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To: raybbr
'I miss watching Rafter play. Serve and volley is my game, too. The best I ever saw was Edberg when he beat Sampras at the U.S Open in '92. Edberg was smooth and graceful.'

Edberg, as you say, had a beautifully smooth serve-volley game. Wonderful natural talent. However, I would say the best serve-volley performance I've ever seen was when McEnroe destroyed Connors at Wimbledon in the early eighties. He had earlier beaten Lendl in the semi-final fairly easily.

Poor Jimmy never had a chance and I was amazed when several months later he took McEnroe to five sets in the final of the US Open.

144 posted on 09/10/2006 1:53:06 PM PDT by jjbrouwer
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To: jjbrouwer

Oops, the Lendl semi-final was a year before, I think. He killed some New Zealand guy in the final that year.


145 posted on 09/10/2006 1:54:16 PM PDT by jjbrouwer
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