Tennis US Open 2020

[Olympian1010 7,976]

3 hours ago, Monzanator said:

 

Any Grand Slam winner means more in tennis tbh. That's one of maybe two Olympic sports - golf being the other - where an Olympic gold medal isn't the pinnacle of the sport.

I know, but it’s not like that many tennis players get an Olympic gold medal in their career. 

 

Her medal sure meant a lot for Puerto Rico too.

[Monzanator 4,503]

7 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

I know, but it’s not like that many tennis players get an Olympic gold medal in their career. 

 

Her medal sure meant a lot for Puerto Rico too.

I'd say this gold medal might be one reason that prevents Puerto Rico from becoming an official US state? It is an US territory for over 100 years and a little more important than Saipan or Guam since Cuba remains a bigger US enemy than Japan these days, right?

[thepharoah 2,405]

Winning a gold medal for a country like Puerto Rico and outside Athletics is an achivement to be written in books by itself , but whom history or people would remember him more Monica Puig for winning Olympic gold and doing shit in other tournanents or Gastin Gaudio winning RG in 2004 and doing shit in his entire career i think both are going to be forgotten , but they'll always be mentioned as Olympic gold medalist or a grand slam winner right now people remember Puig more actually 

[thepharoah 2,405]

Today we'll have a really good match between Azarenka and Sabalenka really a match that i look forward to seeing it 

[Monzanator 4,503]

1 minute ago, thepharoah said:

Winning a gold medal for a country like Puerto Rico and outside Athletics is an achivement to be written in books by itself , but whom history or people would remember him more Monica Puig for winning Olympic hold and doing shit in other tournanents or Gastin Gaudio winning RG in 2004 and doing shit in his entire career i think both are going to be forgotten , but they'll always be mentioned as Olympic gold medalist or a grand slam winner right now people remember Puig more actually 

Anders Gomez is probably the most obscure Grand Slam winner in the last 30 years. However clay speciallists are a different kind of breed, even tennis fans admit some players have a GS shot if only on a certain surface. All things considered Gaudio vs Coria Roland Garros final wasn't as surprising as Bartoli vs Lisicki Wimbledon final (mainly because there are fewer events on grass these days).

[Monzanator 4,503]

2 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

Today we'll have a really good match between Azarenka and Sabalenka really a match that i look forward to seeing it 

AKA 58 winners and 75 unforced errors

[thepharoah 2,405]

45 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Anders Gomez is probably the most obscure Grand Slam winner in the last 30 years. However clay speciallists are a different kind of breed, even tennis fans admit some players have a GS shot if only on a certain surface. All things considered Gaudio vs Coria Roland Garros final wasn't as surprising as Bartoli vs Lisicki Wimbledon final (mainly because there are fewer events on grass these days).

I can't call Gaudio a clay specialist , i mean ofc it was his best surface but he wasn't as good as even Coria on Clay and he was just lucky that Coria got injured back in this final , anyway my point that winning an Olympic gold or a GS in tennis alone doesn't really make u a very famous figure but it writes your name in the history of the sport and btw it's even the 1st time for me that i hear about a GS winner from Ecuador thanks for the info 

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22 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

I can't call Gaudio a clay specialist , i mean ofc it was his best surface but he wasn't as good as even Coria on Clay and he was just lucky that Coria got injured back in this final , anyway my point that winning an Olympic gold or a GS in tennis alone doesn't really make u a very famous figure but it writes your name in the history of the sport and btw it's even the 1st time for me that i hear about a GS winner from Ecuador thanks for the info 

Gaudio was a clay speciallist - like most Spanish & Latin players of the time. In 2005 only Nadal had more wins on clay than Gaudio. After that he had like one healthy season and soon fell into obscurity.

 

Nalbandian was the only Argentine non-clay speciallist at the time, he excelled in the now largely defunct indoor carpet events but Gaudio, Coria, Puerta, Monaco & Chela were all clay speciallists.

 

PS. You never heard about Andres Gomez before my post?

 

Have you heard about Virginia Ruzici winning Roland Garros? (just so people know Halep wasn't the first Romanian to do it)

 

Back when Andre Agassi still had his 1980s hair!

 

[Federer91 2,796]

1 hour ago, thepharoah said:

Winning a gold medal for a country like Puerto Rico and outside Athletics is an achivement to be written in books by itself , but whom history or people would remember him more Monica Puig for winning Olympic gold and doing shit in other tournanents or Gastin Gaudio winning RG in 2004 and doing shit in his entire career i think both are going to be forgotten , but they'll always be mentioned as Olympic gold medalist or a grand slam winner right now people remember Puig more actually 

I still remember better Gaudio and Coria than 80% of slams in the last 10 years. 

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12 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

I still remember better Gaudio and Coria than 80% of slams in the last 10 years. 

Yes, that comes from the fact the Slams in the last decade have been hijacked by the same 3-4 names all the time and it's impossible to tell a difference which Nadal RG victory or Djokovic AO victory was which

 

It's like in F1, everyone remembers Johnny Herbert's 1999 European GP victory but people don't remember 80 of 85 Hamilton's wins (one can argue the most memorable Hamilton moment was when Glock let him through in Brazil for 5th place  ).