Best never to win a slam - men

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.

Comments

Victory Points - Djokovic vs Connors, Lendl vs Sampras

Novak Djokovic has just won his 63 rd main tour title with his victory in Miami last week. It seems like a lot of tournaments and is almost as many as Nadal has won with 67... or Sampras with 64. But it’s still a lot less than Jimmy Connors’ open era record of 109 titles. Here’s the title list for the top 20 of the Open Era (since 1968 when professionals were allowed to play with amateurs). 109 Connors 94 Lendl 88 Federer 77 McEnroe 67 Nadal 64 Sampras 64 Borg 63 Djokovic 62 Vilas 60 Agassi 58 Nastase 49 Becker 46 Laver 44 Muster 41 Edberg 37 Smith 35 Murray 34 Chang 33 Ashe 33 Wilander That list may or may not agree with various lists published on the ATP website or Wikipedia, and that’s because there was a fair bit of confusion in the early days of the open era (1968-1973) about what tournaments counted and which were exhibitions. Some supposed ‘tournaments’ had draws of only four players or were ‘invitational’. But after ...

French Open Preview 2017 - Men

French Open Preview 2017 – Men Rafa is back! He is the clear and dominant favourite for the next slam title at Roland Garros. Can anyone stop him? Immediately after his Aus Open final appearance I began wondering aloud if Rafael Nadal would be ranked #1 by year’s end. It appears that eventuality could happen as early as July, but it will depend on what Andy Murray does. Murray has had a reasonably dreadful year – especially for a #1. He’s won only about 2.3 matches for every 1 he’s lost – which is respectable – just not for a #1. Meanwhile Rafa just came off a 17 match win streak – all on clay – and has won three of the four big run-up tournaments to the French – Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Madrid, but fell in the Rome quarters to Thiem. Rafa has won 3 of these tournaments and RG in the same year seven times in his career. Will this be the eighth? The most serious challenger to Nadal might be 23 year-old Dominic Thiem....

Wimbledon Women 2025

For a variety of reasons, none of the active players who have won this championship look like a real threat for the title. So it seems a new champion is likely. We’ve had surprises the last three years, will it happen again? Or will one of the favourites finally show her mettle on Wimbledon grass? First Quarter After the dust settled on last year’s tournament I noticed a weird stat: Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, and Coco Gauff all have identical match win-loss records at Wimbledon of 11-5. It’s just an unlikely coincidence, but it does make picking between them tricky. They are certainly among, if not THE, favourites for this tournament. Of the three, I think Sabalenka’s record looks somehow the best, since she has been to two semi-finals on the hallowed grounds at SW19. She’s the top seed this year, and despite ‘only’ being runner-up at both slam finals played so far this year, she is distancing herself from the field in the rankings....

tennis gut

Search This Blog