Totally agree

McEnroe would be cooked in any club tennis!

@sandeepsep19 and McEnroe was too lazy to go toward that lob balls. 😅

Only McEnroe, with that continental grip he could almost only serve, smash and volley

Pretty sure Chang did, as he was always thorough prepared.

On the contrary, consistency was what he lacked. 1 major, right?

@@beorlingo IDK if that is a lack of consistency or the relative lack of top 4 ability. He was just slightly below upper-echolon in general.

@@beorlingo cm 174 - they were playing early mid '90s and not in the 70s or in the 80s-Please check height and weight of the palyers who won GS slam tournaments from 1990 until now

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@@andreasmissiroli6915 Exactly. And Stefan had height and weight over Mac. Like 3". It's a Big Deal at that level.

I've often imagined if today's imaging tech was available back in the day. Of all the things one could say, it definitely would've taken alot of drama out of the game☺ For one thing, we never would have experienced our infamous McEnroe rank at Wimbledon -- " .... that ball was clearly on the line .... chalk flew up ... " Chalk vs. hawkeye ... hmmm ...

on the ace overrule i was saying 'no way!' before the ump even spoke up. even in this low res video i could tell it was clearly in. so of course johnny mac loses his shit over an overrule of an obvious error. the linesmen were really bad this match.

It was a legendary match.

Hell yeah lol. Brings back many good memories.

Now it's just a bunch of robots with little to no personalities slugging the ball back & forth as hard as they can until someone makes an error. Tennis is actually getting kind of boring compared to how exciting it used to be...

@@toddlesiak3837 Agreed 1000%

@@leotrevino5158 absolutely right!

The clothes were definitely a lot more cool

One is a consummate gentleman and the other is a flippin' a-hole.

I don’t understand why the crowd was so unfair, Chang is just a tennis player who is trying to play tennis. He isn’t hurt the NY crowd at all.

Such high level of shotmaking. I appreciate both players more than ever.

@@sevaraalimova4706 Because McEnroe is from NYC & was an aging legend in 1991. It wasn't really that the crowd was against Chang... it was much more about them rooting hard for their idol that they grew up watching

​@@roberto4288 Brilliance is subjective, Macca did more than Kyrgios but similar attitude. That die hard attitude of Chang is what Nadal has but with more height and reach which makes the difference in the modern game. Chang was a perfect all round player but shorter legs and arms could only do so much like Diego Schwartzman, Rochus and Ferrer have shown. Funny to see Chang's lawnmower celebrations which Rafael incorporated into his celebrations. Federer is like Macca but a little better work ethic, fairness towards opponents, patience and superior physical specimen with foot speed, jumping power and anticipation almost on par with Nadal.

@@roberto4288 McEnroe is from NYC & was a huge crowd favorite & aging legend in 1991. Chang was the new kid just starting to make a name for himself while trying to take Mac out, At least 90% of the crowd was pulling hard for Mac, which is what happens when a hometown legend plays in front of fans that grew up watching them since they were kids...

Can you cite a source for your claim "Offensive lobs are rarely a decisive most impactful shot"? OR is this your opinion based on scant evidence?

@@MyOneFiftiethOfADollar It's my opinion, but I have to clarify exactly what I mean. Lobs as outright winners, definitely can win some crucial points, but normally don't win enough points outright because its hard to execute them once an opponent starts to defend by not closing in quite as far. If he is anticipating lobs, then the overhead gets grooved and the direct effectiveness is dramatically reduced . But the real value of the lob is indirect. If they are nervous about closing, then the passing shots get a lot easier. If its windy then that overhead may never get grooved and you end up inducing errors. Cumulatively the lob's impact can be huge even if the lob winner stat that they are mentioning here, is not so impressive as in this match. I am pro lob, but at this level it sets up points, more often than it soars out of reach.

@@MyOneFiftiethOfADollar its his opinion based on scant evidence and poor tennis training. he went to school with the dude above that claims Michael Chang didn't have top 4 ability, when in fact he was ranked #2. Don't get upset, there are so many bad tennis players with poor tennis knowledge. Very few make it at any pro level and very few have accurate things to say about tennis players or tennis in general. They come from basketball or some other sport and think tennis is easy, and their opinions come from the books they read, but certainly not from playing at any of the 3 levels of professional tennis that exist in reality.

That's cause did a poor job, & Chang was a likable fellow American that Mac respected

@@toddlesiak3837 It seems like they always did a poor job when umpiring McEnroe, right?

@@heinebohmann1566 Not always. They made lots of bad calls, but Mac was in the wrong sometimes too

​@@heinebohmann1566😂 too right

You missed out, a serve & volleyer against a baseliner was absolutely beautiful tennis to watch

Wonder what ever happened to Chang? He was a bright light that seems to have vanished

@@riverwalker2173 He retired in 2003. He started to decline in the late 90s due to injuries and probably because of how physical his game was. Also I think Chang's tennis became a little lightweight at the start of the 2000s with players like Safin, Roddick, Federer etc breaking through

@@jmiller05 Ah well, nevertheless he made his mark in a Euro dominated sport. He played with a thunderheart in his prime . A great warrior on the court ⚡️❤️

@@jmiller05 the game evolved beyond him. he was the first to really bring that superhuman foot speed and defense to pro tennis, but he still hit like an 80s player - lots of spin off both wings. never learned to really flatten out his ground strokes and blast clean winners like agassi and sampras brought to the top of the men's game.

​@@riverwalker2173Euro dominated? You never heard of Sampras, Agassi or Courier? That was the greatest era ever for American men's tennis.

Persistent & perfect lobbing...

Another level??? Chang destroys mcenroe with lob!!!

"There were no 140 MPH serves" pretty sure Becker, Ivanisevic and Krajicek etc. were hitting huge serves in the early 90s (and Tanner before them). The radars were different and a 120mph serve back then probably equals a 130mph today.

@@hehehehehahahaha2025 I would agree with you. The early and mid 90's saw racket and string technology leap into a different realm. I dont know anything about radar but like everything else, Its probably better now also. Tanner hit a 150 MPH serve in 1978. Wonder what he could have hit today? 180 lol?

I think you are mistaken if you don't think there were huge serves in the 90's. As a matter of fact they began to slow the courts down in response to the huge serves. In the 80's and 90's you could still serve and volley and win but it's almost impossible to play that way now so you have to bash from the baseline because of not just the string and racket technology but because of the slower courts, even at Wimbledon!

Roscoe tanner hit into the 140s wayyyy back in the 70s. Rackets don't make the serve, the strings help with spin. Rackets help the return and groundstrokes in terms of larger center of percussion (sweet spot) for returning serves, groundstrokes and hitting passing shots. That's why volleying/ serve volleying has died. Returns are so accurate and have so much spin. Also they have slowed down most all hardcourts and grass, and that too has killed to volleying for most singles players. Radar tech isn't better than it was before, it's just in a smaller package today, maybe even on your phone. Blows me away the people who think radar in the 70s wasn't accurate. We broke the sound barrier and apparently went to the moon before the 70s. Stuff had to be pretty accurate to do that. Radar 'guns' are simple devices that are tested to be very accurate. It would take me a least a year to correct all the misunderstanding and outright errors in the comments expressed here.

bullshit of a non expert commentator

Besides this match, McEnroe always destroyed Chang. Mac's 1984 season might be the best season any player has ever had in tennis history!! His heart is still broken over blowing a 2-set lead against Lendl at the French

That's what you get for marrying a junkie!

Tennis players back in the day just didn't take care of their bodies like tennis players do now. John was 32 at the time. 32 year old players now are in much better shape.

@@fearsomebunny From the moment he married his 1st wife (Tatum O'Neal) in 1984 who was a junkie -- he never won another Grand Slam. He just went downhill from that point on... Basically, she destroyed his career and what it could've been.

@@toddlesiak3837 That's true -- 1984 was the greatest year any player in open era has ever had. I think he only lost two matches the entire year -- one of them was to Lendl at the FO. But then he got married to the wrong woman at the end of the year -- and never won another GS for the rest of his career.

Todays tennis is painfully boring and unwatchable. LOL

It’s also the racquets. It’s totally unfair to compare eras it’s so so much easier now

@@bellazoe1 Completely agree. I would love to see current players play with the Yonex R-22 that I played with. LOL.

Flushing after all!

6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7-1), 2-6, 6-3.

Best hands at the net ever!!!

@@toddlesiak3837 It was just incredible. And people underestimate his ground game too. He loved to hit that FH DTL not quite inside out :)

McEnroe groundstrokes and passing shots suck. They only worked against generations of wooden or primitive metal racquets. Once new technology came into play passing shots and returns were too much for him to handle and he lost a lot more.

@@SpiderMan-qh6vz McEnroe actually started using a Dunlop graphite racquet in 1983. Mac had a record of 82-3 in 1984, which is a win percentage of 96.5%, which happens to be the greatest year ever for a tennis player. He also had a 42-match win streak in 1984, & won a record 75 straight matches on carpet between 1983 & 1985... you don't accomplish these great feats with poor groundstrokes & passing shots. No one can accomplish this with passing shots & groundstrokes that suck, because you don't just get to serve the entire match, you also have to return serve. If his passing shots & groundstrokes really sucked so bad, then how did he break his opponent's serve enough to have a record of 82-3??? You don't make much sense. Mac was already pretty old once your so-called "new technology" came into play. All new technology really is are giant oversized racquets with wide frames which allows players to just sit back at the baseline & crush the ball. Being able to play with a wooden racquet shows just how skilled & how much touch a player really has. Pete Sampras won 13 grand slams using a tiny 85sq inch Wison Pro staff racquet, & he blew his opponents right off the court that were mainly using wide-body racquets. That's how skilled he was. Stephan Edberg also used this same racquet & won 6 grand slams, while Jim Courier won 4 grand slams using the tiny original Pro Staff. The players now might hit the ball harder with their huge racquets, but they sure don't possess more overall skill, touch, & craftiness as the top players of the 80s & 90s. The top players of the 80s & 90s also had much more dominating serves than most of today's players who just mostly serve the ball in & then just have a slugfest of back & forth groundstrokes. Sampras, Becker, Ivanisevic, Krajicek, Forget, Stich, Rafter, & Martin would all serve most of today's players right off the court, while McEnroe & Edberg would beat today's players with placement & high kick. Different eras are always hard to compare, but besides for the "big three" of Federer, Nadal, & Djokovic, the top players of the 80s & 90s are much more skilled in just about every facet of the game than the players of today that mainly just slug the ball back & forth until their opponent eventually makes an unforced error...

@@SpiderMan-qh6vz You just proved my point fool. They worked in his generation because they were good. AGAINST HIS PEERS. Did Jimmy's ground game suck too? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j598eNKmzpfcemg.html Borg's strokes weren't shit when he tried to come back on the tour because GUESS WHAT? THE FUCKING GAME HAD CHANGED. Duh. I have some nice door prizes for you on the left LOL Dude.

limited height...you never heard of Marcelo Rios....he was ranked one higher than chang...at #1 in the world. check the box for another that doesn't know tennis very well.

Plus he had fast hands at the net and was explosive. You never knew what he would do. I'm a lefty and Big Mac is still my fave all time player. Saw him play Courier at Casino Rama when he was 50 years old. Mac was still in great shape

i don't think , he decided to play within the line anticipating as much as he can, of course that made bassline game very difficoult for him . Ironically in mid 80's more the power begun important in the game , and more he decided to renunce to stay back, that was the main error in my opinion , about the second part of his career.

But Chang’s serve is not even as fast as Serena Williams

@@dongmingzhu666 Chang was not a big server... he won with great groundstrokes & electric footspeed. Serena Williams is bigger than many men on the pro tour!

insipid comment throughout. but esp: the age of federer, nadal, & djokovic isn’t great. uh-huh. 😂.

His anger & fiery temper helped fuel his game & made him one of the best & most feared competitors ever! He's one of the few tennis players ever that actually played better while angry

his abuse of the umpire after the chang's ace overrule was fully unwarranted and unprofessional. it was the correct call and i could tell immediately from the live shot it was well in.