In a European newspaper?Sorry, my post was not well written.
Hoad’s last tournament won was Playmon Fiesta 71 in Benidorn. 6-7 August. Outdoor clay.
He defeated Antonio Munoz in the SF 97 63 and Manolo Santana in the final, same score
In a European newspaper?Sorry, my post was not well written.
Hoad’s last tournament won was Playmon Fiesta 71 in Benidorn. 6-7 August. Outdoor clay.
He defeated Antonio Munoz in the SF 97 63 and Manolo Santana in the final, same score
Hope he is doing well these days.Yep. Currently he doesn't want to enter here because of too dirty posters.
I have been giving him plenty of music posts to listen to, hope that he enjoys them.Yep. Currently he doesn't want to enter here because of too dirty posters.
I know. You both like the classical music. I wrote him a couple of times in the last months. No response. He underwent a heart surgery with some additional complications. I hope not but I suspect the worst.I have been giving him plenty of music posts to listen to, hope that he enjoys them.
Sorry to hear it. Let's hope for the best.I know. You both like the classical music. I wrote him a couple of times in the last months. No response. He underwent a heart surgery with some additional complications. I hope not but I suspect the worst.
Here is SgtJohn's list of majors per year: http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?p=3098705#post3098705
My version Numbers one years end1965—Laver
1966—Laver
1967—Laver
1968—Laver
1969—Laver
1970—Laver
1971—RosewallLaver
1972—Smith
1973—Nastase
My version Numbers one years end
7 Gonzalez, Laver
6 Sampras, Federer
5 Djokovic
4 Kramer, Nadal, Rosewall
3 Connors, Borg, McEnroe, Lendl
2 Riggs, Edberg, Hewitt
1 Segura, Hoad, Smith, Nastase, Ashe, Vilas, Courier, Wilander, Becker, Agassi, Kuerten, Roddick, Murray
My version Best player of the year
9 Gonzalez
8 Laver
6 Sampras, Federer
5 Kramer, Djokovic
4 Nadal
3 Connors, Borg, McEnroe, Lendl
2 Rosewall, Edberg, Hewitt
1 Riggs, Segura, Hoad, Smith, Nastase, Ashe, Vilas, Courier, Wilander, Becker, Agassi, Kuerten, Roddick, Murray
It's not bad...with 276 thousand viewers, I think the most for any thread.This is a great thread and lots of information on tennis from the beginning.
I think the point about the 1964-1968 tournament world championship series was that the actual points results were not published or made available to the public. Not sure if this was intentional, perhaps just a lack of public interest.The article seems a bit strange at some points. Some tours are mentioned, others like 1965, 66, 67 are declared as incomplete, but we have a lot of results, to reconstruct them to a great deal. I think, 1965 is better documented than 1964 for instance. Overall, many toure are declared incomplete, although we have many results now and can reconstruct the rankings. Overall it would be imo far more transparent for the pro situation, to get all the match results (of all tours) we have now documented (thanks to No Mercy and the published versions of Chris Jordan), into a filter, to give win-loss record for the leading pros for each year, especially in the 1960s.
Gonzales skipped the final tournament in 1959 knowing that the "world series" (which for 1959 was defined as the Ampol series in Kramer's publications} was indeed at stake, but was possibly tired at the end of a long season. Gonzales had already won the 4-man spring tour "world professional championship" (not to be confused with the year-long "world championship" based on tournaments, the Ampol series). Kramer attempted to persuade Gonzales not to do this, but to no avail. I think that if Gonzales had been confident of success, he would have played the final event, where Kramer pointed out that $10,000 was at stake for the winner of the Kooyong tournament which ended the season. Gonzales ignored Kramer and told the press that he wanted to spend Christmas with his fiancee, which he supposedly decided was more important than $10,000. That was a large amount of money for that season, and decided the year-long money title for Hoad in Gonzales' absence.The stats, we have now documented, are better than it appears in the article. We have now a much better overview on the pro situation for each year, mainly due to the researches of No Mercy. In the thread The structure of the old pro tour, is an interview with Gimeno, from 1965, where he gives the points ranking of the 20 tournament series of 1965. Still the systemic problem is, that the tournament series of 17 or 20 tournaments a la 3 round events covered only a third of the playing time for the pros per year (against the same opposition). Laver and Rosewall played in 17 tournaments in 1964 maybe 45 matches. For Laver, the last count i have is 136 matches in 1964, for Rosewall ca. 110. So it would be more transparent, to give all those full documented results and personal records of a given year.
1959 is still difficult to rank. Hoad and Gonzalez are almost pari, in World Series, Ampol series and overall match tours and hth. Gonzalez left this Ampol series before the last tournament (with a fat chance to win it), obviously he didn't think, that the World pro title was at stake. In the overall evaluation its still a very close call.
I take it you mean the list referred to by Timnz ,1964?
Hello,
I have to say I really like the list. You can tell by the co-number 1 years that you have spent a lot of time and thought in it.
Comparing your list to Wikipedia's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_number_one_male_tennis_player_rankings
You mean the list above in Timnz post?There is a lot to chew on going through the list. Interesting having Tilden #1 in 1931, it had been six years since he had been #1. Also, Kovas being tied for #1 a couple of times is interesting as well. Nice to see Larned get a mention. Not sure a lot of people would have considered Laver for #1 for 1970. Makes you want to research some of these seasons.