King of the surfaces (Clay, Grass, Hard)

[Saarbrigga]

Clay: Nadal (5 times French, Clay Slam in 2010)

Grass: Pistol Pete (7 times Wimbledon against the best competition)

Hard: Federer (9 GS titles on hard, 5 US Open, 4 Australien Open)

Your favorites?

[Otlichno]

Federer is the King of Tennis.

Nadal is the King of Clay. Nadal on Clay is the only thing that can beat a Federer who is thinking clearly and playing well.

Of course Soderling beating Federer would imply otherwise but it was obvious Federer was not mixing it up like he usually does against Soderling, he was simply giving him shots from the baseline with pace and wasn't using the slice or going to the net to try and break Soderling's rhythm. Federer was not playing well and certainly was not thinking clearly.

[Elargento]

my favorites:

grass: a tie between sampras and federer.

clay: vilas, he may have not won so many rg but he won 45 tnts only on clay, and he had the longest clay court matches streak until a player with an illegal stirngbed beat him.

hard: roger with 9 slams and a lot of ms that pretty much says it all

[Mike Rotchtickles]

I'd say on clay for me it's still pretty close between Borg and Nadal.
Borg had won 6 FO's by the age of 25. It could very well have been 7 titles there if he hadn't missed playing Roland Garros in 1977.

[Mike Rotchtickles]

clay: vilas, he may have not won so many rg but he won 45 tnts only on clay, and he had the longest clay court matches streak until a player with an illegal stirngbed beat him.

Villas was a great player, no doubt about that. That year he had in '77 was unbelievable.
Borg owned him, though, and on all surfaces, and particularly on clay with a lopsided head-to-head of 10-2.
He also got beat in straights in both of his FO finals v Borg, and the year Villas won his only title there was the year that Borg skipped the tournament.
Borg was simply better, and in terms of this discussion, a superior clay courter.

[Ir0kuM4t4]

my favorites:

grass: a tie between sampras and federer.

clay: vilas, he may have not won so many rg but he won 45 tnts only on clay, and he had the longest clay court matches streak until a player with an illegal stirngbed beat him.

hard: roger with 9 slams and a lot of ms that pretty much says it all

What do you mean with illegal stringbed Elargento?

[Moralspain]

my favorites:

grass: a tie between sampras and federer.

clay: vilas, he may have not won so many rg but he won 45 tnts only on clay, and he had the longest clay court matches streak until a player with an illegal stirngbed beat him.

hard: roger with 9 slams and a lot of ms that pretty much says it all

What do you mean with illegal stringbed Elargento?

well actually it´s called "Spaghetti string"

[Mike Rotchtickles]

Wasn't it Nastase who used that illegal stringing method when he beat Villas?

Apparently the way that racquet is strung it gives much more spin to the ball but the shots are less powerful than with regularly strung racquets.

[fedfan]

Looking at it like that I would say Nadal's streak thus far is the best and could well go on and on. His run covers more tournaments and more opponents, plus he defeated Federer to win 3 of his Roland Garros titles.

The runs on grass are great but they do tend to only surround the one event, Wimbledon.

Federer's all around run of consecutive final wins is unbelievable though given the stretch of time it covers also.

[Elargento]

yeah you are right borg owned pretty much vilas, but anyway its my personal favourite.

[fedfan]

Borgs run of RG/Wimbledon doubles was also mighty impressive.

[AUSSIE_FABS]

Wasn't there a large gap inbetween them. Not trying to take away what he did because it was bloody impressive. But I think it a lot harder to do it these days.

[Elargento]

Wasn't there a large gap inbetween them. Not trying to take away what he did because it was bloody impressive. But I think it a lot harder to do it these days.

i am a bit lost who are you taking about?

[AUSSIE_FABS]

Well according to some commentator rg and wimbledon used to be further apart. I just assumed he wasn't lying lol.

[Elargento]

ah, i didn't know that. what i did know is that us open was played on clay before and the aussy open on grass.