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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is widely considered one of the greatest child prodigies in history. Here is a timeline of the young Wolfgang's early achievements: Age 3: He began playing the harpsichord and could master simple pieces in minutes. Age 4: He was playing the clavier "faultlessly and...

I got both of em reaching 20

As an amateur tennis historian I noticed there's a very short list of players who have won all four majors/slams at least three times. That is some elite level achievement. Margaret Court Steffi Graf (she actually has 4 or more of each major) Serena Williams Novak Djokovic Surprisingly no...

Djokovic, who has long viewed pickleball and padel as a threat to tennis, had earlier said the sport was “endangered” due to the growing popularity of the two pickleball and padel. The 37-year-old Serbian also called for the formation of a foundation to protect tennis at the club level as the...

As many people agree, the year end number 1 shows who is the dominant player at each season. Djokovic of course holds the record for 8 year end number 1s. Since 2007 itself Djokovic started the climb near top of tennis and as many have rightfully pointed out, his 2007 season is able to low tier...

UTS manages yearly records for all players and its useful to do year over year comparison on overall achievement of players. Now if you agree with their GOAT points scenario is totally up to you and I will not get into it but it seems very fair to modern tennis post 2000. Where masters have half...

1. Federer - 40 2005 USO R1 to 2008 AO semis 2. Djokovic - 27 2011 AO to 2012 USO final 3. Lendl - 26 1985 USO to 1988 USO final 3. Djokovic - 26 2015 AO to 2016 USO final 5. McEnroe - 25 1979 USO to 1982 USO semis 6. Agassi - 20 1994 USO to 1995 USO final 7. Connors - 19 1982 USO to 1984...

I am planning on creating an equation to calculate a ranking list consisting of every YE top 10 player in the open era. So far my draft equation awards 5 points for every week spent at number 1 as well as 3 points for every week in their longest consecutive streak at number one, 5 points for...

At least here on TTW https://www.atptour.com/en/news/carlos-bernardes-retirement-feature-2024

Years Federer 2004 Federer 2005 Federer 2006 Federer 2007 Djokovic 2011 Nadal 2013 Djokovic 2012 Djokovic 2013 Djokovic 2015 Djokovic 2016 Murray 2016 Federer 2017 Djokovic 2023 Sinner 2024 Slams 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 Slam Finals 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 ATP finals Yes No Yes Yes...

A strange thing happens when the great players* of all time° when the rally goes from long to very long. Usually the the win percentage jumps, often it remains steady and rarely it declines. Big serve&volley players like Sampras, Edberg and McEnroe win roughly a hundred basis points more. Borg...

Andy Roddick (tweet)

He outlasted Federer and Nadal, he overcame injury issues better, he didn't have an injury issues like Federer's knee degeneration or Nadal's issues with his foot, continual knee issues until a certain point where I believe stem cell treatment was used. He vultured slams but that's not his...

I would like to start a thread of what we might even mean by "greatest of all time." 1) Do we mean played the best/strongest tennis ever? If so did that level have to last longer then one set? At least a whole match? At least a month? At least a year, 3 years, 10 years etc? Might the...

Just a funny bit of trivia, had a bit of a laugh when I saw that. You just can’t make up stuff like that! The three peaks are the famous tre Cime di Lavaredo or Drei Zinnen, Three Merlons…

I ranked all of the big 3 individual seasons based on the achievements alone, without taking their opponents into account. If you're all about the competition then I've also got a thread for that...

24 slams - stands alone 40 masters - stands alone 7 atp tour finals - stands alone 400 weeks at #1 8 YE#1 GG. Game over!

A Quick Rant – Not My First, and Probably not My Last Especially with large portions of the world at war or in great turmoil, and personal challenges that we all face, there are a zillion things much more important than tennis, and GOAT races. And I admit that I enter a lot of these threads...

Now that the dust has settled and Novak Djokovic has cemented his place as the unquestionable, undisputed GOAT of tennis we must revisit history critically to understand how we got it all so wrong. You see, fellow fedal bros, I too was blind. I was blinded by Big Nike. Blinded by the paid media...

Majors King. 'nough said.

For a future safeguard against overhyping the latest mug, let's make a benchmark of what it is actually possible for 17 year olds, 25 year olds, 35 year olds to do in tennis. Think Alcaraz's level is the highest ever from a 19 year old on HC? Think Fed's peak on grass is the highest ever? Now...

Grand Slam Titles: Djokovic: 22 (#1) Nadal: 22 (#1) Federer: 20 (#3) Weeks at #1: Djokovic: 373+ (#1) Federer: 310 (#2) Nadal: 209 (#6) YE#1: Djokovic: 7 (#1) Federer: 5 (#3) Nadal: 5 (#3) ATP Final Titles: Djokovic: 6 (#1) Federer: 6 (#1) Nadal: 0 (#26) Masters 1000 Titles...

Djokovic would have 6,320 points in normal circumstances while Alcaraz at #1 with 6,920 pts. So only 600 points were needed for Djokovic from the 10,000 points of the 6 premiere hardcourt tournaments which he was denied to participate in. o_O That's only one final in one of the four masters or...

For example (these are just my picks): 2011 Federer, 2008 Nadal, 2015 Djokovic, 1996 Sampras and 1978 Borg face off with each other 10x in a round robin at RG - a series of RS hypotheticals... 2004 Federer, 2010 Nadal, 2011 Djokovic, 1995 Sampras and 1980 Borg face off with each other 10x in...

Just posted on Instagram He will be playing the Laver Cup next week as his final event. Farewell GOAT :cry: Tennis will never be the same without the world’s most talented player ever… this sucks guys

The last ray of sunshine in tennis… The moment we thought They Might Be Back… what happened to our big 5 :cry:

Hello Everyone! Salut tout le monde! This is the updated version of the Vonder Index, a Top#100 Ranking List from open Era achievements. Relevant remarks on Vonder Index is : - a dynamic ranking system, which means even after a players retires, his index points still move (up or down) - the...

Man was bombing down serves, volleying like prime PETE and hammering that forehand. 82 winners, 36 aces against a GOAT returner who had shown great form against Kyrgios and Berrettini. Kyrgios himself can only dream of that kind of brutality. Big John can still beat absolutely anyone on his day...