Is Roger Federer the Greatest Tennis Player of All Time?
The modern athlete, due to the enhancements of training and equipment, is a bigger and stronger version of the athletes from era’s past. That is the main crux to comparing a Roger Federer to a Rod Laver. It is hard to imagine Rod Laver, a man who won all four major tennis tournaments in the same year twice, showing up with his wooden racket and wiping the court with Roger Federer. I can see Roger Federer going to Rod Laver’s era, using a wooden racket and dominating in the same manner he has done in this era. The best era of Men’s Tennis would have to be from the prime of Bjorn Borg’s career to the prime of Ivan Landl’s career. That would capture the names that we all remember: Jimmy Connors, Jon McEnroe, Boris Becker, and Pat Cash were the veterans. Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi were the young guys. Jim Courier, like David Duvall would do later in golf, showed such promise, and left the impression that they both underachieved despite having success. Is Roger Federer’s amazing twenty s
