But you are going about this ass backwards and it invites agenda driven speculation. There is no standard on which to decide what majors are sufficiently competitive and what majors are not, and nobody is interested in defining that standard and applying it to all majors. I might be convinced if you, Pro tennis historian, said "a competitive major has at least 2 of the top 5 players entered, and at least 6 of the top 12 players. By that standard, the following majors are competitively substandard" Then you make out a list, and you go back and see just who's record is unduly inflated. But that is not what anyone does. They single out Court's Aussies, and talk about Courts Aussies without any measurable and quantifiable benchmark. They make no effort to do the work of finding which of her Aussies meet this benchmark and which do not. They make no effort to find out if all of Everts majors, or Kings majors, or Connolly's majors, or Louise Brough's or Mandlikova's majors meet that benchmark. Nobody has that discussion.
Yes I have looked at the draws of all Court's Australian championships and yes a great many were very poor indeed. You would like some proof regarding my statements, so here it is. A good way of comparing draws is comparing the top 8 seeds list for the same years Wimbledon championships with the top 8 seeds at the Australian. Smith-Court is listed in bold. These are the seed lists for Australian and Wimbledon for every year that Court won the Australian.
1960 Australian 1 Bueno 2 Truman 3 Lehane 4 Carter Reitano 5 Coghlan 6 Rae 7 SMITH 8 Holstein
1960 Wimbledon 1 Bueno 2 Hard 3 Truman 4 Haydon 5 Mortimer 6 Kormoczy 7 Lehane 8 Reynolds (5 of the 8 seeds did not play Australian).
1961 Australian 1 SMITH 2 Lehane 3 Turner 4 Carter Reitano 5 Bevis Hawton 6 Pratt 7 Coghlan 8 Rae (all the players in last 32 Australian).
1961 Wimbledon 1 Reynolds 2 SMITH 3 Haydon 4 Turner 5 Ramirez 6 Truman 7 Mortimer 8 Hantze (6 of the 8 seeds did not play Australian).
1962 Australian 1 SMITH 2 Hard 3 Ramirez 4 Turner 5 Lehane 6 Carter Reitano 7 Ebbern 8 Schacht
1962 Wimbledon 1 SMITH 2 Hard 3 Bueno 4 Schuurman 5 Haydon 6 Mortimer 7 Turner 8 Hantze Susman (5 of the 8 seeds did not play Australian).
1963 Australian 1 SMITH 2 Turner 3 Lehane 4 Truman 5 Ebbern 6 Starkie 7 Lauder 8 Schacht
1963 Wimbledon 1 SMITH 2 Turner 3 Haydon-Jones 4 Hard 5 Lehane 6 Sukova 7 Bueno 8 Schuurman (5 of the 8 seeds did not play Australian).
1964 Australian 1 SMITH 2 Turner 3 Lehane 4 Ebbern 5 Tegart 6 Schacht 7 Blackman 8 Lauder
1964 Wimbledon 1 SMITH 2 Bueno 3 Moffitt 4 Turner 5 Richey 6 Haydon-Jones 7 Lehane 8 Ebbern (4 of the 8 seeds did not play Australian).
1965 Australian 1 SMITH 2 Bueno 3 Turner 4 Moffitt 5 Tegart 6 Graebner 7 Ebbern 8 Haydon-Jones
1965 Wimbledon 1 Bueno 2 SMITH 3 Turner 4 Richey 5 Moffitt 6 Graebner 7 Van Zyl 8 Durr (1 of the 8 seeds did not play Australian. Much better draw than normal this year).
1966 Australian 1 SMITH 2 Richey 3 Turner 4 Graebner 5 Tegart 6 Sherriff 7 Lehane 8 Schacht
1966 Wimbledon 1 SMITH 2 Bueno 3 Haydon-Jones 4 Moffitt-King 5 Richey 6 Van Zyl 7 Durr 8 Baylon (6 of the 8 seeds did not play Australian).
1969 Australian 1 Moffitt-King 2 SMITH-COURT 3 Haydon-Jones 4 Melville 5 Casals 6 Krantzcke 7 Hunt 8 Tegart-Dalton
1969 Wimbledon 1 SMITH-COURT 2 Moffitt-King 3 Wade 4 Haydon-Jones 5 Richey 6 Melville 7 Heldman 8 Tegart-Dalton (3 of the 8 seeds did not play Australian. Like the men's event, a good field entered the first open Australian championships. Unfortunately the draw standards did not maintain in the 1970s).
1970 Australian 1 SMITH-COURT 2 Melville 3 Shaw 4 Krantzcke 5 Tegart-Dalton 6 Sandberg 7 Hunt 8 Harris
1970 Wimbledon 1 SMITH-COURT 2 Moffitt-King 3 Wade 4 Melville 5 Casals 6 Heldman 7 Krantzcke 8 Niessen (5 of the 8 seeds did not play Australian).
1971 Australian 1 SMITH-COURT 2 Goolagong 3 Turner-Bowrey 4 Chanfreau 5 Hogan 6 Harris 7 Shaw 8 Gourlay
1971 Wimbledon 1 SMITH-COURT 2 Moffitt-King 3 Goolagong 4 Casals 5 Wade 6 Richey 7 Durr 8 Niessen-Masthoff (6 of 8 seeds did not play Australian).
1973 Australian 1 SMITH-COURT 2 Goolagong 3 Wade 4 Melville 5 Coleman 6 Sawamatsu 7 Harris 8 Krantzcke
1973 Wimbledon 1 SMITH-COURT 2 Moffitt-King 3 Goolagong 4 Evert 5 Casals 6 Wade 7 Melville 8 Morozova (4 of 8 seeds did not play Australian).
Talk to me when half the top 12 don't show up, or less than three of the top 6 That is a compromised major.
That is why I am talking to you, to show you the poor standard of Court's draws