Originally Posted by
crimson king
"This is exactly why we have a FO where all these pushers can hit all day long (6+ hours borefest)..."
Of the previous top 4 - i.e. before Fed slipped to 7 recently - only Murray can somewhat be described as a pusher and he too has begun to get more aggressive. Everybody who plays from the baseline is not a pusher. If that was so, Agassi must be one too and he was the only player after Laver to achieve a career slam in the open era before Fed and Rafa. And speaking of which...
"Nowadays it has become a joke to achieve the Career Grand Slam, with players not have to change even a bit to achieve the same."
Only Fed and Rafa have achieved the career slam since Agassi. Djoko has come close but he hasn't achieved it yet and Murray didn't even bother turning up at RG this year. People act like any tom, dick and harry has achieved a career slam in the current era which is not at all true. And as for changing one's style, even Agassi played in more or less the same way on all surfaces and still achieved the feat. So, the homogenization of tennis was already taking shape in the 90s...it just took the next generation to learn from Agassi and emulate his style. Agassi and not Sampras was the most influential player of the 90s, in spite of winning fewer slams. History will record that his approach of playing an offensive baseline game with a double backhand is what has become more popular with current players...except Fed and a few others.
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