Re: Lendl at Masters Cup

"Gordon Cameron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Far better to win them all once than to pile up
> > duplicate wins, even at Wimbledon.
>
> So careerwise, a man who won 1 FO, 1 AO, 1 Wimbledon, and 1 USO would
> be better than someone who won 15 Wimbledons, 15 AOs, 15 USOs and 0
> FOs?
>
> I can't accept that.  I can't even accept that Agassi trumps Pete,
> whose slam total is merely "one Boris Becker" or so above Agassi's.
> There might be a "cutoff point" at which career GS outweighs sheer
> slam total, but when you are up by 6 (an amount that is itself
> equivalent to a hall-of-fame-worthy career), and when *12* of your
> total are Wim/USO, I think you're past that cutoff point.  (I don't
> put as much weight in the "blue chip" thing as Whisper does but the AO
> is clearly the least slam and that's the one Agassi has by far the
> most of.)
>
> I seem to be in the middle between you and Whisper.  He underestimates
> the importance of Agassi's career slam, and you overestimate it. :-)

Actually I think I'm overestimating Agassi.  I put that down to the fact
he's still playing - in 10 yrs he'll be an after thought....