Tennis Hall of Fame announced that Michael Chang is in the nominees for 2008 induction. Well, I know that not everybody will agree with me, ’cause Chang had and still has thousands of fans all around the globe. But I really doubt that his tennis curriculum matches the eligibility criteria set by the Hall.

Ok, tennis is not only statistics and Chang enlarged the markets taking lots of Asians to the sport. But, if you look at the names of the former players elected in the last ten years, I don’t really think that Michael can cope with legends like Sampras, Courier, Edberg, Becker, Wilander, Lendl, McEnroe, Connors… The Hall should only be the place for the Greats of the greats.

And if a «distinguished record of competitive achievement» can be reduced to a quite fortuitous win of the French Open, well, then we’ve come to the point where even Thomas Johansson can be named among the tennis greats in a decade.