-up5zj]

Top level troll

[@reyderios]

The best Stich shots I've seen with image quality on youtube.

[@psifoo]

2 great players. It's a joy to watch these old matches. You could see how different the game was played back then. Good mix of serve and volley and baseline play.

[@FrederickJohnSebastian]

Such a clean and pure striker of the ball with every shot in the book. His serve is mechanically flawless but he was prone to double faults in crucial stages because of his one weakness: mentally a little fragile in big moments. If Stich only had the mental toughness of his countryman, Becker...

[@MrSheduur]

Yeah 100%. Stich would have been way better if he was more stable in the mental aspect, and of course he also had injury issues that kept him out for long stretches during times where you thought it could be his time. Very frustrating career, because he knew and we as the fans knew that he could have been even better.

[@zegobiiii]

the good old days , serve and volley, very nice to see, tkx.

[@ncf1]

this is the sort of tennis i miss SO much...

[@jayamuralimv1976]

Stichs backhand unique class of its own

[@wouternieminen844]

Stich could play tennis beautifully. Wonderful to watch.

[@miguelpanta]

he was shining briefly but brightly

[@amistaddeltacds]

If you mean Stich, yes!

[@markoragnos6757]

Love michael stichs game. It's was a joy to watch. Proper fast technical tennis. Rolls Royce of service motion and incredible backend. Miss those fast indoor courts and variety.

[@fundhund62]

It´s actually sad how much better this is than today..

[@schopenhauer3334]

exactly

[@weihuang5473]

Now the court is slower for longer match, so they can put more advertisement

[@pascalcastellazzi4136]

Players now are just more complete. At Sampras time every players had someone against who he could not develop his game (example Sampras/Krajicek). Fed or djoko's prime years, no one could eat them, no one...

[@dinomijatovic3921]

Yes very depressing to see how poorly tennis evolved or degenerated

[@patrickdoolan9527]

It isn't sad because those of us old enough to witness peak tennis in 80s/90s know we aren't missing anything today.

[@sicknotelvd]

The one handed backhand looks so good. Too bad that most players today play bothhanded

[@patrickdoolan9527]

Stich on form was a pleasure to watch. No one like that today.

[@keithlawford-r5e]

Stich had ridiculous talent...should have won more than he did

[@l.lewbowski6871]

Yeah, he admitted that too. Like the French Open against Kafelnikov as far as I recall that correctly.

[@robertjones8598]

Stich was one of my favorites to watch during that time. Korda was another one. Both tremendously talented and could hit amazing shots with power or finesse. That both both were a bit ungainly in appearance made it more intriguing to see what great and talented athletes there were. Both had big wins over Sampras who I still consider the greatest fast court player of all time-Stich in this final and Korda took Sampras out of the USO in ‘98. Kraijeck was another talented big man who took Sampras out at Wimbledon and went on to win the title. When these guys were on they were incredible from all parts of the court. The all-court tennis shown here is so much more interesting to me than anything I’ve seen in years.

[@b3asle551]

To this day, Korda vs Sampras at the Grand slam Cup (somewhere in the mid-nineties) is still the best match I've ever watched

[@peterhammer4644]

Stich was too monotonous for my liking. Same with Korda. For me the best ATP-Finals indoor matches were Becker vs Sampras.

[@henriksrensen5958]

That running backhand at 2:45 was incredible

[@mellis9729]

The bIggest testament to Stich’s talent and ability came from Pete Sampras in his biography a champions mind. Sampras said the player he feared the most in the draw actually wasnt Agassi, but Stich. Pete even used the phrase “dodged a bullet” when Stich retired earlier than expected. No his peak wasnt as long as many others and would come and go, but when on his A game, nobody in the world was better than Stich. He could hit any shot from anywhere on the court.

[@kaykayeffemm1828]

In a french interview (Tennis Magazine May 1993) Jim Courier answered a question about Sampras talent : « Yes but when he manage to play his best tennis, nobody can rivalize with Mickael Stich »

[@z1az285]

I'm amazed Boris who leads his H2H against him 8-4 said this about stich..."if i had half his talent, i would have doubled my slam tally". 😲 Unreal to hear it.

[@lucaantonelli1511]

Agree. Unbelievable talent

[@visweswarraopappu7757]

"Dodged a bullet" was for Philippoussis not Stich.

[@kidpagronprimsank05]

Agassi actually pretty much said the similar thing about Stich in his book

[@linodamore9025]

Great stich........ talent

[@geemy9675]

two amazing players. such class

[@dagorian86]

Interestingly Stitch had a winning record against Edberg, Courier and Sampras, but never managed to beat Agassi once. Just goes to show how your game can be well suited against some, but not against others... And despite these winning records his overall tournament results and rankings were very mixed. He only managed to end up in the top 10 for 3 separate years of his career. Even then, his best year end rank (2nd in 1993) came arguably in one of his weaker years in terms of slams. Definitely a bit of enigma as a player for sure

[@Atombender]

Yeah, Stich had problems against strong baseliners like Agassi and Lendl but did well against other S&V players.

[@z1az285]

Great points, oddly enough he has a losing record against boris (4-8) considering what boris said about his game "....If I had half of his talent, I would have doubled my slams". 😳😲. That is high praise and a shock to me. But not surprising, stich has won titles on all surfaces indoors and outdoors and reached slam finals like Edberg on clay, grass and hard. Imo, his movement was superb for such a big man and a smooth flowing backhand plus brilliant touch. The forehand was iffy but he improved it enough to make a run to the FO final. But he played really well against pete and imo a better clay courter than him. Nick bollitieri said that pete, boris and stich were a unique group of all court players and power baseliners who could outrally anyone from the back on a good day.

[@seanwilliams1538]

Interestingly, Sampras said Stich was dangerous opponent. He had a simple and compact game,and if it clicked he was too hot to handle. Great service action, and a brilliant off backhand. His semi in the US open in which he lost to in the final against Agassi, was amazing. Total destroyed Karol Novak in straight sets. German tennis was strong back then with Becker, Stich and Karl Uwe Steeb.

[@zeddeka]

Agassi's returns took away Stich's greatest weapon, his serve. Stich didn't have the consistently heavy groundstrokes to bother Agassi from the baseline. It left him with nothing to hurt Agassi with.

[@danguee1]

@@Atombender Yeah - like double French open champion, Courier? And French open champion and ultra-clay machine Thomas Muster (I remember Stich beating defending champion Muster at the 1996 FO - seemed quite comfortable particular baseliner that day...)?

[@karlsuer2749]

Top Duell auf Augenhöhe. 😇

[@amitmarathe232]

Great Win for Micheal Stich in addition to the 1991 Wimbledon victory. Stich had inconsistent ground strokes and made lot of unforced errors. That is the reason despite having a great serve and volley game he could not keep up consistently with the top players. However on fast courts and when there were fewer strokes in a rally he sometimes outshone and beat the best. It looked great when it worked!

[@jakeschutz6342]

The only man Sampras legit feared on a tennis court if I recall in his autobiography. Stich while a relative underachiever compared to some of his peers was a ridiculously talented and gifted athlete. His "god mode" was probably as good as anybody' in modern history (and yes I will argue that includes Fed, Nadal and Djoker) and could produce tennis that made him virtually unplayable at times when he would get rolling. Only problem was he was such an enigmatic talent and definitely didn't commit the way his more accomplished peers did. I would encourage people to look up his match against Marc Rosset at the 96 French open for another excellent example of Stich at peak level. I would encourage people to look up his match against Marc Rosset at the 96 French Open, another great example of Stich at his absolute best.

[@miaoFoodNow]

Fed, Nadal & Djoker are not in the same league with Sampras & the likes. Tennis today is played on a much more amateur level compared to the times of Sampras, Couries, Agassi, etc.

[@ballek13]

I watch that Rosset match clip here on yt like once a year just to treat myself. Infact I think I will do it right now!

[@jliang70]

No, Krajicek would be the other one.

[@z1az285]

excellent point. i saw how he played vs becker at Queen in 1993 and he was perfection, though becker hit top form in Wimbledon. he has beaten becker comprehensively in two other mmatches but becker was injured in one of them

[@z1az285]

​@@jliang70krajicek was just as explosive as stich with a much better forehand

[@tomdomagalski3679]

I completely forgot about Michael Stich. He was part of my childhood memories. I haven't heard anyone talk about him in decades 🤔

[@kaykayeffemm1828]

Stich the smoothest serve ever

[@usulordo]

Stich was so frail unser pressure but on a good day he played the most beautiful tennis. His backhand is superb.

[@menon_ji4984]

For me he is the best serve and volly player of his generation

[@rickypriestman8660]

@@menon_ji4984 no sampras was

[@geemy9675]

@@rickypriestman8660seing stich play was something. like if he was made of rubber, hitting flat strokes with little effort. Sampras was better all around player obviously, actually my favorite, and not only serve volley. but Not sure why he struggled on clay, where Federer has had much better results with same kind of game

[@Straight.Forward.Indian]

Whenever I watch these games, I feel like I'm watching a LIVE game..... These games played by these class players would never become old or boring. Because, these games are full of high quality shots of real Tennis. I'm 1997 born, but still I watch only old Tennis as I always feel that they played amazing Tennis unlike today's robotic boring junk Tennis players. I like Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Stefen Edberg, Matts Willander, Ivan Lendl, Pat Cash, Goran Ivanisevic, Micheal Stitch, Pete Samaras, Patrick Rafter, Andy Roddick and Roger Federer.

[@overkongen34]

These are just the fun highlights. I actually remember watching this game, and it was horrible like all indoor tennis in the '90s with the big S/V guys. Most of it was serve, serve, serve, and you were lucky to see the ball go over the net more than a couple of times. There's a reason why they slowed down the courts. People got extremely bored with games that had no rallies.

[@mbajobue]

Such a great player was Stich

[@夜明けのヴァン-y1o]

この2人もお気に入りの選手。 シュティッヒの切れのあるサーブと バックハンドの多彩さ好きだった。

[@Retsler54]

With Michael, Boris was no longer alone as the German star. Michael was just as great. Incredible / Sweden

[@caiocesarzancan7716]

Serve and volley players would have a hard work in the circuit nowadays. The courts are slower and you need to have more than one tactic to win. Anyway, I miss this kind of player because it's a beautiful style.

[@z1az285]

This is all court tennis, not just serve volley but yes unless these guys served bombs all day and were really fit, they would lose

[@carlomac]

More than one tactic? Kind of like the monotonous baseline play you see today?

[@z1az285]

@@carlomac Exactly. He can't appreciate the fact that prominent coaches at the time said Becker, Sampras, Stich, Ivanisevic, krajicek were not just serve volleyers but all court players who could volley, attack, defend, play long baseline rallies in short had complete games.

[@HanzSygnal]

Just read Sampras' book, he surprisingly and said Stitch was the scariest opponent

[@spywhale]

Stich hits the ball as if he doesn't want to hurt it.

[@tubird]

今のテニスのトップ選手は超人だが、この時代のトップ選手は神だよ。

[@khelben1979]

Wonderful tennis! I used to be impressed by Stich, but Pete Sampras really held out strong for a long time when I was younger. Both very good tennis players!

[@danielyung481]

Deux grands champions bravo messieurs merci pour votre match très beau 👍 à voir

[@hsdonn664]

I think I watched this match live on TV back then. These two were my favorite players... 30 years ago now.. I don't know why but I clearly remember Stich playing Halle for some reason..

[@donkeykongfederersucks66]

STICH,ANDRE & PATRICK RAFTER ARE THE FEW PLAYERS TO HAVE SOME GOOD WINS VS SAMPRAS WHO WERE FROM HIS GENERATION!

[@alexanderpruger5337]

Also Krajicek was doing well vs Sampras, had a positive record against him

[@donkeykongfederersucks66]

Alexander Pruger FORGOT ALL ABOUT HIM! A FINE PLAYER HE WAS...MASSIVE SERVE!

[@alexanderpruger5337]

Donkeykongfederersucks Yeah he was good. No wonder Pete had trouble playing against him.

[@Perebynis]

Stich also leads Sampras 5:4 head to head... as one of the few contemporary players.

[@menon_ji4984]

Courier dominated Sampras in early days but later Sampras went much ahead

[@milkod2001]

Completely different game than todays standards.much less power but much more technical play and skills

[@argokan]

Faster surfaces, much less "homogenization" (bigger variation) in types of surfaces and speed of the respective surfaces, heavier racquets than those played by Fed and Nadal today, faster balls, smaller balls as well, and revolution in strings today (from 2003. - 2004. as vividly described by Agassi's first encounter with Luxilon strings, in his autobiography), even the difference in the racquet head sizes... number of factors often omitted today...

[@g2tennis]

@@argokanluxilon was in the market since the mid-late 90's. Guga Kuerten won the 1997 French Open using luxilon on his Head Pro Tour 630

[@argokan]

@@g2tennis yes, but to my surprise Agassi mentiones the Luxilon (as he called the string he tried for the first time then) as he tried it in practice session for the first time, during the time he was together with the Darren Cahill as a coach, and we probably all know which time period that was. Strings, deliberate slowing down of the surfaces, and different tennis balls were mentioned by several former pros (Stefan Edberg being one of them) as some major differences, among other differences as compared to the previous periods.

[@donaldclark7699]

Stich had such smooth strokes, he reminds me of Fed.

[@craigfleming-dc7fw]

Stich was incredible!!!

[@SonateSonate]

1:08 looks out indeed

[@71Kalej]

Michael Stich war enorm talentiert, leider stand er im Schatten Beckers und war nicht der trainingsfleissigste.

[@Darkforcepower2012]

Ich fand Stich auch qualitativ besser als Becker.

[@der-zwischen-den-Zeilen-liest]

Sampras sagte ja selbst...Wenn alle am limit spielen dann ist Stich der Beste...

[@plasqar]

@@der-zwischen-den-Zeilen-liest hi...when did he say this?

[@geemy9675]

@@plasqar that's saying something, coming from Sampras, who noone could stop when he was playing his best

[@peterhammer4644]

@@Darkforcepower2012 wie qualitativ besser? Becker war selber nicht sehr konstant aber schon ein Lichtjahr konstanter als Stich.

[@whitestar655]

Beautiful tennis.

[@str9ngerdanu741]

Great

[@cottreau]

Interesting how similar their games were. Really interesting to watch. It makes me wonder why Stich didn't have more success, although, Wimbledon title and two other grand slam finals is more than most ever get.

[@SchnitterFan]

Injuries. His shoulder was a problem and his horrible feet-injury 1995.

[@rickypriestman8660]

@@SchnitterFan & his back issues

[@thumbsdownclub7514]

his mental game, also his mechanics weren't as sound as Pete. his footwork could be sloppy at times.

[@mauziki]

A doubles at Wimbledon too along with McEnroe.

[@MrSheduur]

Injuries and metal weakness. He was notorious for having low affection for training sessions and also was kind of a diva in how he dealt with the apprectiation that Boris Becker got, while he was not even close to the stardom of Becker, even at a time when Stich was playing better than Becker. I think he also mentioned this later after he retired. Stich today is much more reflected and honest about himself during his playing days, but back then he was a bit full of himself at times :)

[@johnrenehan7406]

Stitches backhand pass looking awfully good from these clips

[@Rodolka]

But... where is Lilo ?

[@karlsuer2749]

Pete der perfekte Spieler der 90er.✌

[@schoeferfilm]

I have seen the semifinals live 😅

[@eze6285]

These running topspin shots would make Nadal proud wow😲

[@patrickdoolan9527]

If ever there was an example of why 'modern life is rubbish' then it is here. Watching these guys compared with the borefest today makes me realise at least from a tennis spectating view how lucky I was. Although I wish I could be 25 forever.

[@allesistrelativ2020]

Sampras once said: "when Stich plays his best tennis, he is the best player in the world." Sadly Stich was too inconsistent in his play.

[@OCRATHLETE]

We need the serve/volley of Stich and Stefan Edberg

[@peterloffler8121]

Great Match but as a Sampras Fan for me with the wrong winner. But ok Stich played well and deserved it. I think Wimbledon 1998 Stich played an extremely close match in half final against Cedric Pioline. It would have been a very interesting final with Stich instead of Pioline in final. But well never know who would habe been won in this case...

[@vee2915]

It was 97 BTW

[@luvdasitar]

By then Stichs back had gone. Not sure he would have gone on to play well against Sampras.

[@AbeedHossain]

A less than fully realized Sampras did thrash Stich at Wimbledon in 1992 when Stich was the defending champion.

[@trupiil]

@@AbeedHossain Stich was ver volatile depending on his day. Once he played superb like here and on another day he missed too many shots.

[@rickypriestman8660]

Wimbledon 1997 actually

[@macarenaperez3088]

Stich= The man without legs.

[@tmaeda1972]

シュティッヒは生涯戦績でサンプラスに勝ち越してる数少ない選手の一人。 （逆に、アガシにはほっとんど勝ってないけどね（笑）） キレイなテニスをするな～ 手首がめっちゃ柔らかそう。

[@michaelbarlow6610]

@ 4LVFans. Although Clijsters is a Hall of Famer, she indisputably underachieved in her tennis career. Although she won 4 major singles titles (3 U.S. Open singles titles and 1 Australian Open singles title) she should have won many more major singles titles. She lacked one of the two most important elements needed by a player to be a great champion--mental toughness. Clijsters had the physical talent but all too often she demonstrated a lack of the desire to dominate the women's tennis tour. For example, she choked away a sure win against Serena Williams at 5-1 in the 3rd set of their 2003 Australian Open semifinal. Clijsters had no business losing that match. As the famous variation of the old expression goes, in that match she "snatched defeat from the jaws of victory". She also played badly towards the end of the 3rd set of the 2004 Australian Open final against Henin, although in fairness to Clijsters, she got royally screwed by the baseline judge (on Henin's side of the court) who called one of Clijsters' shots out late in that 3rd set when the ball clearly hit the baseline. Obviously Henin deserved to win that match because she played better than Clijsters "in the clutch" in the third set of that match. Clijsters played very poorly in the 2004 U.S. Open final against Henin losing that match in straight sets.

[@rickypriestman8660]

?, so Clijsters lost in the semi finals but still somehow made the final of the 2003 Australian open?, read your comment mate, I think u made an error 👍

[@michaelbarlow6610]

@@rickypriestman8660 . It's a typing error. But thanks for pointing it out! I just corrected the typing error in my posted comment.

[@rickypriestman8660]

@@michaelbarlow6610 haha all good man 😉👍

[@vanhalen407]

✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼

[@spirg]

2 Surgeons

[@kincaidscourt8768]

If all the TOP PLAYERS of that era (Agassi / Sampras / Courier / Lendl / McEnroe / Becker / Edberg / Wilander / Muster ... there aren't any others THAT good in that era, actually) had played against each other in their absolute A+ game - STICH wouldn't have dropped A SET against anybody on ANY surface ... he was the BEST of the best (but only rarely so and only short-lived) !

[@mezanine10]

Back in the days when men had one hand backhands. Too bad they all play like women now.

[@psifoo]

That's very sexist. Bjorn Borg, Jimmy Connors and Andre Agassi were great male players with double handed backhands.

[@mtklaric]

@@psifoo he meant they had balls in them days...

[@rickypriestman8660]

@@psifoo I think he means the men's tour is generally the same as the women's tour, where by every player plays in exactly the same way

[@MrSheduur]

@@rickypriestman8660 yup, all about coaches having found that "magical" formula of easy success. It is being coached in a very specific way for the past 2 decades now and Tennis is worse off for it, because we the fans do not exactly like modern Tennis as much anymore. Sad state of affairs :/

[@jkj1459]

Omg i almost forgot Micheal Stich

[@vivahernando1]

Stich had a very good record vs Sampras .... not Agassi though

[@細谷能久-h7p]

シュティッヒのプレー、フォームはカッコイイ。今の若い世代はシュティッヒって言ってもみんな知らないんだよな。

[@dinomijatovic3921]

Pete was goat, but I think Korda and Stich were giving him fits

[@MartinJohnZ]

Shotmaking, baby.

[@jaisahnis]

Stitch almost hits the ball boy at 1:56

[@faceandaname]

no

[@tmaeda1972]

かつてシュティッヒは、サンプラスはフォアストロークとサーブ以外は下手・・・と言っていた。 事実、シュティッヒはトータルの対戦成績でサンプラスに勝ち越してるんだよね。 ま、アガシには全敗してるんだけどね。 結局は、相性だね。

[@rafaelodossantos4210]

Stich the greatest

[@_beaver]

I will have same t shirt like has stitch

[@doublesurfeur8079]

I love his wife. What is name?

[@maxkasatkinateam8879]

Jessica Stockmann. ... she is ex wife

[@doublesurfeur8079]

@@maxkasatkinateam8879 Thanks.

[@boomerang8909]

@@doublesurfeur8079 He remarried after that.

[@PhilippRuderer]

Wenn alle ihr bestes Tennis spielen, ist Stich die 1

[@michaelbarlow6610]

Stich along with Noah and Nastase remain the 3 biggest wastes of tennis talent in the history of men's tennis. Sabatini, Mandlikova and Clijsters were the biggest wastes of tennis talent in the history of women's tennis.

[@4LVFans]

Clijsters? Really? She's 1st ballot hall of fame.

[@fundhund62]

Hm. I wouldn´t call being a Wimbledon or a French Open champion (Stich, Noah) or a multiple Slam winner (Mandlikova) wastes of talent. Leconte and Mecir come to mind, but they were heavily plagued by injuries.

[@michaelbarlow6610]

@ fundhung62. Considering her talent, Manlikova should have won more major singles titles than she did. She lacked the consistency and mental toughness to be a dominant champion. She, like Stich and Noah, lacked the inner drive to dominate tennis like Evert, Navratilova, Lendl, Connors, Borg, Connors, McEnroe, Sampras, etc., did.

[@z1az285]

@@michaelbarlow6610 Stich was a late bloomer. Tennis was not his first choice. University was.

[@rickypriestman8660]

How the hell can you call Clijsters & Nastase wastes of talent?, that's insane, anyone who wins a grand slam has had a fantastic career in my book, some players go though their whole careers & don't win any titles, what a stupid comment

[@user_uif_ghg_wer_das]

It's me or every body? why did the 90's racquet swing look so ugly? Or we are spoiled today by the Big 3?

[@estagio4disciplina587]

Nowadays, racquets have bigger heads and bigger sweet spots. The string technology from today also allow more power and spin. So, they played with completelly diferent materials. The racquet movement had to be more compact. If you are implying that the big 3 are more talented than players from the 90's, then you are stupid. You can't compare tennis players from different generations. The material evolved a ot over the years. Just watch a Borg's video and see how heavy and small were the racquets from the seventies. Compare it to a Aeropro Drive.

[@argokan]

@weili6112 Ugly ???? What on earth are you talking about ? From both technical and aesthetical point of view Sampras had - has the cleanest forehand swing ever. As Frew McMillan put it, "nothing flows quite like it".

[@markkennedy1743]

lol so true.

[@mohawkbrown]

Its just you.. I think tennis now, with the exception of Federer, is far uglier than the 90s. Stich is just about the most classic of all in terms of style. So yeah, its just you. Maybe you've never bothered to go through tennis history?

[@rickypriestman8660]

@@mohawkbrown agree with this comment

[@simkagoll958]

Stich atemberaubend

[@thebigmonstaandy6644]

I think Sampras was Nr.1 with worst backhand. And he had one of the worst 1 handed backhands ever. PS I saw Sampras vs Corretja,Costa,Kraijcek,Rusedzki,Haas,Keurten,Gonsalez, Becker,Edberg,Lendl,Stich,Schalken,Rafter,Korda,Philipouses,Federer. And every of this players except Rusedzki and Rafer played backhand better as Pete. So you dont need to write,that i have no idea of tennis. If you think,you have idea of tennis just write,1) what Nr.1 had worser backhand as Sampras. 2) what player with one handed backhand played backhand worser than Sampras

[@michaelbarlow6610]

@ Monsta Andy. Sampras had an excellent (albeit workman-like) topspin backhand. His topspin backhand was not as great as Lendl's or Edberg's , but it was an excellent backhand nonetheless.

[@zeddeka]

@@michaelbarlow6610 interestingly, he used to have a two handed backhand as a junior and was more of a baseliner, but changed his game quite radically in his teens

[@michaelbarlow6610]

@ T H. Yes it is interesting that as a junior player Sampras had a two-handed backhand until his tennis teacher Pete Fischer taught him the one-handed backhand.

[@RossBayCult]

There’s been a lot of number one players in tennis with worse backhands than Sampras.

[@thebigmonstaandy6644]

@@RossBayCult may be only John Mcroe.