View Single Post Old 07-12-2011, 09:57 PM   #15 Join Date: Jun
2010 Posts: 9,286  Originally Posted by John123 View Post Pc1
and Limpinhitter:  There's no question that the pro majors were
significant tournaments, or that the pros were better than the
amateurs. There's also no question that it was a very impressive
feat for Laver to sweep those tournaments in 1967. The 1950s and
1960s produced fantastic tennis: I view Laver and Pancho as two
of the greatest three players of the past 80 years.  But I
started this thread to disagree with what I see a lot in this
forum, which is the claim that pro majors were basically like
starting a modern Slam in the quarters, with the top eight
players. They most certainly were not like that. Just look at
Laver's draws in 1967: he won 13 total matches to sweep the pro
majors, and 5 of those matches were against guys who definitely
weren't top-10 players in the world (most not even close), with
another 3 matches against a guy who wasn't in the top 5. Of the
five matches he di