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[helterskelter]

Rublev set record in slam QFs by event:

Australian Open: 0-9 (v Medvedev in 2021, v Djokovic in 2023, v Sinner in 2024)
Roland Garros: 2-6 (v Tsitsipas in 2020, v Cilic in 2022 - two sets won versus Cilic)
Wimbledon: 1-3 (v Djokovic in 2023)
US Open: 0-12 (v Nadal in 2017, v Medvedev in 2020, v Tiafoe in 2022, v Medvedev in 2023)

Hilarious, if tragic, that he has not yet won a set in a slam QF on hard court in seven matches! Sure, he has had some tough draws: losing to Nadal, Djokovic, Sinner, and three times against Medvedev. But the Tiafoe was an opportunity to at least take a set!

 

[helterskelter]

Update to category h. Final one of the slam year, with two new slam finalists in 2024: Sinner and Fritz.

h. Reached a slam final

1. Andrey Rublev (#6) N.B. Rublev has never reached a slam semi!
2. Hubert Hurkacz (#7)
3. Grigor Dimitrov (#9)
4. Alex de Minaur (#10) N.B. De Minaur has never reached a slam semi!
5. Taylor Fritz (#12) N.B. Fritz has never reached a slam semi! Fritz reached the final of the US Open!
5. Ben Shelton (#13)

 

[helterskelter]

Another update to categories C and I, after Tommy Paul won Queen's:

c. Won a title at 500-level or higher [rankings of 24 June]

1. Casper Ruud (#6) Ruud won Barcelona 2024
1. Tommy Paul (#16)Paul won Queen's 2024
1. Nicolas Jarry (#19)
2. Sebastian Korda (#20)
3. Adrian Mannarino (#22)
4. Alejandro Tabilo (#24)
5. Jiri Lehecka (#26)

i. Won a 500-level title [N.B. This list includes players who have won titles at a higher level than 500]

1. Casper Ruud (#6) Ruud won Barcelona 2024
1. Stefanos Tsitsipas (#11)
2. Holger Rune (#15)
3. Tommy Paul (#16) Paul won Queen's 2024
3. Nicolas Jarry (#19)
4. Sebastian Korda (#20)
5. Karen Khachanov (#21)

An update to category i, as TSitsipas won his first 500-level title today, just two days shy of a year after I first posted this thread. Here is category i now:

Players who have never won a 500-level title [N.B. This list includes players who have won titles at a higher level than 500]

1. Holger Rune (#13)
2. Frances Tiafoe (#17)
3. Jiri Lehecka (#22)
4. Karen Khachanov (#24)
5. Thomas Machac (#25)

(Machac is in a 500-level final later today, though, so I note that #6 in this category is Francisco Cerundolo, who is ranked #26).

Since I wrote the post to which I'm replying, Sebastian Korda won Washington, a 500-level event, so he's no longer in this category.

 

[helterskelter]

Thank you!



No further update to category m needed, as the ninth-highest ranked player without a slam semi makes the semi over the second-highest ranked player in the category. So, category m is:

1. Andrey Rublev (#6)
2. Alex de Minaur (#10)
3. Holger Rune (#15)
4. Sebastian Korda (#16)
5. Ugo Humbert (#17)

Three new slam semi-finalists in men's singles this year:

- Lorenzo Musetti (at Wimbledon)
- Taylor Fritz (at the US Open)
- Jack Draper (at the US Open)

Only two new slam quarter-finalists in men's singles this year:

- Lorenzo Musetti (at Wimbledon)
- Jack Draper (at the US Open)

It's quite an odd turn of events, there being more new slam semi-finalists than slam quarter-finalists. Both new slam quarter-finalists won their quarter-final, and only one former quarter-finalist won a quarter-final.

Nice for Fritz to make it here after Musetti edged him out at Wimbledon. Fritz had lost two slam QFs in five sets. Meanwhile, De Minaur - who is now 0-4 in slam qfs, as Fritz was prior to yesterday's match - hasn't won a set in a slam QF. Rublev, famously, is something like 3-30 in sets at slam QFs!

At the AO 2025, we had the following breakthroughs:

1. First AO final/completed triple crown of slam finals: Alex Zverev
2. First AO semi-final: Ben Shelton
(No new slam finalists or semi-finalists, though)
3. First AO quarter-final/completed the set of slam quarter-finals: Alex de Minaur
4. First slam quarter-final: Lorenzo Sonego

 

[GoatNo1]

can someone do a list with players with most slams without no1 ranking. rank them by # of slams, then, if same # of slams by lowest ATP ranking?

i know that it is only one player in tennis history who was no1 but did not won a slam.

 

[helterskelter]

can someone do a list with players with most slams without no1 ranking. rank them by # of slams, then, if same # of slams by lowest ATP ranking?

i know that it is only one player in tennis history who was no1 but did not won a slam.

I'm not really interested in doing that, but you are welcome to compile such a list if you want.

I deliberately set up this thread to focus on some lower-ranked players who usually don't get that much attention and to focus primarily on achievements at ordinary tour-level events.

 

[Sudacafan]

can someone do a list with players with most slams without no1 ranking. rank them by # of slams, then, if same # of slams by lowest ATP ranking?

i know that it is only one player in tennis history who was no1 but did not won a slam.

Vilas has 4 slams and has been robbed the #1 ranking, so he never got it.
Is there a player with more slams without having been #1?

 

[Tennfan123]

Not the naming and shaming!

 

[GoatNo1]

Vilas has 4 slams and has been robbed the #1 ranking, so he never got it.
Is there a player with more slams without having been #1?

i dont count him. he should be no1. but i know that wawa has 3 slams and his highest ranking was as no3.

 

[Sudacafan]

i dont count him. he should be no1. but i know that wawa has 3 slams and his highest ranking was as no3.

Wawrinka must be the player with most slams won in relation with his tournaments total won. His ratio must be among the best.

 

[Sudacafan]

Wawrinka must be the player with most slams won in relation with his tournaments total won. His ratio must be among the best.

His ratio slams/masters 1000 is interesting.
3 slams and only 1 M1000 won. (3 vs 1).
Most players relationship between both is inverse.

 

[GoatNo1]

His ratio slams/masters 1000 is interesting.
3 slams and only 1 M1000 won. (3 vs 1).
Most players relationship between both is inverse.

it is not so strange that it is inverse (but not whole inverse as times more) if it is 9 masters and only 4 slams. and slams are harder to win. fed had 20 and 28 (40% more), rafa 22 and 36 (+64%) and nole is on 24 and 40 (+67%). muzza was at 3 and 14 (+367%), raz is on 4 and 5 (+25%) and sinner on 3 and 4 (+33%). so it is just muzza that had more than double masters than slams of all big players in the last 20 years.