Who is America's number 1 tennis player?
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I has to be pete sampras
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Here are my answers, GENTLEMEN first:\n\nFASTEST:     ANDY RODDICK by far. He holds the official record for fastest tennis serve at 155 mph (250 kph, 09/27/04, Davis Cup tie with Belarus, vs. Vladimir Voltchkov). However, some records show that "Big Bill" Tilden blasted a 163 mph (263 kph) serve in 1931. But due to the difference in clocking techniques that time, this record is often not recognized.\n\nMOST CONSISTENT:     IVAN LJUBICIC. He always leads ATP in total number of aces in a year, and highest average per game.\n\nSPECIAL AWARD for serving goes to ROGER FEDERER. He has the most stylish serve, which is too difficult to read. His serves do not need to be fastest to deceive the eyes of his opponent.\n\nOTHER NOTABLE SERVERS: Pete Sampras, Joachim Johansson, Mario Ancic, Ivo Karlovic. (I don't know what's with the Croatians that they serve too hard! Maybe it's the height, or just a product of rigorous training.)\n\nLADIES:\n\nFASTEST:      Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (130 mph). This is a new record, only set last July 2006 in the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open in Ohio. She reclaimed her record from Venus Williams (127 mph) served at the tournament in Zurich at the 90's.\n\nMOST CONSISTENT:     WILLIAMS Sisters. Do you notice how their opponents react each time they are on service? Such strong serves for ladies, at times faster than their male counterpart. \n\nSPECIAL CITATION goes to MARIA SHARAPOVA. She has a punishing serve coupled with a very loud grunting. The problem is whether the serve or the shriek troubles the receiver (laughs....)\n\n:  )
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Depends on the surface: \n\nOn Grass Pete Sampras in his prime is the best has an edge over Federer, Sampras had the best serve in the game.\n\nOn Hard court, Sampras and Federer would be evenly matched. \n\nClay court: Many players. \n\nOverall: Sampras is the greatest for now, unless Federer beats his grand slams record.
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Andy Roddick has claimed the record for the world's fastest serve. \nThe American was playing in the Davis Cup clash with Austria when he hit a serve timed at 150.241.4mph. \n\nIt came on the fourth point of the eighth game in his match against Stefan Koubek. Roddick won 6-4 6-4 6-2 in only 90 minutes to help the USA on its way to victory. \n\nRoddick was the joint holder of the previous record - 149.239.7mph - with Britain's Greg Rusedski. \n\nThird behind the British number two is America's Taylor Dent, who served up a 144.2mph delivery at Wimbledon in 2001. \n\nAustralia's Mark Philippoussis is fourth on the list with his 142.3mph rocket in 1997 in Dusseldorf.
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Pete Sampras (USA) def. Todd Martin (USA), 7-6, 6-4, 6-4
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I'd love to see Federer win but Nadal still seems the safest bet. That said, with all the hype surrounding the clay-court winning streak, it almost seems like he could be riding for a fall. It often happens that way in sports. When someone is seen as so much of an invincible favorite going into a championship, that's when an upset or an injury or some other kind of misfortune occurs. Look at the New York Yankees. In 2000 they won the World Series over the Mets (the famous "Subway Series"). The next year they go out as HEAVY favorites over the Diamondbacks and...LOSE! So yes, stranger things have happened.\nAs far as my favorite of the two. Federer, hands down. Such all-round dominance over the past 3 years, 7 Slams without losing in a final, the best game to watch by a long way. He mixes offense and defense, and can hit every coceivable shot.\nFavorite of all-time. I guess, Sampras. When you look at what he did for most of a decade against a particularly strong top ten. The amount of classic matches. He's a natural pick. \nFederer looks like he could reach that level, but he's still got a lot of winning to do first
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No, but he is among the greatest players of alltime. The fact of\nthe matter is, if he was able to win the US Open a few times,\nhe might not have left the game so early. He could have been\nthe greatest player ever, since the rate he was winning Slams during his peak years was even better than Sampras. His failure to win the US Open, despite four trips to the final, is what ultimately forced him to retire prematurely. If he had won even once in those four trips, I'm guessing he would have hung around the sport longer. Another factor is he didn't like to play so frequently, and the new rules that were coming into play would\nhave forced him to do that to retain his world ranking. Those two\nfactors probably had more to do with anything else for the reasons he didn't retire in his 30s, instead of his mid 20s, when\nmost players are about to hit their prime, or are in their prime.\n   No one has able to achieve the French Open-Wimbledon\ndouble in the same year since Borg did it (1976, 1978,1979,1980). Jim Courier (won 1993 French Open, lost in 1993 Wimbledon final), Rafael Nadal (won 2006 French Open and lost in 2006 Wimbledon final) and Roger Federer (lost 2006 French Open final, and won 2006 Wimbledon final) have come the closest in this regard. Ivan Lendl and Stefan Edberg also came close. Ivan Lendl won the 1987 French Open but lost in the 1987 Wimbledon final to Pat Cash. Stefan Edberg lost in the 1989 French Open final to Michael Chang and the 1989 Wimbledon final to Boris Becker. Bjorn Borg the French Open six times, but it wasn't in 6 consecutive years (1974, 1976, 1978-1981). Manuel Orantes won the French Open in 1975, while\nGuillermo Vilas won the 1977 French Open men's singles title.\nI think Borg didn't play the French Open in 1975 or 1977, but I'm\nnot sure. He did win Wimbledon five consecutive years (1976-1980), and made the final in 1981. Roger Federer has a chance\nto equal Borg's modern era record in 2007 and has to reach the final in 2008 to equal Borg's mark of 41 consecutive wins at \nWimbledon in the modern era. I forgot about how close John\nMcEnroe came in 1984 to winning the French Open against\nIvan Lendl. He went on to win Wimbledon and the US Open\nthat same season. I think his 1984 season is still one of the greatest seasons in tennis history for a male or female player.
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On Personal Preference:\n\n1 Federer - predictable but groundbreaking, and a nicer person than most #1s\n\n2 Nadal - partly for being able to pose a Big Problem for Federer, and partly for instinctively getting how and how not to act to be great for the sport\n\n3 Nalbandian - another Federer question, plus he tends to be a level or two better at bigger events\n\n4 Davydenko - for apparently being injury-proof; he may play more tournaments in a row than some others will all year\n\n5 Blake - great story, very nice person, just needs not to go walkabout in deciding sets\n\n6 Roddick - the swagger leaves me cold, though I can appreciate why others might like it.\n\n7 Robredo - has his moments; a bit of a dark horse\n\n8 Ljubicic - a little like the pre-major-winning Lendl; maybe a bit of a whiner?\n\n1 Dementieva - must have enormous internal fortitude to get such results with such a non-asset of a serve and gets huge points for her social sensitivity in her US Open finals appearance\n\n2 Mauresmo - probably the gentlest soul among all the top players, and has really paid her dues in many respects to deserve her success\n\n3 Henin-Hardenne - glorious game, incredible competitive fire; loses points for questionable sportsmanship and too-blatant selfishness\n\n4 Clijsters - the opposite side of the JHH coin; capable of a much better resume and refreshingly open about valuing friends over trophies, but a little too content with one major title\n\n5 Kuznetsova - for making Martina Navratilova look like a genius\n\n6 Sharapova - love the intensity, maybe too marketable, MAJOR mandatory deduction for the pornographic grunting\n\n7 Hingis - great thoughtfulness on court, but lost a lot of points for making derogatory remarks about Mauresmo years ago (as well as getting into verbal fights with Richard Williams) and doesn't seem to have grown much; dating her doesn't seem to have done much good for Magnus Norman or Sergio Garcia\n\n8 Petrova - probably capable of improving, but fell at the first big hurdle
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Federer,Nadal,Tipsarevic,.....
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It is Roger Federer , the current ATP world number 1.He crossed 8 million dollar mark after winning the Tennis Masters Cup at Shanghai, breaking his own record of most prize money earned ina single season .His previous record was of 7 million .\n\nThis is to Cumquat - yes you are right.
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Roger Federer is getting there boys.  He might do it.  Just keep watching, he might be the best in the world in the history of tennis in a couple of years.
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1.Greg Rusedski(37)\n2.Andy Murray(45)\n3.Tim Henman(76)\n4.Alex Bogdanovic(138)\n5.Arvind Parmar(201)
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I like Andre.  But Federer is the most complete player I've seen, and I've been watching tennis for 20 years.
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If Borg were born at the same time as most players today and went through modern strength and conditioning programs.  Add to this some changes to his game to better handle the pace of modern day tennis, and I have no doubt that Bjorn Borg would be near the top of todays game.  I am fairly sure that John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors would agree.
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1 Roger Federer \n2 Rafael Nadal \n3 David Nalbandian \n4 Ivan Ljubicic\n5 Andy Roddick \n6 Nikolay Davydenko \n7 Tommy Robredo \n8 James Blake \n9 Fernando Gonzalez \n10 Gaston Gaudio
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Bjorn Borg. In my opinion, Tennis has never been played as beautifully as was played by him.
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la numéro 1 DU tennis : justine henin ardenne\net le numéro 1 DU tennis : roger federer