hard courts

In discussions of Borg on outdoor hard, the common refrain is that he made 3 slam finals out of 4 entries (the most of any player without a hard court slam), and that slight changes to his particularly unfavorable circumstances could have yielded him at least one slam title. Considering only...

Novak Djokovic beat Roger Federer 7-6(3), 7-5, 6-4 in the Australian Open semi-final, 2011 on hard court Djokovic would go onto beat Andy Murray to win his second Slam and the first of 3 in the year. He would remain unbeaten until the French Open semi-final, where he would lose to Federer...