Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Richard D Sears, William Larned, Steffi Graf and Justine Henin bring forth images of unparallel tennis supremacy amalgamated with pristine class. These players were possessors of their own level of the game and the one thread that weaves them together is their champions’ congregation at the US Open. The mercurial match of John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg in 1980, a battle that went 7-6, 6-1, 6-7, 5-7, 6-4 in the formers favour saw one of the best displays of magical poetry of tennis. The late 90’s US Open finals between Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi were anthromorphication of some out of the world, divinity ordained game.
Richard Sears has managed to be unrivalled in his record of 7 consecutive men’s singles titles since 1881, an unfathomable feat considering the time span since the record has been standing. During his times, the US Open was an exclusive leisure of the elite segments of the society. Even then, the clinical precision with which he won the titles gives us a glimpse of the ruthless competition the world would witness in the 21st century.
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