Who is your favourite single-slam winner?
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MichaelNadal
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Mark Edmondson
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SinneGOAT
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Del Potro had imo the highest level of play overtime of the single slam club. Real big contender for a number 4 spot in the big 3. Maybe if Nadal stopped hitting balls to his forehand he could beat him once or twice on grass. However Ivanisevic’s 2001 Wimbledon run is absolutely legendary.
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2nd Serve Ace
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Pat Cash! Denied Lendl a W and I love that.
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Goran.
His Wimbledon 2001 run made men cry the world over.
His Wimbledon 2001 run made men cry the world over.
BorgTheGOAT
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Stich, Goran, Del Potro in no particular order.
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tennis_pro
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Federer without 19 Slams
Crazy Finn
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Goran, for sure. Wimbledon 2001 was great all around. Frankly, Rafter deserved a Wimbledon, too - but thankfully Goran got a slam.
Runners up are Delpo, Stich, Chang. Delpo and Stich played really high level tennis, making you think that they'd get more than 1 for sure.
Commentator Roddick is fine. I wasn't a fan of him as a player.
Runners up are Delpo, Stich, Chang. Delpo and Stich played really high level tennis, making you think that they'd get more than 1 for sure.
Commentator Roddick is fine. I wasn't a fan of him as a player.
Phoenix1983
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Men: Delpo
Women: Sloane
Women: Sloane
Backspin1183
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What proof do you have that 19 of his 20 slams weren't won legitimately?
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So Federer without his weak slams in other words
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MeatTornado
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Roddick's probably my favorite player of all time, so that's an easy pick.
daggerman
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Chang and Andreescu
EDIT: forgot to add my reasons why. Chang: small, plucky underdogs winning slams in men's tennis is incredibly rare, plus Chang is a great guy. Andreescu: most dynamic women's player I've seen since Serena and Henin were in their primes. Swiatek isn't far behind.
EDIT: forgot to add my reasons why. Chang: small, plucky underdogs winning slams in men's tennis is incredibly rare, plus Chang is a great guy. Andreescu: most dynamic women's player I've seen since Serena and Henin were in their primes. Swiatek isn't far behind.
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Crazy Finn
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Andreescu's hopefully not done, yet....
Cashman
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Underrated for sure. The AO might have been a second class Slam for international players in 1976, but there was plenty of home grown quality in that draw (plus Stan Smith).
Edmonson beat six seeds in a row to win that title - a mammoth effort in the 16-seed era. All the while commuting from an hour away, since he couldn’t afford accommodation near Kooyong.
Rubens
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I'm afraid she's the female Delpo. Hopefully time will prove me wrong.
Jack the Hack
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You have me super curious...
Since you are the Cashman and have his picture in your avatar, I figured you must be around the same age as me (I'm 48) and been around to watch a lot of the 80s matches. However, you posted in another thread about being excited to finally be able to play in 30 and over ITF tournaments, which would mean that you were probably not even alive yet when Cash was at his peak. I would have thought Lleyton Hewitt and Mark Philippoussis would have been closer to the age that would have inspired an Aussie in their early 30s now. And then you are providing details on an Australian player from the 1970s, Mark Edmonson, that most people do not know anything about.
Where did this historical appreciation come from for you personally? Why Pat Cash?
(BTW, I am a big Wilander and Edberg fan, so I nervously watched those Australian Open 5 setters over Cash in the finals in '87 and '88. Those had to be heartbreaking losses for Australian fans.)
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Roddick and Chang both won their respective grand slams at a very early age.
Unlike most players who chase this title their entire careers, these guys got a taste early on and never again.
I think that came with it's own set of mental hurdles.
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Thomas Muster. Reason- worked his way back to win the FO after a crippling car crash.
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Jana Novotná: her story at Wimbledon, her resolve and her tragic end make her one Singles triumph at SW19 a precious moment in the history of the sport.
Crazy Finn
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Indeed. She's only 20. She's definitely had her share of injuries already. Still, here's hoping! She's fun to watch.
Frankly, she's good enough that if she can be healthy for a month or two, she could win a slam. That's basically what she did at the US Open.
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Roddick and Chang both won their respective grand slams at a very early age.
Unlike most players who chase this title their entire careers, these guys got a taste early on and never again.
I think that came with it's own set of mental hurdles.
Rosstour
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Never realized Pete has those "Jack Nicholson Joker" features, since he almost never smiled.
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I was born in the mid 80s but I probably picked up a racquet for the first time in 1992, and although that was well after Cash’s global heyday he was still an active player and very much the man in Australia. He was my first tennis hero - all I wanted to do was to wear a chequered headband, serve and volley and win Wimbledon.
My other early heroes sort of followed from that - Edberg (because he was Lendl’s rival) and Rafter (because he was the new Cash). All surgical S&V players, whom I modelled my own game on more than the new generation of big servers and baseliners.
Whilst Edmondson is a bit obscure in global tennis terms, as our last home-grown home-Slam champion he is a bit of a celebrated figure in Australia. Growing up, the TV network would always drag him out for an interview during the AO and roll the footage of him trouncing Newk 6-1 in the fourth.
But my familiarity with Australian tennis history is mostly thanks to my grandmother, who attended pretty much every Australian Open from about the mid-50s to the mid-90s. She was a font of knowledge about our golden age and really fostered an interest in that era of tennis for me.
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You may be the first human to connect Jack Nicholson to Pete Sampras
RaulRamirez
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Swiatek, but she ain't stopping.
Hmmmm....Flavia and...probably Noah.
Hmmmm....Flavia and...probably Noah.
Crazy Finn
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Thanks for making me feel old. I'm a decade older. I remember watching Borg-MacEnroe - Wimbledon 1980 - live (I was living in Europe at the time). I don't remember exactly when I started playing but I did some local park & rec summer tennis thing during junior high in the late 80's for a couple of summers. I first played with a wooden racquet that weighed a ton and made me terrible (it's somewhere around here....) but had a graphite Wilson Aggressor by the time I did parks & rec.
I watched a lot of Edberg, Becker, and Lendl growing up.
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You're both youngbloods in comparison to this old guy! I started playing at 14 in '71! Watched a lot of Borg, Connors, Nastase, Rosewall, Laver, Ashe, Vilas, & Newcombe when the tennis boom just started! Connors and Everts' 1974 Wimbledon wins and coupling started it all here in the States! I learned more by watching women's tennis and marveled at some of the more athletic ladies like Court, King, Goolagong, & Wade! "Breakfast At Wimbledon" started the year before with Borg v Tanner in '79! It went 5 sets and was a great start to live tennis at a major! Waking up at 6 AM to see it was no fun living in California though!
Cashman
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My first racquet was a Mizuno Junior 23, which I used for too long after growing out of it and left me with the bad habit of hanging my hand partially off the butt-cap (a la Nadal)
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