Ivan Lendl v Stefan Edberg Full Match | Australian Open 1990 Final 

Ivan had a game that would still challenge today.

30:05

Even my all-time sports idol, Edberg, retired due to injury, but this is still one of the best matches I remember he ever played. Love the all-round game from him. Lendl played well too.

30:50 and 1:03:30 amazing ground stroke rallies. Interesting to see that Edberg being a serve and volley specialist could keep up with Lendls ground-strokes. But his true strength can be admired at 55:02. Amazing points :)

Lendl is the first GOAT of modern tennis!

I can't believe it, was Lendl still playing with that tinny racquet frame ?

if stefan hadn't been hurt...he would have won

Hail King Lendl..😊I miss these days... these guys were pretty evenly matched they played 27 matches Edberg won 14 Lendl 13.. They only met in the finals 6 times.. Interesting..

1:57 Ball looked in

That's pretty cool, Ivan totally got his wish for them to come back in 12 months and slug it out all the way.

First rally 😮

Although I like Djokovic, I feel that he'd have a much harder time winning majors if his opponents included elite serve and volleyers like Edberg and Becker. Watch Lendl in this match and it's obvious Djokovic would struggle in a lot of the same ways. They're quite similar players. Novak's comfortable counterpunching baseline game just wouldn't work as well in Lendl's era, which had so much more variety of competition.

Lendl should have changed racquets after 1989. 1988 and 1989 were horrible years for him with only one grand slam. And 1990 was the beginning of the decline with really no improvement to his game and reduced foot speed and lower back problems. He was playing with 1970’s technology racquet with only 80 sq inches in 1990. Look at the wonders 7 more square inches did for Roger Federer in 2017 and 2018. He won 3 grand slams and became #1 again.

Edburg would explode if he collapsed, but boris has never been so alienated

They should have just covered the stands with white snow. Same effect LOL Thank goodness for some diversity today at the AO.

This his last major?

AO, if you want your vids to be watched you'd better not show the obvious winner in the thumbnail... 🙈

Anyone know the name on the commentor?

All hail Lendl, who persevered through a somewhat sub-par 1st set, scrapped his way to take the 2nd, and then blew through his Swedish opponent to a 5-2 lead in the third, when Edberg had to retire due to a nagging stomach muscle industry that wreaked havoc with his normally consistent serve and overheads. This was the mature Lendl, still able to blast his way through most situations and cemented his No. 1 ranking. It would be his last major, retiring with 8 in total (tied with rival Connors, and 1 ahead of McEnroe and Wilander). Arguably, Lendl laid claim to being the greatest tennis champion of the 1980's, and managed to continue is excellence into the dawn of the 1990s, winning 3 out of four Australian Opens from 1987-1990.. He was ruthless when it came to exploiting Edberg's bad abs, continually throwing up torturous lobs, and making Stefan bend and stretch on a majority of desperate net rushes. Ivan was indeed a hard court master in his career, winning 6 of his majors on this surface, and it made abundant sense. This surface gave him the time he needed to flex his powerful groundies and to negotiate not just his passing shots but also returns that had to be half-volleyed or just were so hard to handle that his next shot was a rather obvious pass. And so the 1990's began like the 80's with a big gut check win from the big Czech. But this was a mirage, because what we saw as the century ended was a whole lotta Pete Sampras, mixed in with a healthy dose of Agassi, and little bit of Jim Courier.

Don't think Edberg would have won either way.. Lendl was peaking.

Idiot lines people close to ruined the match!! Keep calling anything's on the line out,,and it's in

Lucky Lendl, unlucky Edberg and most unfortunate McEnroe.

Then came Sampras, enough said.

Their forehand are so ugly, especially edberg. Look how beautiful Roger Federer forehand is