What are your thoughts on this??

Question

http://www.rediff.com/sports/2008/jul/15rafa.htm

Are there any other famous tennis stars you consider worthy of having an asteroid named after them?

Answer 1

Maria definitely.

Answer 2

After I'd read an article this AM, my immediate response was, Spaniards pull the fast gun, for they have been riding high on sports mania after having won the Euro soccer, and Nadal's Wimbledon victory. For my curiosity, I'd discovered no asteroid named after a tennis player. Mostly astronomers, academicians, poets... There was a Russian ice dancer, remotely a sports person ?  I'm not against an astroid named after a tennis player or football player.  There are plenty more worthy tennis players present or past to have an asteroid named after, Rod Lever ( past ), Ivan Lendl, Borg, Connors, McEnroe, Agassi,Sampras, Federer, Margaret Court, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Graf, Seles, Navratilova...Nadal comes after all of his predecers. He is a promising young player, but definitely NOT WORTHY. I don't care how the International Astronomists vote for this process. They have to do some more reaserch before they cast their votes. By the way, I've been a Nadal fan for 4 years. If I were him, I'd have declined the honor citing that there are worthier players to accept the honor. But who am I to suggest it ?

Answer 3

Who cares. Not to put your question down, but it's not a big deal either way.

Answer 4

Lord Federer

Answer 5

The Spaniards were so proud of Rafa that maybe the Serbians may just follow suit and have Djokovic's name as well if ever.

The timing was just perfect honoring Rafa that he'll now be in the record books for the future generations to remember by in humans' history like the famous heroes & legends.

Viva El Rafa, Vamos, Muy Bien

Answer 6

that is amazing.

people should consider federer, sampras, and evert.

Answer 7

I used to think they should do that for Bjorn Borg & Stefan Edberg!