The Top Tennis “Nevers” of the Decade

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Published: January 3, 2010

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Everywhere I look, I see decade countdowns. Tennis being my primary interest, every tennis countdown I see says the same generic stuff about how Roger is the greatest and Rafa's Wimbledon '08 win was phenomenal...well yeah, we all know that...and I was sick of reading articles that tell us what we already know...so I figured I'd put a twist on it and jot down what I view as being the top "never woulda thoughts" in men's tennis for the "noughties." Here goes.

7. Never woulda thought he'd be on Court Two

In 2002, a not-so-well-known dude named George Bastl upset a stalwart of the game/poster-child-for-tennis type dude named Pete Sampras in the second round at Wimbledon.

While the upset itself is worthy of being a part of this list, people who were into tennis at the time knew that the "pistol" wasn't firing on all cylinders. Upsets are part of the game, and even legends have bad days.

What was more shocking though is that the organizers at Wimbledon scheduled a seven-time Wimbledon champion, the last of his Wimby titles naught but two years recent, to play on Court Two!! 

What were they thinking? Incidentally, who was scheduled on center court the day? Agassi (one Wimbledon crown in '92) and Safin (never won Wimbledon).

6. Never woulda thought he'd admit it!

Agassi came out with all sorts of startling revelations in '09 to promote his book.

While all of us masses were clueless about the meth, and it came as a shock to everybody, what several of us had surely suspected for a while was that Andre wasn't born with those golden brown wavy locks he sported back in the early 90s.

In fact there are several close-up shots of him from back in the day where the W_ _ is slightly off-balance.

Forget about the meth, it takes a real man to come clean about a WIG after all those years of bandannas, ball caps, and headb...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Tennis

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