Worst best results for a top 10 player at a single slam.

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Gael "Guru" Monfils is one of, if the not the best example of this. Monfils has achieved his worst best results at Wimbledon a total of 6 times in the 3rd round. Ridiculous how consistently he has failed there. Monfils trouble on grass in no secret to any fan that keeps up regularly.

Is there another top 10 player in history with such terrible results at a single slam? Who is close to this? Stretch the ranks out some, if you like and/or vary your levels of "Peak Mugdom".
 
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Marat Safin might qualify. This is a guy that was so good, that he absolutely destroyed Sampras in the USO final. He also beat a peak Federer in the semis of the AO to eventually beat Hewitt in the 2005 AO championship. Safin has also been ranked #1 before.

And yet, Safin has been terrible at Wimbledon. Here is what Safin was ranked and what his result was at Wimbledon:

year world ranking result
2000 9 2nd round
2001 3 quarterfinal
2002 2 2nd round
2003 - missed Wimbledon
2004 15 1st round
2005 5 3rd round

Starting in 2006, Safin was ranked 24th or worse in the world while he entered Wimby. So I excluded those numbers since his overall play stunk anyway.

I.e, Safin was ranked in the top 10 at 4 different Wimbledons. His average result for these 4 Wimbledons in which he was ranked in the top ten was getting knocked out of the 3rd round. This is pathetic for a guy as good and as dangerous as Safin was.
 
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Tim Henman - Australian Open.

1996 - Ranked 90th - 2nd round.
1997 - Ranked 14th - 3rd round.
1998 - Ranked 18th - 1st round.
1999 - Ranked 7th - 3rd round.
2000 - Ranked 13th - 4th round.
2001 - Ranked 10th - 4th round.
2002 - Ranked 8th - 4th round.
2004 - Ranked 12th - 3rd round.
2005 - Ranked 7th - 3rd round.
2006 - Ranked 36th - 1st round.
 
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Carlos Moya - Wimbledon.

1996 - Ranked 23rd - 1st round.
1997 - Ranked 11th - 2nd round.
1998 - Ranked 4th - 2nd round.
1999 - Ranked 10th - 2nd round.
2000 - Ranked 51st - 1st round.
2001 - Ranked 22nd - 2nd round.
2004 - Ranked 7th - 4th round.
2007 - Ranked 22nd - 1st round.
 
AnOctorokForDinner

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For those who reached top 10 or even top 1 in their career, Muster at Wimbledon (0-4, 3 of those 4 losses were in straight sets).

But I presume you mean "results at the time of being top 10". Hmm... More Russians at Wimbledon:

Kafelnikov was ranked top 10 come Wimbledon for 8 straight years (1995-2002). His results: QF, 1R, 4R, 1R, 3R, 2R, 3R, 3R.

Davydenko was ranked top 11 come Wimbledon for 6 straight years (2005-2010). His results: 2R, 1R, 4R, 1R, 3R, 2R.
 
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AnOctorokForDinner said:
For those who reached top 10 or even top 1 in their career, Muster at Wimbledon (0-4, 3 of those 4 losses were in straight sets).

But I presume you mean "results at the time of being top 10". Hmm... More Russians at Wimbledon:

Kafelnikov was ranked top 10 come Wimbledon for 8 straight years (1995-2002). His results: QF, 1R, 4R, 1R, 3R, 2R, 3R, 3R.

Davydenko was ranked top 11 come Wimbledon for 6 straight years (2005-2010). His results: 2R, 1R, 4R, 1R, 3R, 2R.
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AnOctorokForDinner said:
But I presume you mean "results at the time of being top 10". Hmm... More Russians at Wimbledon:
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This pattern is highly disturbing. Russians off to Peak Mugdom country at peak mugdom slam lead? :confused:
 
tennis_pro

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All the clay courters at Wimbledon pre 2000.

Muster (former world no. 1) is actually 0-4 at Wimbledon LMAO. Dude someone who was the top ranked player in the world was unable to win a single main draw match in the most important tournament, how funny is that.
 
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tennis_pro said:
All the clay courters at Wimbledon pre 2000.

Muster (former world no. 1) is actually 0-4 at Wimbledon LMAO. Dude someone who was the top ranked player in the world was unable to win a single main draw match in the most important tournament, how funny is that.
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Clay courters at Wimbledon pre 2000 holding up, with Gustavo Kuerten,who had only one Wimby QF '99 his entire career. Haven't looked at his other results there, but one QF looks to be qualified.
 
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Gaston Gaudio at any slam that wasn't the French Open.

Won the 2004 French Open and yet never made the 4R anywhere else.

US Open is the worst.
1999: 1R
2000: 1R
2001: 1R
2002: 3R
2003: 1R
2004: 2R
2005: 1R
2006: 3R

But his entire career was crazy. Won a slam but never made another slam QF ever, even at the French Open.
 
boredone3456

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A few for the ladies

Stosur at both the AO and Wimbledon. Wimbledon is worse, for a S&V player with a strong serve she never made it past the 3rd round
Sara Errani at Wimbleon
Pam Shriver at the French (not that she played it often in singles anyway)
Iva Majoli at the US Open
Schnyder at Wimbledon. She made multiple QF's at every other major, only 1 4th round appearance at Wimbledon in 15 attempts. lost 8 times in the first round and has a 10-15 tournament record.
 
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Sabratha said:
Carlos Moya - Wimbledon.

1996 - Ranked 23rd - 1st round.
1997 - Ranked 11th - 2nd round.
1998 - Ranked 4th - 2nd round.
1999 - Ranked 10th - 2nd round.
2000 - Ranked 51st - 1st round.
2001 - Ranked 22nd - 2nd round.
2004 - Ranked 7th - 4th round.
2007 - Ranked 22nd - 1st round.
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Rafa trying to follow in his footsteps since 2012.

2012 - 2nd round
2013 - 1st round
2014 - 4th round
2015 - 2nd round
2016 - AWAY
2017 - 4th round

:oops:
 
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Aussie Darcy said:
Gaston Gaudio at any slam that wasn't the French Open.

Won the 2004 French Open and yet never made the 4R anywhere else.

US Open is the worst.
1999: 1R
2000: 1R
2001: 1R
2002: 3R
2003: 1R
2004: 2R
2005: 1R
2006: 3R

But his entire career was crazy. Won a slam but never made another slam QF ever, even at the French Open.
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That RG pisses me off to this day
 
Terenigma

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Dimitrov may not be a consistent top 10 player but his record at the french open springs to mind. Only made R3 twice and has lost in R1 four times. Sitting on a nice 5-7 W/L ratio. Will be interesting to see if he improves these stats over the next few years
 
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boredone3456 said:
Ya when Isner is arguably the most successful since 1999...LOL. He at least has a winning record there though at 14-9 with a couple of 4th round appearances
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Isner taking 2 sets off Nadal that one time automatically makes him the best American at RG in the 21st century. Even without those 4Rs.
 
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Anyone knows what Rios was like at Wimbledon? I remember him talking that Grass was for Cows or something lol, he was a funny bloke.
 
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Kuerten's AO record was shockingly bad, considering how talented a hard court player he was (he was far better on hard courts than Roddick was on clay or Muster or Moya were on grass for example), with his career 7-8 W/L record there:

1997: R2
1998: R2
1999: R2
2000: R1
2001: R2
2002: R1
2003: R2
2004: R3

He loved to party and unwind during the off-season, and it showed with his series of poor results in Melbourne.
 
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Marcelo Rios also hated Wimbledon with quite a passion as well. Young Agassi also despised the grass, but amazingly he still had a pretty good career at Wimby.
 
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Pheasant said:
Marat Safin might qualify. This is a guy that was so good, that he absolutely destroyed Sampras in the USO final. He also beat a peak Federer in the semis of the AO to eventually beat Hewitt in the 2005 AO championship. Safin has also been ranked #1 before.

And yet, Safin has been terrible at Wimbledon. Here is what Safin was ranked and what his result was at Wimbledon:

year world ranking result
2000 9 2nd round
2001 3 quarterfinal
2002 2 2nd round
2003 - missed Wimbledon
2004 15 1st round
2005 5 3rd round

Starting in 2006, Safin was ranked 24th or worse in the world while he entered Wimby. So I excluded those numbers since his overall play stunk anyway.

I.e, Safin was ranked in the top 10 at 4 different Wimbledons. His average result for these 4 Wimbledons in which he was ranked in the top ten was getting knocked out of the 3rd round. This is pathetic for a guy as good and as dangerous as Safin was.
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Safin got a Semifinal in 2008. But still. Very interesting considering how dangerous he was.
 
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Pheasant said:
Marat Safin might qualify. This is a guy that was so good, that he absolutely destroyed Sampras in the USO final. He also beat a peak Federer in the semis of the AO to eventually beat Hewitt in the 2005 AO championship. Safin has also been ranked #1 before.

And yet, Safin has been terrible at Wimbledon. Here is what Safin was ranked and what his result was at Wimbledon:

year world ranking result
2000 9 2nd round
2001 3 quarterfinal
2002 2 2nd round
2003 - missed Wimbledon
2004 15 1st round
2005 5 3rd round

Starting in 2006, Safin was ranked 24th or worse in the world while he entered Wimby. So I excluded those numbers since his overall play stunk anyway.

I.e, Safin was ranked in the top 10 at 4 different Wimbledons. His average result for these 4 Wimbledons in which he was ranked in the top ten was getting knocked out of the 3rd round. This is pathetic for a guy as good and as dangerous as Safin was.
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Erm Safin reached the SF in 2008 and you’re ignoring that completely?!
 
AnOctorokForDinner

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Gizo said:
Kuerten's AO record was shockingly bad, considering how talented a hard court player he was (he was far better on hard courts than Roddick was on clay or Muster or Moya were on grass for example), with his career 7-8 W/L record there:

1997: R2
1998: R2
1999: R2
2000: R1
2001: R2
2002: R1
2003: R2
2004: R3

He loved to party and unwind during the off-season, and it showed with his series of poor results in Melbourne.
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Looking at the scorelines, Kuerten suffered five consecutive five-set losses in R1/R2 between 1999 and 2003, and barely escaped another five-set R1 loss in 2004 (last appearance). It could have had to do with lack of physical and mental sharpness, indeed. Went down in a battle each time.
 
AnOctorokForDinner

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Gizo said:
Kuerten's AO record was shockingly bad, considering how talented a hard court player he was (he was far better on hard courts than Roddick was on clay or Muster or Moya were on grass for example), with his career 7-8 W/L record there:

1997: R2
1998: R2
1999: R2
2000: R1
2001: R2
2002: R1
2003: R2
2004: R3

He loved to party and unwind during the off-season, and it showed with his series of poor results in Melbourne.
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Looking at the scorelines, Kuerten suffered five consecutive five-set losses in R1/R2 between 1999 and 2003, and barely escaped another five-set R1 loss in 2004 (last appearance). It could have had to do with lack of physical and mental sharpness, indeed. Went down in a battle each time.
 
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Sabratha said:
Tim Henman - Australian Open.

1996 - Ranked 90th - 2nd round.
1997 - Ranked 14th - 3rd round.
1998 - Ranked 18th - 1st round.
1999 - Ranked 7th - 3rd round.
2000 - Ranked 13th - 4th round.
2001 - Ranked 10th - 4th round.
2002 - Ranked 8th - 4th round.
2004 - Ranked 12th - 3rd round.
2005 - Ranked 7th - 3rd round.
2006 - Ranked 36th - 1st round.
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Henman shows lower rankings than I could possibly imagine. Wasn’t he #4 ranked some time or solid top ten?. Someone has lied to me then.
 
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Henman shows lower rankings than I could possibly imagine. Wasn’t he #4 ranked some time or solid top ten?. Someone has lied to me then.
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Look at his ranking history. He spent a lot of time as a top tenner but around the AO I guess he was either just outside it or on a bad run of form.
 
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Rafter in AO and RG
He made semis at both, but except that every others year wad bad
 
BGod

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Toss-Up between Davydenko & Moya at Wimbledon.

Moya was a #1 with 2 Slam Finals so arguable edge to him.
 
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Ljubicic’s entire career probably fits the bill here.

In 48 appearances in grand slams, he only progressed beyond the 3rd round 4 times, with a QF at the 2006 AO, a SF at RG in 2006, and 2 more 4th round appearances at RG in 2008 and 2011.

During that RG SF run in 2006, the highest ranked opponent that he beat was the world no. 79 RRH in R4.

Definitely his stand out slam victory was when he came from 2 sets to love down to beat the world no. 4 Davydenko in R3 at RG in 2008. Davydenko had destroyed him at Hamburg a few weeks earlier. Of course that was his only ever victory over a top 10 player at the slams.

His career W/L record at the slams was completely level at 48-48. Pretty shocking for a guy that reached world no. 3, and spent 47 weeks in the top 5 and 84 weeks in the top 10.
 
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True Fanerer said:
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Gael "Guru" Monfils is one of, if the not the best example of this. Monfils has achieved his worst best results at Wimbledon a total of 6 times in the 3rd round. Ridiculous how consistently he has failed there. Monfils trouble on grass in no secret to any fan that keeps up regularly.

Is there another top 10 player in history with such terrible results at a single slam? Who is close to this? Stretch the ranks out some, if you like and/or vary your levels of "Peak Mugdom".
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Monfils makes no secret of the fact that he hates playing on grass. It's a wonder he ever shows up at Wimbledon at all!

But he's still not the best worst there for a top player. Thomas Muster, a former RG champion and world #1 never won a single match at Wimbledon in any of his 4 appearances there!
 
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Gizo said:
Ljubicic’s entire career probably fits the bill here.

In 48 appearances in grand slams, he only progressed beyond the 3rd round 4 times, with a QF at the 2006 AO, a SF at RG in 2006, and 2 more 4th round appearances at RG in 2008 and 2011.

During that RG SF run in 2006, the highest ranked opponent that he beat was the world no. 79 RRH in R4.

Definitely his stand out slam victory was when he came from 2 sets to love down to beat the world no. 4 Davydenko in R3 at RG in 2008. Davydenko had destroyed him at Hamburg a few weeks earlier. Of course that was his only ever victory over a top 10 player at the slams.

His career W/L record at the slams was completely level at 48-48. Pretty shocking for a guy that reached world no. 3, and spent 47 weeks in the top 5 and 84 weeks in the top 10.
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Too many acronyms....:eek:
 
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tennis_pro said:
All the clay courters at Wimbledon pre 2000.

Muster (former world no. 1) is actually 0-4 at Wimbledon LMAO. Dude someone who was the top ranked player in the world was unable to win a single main draw match in the most important tournament, how funny is that.
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Okey I LOLed at that. Jeez that guy was a pure clay player and nothing else.
 
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