View Single Post Old 11-14-2012, 11:09 PM   #455 Prisoner of
Birth Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 2,823  Originally Posted by
krosero View Post In your first paragraph you refuse to judge
the current era by the standards of Borg's era. But then you go
on to judge Borg by the standards of the current era. Olympic
gold by Nadal? Tennis wasn't even an Olympic sport in Borg's
time. And Borg not playing 4 Slams a year, you put down merely
as his fault. You well know that virtually nobody played the
Australian, and the fault lies with the tournament organizers
who scheduled it during the holidays and couldn't offer the same
prize money as the other Slams were offering. That was part of
the tour structure at the time -- a weak AO -- and you don't
take that into consideration, simply putting it down to the
fault of the players.  I mean, if you're going to criticize the
players for choosing not to play the AO, then why don't we
criticize them today for their choices. Nadal has bad knees.
Well, why not say it's his own fau