Is Federrer the Greatest of All in Tennis?

The jury may be out on this issue of finding who is the greatest but to me he is one of the greatest to grace the tennis court!

I would go with this list,

1 federer
2 sampras
3 Nadal
4 Agassi
5 becker
6 edberg
7 Safin
8 Courier
9 Hewitt
10kuerten

So federer is the greatest player of all ..

Where are the names of greats of yester-years like Rod Laver,Borg,MCcanroe.......!!!!

Chinmoy these are my favourite players .!! and federer tops the list.
federer is the best tennis player to have ever held a racket

Oh,you are a great fan of Federrer but I remember one post which you made when Nadal won French Open expressing great excitement I almost thought you to be a fan of Nadal!!!!

Rafeal Nadal and Federrer... both are good players...

I like the style of Federrer play... He never seems to get exhausted in his play!!!!

Chinmoy,

When it comes to federer vs Nadal i always wanted nadal to win that match. Nadal has a long way to go, when he reach federer's age he would surely break all records by federer.

Thats right Sajeetharan... I would also support Nadal... :) :) :) :)

At present if we consider the play and records Federrer is greatest..Nadal still has to acheive more ..we can compare him with Federar..similarly Sampras is best at that time so as time changes the names differ is what i can say..

The fact is each era produces its own greats and I am not inclined to make comparisons.Federrer has proved himself to be one such great beyond any shade of doubt.

Rajani,
some of the points i find interesting are:
-pete sampras was certainly the most destructive and a joy to watch in the court
-his serve and volley is the best i have ever seen of any player
-i dont think he developed his rallying skills too much, thats why the french open blot
-federer in contrast has a more complete game to win all the titles
-however federer doesnt have the kind of competition sampras had in his time
-and his serve and volley isnt really of the highest standard(the standard set by sampras)
-the most interesting part: sampras' second service was one of the most lethal weapon in his armoury

I love to watch the playing style of Nadal.Nadal is really rocking!!! :) :)

@Sajeetharan

You've done well to highlight the relative sternghts of these players.Sampras was a class act!

I never believed that Federrer was the greatest, Nadal is giving him so much of competition.

It's only through competition that champions emerge in the scene.WE have has such competition between Borg and MCanroe.