Asterisk Slams

[HipRotation]

Comprehensive list of Slams won* by Open era Grand Slam champions against non-slam winning champion (at the time) in the Final. Big * for not meeting a slam winner at all.

Rod Laver: 1/5
AO 1969 Andrés Gimeno

Arthur Ashe: 1/2
AO 1970 Dick Crealy

Jan Kodeš: 2/2
FO 1971 Ilie Năstase*
Wim 1973 Alex Metreveli* (Boycotted by most top players, the Granddaddy of all asterisks)

John Newcombe: 2/4
Wim 1971 Stan Smith
AO 1973 Onny Parun*

Ken Rosewall: 1/3
AO 1972 Malcolm Anderson*

Stan Smith: 1/1
Wim 1972 Ilie Năstase

Ilie Năstase 1/1
FO 1973 Nikola Pilić*

Björn Borg: 4/10
FO 1975 Guillermo Vilas* (Past prime Stan Smith on clay in 4th round)
FO 1979 Víctor Pecci*
Wim 1979 Roscoe Tanner
FO 1981 Ivan Lendl*

Guillermo Vilas: 2/3
AO 1978 John Marks
AO 1979 John Sadri*

Johan Kriek: 1/1
AO 1982 Steve Denton*

Jimmy Connors: 2/7
USO 1982 Ivan Lendl
USO 1983 Ivan Lendl*

John McEnroe: 1/6
Wim 1983 Chris Lewis*

Mats Wilander: 3/6
AO 1983 Ivan Lendl
AO 1984 Kevin Curren
FO 1988 Henri Leconte*

Ivan Lendl: 3/7
FO 1986 Mikael Pernfors
USO 1986 Miloslav Mečíř
AO 1989 Miloslav Mečíř

Boris Becker: 0/5

Stefan Edberg: 1/5
AO 1987 Pat Cash*

Jim Courier: 1/3
FO 1992 Petr Korda*

Pete Sampras: 6/13
USO 1993 Cédric Pioline
AO 1994 Todd Martin
Wim 1994 Goran Ivanišević
AO 1997 Carlos Moyá
Wim 1997 Cédric Pioline
Wim 1998 Goran Ivanišević*

Sergi Bruguera: 1/1
FO 1994 Alberto Berasategui

Pat Rafter: 1/1
USO 1998 Mark Philippoussis

Andre Agassi: 4/7
FO 1999 Andrei Medvedev (beats defending champ Moyá)
USO 1999 Todd Martin
AO 2001 Arnaud Clément
AO 2003 Rainer Schüttler*

Yevgeny Kafelnikov: 1/1
AO 1999 Thomas Enqvist* (Advanced age Courier in the 3rd round)

Gustavo Kuerten: 2/2
FO 2000 Magnus Norman
FO 2001 Àlex Corretja

Lleyton Hewitt: 1/1
Wim 2002 David Nalbandian* (Most seeds gone before the 4th round)

Roger Federer: 7/16
AO 2006 Marcos Baghdatis*
AO 2007 Fernando González
USO 2007 Novak Djokovic
USO 2008 Andy Murray
FO 2009 Robin Söderling*
AO 2010 Andy Murray* (Advanced age Hewitt in the 4th round)
Wim 2012 Andy Murray

Rafael Nadal: 3/13
FO 2010 Robin Söderling* (Advanced age Hewitt in the 3rd round)
Wim 2010 Tomáš Berdych*
FO 2013 David Ferrer

Novak Djokovic: 1/11
AO 2011 Andy Murray

Andy Murray: 1/2
Wim 2016 Miloš Raonić*

 

[TupeloDanger]

#threadfail

 

[Deleted member 743561]

What's the risk level involved here? If it's "aste," then you should expect some blowback. Nobody wants their cojones tagged with the dreaded "aste" label.

 

[tennisplayer1993]

I will never understand the concept of astrick slams. You can make astrick championships calls for sports like the NBA, NFL because of skeptical referees but historically I always felt tennis is very well run and 99% of the time the calls seem fair. Although I will admit prior to hawkeye, it must have been tough for them considering balls landing within centimeters of baselines/double lines etc.

 

[fundrazer]

You forgot 2008 AO. Oh, and this thread sucks. Who cares if the finals opponent isn't a slam champion if they played well enough (and in many cases beat slam champions along the way).

 

[fundrazer]

You forgot 2008 AO. Oh, and this thread sucks. Who cares if the finals opponent isn't a slam champion if they played well enough (and in many cases beat slam champions along the way).

 

[Ginger ninja]

Delete this thread. It is moronic.

 

[Mainad]

Djokovic's 2008 AO against Tsonga and Nadal's 2005 FO against Puerta meet your criteria as well.

But you can only play the opponents who have come through the draw to play you so there can never be asterisks in winning a tournament unless you have had walkovers in most of the rounds.

 

[Gaelle Caplier]

what is 3/13 or 1/11? shouldn't it be 3/14 and 1/12??

 

[HipRotation]

You forgot 2008 AO. Oh, and this thread sucks. Who cares if the finals opponent isn't a slam champion if they played well enough (and in many cases beat slam champions along the way).

Djokovic's 2008 AO against Tsonga and Nadal's 2005 FO against Puerta meet your criteria as well.

But you can only play the opponents who have come through the draw to play you so there can never be asterisks in winning a tournament unless you have had walkovers in most of the rounds.

They were both non-champions. Being a non-champion and winning can never count as an asterisk.

I made a big * in the cases of champions that won without meeting a single champion and some notes on some where context matters.

 

[Navdeep Srivastava]

Djokovic's 2008 AO against Tsonga and Nadal's 2005 FO against Puerta meet your criteria as well.

But you can only play the opponents who have come through the draw to play you so there can never be asterisks in winning a tournament unless you have had walkovers in most of the rounds.

Lol op need to understand the tennis first.
According to op playing Sod in RG 09, 10 is asterisk. The way Tsonga and Murray played against Rafa in semi in 08 shows they were in great form.

 

[Mainad]

They were both non-champions. Being a non-champion and winning can never count as an asterisk.

Neither can being a champion and winning. It is interesting (at least for some) to point out the stats where a champion has beaten a non-champion but that doesn't mean there can be an asterisk unless the champion has come through on byes and therefore never beaten anyone.

 

[Purplemonster]

Silly thread