yeah yeah it went five sets, big deal hanging at the baseline trading groundstrokes is not my idea of an exciting match, I have not watched pro tennis much since Sampras retired, its boring

Oh well, Ill always have lawn bowling

Really? You preferred watching Sampras blast 50 aces in a match and has points last less than three strokes? In the 90's, people complained that the point were too short and the game was too fast and they missed the good ol' times of McEnroe/Borg. Now when we have a rivalry better than that of McEnroe/Borg or McEnroe/Connors or Sampras/Agassi, people are still complaining. I guess you really can't please everyone.

http://twowhiteboys.com/2008/

"Better" than McEnroe/Borg? It's a darn good rivalry, but it certainly hasn't captured the attention of the public at large like the Borg/McEnroe/Connors era. Maybe Nadal is the guy to wake everybody back up, like Agassi was able to do for a time. But it's rather sad when two all-time greats like Sampras and Federer come along basically back-to-back and the world collectively shrugs.

Sorry, I did not mean that Sampras was exciting to watch, it was just that in his era, the matches over all, were more exciting to watch because more players were playing a varity of styles (serve, volly,baseline, all-around).

So it was more interesting to watch players with different styles playing each other