Big Three and New Two reflections with Steve Flink

About this episode

Steve Flink joins Matt Zemek to discuss the dominance of the Big Three and the New Two in men's tennis, exploring historical what if scenarios.

Hall of Famer Steve Flink joins host Matt Zemek on the the TWAA pod this week to create a timeless episode where they tackle some of the biggest what if questions through the prism of a historian. Matt brings his A game to extract the wealth of knowledge only has to offer. The conversation focuses on the extended dominance of the big three to the latest stranglehold the “new two” have on the men’s tour. Besides the usual suspects the episode creates “what if” scenarios which feature Borg, Laver. Sampras, Rafter and many others! It is a great end of season podcast for the TWAA listeners!

People in this episode

Guest: Steve Flink

Topics covered

• Big Three
• New Two
• tennis history
• what if scenarios

Keywords

• tennis
• Hall of Famer
• dominance
• historian

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