Best One Slam Wonder

Who is the best player to win only one grand slam to date?

  • Ivanisevic

    Votes: 30 22.6%
  • Roddick

    Votes: 38 28.6%
  • Ferrero

    Votes: 11 8.3%
  • Chang

    Votes: 41 30.8%
  • Krajicek

    Votes: 13 9.8%

  • Total voters
    133

noeledmonds

Professional
You are hard to please arent you. Muster only ever made one grand slam final anyway, compare that to 4 from Chang, Ivanisevic and Roddick, and 2 from Ferrero, and 1 sterling performance from Krajicek to beat Sampras at Wimbledon in straight sets.
 

Zuras

Banned
You are hard to please arent you. Muster only ever made one grand slam final anyway, compare that to 4 from Chang, Ivanisevic and Roddick, and 2 from Ferrero, and 1 sterling performance from Krajicek to beat Sampras at Wimbledon in straight sets.

How many Grand Slams you think you'd win after almost dieing in a car wreck?? If those are your only criteria, how come Stich isn't on your list? 3 finals, 1 gold medal?
 

randomname

Professional
it is not one of the choices but gaston gaudio is on top of the list

how many other slam finals did he reach and how long did he spend as #1? oh yeah, none and he never was. how on earth do you think hes a better player than roddick, chang, or ferrero? has gaudio even won a masters shield?
 

gmonfils

Rookie
What were you thinking?

Just because Gomez wasn't the Buffalo Bills of tennis... he got to 1 slam final and won it he also won over 20 singles titles in his career. If you meant how many guys won 1 slam but were losers in 2 to 3 others then I would retract... during his time though he was certainly better than Krajicek!
 

TennisBatman

Semi-Pro
Yeah, Chang won 1 slam, but there's no telling how many slams deep down he himself wished he had won.

He is not really concerned with his own level of greatness, however, because of his religion.
 

Grimjack

Banned
Krajicek.

An all-surface threat, having even been as far as the French semis early on. Would have won far more than his whopping one slam if he'd stayed healthy. Alas.

Also, magnificently quotable.

RK said:
I may have exaggerated a bit when I said that 80 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. What I meant to say was 75 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs.
 

noeledmonds

Professional
Suprised Goran has no votes, 4 wimbledon finals, repectable to lose to sampras (twice) and agassi. Heroic effort to win wimbledon from 125 in the world as a wild card for tournament. You know Goran won 2 FO Doubles titles as well, not just a 1 surface man either.
 

Zimbo

Semi-Pro
I'd have to ask you the same thing for including
Ferrero and Krajicek yet not Muster and Stich. Stich was an incredible all-courter and Muster is probably the the third greatest clay courter ever.

Who's the first two greatest clay courter? Muster the third? You are kidding, he's not even in the top five and maybe in the top ten.
 

Zuras

Banned
Obviously its Goran, 3 losses in the wimbledon finals and finally he makes it.

Making 4 finals only on one of the extreme surfaces hardly makes for an "obvious" choice. Unless you are a Croat, then it's "obvious" why he is obviously the choice.
 
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Zuras

Banned
Who's the first two greatest clay courter? Muster the third? You are kidding, he's not even in the top five and maybe in the top ten.

I said probably. I'm not going to arbitrarily rank them, but he falls somewhere in the 3rd to 5th range.
 

patrick922

Semi-Pro
how many other slam finals did he reach and how long did he spend as #1? oh yeah, none and he never was. how on earth do you think hes a better player than roddick, chang, or ferrero? has gaudio even won a masters shield?

well when you put into consideration on the surface he is pretty darn good clay courter...better than roddick on clay of course
 

noeledmonds

Professional
well when you put into consideration on the surface he is pretty darn good clay courter...better than roddick on clay of course

This hardly justifies Gaudio's place as the best one slam wonder. Many players of very average ability could beat Roddick on cley.
 

Watcher

Semi-Pro
Who's the first two greatest clay courter? Muster the third? You are kidding, he's not even in the top five and maybe in the top ten.

Now we're talking about the best clay courters ever? Sweet!

I'd say the people that come to mind are Bjorn Borg, Rafael Nadal, Guillermo Vilas, Thomas Muster, Ivan Lendl, Mats Wilander, Gustavo Kuerten, Adriano Panatta, um... And I know that there have been a couple of others when I've pondered upon this subject in the past, but I can't remember right now.
 

tkramer15

Semi-Pro
Muster

It's tough to compare players nowadays or make any of these all time comparisons. I'm a little impartial because I've always been a big Muster fan, but he's gotta be looked at as one of the top couple all-time players on clay and if you'd included him in the poll for the best one-slam winners, he might top that list. Remember that in his prime years of 1995 and 1996 Muster beat all of the other good Spanish claycourters consistently, guys like Moya, Costa and Bruguera who won French Opens. I'll admit that Nadal and Kuerten are better than Muster, but I can't say guys like Ferrero or Coria are or were. Muster's two year dominance can't be overlooked.

Again, I don't profess to know exactly where Muster should rank in this poll, but he probably should be on it. It's too hard to subjectively compare players from even one decade to another.
 

tkramer15

Semi-Pro
That's ridiculous

Who's the first two greatest clay courter? Muster the third? You are kidding, he's not even in the top five and maybe in the top ten.

Not even top ten? That's absurd. If you go by how each player performed against the competition in their prime, there's no way Muster isn't among the top couple. You could claim that a number of guys today would beat Muster, but there's no way to actually know. The game changes too much every so many years that it's not even fair to attempt to make that kind of comparison. Muster's winning streaks, titles and record on clay and performance against the other top clay courters of his era speak for themselves.
 

sypl

Rookie
Plus, just like Nadal, he was one tough, tough bastad. And that's half the battle on clay, innit?
 

sypl

Rookie
How the hell you get Sharapova in there? She plays well on all surfaces but has never won the French...
 

Eviscerator

Banned
Although I am not certain of this I think you will find Goran at the top of the list as far as number of years in the top 5, tourney winning % on different surfaces, etc. Aside from his mental game, he was one of the best players around and had the misfortune of playing during the Sampras years.
 
"Best" with one Slam?
Hmm. I got nothin'.

Most beloved with one Slam? Yannick Noah. Goran Ivanisevic.

Most results outside of the one Slam? Muster and Chang I guess.

Most GAME out of everyone with just one Slam? Stich. Maybe Krajicek.

Most potential for another Slam? Roddick.;)

One slammer most loved by the ladies? Ferrero and Moya.
 

noeledmonds

Professional
where the heck is gaudio??

What is the obession with Gaudio?
As I have stated before he was very lucky to win his 1 slam, his other results were poor. He has never achived anything outside this victory. Even in the year he won the French he results were unspectacular. He has only won 8 tournaments, and never a masters series. Equally importantly he is not a player who ever had the potencial to do so. He was the last one slam wonder and thats the only season I can think of that his name keeps coming up.
 

aramis

Semi-Pro
It would have to be Roddick or Ferrero. The other guys, although I'm not really sure about this, had a lot of trouble just to win the slam they got, while Andy and JCF steamrolled through their draws, not to mention that they have been in countless grand slam semis and a few other finals as well. Plus they've won a bunch of masters tournaments as well. Roddick's main problem was that Hewitt and Federer kept beating him in 2004-2005 and that sapped his confidence, but at the same time everyone on tour has to face the same competition, not only Roddick, so I don't think it is a valid excuse for his poor results the last year and half or so. It is JCF who had the bad luck in early 2004 with the chicken pox and the rib fracture because he was rapidly becoming a consistent threat on hardcourts up to that point.
 

The tennis guy

Hall of Fame
I'd say Roddick, then Chang, then Ivanisevic.

The reason is simple, all 3 made 4 slam finals with 1 win. Roddick had made to year-end No. 1 no one else on that list did, and Chang made to 3 different slam finals while Ivanisevic only at Wimbledon. In that sense Goran is the true "one slam wonder"!
 
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