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  1. The top three of today are the top three of all time? No way. A weakness in the testing of a champion today is the growing similarity of all the surfaces. Used to be there were distinctly different surfaces that required different patterns of play and different tools. The grass was short and fast, the clay very slow, cement was different than both and indoors ranged from pulled canvas, to wood, to synthetic roll our carpets. The patterns for each play was distinctively different. Look at how the wear patterns have changed on Wimbledon’s courts. Today players play very similar patterns no matter what surface they are on and it is predominately a baseline game. So a few players stack up the major titles. Much tougher in the past days where a great serve and vollier had no chance on clay and the great groundstrokers on clay got blown off at Wimbledon. To be able to play all with greatness was very rare. Borg could win on clay and grass but not hard. And there was a period of time when a lot of players did not play the aussie like connors & many. in the mix but not mentioned: Borg, Gonzalez, Tilden, Connors. and I am probably missing some. So today we have three that are the best at playing one way (relatively speaking) and that is all they have to do and they split the titles amongst them.