greatness

I'm casually watching - while kind of working - the Sabalenka-Zheng match, and I thought I saw a graphic that showed that Sabalenka had won 6 straight slam QF matches. The woman who had done this the most was Chris Evert...with 46 straight QF wins! So, I checked her record (okay, on the...

With Novak and Rafa cleaning up most of the majors in the last few years… The Question that many are wondering is - why don’t the young guys have more edge on these legends? Obviously they are once in a lifetime players. But at their ages, with all the mileage on their bodies and the degrees...

My understanding of statistics is limited, but let's look at this way. My personal opinion of whether I'm rooting for Novak to complete it or not (which would be the first since Laver in '69 - the first full year of the Open Era) is irrelevant. Djokovic has already, of course won the AO and RG...

I'd be interested to see players' greatness ranked by summing Elo scores over their career. For example a hypothetical player with an 52-week career would have a score of Elo1 + Elo2 + Elo3 + ... + Elo52 where EloX is the Elo score in the Xth week of their career. However, there may be a need...

This clay season when Nadal won his third monte carlo masters match he surpassed John McEnroe in number of tour level matches won. McEnroe: 881 ATP wins Nadal: 882 ATP wins After winning monte carlo masters he then eclipsed McEnroe in total number of weeks spent at no.1. McEnroe: 170 weeks...