Golf is golf. Tiger doesn't have to adjust his game according to the people he plays with. In tennis you'll have guys who serve 140mph and rush to the net afterward, and those who live on the baselines, and those who play in between. He has to study his opponents' games, their styles, and adjust according to the court.
Golf is golf. Tiger doesn't have to adjust his game according to the people he plays with. In tennis you'll have guys who serve 140mph and rush to the net afterward, and those who live on the baselines, and those who play in between. He has to study his opponents' games, their styles, and adjust according to the court.
And? He still didn't do it the same year. Federer made it to the finals of 6 straight majors and won 5 of them.
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Tough one, but I would have to go with Tiger, though my vote may change if Federer keeps playing like he has been for much longer.
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regardless of which is a more difficult sport, the question is who is the most dominant in their respective sports...and that is clearly federer.
But in golf how your opponent swings does not affect how you swing! In tennis, your opponent can force you to a shot. Not in golf.
Tennis is definitely a much harder sport to dominate.
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the same can be said about tennis courts. So while tiger only has to worry about the course, federer has to worry about the court as well as the opposing player.
He sure dominates that though...Well course management is the most difficult part of the game to master in golf, so let's just stop and agree that golf is much more difficult to dominate than tennis.
There is always somebody dominating in tennis, federer is just this decades player. He'll be usurped in a few years anyway when some new hotshot comes and takes his place.
I'd put Nadal ahead of Roddick and Hewitt. Maybe Nalbandian too, though not if Roddick keeps playing as well as he did.
Keep in mind, if this had been, in his prime, tiger would probably win in my book. That two year span where he won 4 majors in a row was unprecedented dominance. But at the current moment, I think tiger is not quite as dominant as back then (others have caught up somewhat), and Federer is in supreme dominance mode.
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Has he so fundamentally changed the game that they are redoing the game itself to make it harder for him? Are they trying to federer proof tenis?
No.
That should very simply show who is the most dominant.
Not a bad logical argument, but statistically you are very wrong. There have always been great tennis players with (virtually) unbeatable match records in any given year.
To give you an idea of the difficulty of golf, the best player of our generation, Tiger Woods has rebuilt his swing twice in his career already (IIRC in 1998 and again in 2002). Each time, his game definitely slumped in the following year of play. The only beloved patriot in Tiger's armor is Ryder Cup play.
FWIW Tiger > Roger (I mean just the name.)
I would say Federer is more dominant because he is so far above and beyond his competition. You really can't debate that.
However, Tiger's dominance is more impressive given the nature of his sport.
However, Tiger's dominance is more impressive given the nature of his sport.
Chuck Liddel of the UFC is the most dominate athlete in MMA...Did you see him kick the crap out of Babalu? Can't wait til he destroys Wanderlei Silva, who's head got kicked off.
ummm yeah lets just stop :roll: pathetic...
its unusual for a player to dominate more than a decade in tennis because it actually requires endurance. you probably think tennis requires much less endurance than football or something but if you actually had ever played, you'd understand the effort by tennis players and appreciate the sport a bit more. have you ever played tennis?
I play both tennis (15+ years) and golf (6+ years) and I find advancing against other players much more harder in tennis.
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Umm, wtf? Last I heard they were making the golf courses longer. Yup, that really hinders Tiger's game. Oh wait, no it doesn't, because Tiger has a ridiculous drive.
WTF? How is this even an argument? Are you saying no one else but Tiger has dominated golf? Um, Nicklaus? Ben Hogan? Arnold Palmer?
In cycling, it was Lance Armstrong.
In Basketball, you had the Bulls, before that the Lakers, before that the Celtics.
How do you expect them to change the game? :roll: Its so obvious that you have never played tennis :roll: You can stop your uninformed trolling now... it only makes you look more pathetic.
Just let him keep trolling, trying his chances with ridiculous statements such as
LOL.
The dude obviously has never even stepped on a tennis court....
Keep making assumptions. I've played many sports and if you couldn't tell from other threads am an avid tennis entuhsiast (since I used to play).
But the impact and domiance tiger has can't be compared by Federers dominance. Fedrere will be done in a few years once the next up and comer hits stride.
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