View Poll Results: In which decade did you start watching tennis?
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In the 70ies?
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7.48% |
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In the 80ies?
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19.18% |
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In the 90ies?
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280 |
39.49% |
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Since 2000 and later?
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240 |
33.85% |
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11-28-2006, 09:26 PM
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Re: In which decade did you start watching tennis?
2000's 
2005 to be exact
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11-28-2006, 09:28 PM
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Re: In which decade did you start watching tennis?
I started watching in the 70s, but that's a little bit misleading since I haven't watched constantly all this time. I watched with my mom when I was little because she loved Bjorn Borg. And then I stopped watching when she did I guess, only start again a few years later when I happened across Andre Agassi on tv.  And then I came back to it this year after having been away for a few years. I don't see myself fading away from it again as I appreciate the game itself more than I did when I was a teenager crushing on Andre. |
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11-28-2006, 09:37 PM
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Re: In which decade did you start watching tennis?
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Originally Posted by Kalliopeia
I started watching in the 70s, but that's a little bit misleading since I haven't watched constantly all this time. I watched with my mom when I was little because she loved Bjorn Borg. And then I stopped watching when she did I guess, only start again a few years later when I happened across Andre Agassi on tv. And then I came back to it this year after having been away for a few years. I don't see myself fading away from it again as I appreciate the game itself more than I did when I was a teenager crushing on Andre. |
Same thing with me, Kalli. My "tennis watching" in the eighties consisted of cheering for Andre, and cheering for anyone I thought Andre could beat later in the tournament(i.e. NOT Pete Sampras).
Once I got to the 90s, I became a little more diversified. Rafter and Guga were also favorites - unless they were playing Andre. |
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11-28-2006, 09:51 PM
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Re: In which decade did you start watching tennis?
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Originally Posted by cmurray
Same thing with me, Kalli. My "tennis watching" in the eighties consisted of cheering for Andre, and cheering for anyone I thought Andre could beat later in the tournament(i.e. NOT Pete Sampras).
Once I got to the 90s, I became a little more diversified. Rafter and Guga were also favorites - unless they were playing Andre. |
Oh yeah I was a one man woman back then. I loved me some Boris Becker, though. But even he had nothing on Andre. I suffer now when my favorites play each other (Safin/Baghdatis was rough, I don't even want to contemplate a potential Safin/Nadal match) but back then my love ended when Andre was across the net. |
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11-28-2006, 10:03 PM
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Re: In which decade did you start watching tennis?
97 regularly.
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11-28-2006, 10:05 PM
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Re: In which decade did you start watching tennis?
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Originally Posted by Kalliopeia
Oh yeah I was a one man woman back then. I loved me some Boris Becker, though. But even he had nothing on Andre. I suffer now when my favorites play each other (Safin/Baghdatis was rough, I don't even want to contemplate a potential Safin/Nadal match) but back then my love ended when Andre was across the net. |
Don't I know it! I never cheered against Andre. Never once. Not when he played Rafa, not when he played Marat. Now that Andre's gone  with Marat and Raf being my favorites, I have NO IDEA who I'm going to cheer for when they finally meet.
We'll have to help each other through it. |
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11-28-2006, 10:29 PM
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Re: In which decade did you start watching tennis?
Since 2000 |
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11-28-2006, 10:36 PM
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Re: In which decade did you start watching tennis?
the 70's (all decade) but then I gave it up for lent  and did not return until late 2003. Not sure how long I will continue.
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11-28-2006, 10:44 PM
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Re: In which decade did you start watching tennis?
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Originally Posted by Eden
As it seems to be time for polls now on GM I thought about starting one myself I would like to know when you started to watch tennis:
In the 70ies?
In the 80ies?
In the 90ies?
Since 2000 and later?
I became interested in tennis in the early 80ies |
I know we also have posters who began watching before the Open Era.
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11-28-2006, 11:53 PM
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Re: In which decade did you start watching tennis?
I first went to Wimbledon in 1997 and loved every minute of it so I started watching tennis and have been to Wimbledon every year since! although I only started following it seriously a few years later.
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11-29-2006, 12:02 AM
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Re: In which decade did you start watching tennis?
2001 Wimbledon Semifinals 
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11-29-2006, 12:11 AM
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Re: In which decade did you start watching tennis?
Started watching in the late 70 but my addiction to watch everything that involves a tennisball started only in the last decade.
Coverage of other tourny's than GS improved a lot |
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11-29-2006, 12:13 AM
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Re: In which decade did you start watching tennis?
first match becker and stich wimbeldon quarter 1993, and a real fan from 94 on
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11-29-2006, 12:14 AM
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Re: In which decade did you start watching tennis?
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Originally Posted by MisterQ
I know we also have posters who began watching before the Open Era. |
It's funny, and this is no slight against the thread starter, but the poll made me feel old, even though I typically feel anything but. I guess it suggests that it's assumed that nobody over the age of 45 knows how to use the internet. Maybe not too far from the truth...haha.
Anyway, I started watching tennis in the late 70's. Some good stuff back in the old days. |
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11-29-2006, 12:37 AM
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Re: In which decade did you start watching tennis?
In the 90's. 1992-ish.
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In which decade did you start watching tennis and how you became a fan?
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