Greatest upsets in the history of tennis thread

[Moxie]

Soderling over Nadal was the biggest one ever. I thought Safin d. Federer in SF AO '05 was quality AND a pretty big upset.

 

[atttomole]

Federer-Stakhosky
Nadal-Soderling
Federer-Anderson
Djokovic-Chung
Safin-Sampras

 

[atttomole]

Soderling over Nadal was the biggest one ever. I thought Safin d. Federer in SF AO '05 was quality AND a pretty big upset.

Safin beating Federer didn't look that much of an upset. Technically, Safin was an excellent tennis player and he was playing well at that AO. Many people thought he was a headcase who was wasting his talent.

 

[Moxie]

Safin beating Federer didn't look that much of an upset. Technically, Safin was an excellent tennis player and he was playing well at that AO. Many people thought he was a headcase who was wasting his talent.

Probably fair enough. Safin had also had reasonable results at the AO prior.

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

To me, Fedalovic (maybe add Murray there too) can never have an upset among themselves. I am talking after they established themselves as greats, not the first years. They are just too good and can come up with the goods even when they have a bad stretch.
Nadal losing on grass early, again I find it a bit difficult to see as an upset. That's just me though.
A great upset is when a person has no business beating Roger on grass or Rafa on clay pulls it off. Soderling, Tsonga, Anderson , etc...
Also going back, Sampras losing to Bastl at Wimbledon in the second round. Yeah he was getting up there in age but he still won the US Open that year so he had no business losing to someone ranked 150 or something.

 

[lob]

It amuses me that I remember some names just because of a single match.

Peter Doohan
Lukas Rosol
Stakhovsky
Joachim Johansson
Dustin Brown

They attain tennis immortality by winning one match and then disappear. But I had to look up the names of Kafelnikov and Tom Johansson who both won grand slam tournaments.

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[GameSetAndMath]

Federer-Stakhosky
Nadal-Soderling
Federer-Anderson
Djokovic-Chung
Safin-Sampras

Take off Djokovic - Chung. Novak was still trying to redeem himself.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

To me, Fedalovic (maybe add Murray there too) can never have an upset among themselves. I am talking after they established themselves as greats, not the first years. They are just too good and can come up with the goods even when they have a bad stretch.
Nadal losing on grass early, again I find it a bit difficult to see as an upset. That's just me though.
A great upset is when a person has no business beating Roger on grass or Rafa on clay pulls it off. Soderling, Tsonga, Anderson , etc...
Also going back, Sampras losing to Bastl at Wimbledon in the second round. Yeah he was getting up there in age but he still won the US Open that year so he had no business losing to someone ranked 150 or something.

But, you got to count the first early loss of Nadal as an upset. After all he won twice and been to the finals five times. The later ones did not have shock value and so they can be omitted.

 

[atttomole]

Take off Djokovic - Chung. Novak was still trying to redeem himself.

You could be right, but Chung was still unknown at that time.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

You could be right, but Chung was still unknown at that time.

He was not quite unknown. I think he was the winner of under 21 tournament before that.

 

[Vince Evert]

Peter Doohan second round upset of Boris Becker 1987 Wimbledon would be the greatest upset in the Grand Slams.

 

[atttomole]

He was not quite unknown. I think he was the winner of under 21 tournament before that.

True, but I remember only Moxie and may be Herios knew about him on these forums. At AO, commentators were always reminding people that he had won the next generation tournament in MIlan the previous year because few people paid attention to that tournament. So not that much known either.

 

[Denis]

True, but I remember only Moxie and may be Herios knew about him on these forums. At AO, commentators were always reminding people that he had won the next generation tournament in MIlan the previous year because few people paid attention to that tournament. So not that much known either.

Not true. I have been posting about him since the us open 2016. There is a search function on this site, he has been quite widely discussed on these boards.

 

[Andy22]

2018 WC federer-Anderson. 2017 AO nadal-federer. 2014 AO Djokovic-wawrinka. 2009 USO del potro- federer. 2018 WC Djokovic-nadal.

 

[Vince Evert]

2009 Del potro's straight sets semifinal thrashing of Nadal at the US Open. Kevin Curren thrashing of McEnroe the 1985 Wimbledon QF.

 

[Vince Evert]

1990 Stefan Edberg two first rd defeats at the French and USO. Sandwiched inbetween Edberg won Wimbledon that year defeating arch rival Boris Becker.

 

[isabelle]

Vince Van Patten who beat Big Mac....remember ???