Food for thought: Rafter played a young Federer 3 times in the 1999-2001 seasons with 3 straight victories. Edberg played Rafter 3 times between 1993 to 1996 with 3 straight victories. And Edberg was already fading by 1993!
@@Ronnie-k6m Meaningless? No. Instructive. Yes. Fed only played a true serve and volley maestro once.........the 2001 4th round with a past his best Sampras at Wimby. But even a second rate volleyer like Rafter demonstrated that Fed would get it easy with that slew of baselining sludge that would predominate from the early 00s onwards.
@@rjamesyork Tim Henman(who played both Edberg and Fed) has implied that Fed's volleying was not up to the standard of the contemporary players from his era(i.eSampras,Mac,Edberg and Becker)
Food for thought:
Rafter played a young Federer 3 times in the 1999-2001 seasons with 3 straight victories.
Edberg played Rafter 3 times between 1993 to 1996 with 3 straight victories.
And Edberg was already fading by 1993!
Meaningless
If you’re trying to say Edberg was better than Federer this isn’t terribly convincing.
@@Ronnie-k6m
Meaningless?
No.
Instructive.
Yes.
Fed only played a true serve and volley maestro once.........the 2001 4th round with a past his best Sampras at Wimby.
But even a second rate volleyer like Rafter demonstrated that Fed would get it easy with that slew of baselining sludge that would predominate from the early 00s onwards.
@@rjamesyork
Tim Henman(who played both Edberg and Fed) has implied that Fed's volleying was not up to the standard of the contemporary players from his era(i.eSampras,Mac,Edberg and Becker)
This is every serve and volley player’s wet dream match
Probably the best serve and volley players !
Rafter the most exciting tennis player
😮
This place always had the best camera angles.
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