But back in those days Tour Finals were effectively the 4th slam as said in the above post by
@NonP
Mcenroe has like 8 tour final trophies (official+unofficial) and those put him close to Borg in numbers, plus his 1984 season which had a dual dominance of Singles+Doubles should place him on par with Borg, I am not saying Mac is higher than Borg but they are equals, their H2H is also 7-7
Even most diehards have no clue just how otherworldly '84 Mac's 65.32% of GW is so I'll try to provide more perspective.
Even on clay, the surface with the highest margin for error and thus most conducive to dominance (for the right guy/gal), a seasonal 65% (excluding DC, Olympics and exos) is exceedingly rare.
Courier, Bruguera,
Muster, Kuerten and
Djokovic all failed to crack it (
'92 Jim does boast an impressive 66.1% if you exclude his meaningless postseason L at Kitzbuhel). In fact Nadal is the only guy since '91 who has pulled it off, and even if you limit the GW%s to RG only you can count
all the 65% Club members (OE champs only) on the fingers of two hands:
Kodes - '70 (67.1%)
Nastase - '73 (70.1%)
Borg - '75 (68.8%), '78 (79.9%), '80 (76.8%), '81 (71.1%)
Vilas - '77 (74.9%)
Noah - '83 (67.5%)
Lendl - '85 (66.5%), '86 (71.1%)
Courier - '92 (67.5%)
Bruguera - '93 (68.8%)
Nadal - '07 (66.5%), '08 (75.7%), '12 (71.0%), '14 (70.3%), '17 (76.8%), '18 (67.3%), '19 (69.2%), '20 (70.9%)
Again those runs came on clay, and for a fortnight only. One could exclude '70 Kodes and '73 Nastase for lackluster fields due to politics ('77 Vilas' % is too high to ignore altogether), but however you slice these %s you can see that apart from Borg and Rafa topping the 65% mark at RG is a rare achievement even for elite dirtballers.
At this point no one should be surprised that this feat is even rarer on faster surfaces, and indeed UTS tells us Borg is the only other guy in the OE who can claim it for a whole year, with 65.54% in '78 and 65.50% in '80 (give or take a few decimal points - UTS doesn't include TBs). And even Borg's %s come with the caveat that much of his dominance stems from the CC season. Or put another way, '84 Mac's 65.32% is even tougher to achieve for most players without Borg's and Rafa's insane CC skills.
So Mac really stands alone in the OE, and perhaps ever. And y'all dare to tell me the guy isn't GOAT material? Not so fast, Jose!
I would at least put Borg in the same tier with Sampras if not above-bigger dominance,fewer weakness,more consistent-Sampras was absolutely terrible on clay
And you have to write you were talking only about Open era
Pistol was "absolutely terrible on clay" only after '97. You're talking about a guy who won
60% or more of his games in two CC seasons ('93 and '94), while the same can't be said of Chang, Kafelnikov, Moya, Costa, Gaudio, Wawrinka and other 1-time FO champs (though '95 Mike and '05 Gaston do make the grade if you round up). And even Ferrero and Fed did it only once, in '01 and '05 respectively (add '03 for JCF and Fed and also '04 for TMF if you again round up).
There aren't many guys who could get past prime Bruguera and Courier at RG (see above) and Pete had the bad luck of running into them in his two best CC seasons and also coming down with a sprain in '95 and a stomach bug in '97. His post-'97 suckitude on dirt is inexcusable, yes, but that's only half of his CC career.
