As told to John Thirsk.....
When I am asked to select the top 100 competitors in the history of tennis I find the task simply impossible. Simply because some of the games greats were born and finished their careers before I even started to get a grip on a racquet handle.
It's a different situation for me to pick the best 10 I have played against during my 20 years on the international circuit.
The line up can cause some great bar room arguments.
Would Rod Laver have beaten Bjorn Borg when both were at the peak of their game? How would John McEnroe go against Pancho Gonzalez? Jimmy Conners up against Roy Emerson?
And what about Lew Hoad, Jack Kramer, Rene Lacoste, Donald Budge, Fred Perry, and Bill Tilden- some of the champions who had finished their brilliant careers before I started my first international tour in 1961.
Some of those names would be undoubtedly in my top 10. My list includes: Rod Laver, Bjorn Borg, Ken Rosewall, Pancho Gonzalez, Jimmy Conners, Roy Emerson, Ilie Nastase, Guillermo Villas, Arthur Ashe and Manual Santana- in that order.
Laver: The 'Rockhampton Rocket' was the competitor in my era I felt always had a slight edge in tournament play against me, whatever the type of surface. Rod was so versatile and extremely intelligent. He could change his game plan during a match when his opponent was in a winning position. There was little trouble for Rod to switch from an Offensive, aggressive and attacking game to one of defensive tactics and come from behind to win a match, most players cannot change their tactics. Conners, for example, only knows one way to go, and that’s through total power blowing his opponent off court. The red haired, freckle faced laver never ceased to amaze me with some of the variety and different moves he could come up with on court. He was a very complete player and there was very little he could not accomplish.
Borg: The 24 year old Swedish millionaire will go down as one of the greatest in the game. Yet I cannot put him in front of laver. I am not being parochial just because Laver is an Aussie. Two things to bear in mind about Borg is that he never won the Grand Slam and a US championship. I would class Borg as probably the greatest clay court competitor ever. He is virtually unbeatable on that slow paced and high bouncing surface, whether in Europe or on Mars. As Ilie Nastase says, 'Borg belongs on another planet. We Play tennis. He plays something else'.
Rosewall: What a shame muscles' best years were lost to the game when he turned professional in 1956 and did not return until the sport became open in 1968. For that reason alone he did not win Wimbledon and had to be satisfied being a bridesmaid four times. The first to Jaraslov Drobny and the last to Jimmy Conners in 1974. I am sure many fans missed the 'Little Master' showing his true potential in that 12 year break. Ken had the ability to produce amazing shots whether on the attack at the net or defensively from the baseline. The backhand became a legend in the game and the first volley after the serve was also one of the best in the business.
Gonzalez-Conners: I guess there could be a few drinks won and lost for the number four spot between Pancho and Jimbo, but I gave the not to Richard because of his versatility. I never played against Pancho when he was in his prime, but feel he would have handled Conners if they met 10 different matches on 10 different surfaces. Gonzalez had the best first and second serve I've seen. He combined his superb serving with extraordinary reflexes and speed for such a big and powerful man.
Emerson: Emo has more major tournaments among the Big 4 at Wimbledon, French, Australian and US Championships level than any other competitor in the game. Add up his doubles triumphs and the likeable Queenslander has a mortgage. Then take into account his remarkable Davis Cup performances of 36 out of 40 matches success rate and its a record that is hard to beat in anyone’s language.
Nastase: A sheer genius with the racquet. Just on ability alone he could have been number one or two. He hasn’t done justice to himself and wasted extremely high quality tennis by becoming the clown prince of the courts and not exposing that wonderful, naturally gifted athlete he is to his full potential. Nasty was his own worst enemy, but he has the best and quickest pair of hands and feet in the game. His reflexes, anticipation and judgment were superb. Ilie was just too highly strung for his own racquet strings. He could almost make the racquet and ball talk and could play shots which no other player would even dare.
Vilas: He has one of the best offensive backhands in the game and that topspin backhand passing shot is a real gem. There are few players who can hit that particular shot better than the Poet of the Pampas. An opponent has to hit a really deep approach shot to his backhand and force him to play a defensive slice to have confidence in winning a point. Vilas has shown he can play grass three times in Melbourne for the masters and Australian Open championships. He is much more at home on clay and in 1977 when he won the French and US Open tittles he set up a mighty 50 match winning sequence.
Ashe: Any competitor who has Wimbledon, US, Australian and WCT tittles ranks on my list. Yet Arthur’s downfall was his lack of tournament victories on clay courts. He was a great serve and volley tactician- a totally offensive player, but lacked the necessary qualities in a defensive game. When an opponent got really stuck into Arthur you could probably probe his weaknesses. I would attack the ball on every occasion possible. While Arthur relied on power, there was little room or margin for error on most of his shots. He'll either hit an outright winner or lose the point. When Arthur went on the back foot he lacked the finesse and touch to get out of the corner.
Santana: A real artist on the court. A wonderful touch player who could mix his game so well. Showed the trademark of a champion by winning major events on different surfaces. The Wimbledon, US and French titles are listed among his triumphs. He was a pioneer of the top spin game and it was notables like Nastase and Vilas who followed the lovable Spaniards graceful and athletic style of game. One of the best clay court exponents of the game.

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Introduction Modern tendencies of development of world tennis are caused by universalization of the game characterized by necessity in rational combination of active game on a baseline with attacking actions at the net, and also increase of accuracy and force of shots, increase of game rate. In turn, such features of game make considerable demands to high-speed abilities of tennis players.

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Well-known that speed is shown in elementary and complex forms. To elementary it is accepted to reckon: speed of simple and complex reaction; speed of single movement (at small external resistance) and frequency (rate) of movements.
To complex forms: starting 'acceleration', performance of integral actions (run, swimming, etc.) Research purpose Reveal the peculiarities of high-speed qualification of 11-16 years old tennis players Research problems
1) Determine the peculiarities of movements of qualified adult and young tennis players at the official competitions.
2) Determine the rates of high-speed abilities of 11-16 years old tennis players.
- simple and complex reaction time during global work from different start positions
- single movement time of left and right leg
- acceleration time from different start positions
Research methods
1) Analysis of literary sources.
2) Pedagogical testing with special panel, allowing to estimate:
- quickness of simple and complex reaction;
- single movement time of left and right leg;
- acceleration time from different start positions;
- height of the jump by flight time from different start positions;
3) Methods of mathematic statistics.
1. Analysis of literary sources.
The analysis of the researches spent in Russia and abroad has shown that to perform one shot the tennis player runs pieces up to 5 m. On the average men run for 95,7 %, juniors on 'a fast' surface 86,5 % and on 'a slow' surface – 83,0 % of all run pieces. Share of movements from 5 to 10 m in men‘s matches is 3,2 %, in junior‘s matches on 'a fast' covering - 13,7 % and on 'a slow' covering – 15,5 %, the other part – movements more than 10 m Table 1.
Tennis players for movements start from 3 various positions: run forward and backwards from «ready» position, run to the right pushing away with the left leg, and run to the left pushing away with the right leg.
Leading tennis players of the world and leading juniors during a match, both on 'fast', and on «a slow covering» more often move in 4 directions: to the left – in 17,3 % of cases, to the right in 14,8 % of cases, forward in 54,3 % of cases and backwards in 13,5 % of cases [A.Skorodumova]. While on 'a slow' covering – in 34,2 % of cases to the left, in 36,3 % of cases to the right, in 19,8 % of cases forward and in 10,6 % of cases backwards Pic. 2. From the presented Pic. 2 it is visible that on 'a fast' covering it is necessary to do the most part of movements forward, however on 'slow' - to the parties. Therefore, tennis players have often to start from various positions and push away with different leg.
For comparison tennis players of 13-14 years on 'a slow' surface move to the left in 21 % of cases, to the right in 28 % of cases, forward on the left in 14 % and backwards to the left in 13 % of cases [O. Kuznetsova]. However, on 'fast' – this ratio changes a little Pic.3.
2. Research organization.
Research was held on the basis of Tennis center RSUPCST. 52 tennis players have taken part in research: 24 persons of 11-12 years, 17 persons – 13-14 years and 11 persons – 15-16 years old, including members of youth national teams on the listed age groups. Testing consisted of 10 tests of high-speed and speed-power character with 3 attempts in each, during which speed of reaction and time of tasks performance were measured:
1) run on 5 m from «ready» position;
2) run on 5 m from position «an exit from shot on the left in the closed stand», i.e. standing the right side in relation to movement and making the start with the left leg;
3) run from position «an exit from shot on the right in the closed stand», i.e. standing the left side in relation to movement and making the start with the right leg.
4) run from «ready» position with start by the left or right leg depending on the type of signal;
5) run or a jump upwards pushing away both legs from «ready» position depending on the type of signal.

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6) single movement by the left leg, while standing;
7) single movement by the right leg, while standing;
8) jump upwards pushing away both legs from «ready» position;
9) jump upwards pushing away by the left leg;
10) jump upwards pushing away by the right leg;
3. Methods of mathematical statistics
Mathematic-statistical processing of results of the pedagogical testing, conducted on the personal computer with use of programs StatSoft® STATISTICA 6.0 and Microsoft® Excel 2003, included calculation of descriptive indicators (mean, standard deviations), values of criteria (t-criterion of Uilkokson) and significance values. An error of a photo starting and a photo finishing devices 0,01 sec, the software 0,02 seconds.
Results
1. During testing it is determined that the task - run from «ready» position with pushing away by the left or right leg depending on the type of signal has appeared impracticable for anybody from tennis players of 11-16 years.
2. Authentic differences between time indicators in each age group are determined: 11-12, 13-14 and 15-16 years:
- Overcoming 5 meter pieces depending on a start position,

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- Flight in high jumps depending on a start position,
- Time of performance of single movement by left and right leg,
- Simple reaction at run depending on a start position,
- Simple reaction at high jumps pushing away by left and right leg,
- Time of simple reaction at performance of single movement by a left and right leg,
- Simple reaction in run on 5 meters from «ready» position and at high jumps pushing away by two legs.
Results are presented in Table 4.
3. Start performance at run on 5 m from «ready» position occurs at all age groups of tennis players with technical breaches which lead to increase in time spent for overcoming of a piece.
4. Average-group time indicators of movements and reaction of 11-16 years old tennis players are determined. Table 5.
Conclusions
Results of testing testify the necessity for working out a special method which will allow to level differences between the left and right leg on indicators of high-speed and speed-power qualification of 11-16 years old tennis players and have a big practical value and the importance for construction of effective process of training and productivity increase in competitive activity.
A. Skorodumova, I. Baranov

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