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Dictatorship wrote:

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Roddick really does deserve this. He's worked so hard.

Lol at Hewitt's shitty ass Wimbledon record making him one of the best grasscourt players of all time. the guy has made it to the semis twice in 10 attempts. FAIL

And won it once. How many other players on the circuit in the age of Federer can say that? Nadal, Goran Ivanisevic in 2001? You got me there!

I bet you can't find another mens player who's had a better Wimbledon record than Hewitt in the past decade, besides Federer and Henman, amongst whom Hewitt is "one of the greatest" as I said.
Here's Roddick's for comparison:
2001 3RD
2002 3RD
2003 SF
2004 RUP*
2005 RUP*
2006 3RD
2007 QF
2008 2ND
2009 RUP*?

(PS I am aware I'm only considering Wimbledon for this.)

Dictatorship, I consider the past decade to be a new era in general, far beyond earlier generations in terms of serving strength, pace of shots, absolute technical precision in physical and biological training and equipment, and this began in about 2000. I refer to this as the "Federer era" because it's lasted for his entire career, not in reference to when he was in dominant form, but it deserves his name because of his dominant form and that he was able to rise up above even the accelerating proficiency of new world-class tennis play. This is a pretty common view.


Sampras would have done exceedingly well in this era also; he was ahead of his time in the previous era just as Federer is this time.


Again, you're forgetting that Hewitt has run into the ultimate victor, Federer, THREE times, once in the semis and twice preventing him from making the semis. That is a huge plus on his record in itself.


So if you weight a player's abilities in terms of era of play, and losing to Federer -- two pretty reasonable considerations -- Hewitt is one of the greatest grass courters of all time.