Lendl and Connors only players to win a slam after 1000 matches

[celoft]

I read this on another forum.

Lendl won his last slam in match 1005 and Connors won his last slam in match 1035.

Federer should reach the 1000 matches at the AO. Is it safe to say Federer's best chances would be at the first 2 slams this year? If you look at his last 2 slam finals in the past 2 years, they were at the AO and FO.

Also:

Players that were fathers have won their last slam at either AO or FO since 1990.

Andres Gomez French Open 1990
Boris Becker Australian Open 1996
Petr Korda Australian Open 1998
Yevgeny Kafelnikov Australian Open 1999
Albert Costa French Open 2002
Andre Agassi Australian Open 2003

 

[pc1]

I read this on another forum.

Lendl won his last slam in match 1005 and Connors won his last slam in match 1035. Federer should reach the 1000 matches at the AO. Is it safe to say Federer's best chances would be at the first 2 slams this year? If you look at his last 2 slam finals in the past 2 years, they were at the AO and FO.

Players that were fathers have won their last slam at either AO or FO since 1990.


Andres Gomez French Open 1990
Boris Becker Australian Open 1996
Petr Korda Australian Open 1998
Yevgeny Kafelnikov Australian Open 1999
Albert Costa French Open 2002
Andre Agassi Australian Open 2003

Ken Rosewall played over 1700 matches by the time he won his last major at Australian Open in 1972. Rod Laver may have played over 1000 matches too before he won his last major at the 1969 US Open.

Edit-Laver played over 1300 matches by the time he won his last major at the US Open in 1969.

Wouldn't be surprised if Bill Tilden played over 1000 matches by the time he won his last classic major in 1930. I'm sure he did play over 1000 matches by the time he won his last Pro Major.

As far as whether Federer can win another major after 1000 matches, I would guess that Wimbledon is his best chance although he is strong in all the surfaces in the majors. The Nadal factor at the French is a problem. If Nadal and Djokovic are the top two seeds at the French Open, the odds are very high Federer would face Nadal on red clay and that would be a very tough task for Federer to overcome.

 

[DeShaun]

That's interesting. Did not both Lendl and Connors play many matches--Lendl at the start of his career, and Jimmi in the first half of his--while there still were being run two parallel tours composed both of an overlapping population as well as a group of touring players who either payed on one tour or the other? I do not understand how that all worked back then, but think I recall reading somewhere that Lendl was on of the last guys able to do that before the two tours were merged or on went defunct.

 

[celoft]

Bump...........

 

[El Diablo]

The OP's assertion here is surely incorrect. For example, Margaret Court played 1283 singles matches, and perhaps more than that in doubles, as she played both women's and mixed regularly, and was still winning slams at the end. Also, in the 50s and 60s when pros and amateurs were separated, guys like Laver, Rosewall, Kramer and Gonzalez put together their own professional "tour" of one-night stands during which they played almost every day, matches that were not kept part of official statistics. It's likely they played THOUSANDS of matches during their careers because of the way things worked before the open era.

 

[Raiden]

Players that were fathers have won their last slam at either AO or FO since 1990.

Andres Gomez French Open 1990
Boris Becker Australian Open 1996
Petr Korda Australian Open 1998
Yevgeny Kafelnikov Australian Open 1999
Albert Costa French Open 2002
Andre Agassi Australian Open 2003

Technically you're right

However, since Boris didnt' recognize that he is the father (despite the obvious) I'm not sure he should be included in that list among the others

 

[ImmorTAL Big 3]

Federer,Nadal and Djokovic also do it