Rosewall keeps his L front foot on the ground when he serves because he learned to serve in the 1950s and you weren't allowed to jump and had to keep one foot on the ground until around 1961. Connors pushes up into the serve with his legs and actually has both feet off the ground similar to how modern players serve. Connors learned to serve after the rules were changed to allow both feet to be off the ground.
This was not at Flushing Meadows. the US Open moved to Flushing Meadows in 1978 and Flushing Meadows has ALWAYS been hard courts. This is Forest Hills. connors has a US Open record that will likely never be broken. He won the US Open on 3 different surfaces. He won on grass (at Forest Hills) in 1974, clay (at Forest Hills) in 1976 and hard court (at Flushing Meadows) in 1978.
いや...ケンローズウォールボッコボッコで観ていて辛い。でも彼のテニスは大好き。神様のスライスは美し過ぎる✨
この頃のコナーズは現代でも十分通用するのではないか
unbelievable match by Connors
この当時のローズウォールの年齢考えたら凄い
オープン化前が最盛期だったのに
世代交代・・・。と言うか テニスが変わった試合。
Rosewall keeps his L front foot on the ground when he serves because he learned to serve in the 1950s and you weren't allowed to jump and had to keep one foot on the ground until around 1961. Connors pushes up into the serve with his legs and actually has both feet off the ground similar to how modern players serve. Connors learned to serve after the rules were changed to allow both feet to be off the ground.
This was not at Flushing Meadows. the US Open moved to Flushing Meadows in 1978 and Flushing Meadows has ALWAYS been hard courts. This is Forest Hills. connors has a US Open record that will likely never be broken. He won the US Open on 3 different surfaces. He won on grass (at Forest Hills) in 1974, clay (at Forest Hills) in 1976 and hard court (at Flushing Meadows) in 1978.
Connors was 22, and Rosewall was just shy of 40.
17 years later almost 39 years old Connors would play against a 21 Jim Courier.
ローズウォール、現役時代は観たこと無いけど逸話は聞いてる、試合で来日した時、東京のテニス部の学生達が練習相手になったそうだがスライスが滑ってきて学生が全く返せなかったそう。
そうフォレストヒルズは芝生コートでした
奇しくもGS優勝回数は両者とも8回。それまでのスライステニスがコナーズによって打ち砕かれた瞬間。その後ボルグによってトップスピン全盛になっていく・・
フォレストヒルズ？