My latest post on the greatest sportsperson thread suggested a spin-off from it - not the biggest name you've seen, but the highest level of play/game you have been in attendance at. The take-your-breath-away type of performance. Which may or may not have come from an all-time great.
For me, it is the same answer for first place - Federer and Nadal going at it in the 2007 Wimbledon Men's Singles Final. Also mentioned on the other thread was Serena beating Safina 6-0 6-1 a couple of years latter, but that was a bit hard to judge how well she was playing as she was so totally blowing away her opponent (which could be argued shows the level given that, if I remember correctly, Safina was World No. 1 at the time... technically). About the only thing that genuinely pushes the Federer-Nadal match was an Andy Murray performance against Andy Roddick at Queens Club when Muzza seemed preternatural in getting the huge serves back and then well nigh perfect in everything else he did after the rallies got started - it was a mismatch and Roddick just looked gobsmacked.
Also as mentioned on the other thread, the best team showing I've seen was Liverpool pretty recently, the first title under Klopp, Salah-Sane-Firmino season team having a game-of-games. They are probably an example of collection of very good but quite all-time players combining to play at an all-time great level (and doing so for a sustain period to boot, which is particularly impressive).
I wonder if any has been present at famous shocks where a relatively mundane performer suddenly played out-of-their-skin as if they were one of the world's very best? I'm thinking Rosol hitting everything as hard as he could and them all going in against Nadal at Wimbledon, Devon Malcolm bowling like the wind and ripping through South Africa 9-57, that sort of performance.
For me, it is the same answer for first place - Federer and Nadal going at it in the 2007 Wimbledon Men's Singles Final. Also mentioned on the other thread was Serena beating Safina 6-0 6-1 a couple of years latter, but that was a bit hard to judge how well she was playing as she was so totally blowing away her opponent (which could be argued shows the level given that, if I remember correctly, Safina was World No. 1 at the time... technically). About the only thing that genuinely pushes the Federer-Nadal match was an Andy Murray performance against Andy Roddick at Queens Club when Muzza seemed preternatural in getting the huge serves back and then well nigh perfect in everything else he did after the rallies got started - it was a mismatch and Roddick just looked gobsmacked.
Also as mentioned on the other thread, the best team showing I've seen was Liverpool pretty recently, the first title under Klopp, Salah-Sane-Firmino season team having a game-of-games. They are probably an example of collection of very good but quite all-time players combining to play at an all-time great level (and doing so for a sustain period to boot, which is particularly impressive).
I wonder if any has been present at famous shocks where a relatively mundane performer suddenly played out-of-their-skin as if they were one of the world's very best? I'm thinking Rosol hitting everything as hard as he could and them all going in against Nadal at Wimbledon, Devon Malcolm bowling like the wind and ripping through South Africa 9-57, that sort of performance.
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