Rivalries at all 4 Slams

krosero · Feb 3, 2011

How many rivalries cover all the bases, with meetings at all four Slams?

Sampras and Agassi met at all four. So did Lendl and McEnroe.

Some others that are missing a "leg":

Wilander and Lendl never met at Wimbledon.

Becker and Lendl never met at RG.

Rosewall and Laver never met at AO or USO.

Borg and Connors never met at AO or FO. Same was true for Borg and McEnroe.

Becker and Edberg never met at AO or USO.

Federer and Nadal have still not met at the USO.

And so on.

pc1 · Feb 3, 2011

krosero said:
How many rivalries cover all the bases, with meetings at all four Slams?

Sampras and Agassi met at all four. So did Lendl and McEnroe.

Some others that are missing a "leg":

Wilander and Lendl never met at Wimbledon.

Becker and Lendl never met at RG.

Rosewall and Laver never met at AO or USO.

Borg and Connors never met at AO or FO. Same was true for Borg and McEnroe.

Becker and Edberg never met at AO or USO.

Federer and Nadal have still not met at the USO.

And so on.

I don't have time to check but I would guess that Roy Emerson and some players like Fred Stolle or Cliff Drysdales may have met at all the majors.

It's tough for players like Laver and Rosewall because they weren't originally playing the majors at the same time as amateurs and their were so many boycotts when Open tennis started.

krosero · Feb 3, 2011

pc1 said:
I don't have time to check but I would guess that Roy Emerson and some players like Fred Stolle or Cliff Drysdales may have met at all the majors.

It's tough for players like Laver and Rosewall because they weren't originally playing the majors at the same time as amateurs and their were so many boycotts when Open tennis started.

True about Laver and Rosewall. They never met at AO and USO, for example, but they only ever played two AO's in common (1969 and '71, which were the two AO's in the early Open Era in which most of the top players were able to participate without political or other problems intervening).

Edit: and yet the only two times in their entire careers that Laver and Rosewall both played at Roland Garros were 1968-69. And they met in the final both years, so go figure.

Mustard · Feb 3, 2011

Courier and Edberg met at all 4 slams too. Courier won 4 of their 6 slam matches.

1991 Australian Open R16: Stefan Edberg def. Jim Courier (4-6, 6-0, 6-4, 5-7, 6-2)
1991 French Open QF: Jim Courier def. Stefan Edberg (6-4, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4)
1991 US Open F: Stefan Edberg def. Jim Courier (6-2, 6-4, 6-0)
1992 Australian Open F: Jim Courier def. Stefan Edberg (6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2)
1993 Australian Open F: Jim Courier def. Stefan Edberg (6-2, 6-1, 2-6, 7-5)
1993 Wimbledon SF: Jim Courier def. Stefan Edberg (4-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4)

Mustard · Feb 3, 2011

There's also Sampras and Courier, where Sampras won 6 of their 8 slam meetings.

1991 US Open QF: Jim Courier def. Pete Sampras (6-2, 7-6, 7-6)
1992 US Open SF: Pete Sampras def. Jim Courier (6-1, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2)
1993 Wimbledon F: Pete Sampras def. Jim Courier (7-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-3)
1994 Australian Open SF: Pete Sampras def. Jim Courier (6-3, 6-4, 6-4)
1994 French Open QF: Jim Courier def. Pete Sampras (6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4)
1995 Australian Open QF: Pete Sampras def. Jim Courier (6-7, 6-7, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3)
1995 US Open SF: Pete Sampras def. Jim Courier (7-5, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5)
1996 French Open QF: Pete Sampras def. Jim Courier (6-7, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4)

krosero · Feb 3, 2011

Mustard said:
Courier and Edberg met at all 4 slams too.

Mustard said:
There's also Sampras and Courier, where Sampras won 6 of their 8 slam meetings.

We have two more.

Also, McEnroe and Wilander:

1989 Wimbledon QF
1985 USO SF
1985 RG SF
1983 AO SF
1983 RG QF

They also met in Davis Cup and the Masters.

Lendl and Mac met at all 4 Slams, Davis Cup, the Masters, and they had some tough matches at the Dallas WCT Finals (those two met everywhere).

Mustard · Feb 3, 2011

I have another. Hewitt vs. Roddick. Hewitt has won 3 of their 5 slam meetings.

2001 French Open R32: Lleyton Hewitt def. Andy Roddick (6-7, 6-4, 2-2 ret.)
2001 US Open QF: Lleyton Hewitt def. Andy Roddick (6-7, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4)
2005 Australian Open SF: Lleyton Hewitt def. Andy Roddick (3-6, 7-6, 7-6, 6-1)
2006 US Open QF: Andy Roddick def. Lleyton Hewitt (6-3, 7-5, 6-4)
2009 Wimbledon QF: Andy Roddick def. Lleyton Hewitt (6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 4-6, 6-4)

BTURNER · Feb 3, 2011

A couple of women offhand, the easy ones Evert vs Navratilova, Graf vs Seles,

krosero · Feb 3, 2011

Lenglen and Wills.

J/K.

Keep 'em coming.

I thought maybe Lendl and Edberg, but they never met at RG.

Federer has never beaten Roddick or Hewitt at RG. Never beaten Davydenko at Wimbledon. Not that interesting as rivalries but I'm just wondering who Federer has met at all four Slams.

krosero · Feb 3, 2011

Court and Goolagong, I just thought of them because they obviously played the AO a lot, and met a couple of times there. But never met at RG.

Similarly Court and King met everywhere but RG.

King and Goolagong met everywhere but AO.

Jack Romeo · Feb 3, 2011

for the women:

rivals that met in all slams:
serena and venus
serena and justine
kim and justine
hingis and venus
graf and sanchez-vicario

those that are "missing a leg":
davenport and venus (didn't meet at the french open)
davenport and hingis (no matches on grass)
hingis and serena (no meetings at french and wimbledon)
capriati and serena (no matches in australia)
navratilova and seles (no meetings in australia and france because martina didn't play those tournaments anymore during seles' prime)

Jack Romeo · Feb 3, 2011

for the men:

nadal hasn't played djokovic at the australian open
federer hasn't played djokovic at roland garros

borg number one · Feb 3, 2011

Jimmy Connors played his good friend Vitas Gerulaitis in the R16 at the 76 US Open, and then in the '80 Wimbledon SF and in the '80 French Open SF. Yet, they didn't play at the Australian Open. Connors only played there in '73 and '74. Connors lost to Newcombe in the '74 AO final.

BTURNER · Feb 4, 2011

krosero said:
Court and Goolagong, I just thought of them because they obviously played the AO a lot, and met a couple of times there. But never met at RG.

Similarly Court and King met everywhere but RG.

King and Goolagong met everywhere but AO.

Navratilova never met Graf at Australia, Evert never saw Goolagong at RG, or Hana at Australia But Chris met Steffi at all 4.

pc1 · Feb 4, 2011

Margaret Court and Maria Bueno met at all four majors.

Sampras and Michael Chang met at all four majors.

Sampras and Todd Martin met at all four majors.

Probably the majority of the names will be in the last 25 or so years since players started playing all four majors around then.

krosero · Feb 4, 2011

BTURNER said:
But Chris met Steffi at all 4.

But their USO meeting was a walkover.

They had 1 meeting at each of the other three (85 RG, 88 AO, 89 W).

Moose Malloy · Feb 4, 2011

Not that interesting as rivalries but I'm just wondering who Federer has met at all four Slams.

Kiefer

http://www.tennis28.com/slams/headtohead.html#fs

krosero · Feb 4, 2011

Moose Malloy said:
Kiefer

http://www.tennis28.com/slams/headtohead.html#fs

Thanks for that chart! So we can add these:

Sampras- Philippoussis
Sampras-Tillstrom
Leconte-Mansdorf
Federer-Kiefer
Safin-Rochus
Henman-Tursunov

Seems that Sampras is involved in more of these than anybody else.

BTURNER · Feb 4, 2011

krosero said:
But their USO meeting was a walkover.

They had 1 meeting at each of the other three (85 RG, 88 AO, 89 W).

Of course you are right! And Chris never met Court at Australia but played her at all three other venues in 1973 - and lost two of them!

krosero · Feb 4, 2011

borg number one said:
Jimmy Connors played his good friend Vitas Gerulaitis in the R16 at the 76 US Open, and then in the '80 Wimbledon SF and in the '80 French Open SF. Yet, they didn't play at the Australian Open. Connors only played there in '73 and '74. Connors lost to Newcombe in the '74 AO final.

Was just looking up Vitas' record at the AO. It seems he never won any matches there except the year he won the title, 1977. He also played in 1980, 83 and 84, but each time he lost the first match he played (which was sometimes the second round, after receiving a bye in the first).

So Connors and Gerulaitis are just missing the AO meeting. Same was true with Connors-McEnroe, Connors-Lendl, and Borg-Gerulaitis.

Minor correction: Jimmy and Vitas played at Wimbledon in '78.

krosero · Feb 4, 2011

BTURNER said:
Of course you are right! And Chris never met Court at Australia but played her at all three other venues in 1973 - and lost two of them!

And Chris never met BJK at RG. Also true of Court and Nav.

King and Goolagong never met at AO.

Navratilova and Goolagong never met at USO.

krosero · Feb 4, 2011

But here's one: Navratilova and Mandlikova met at all four.

krosero · Feb 4, 2011

BTURNER said:
Evert never saw Goolagong at RG, or Hana at Australia

Actually both these rivalries cover all 4 Slams.

Chris and Evonne met at RG in '83: http://www.wtatour.com/headtohead/chris-evert_2255881_2188/0,,12781~2188~2794,00.html

Chris and Hana met at the AO in '81: http://www.wtatour.com/headtohead/chris-evert_2255881_2188/0,,12781~2188~4962,00.html

borg number one · Feb 4, 2011

krosero said:
Was just looking up Vitas' record at the AO. It seems he never won any matches there except the year he won the title, 1977. He also played in 1980, 83 and 84, but each time he lost the first match he played (which was sometimes the second round, after receiving a bye in the first).

So Connors and Gerulaitis are just missing the AO meeting. Same was true with Connors-McEnroe, Connors-Lendl, and Borg-Gerulaitis.

Minor correction: Jimmy and Vitas played at Wimbledon in '78.

Correct, it was 1978, not 1980 at Wimbledon, good catch. That's interesting about Vitas at the Australian. I didn't realize that. The breadth of the rivalries that Connors had is amazing.

kiki · Feb 5, 2011

krosero said:
Lenglen and Wills.

J/K.

Keep 'em coming.

I thought maybe Lendl and Edberg, but they never met at RG.

Federer has never beaten Roddick or Hewitt at RG. Never beaten Davydenko at Wimbledon. Not that interesting as rivalries but I'm just wondering who Federer has met at all four Slams.

¿What about Becker and Edberg? I think they met at RG, surely at W and I cannot remember if they ever played against each other at the USO or AO.But they played many times against at WCT finals,Masters and Davis Cup.

kiki · Feb 5, 2011

borg number one said:
Jimmy Connors played his good friend Vitas Gerulaitis in the R16 at the 76 US Open, and then in the '80 Wimbledon SF and in the '80 French Open SF. Yet, they didn't play at the Australian Open. Connors only played there in '73 and '74. Connors lost to Newcombe in the '74 AO final.

Connors and Mc played everywhere except the AO.But, if you add WCT Finals ( 3 matches, 2 to Mc 1 to Jimbo) and 2 Masters matches ( won both by Mc)...

kiki · Feb 5, 2011

borg number one said:
Correct, it was 1978, not 1980 at Wimbledon, good catch. That's interesting about Vitas at the Australian. I didn't realize that. The breadth of the rivalries that Connors had is amazing.

Borg and Vilas met everywhere except the AO, which was skipped by almost any top player in the mid 70´s...excepting Vilas ( and ocassionally, Gerulaitis or Tanner).

Borg and Vilas also played at the WCT Finals in 1976, and many more Masters matches ( Vilas beat Borg in 74, while Borg beat Vilas in 75 and 77).

urban · Feb 5, 2011

Ashe and Borg played each other at Wim, Forest Hills, WCT, Masters and Davis Cup. Laver and Emerson resp. Laver and Fraser played each other at all majors.

hoodjem · Feb 5, 2011

krosero said:
Rosewall and Laver never met at AO or USO.

True.

Laver did meet Rosewall at several U.S. Pro Championships on grass: in 1963, 1965, and 1966.

No Aussies Championships.

krosero · Feb 5, 2011

urban said:
Laver and Emerson resp. Laver and Fraser played each other at all majors.

Okay, so two more rivalries.

Interesting that Laver and Emmo met in the finals at three Slams, all except at Wimbledon where they met in at least one quarterfinal (1960).

And same pattern for Laver-Fraser: finals in three Slams, except at RG.

pc1 said:
I don't have time to check but I would guess that Roy Emerson and some players like Fred Stolle or Cliff Drysdales may have met at all the majors.

Emerson-Stolle would qualify, if they ever met at RG (they met in the finals of the other three).

pc1 said:
Margaret Court and Maria Bueno met at all four majors.

And in the finals in all four places, impressive. In fact, other than Chris and Martina, has anyone else done this, among men or women?

BTURNER · Feb 5, 2011

krosero said:
Actually both these rivalries cover all 4 Slams.

Chris and Evonne met at RG in '83: http://www.wtatour.com/headtohead/chris-evert_2255881_2188/0,,12781~2188~2794,00.html

Chris and Hana met at the AO in '81: http://www.wtatour.com/headtohead/chris-evert_2255881_2188/0,,12781~2188~4962,00.html

They met at all four in 1981!

I will never ever post on memory again ever!! This is very embarrassing! As for King we could simplify things by saying King met almost nobody of merit at RG! She hated Europe; she hated clay.

krosero · Feb 5, 2011

kiki said:
¿What about Becker and Edberg? I think they met at RG, surely at W and I cannot remember if they ever played against each other at the USO or AO.

Never met at USO or AO (covered in opening post).

kiki said:
Borg and Vilas met everywhere except the AO, which was skipped by almost any top player in the mid 70´s...excepting Vilas ( and ocassionally, Gerulaitis or Tanner).

They also never met at USO.

BTURNER · Feb 5, 2011

Krosero: "..And in the finals in all four places, impressive. In fact, other than Chris and Martina, has anyone else done this, among men or women?"

Graf and Seles

krosero · Feb 5, 2011

BTURNER said:
Krosero: "..And in the finals in all four places, impressive. In fact, other than Chris and Martina, has anyone else done this, among men or women?"

Graf and Seles

And Venus and Serena.

Gotta hope that Federer and Nadal make a USO final before they're through ...

hoodjem · Feb 5, 2011

krosero said:
Emerson-Stolle would qualify, if they ever met at RG (they met in the finals of the other three).

I looked pretty hard, and could not find a meeting between Stolly and Emmo at RG.

BTURNER · Feb 5, 2011

hoodjem said:
I looked pretty hard, and could not find a meeting between Stolly and Emmo at RG.

LOL At least you looked! Now you are Solomon and I...not so much

Jack Romeo · Feb 6, 2011

BTURNER said:
Krosero: "..And in the finals in all four places, impressive. In fact, other than Chris and Martina, has anyone else done this, among men or women?"

Graf and Seles

also graf and sanchez-vicario

jean pierre · Feb 6, 2011

kiki said:
Borg and Vilas met everywhere except the AO, which was skipped by almost any top player in the mid 70´s...excepting Vilas ( and ocassionally, Gerulaitis or Tanner).

Borg and Vilas also played at the WCT Finals in 1976, and many more Masters matches ( Vilas beat Borg in 74, while Borg beat Vilas in 75 and 77).

Vilas beats Borg in Masters 1974 and 1975 (7/5 4/6 6/1).

kiki · Feb 9, 2011

jean pierre said:
Vilas beats Borg in Masters 1974 and 1975 (7/5 4/6 6/1).

True, Borg lost to Vilas in the 1975 Masters, I had it wrong.In those days, players " played" with the RR system so to avoid facing a non wanted player in the SF ( remember Lendl and Connors at the 1980 Masters, when Connors called Lendl " chicken"???).

I´m not taking anything out from Guillermo, whom I supported many times vs Borg, but in 1975 Borg had already stablished a real domination in their H2H matches, so I honestly doubt if Borg was not playing with the " system".

kiki · Feb 9, 2011

I suposed it was already talked, but Lendl and Wilander played against each other in any possible surface:

Clay : RG 1982,1984,1985,1987
Cement: USO 1982,1983,1987,1988
Grass: AO 1983
Carpet: Masters Tournament 1987 ( I might have forgotten another Masters match between Ivan and Mats, probably)

Wilander won 4 of those matches, Lendl won 6.That is a real rivalry on top of the world, isn´t it?

Mustard · Feb 9, 2011

Lendl and Wilander met in the semi finals of the Masters in December 1986.

krosero · Feb 9, 2011

kiki said:
Wilander won 4 of those matches, Lendl won 6.That is a real rivalry on top of the world, isn´t it?

My favorite rivalry of the 80s, actually.

abmk · Feb 9, 2011

Jack Romeo said:
for the men:

nadal hasn't played djokovic at the australian open
federer hasn't played djokovic at roland garros

fed hasn't played djoker at wimbledon either

kiki · Feb 10, 2011

krosero said:
My favorite rivalry of the 80s, actually.

IMO, the 80´s could be divided in 2 parts:

1980-1984: Mc almost singlehandedly was aprt of 3 sensational rivalries: vs Connors,vs Borg,vs Lendl.Then he faded away, Connors grew older and Borg had retired.

1985-1989: Lendl vs Wilander, but also Becker vs Edberg dominated that frame with their great rivalries.

kiki · Feb 10, 2011

in 69 Laver and Roche met at 3 of the 4 GS, Laver having the edge always.

They played a terrific 5 setter at the AO, a 4 setter at Forest Hills ( which gave Laver the Gran Slam) and a 4 setter at Wimbledon.They played everywhere except at Roland Garros ( which Laver won over Rosewall in straight sets)

jean pierre · Feb 11, 2011

kiki said:
True, Borg lost to Vilas in the 1975 Masters, I had it wrong.In those days, players " played" with the RR system so to avoid facing a non wanted player in the SF ( remember Lendl and Connors at the 1980 Masters, when Connors called Lendl " chicken"???).

I´m not taking anything out from Guillermo, whom I supported many times vs Borg, but in 1975 Borg had already stablished a real domination in their H2H matches, so I honestly doubt if Borg was not playing with the " system".

I think that Borg played seriously and tried to win this match, because the result is 7/5 4/6 6/1, so the first set was 7/5 and he won the second. If he wanted to loose, I think that the result would be something like 6/4 6/1.

kiki · Feb 11, 2011

jean pierre said:
I think that Borg played seriously and tried to win this match, because the result is 7/5 4/6 6/1, so the first set was 7/5 and he won the second. If he wanted to loose, I think that the result would be something like 6/4 6/1.

Yes, it could be.But Borg feared Nastase a lot more than Vilas on fast carpet; in fact, it was Nastase who played Vilas in the Sf...and then, in his last real great match of his career, completely destroyed Borg ( in front of home crowd at Stockholm, a sensational feat IMO)

kiki · Feb 11, 2011

Mustard said:
Lendl and Wilander met in the semi finals of the Masters in December 1986.

Right.Back in thsoe days, Lendl appeared almost unbeatable on fast carpet, specially at the Masters.Curiously, Ivan´s domination at that event ( 5 titles, 3 of them in a run) would be comparable to Mac´s dominating the WCT Finals, played on the same Supreme carpet (Mac won 5 WCT titles).I loved those lendl vs Mac Enroe matches on Supreme, since both produced exhilarating tennis (Lendl in 1982-83 kick Mac´s but, and John did the same in the 1984-85 Masters finals their 1983 WCT Final was considered on the best indoor matches all time, along Laver-Rosewall 1972 and Sampras-Becker 1995)

kiki · Mar 14, 2011

krosero said:
How many rivalries cover all the bases, with meetings at all four Slams?

Sampras and Agassi met at all four. So did Lendl and McEnroe.

Some others that are missing a "leg":

Wilander and Lendl never met at Wimbledon.

Becker and Lendl never met at RG.

Rosewall and Laver never met at AO or USO.

Borg and Connors never met at AO or FO. Same was true for Borg and McEnroe.

Becker and Edberg never met at AO or USO.

Federer and Nadal have still not met at the USO.

And so on.

Lendl and Connors met everywhere except the AO.
Borg and Vilas never met at the AO neither at the USO
Nwc and Roche never met at the AO...

krosero · Jun 3, 2011

Nadal and Murray have now met at all four.

Federer and Djokovic now have a RG meeting but still nothing at Wimbledon.

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