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Vote for your favourite player below [21 vote(s)]

Fred Stolle
0.0%
Pat Cash
4.8%
Rod Laver
4.8%
Pete Sampras
4.8%
Arthur Ashe
14.3%
John McEnroe
28.6%
Tony Roche
0.0%
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
4.8%
Ken Rosewall
23.8%
Tom Okker
14.3%
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Mens semifinal, group of 10 players.

Poll will close at c 1 pm Friday, ie in around 24 hours. 

Top 3 qualify for the final. 

As per previous rounds, there will be a play off to determine ties for qualification places!

Players from previous groups kept apart and players topping their first round groups also spread through the draw



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I have gone all American in these semis, John McEnroe gets my vote. First day I watched live tennis in the flesh, at Wimbledon, was when Mac played on Court One against Gullickson, he went on to win the event that year, 1981

I was to the right of McEnroe serving, on the baseline

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Memories!!!

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I had rather sussed before reaching here that this would  contain a lot of my favourites. And it includes 5 players that I voted for in R1 plus others that I considered. 

I'll bide my time before voting in this group.



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I remember Pat Cash most for his Wimbledon win over Lendl and his walkabout in the stands and players box. But a close second are the two Davis Cup Finals in 83 and 86. Both v Sweden, both on grass at Kooyong. BBC televised them both live! Both started Boxing Day and involved a pumped up Aussie team starring Cash beating the Swedes who really where the top nation at the time. In both cases, Cash won the fourth rubber to give them a 3-1 lead. It was grass, he was at home, the crowd was frenzied.

He also played two Australian Open finals of course, in 87 and 88, again Swedes to play against and he lost in 5 to Edberg in 87 and Wilander also in 5 sets in 88.

Great battling spirit and someone I have liked - his auto biography is a good read!

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Many of the Aussies (5 of the 8 that reached this round) have ended up in this group, might make it hard for some like Indy to take a punt.

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I was in Centre Court for that Cash win - in the row behind the press photographers. Got some good pics of my own.

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Muscles, Ashe and Mac take the lead and start well here

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Tom Okker fan club coming through- is that your votes, Brittak?

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Time bided. I vote Johnny Mac.

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indiana wrote:

Time bided. I vote Johnny Mac.

 Good vote 



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The Aussies needing some support here !

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The aussie fans have arrived, od course its morning over there.

Stolle and Roche still to score.

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JonH comes home wrote:

Tom Okker fan club coming through- is that your votes, Brittak?

 nah Rosewall for me here



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McEnroe, Rosewall and Ashe lead, Okker just behind. Fewer votes here so far, so perhaps more open to change!

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No votes here also this morning, current standings are:

McEnroe - 6 votes

Rosewall - 5 votes

Ashe - 3 votes

Okker -2 votes

Cash, Laver, Sampras, Kafelnikov - 1 vote

Stolle, Roche - 0 votes

Again seeing Laver and Sampras with only 1 vote shows how it is probably about how personalities stand the test of time, not necessarily the Champions of a given era.

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