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Originally Posted by Nadal Fan
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We had some very good Canadian female players in the 70's and 80's (oldtimers like myself will remember Carling Bassett and Helen Kelesi) and the Canadian men were good players (guys like Glenn Michibata and Martin Laurendeau and Andrew Snjader) but they could never really breakthrough to be household names in men's tennis. Of course, we had the guy who will not be named because I don't want to get Girly angry (initials GR) who defected from Canada to Britain.
Daniel Nestor was the first guy who put Canadian men's tennis on the map and what a career he had in men's doubles. That's the thing though, because most of his success came in doubles, it just doesn't carry the same weight as singles. Milos and Vasek came up at the same time and the funny thing is that Vasek was the better player in their junior days, but Milos developed that killer serve along with fine-tuning the rest of his game and the rest is history. More respect needs to be given to Milos for being a real gamechanger as far as men's tennis is concerned in Canada as he paved the way for guys like Felix and Denis and showed yes you can compete at the highest level of men's tennis.