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Best never to win a slam - men - 16 Nov 2009

On the subject of the best player never to win a slam, there is a statistical argument for Nalbandian...
Here's the best GS match (W-L) records of players in the open era never to have won a GS title:
1. David Nalbandian 78-29 (0.729)
2. Andy Murray 41-16 (0.719)
3. Tom Okker 73-29 (0.716)
4. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 25-10 (0.714)
5. Alex Metreveli 52-23 (0.693)
6. Harold Solomon 58-27 (0.682)
7. Tommy Haas 88-41 (0.682)
8. Todd Martin 102-48 (0.680)
caveats: Tony Roche has an open era GS W-L record of 0.744 but won a GS title before the open era. Similarly, Roy Emerson's open era GS W-L record was 0.727
considering all open era GS W-L records, Nalbandian is 24th, Murray 27th, Okker 29th, Tsonga 31st, Metreveli 42nd, Solomon 46th, Haas 47th, Martin 49th.
Overall, Borg is 1st, Federer 2nd, Laver 3rd, Nadal 4th, Sampras 5th, Rosewall 6th, Connors 7th, Lendl 8th, McEnroe 9th, Newcombe 10th, Agassi 11th, Becker 12th, Wilander 13th, Edberg 14th, Ashe 15th, Djokovic 16th, Courier 17th, Roddick 18th, Vilas 19th, Hewitt 20th.
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