Nadal is not the youngest to complete the career Grand Slam

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timnz

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I've just come across yet another article that says that Nadal was the youngest to complete the career Grand Slam. Don't these writers do any research? Why do they keep publishing this mis-information?

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/7103128.cms

(For the record, Don Budge was the youngest, 2 days before his 23rd Birthday, when he won the French Open in June of 1938). In fact Nadal isn't even the 2nd Youngest - Laver was younger than Nadal by about two months when he completed his career Slam in September of 1962).

I guess if you say a thing so many times, it becomes the truth right?
 
This article says in history not the open era

But the article I reference says that he is the youngest in history. It says that 7 guys have achieved it. (when only 3 have done it in the open era). Other articles I have seen more or less say the same thing - perhaps they don't qualify that it is in the open era they are talking about.
 
Very interesting. Laver came very close to being the first male player to win a career slam in both singles and doubles, unfortunately he lost finals in both French and US. Not sure what Budge achieved ? Not sure of his doubles achievements ?
 
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Interesting, so Nadal is actually only the third youngest to achieve the career slam. Kinda puts things more in perspective. People definitely should get their facts straight.
 
timnz said:
I've just come across yet another article that says that Nadal was the youngest to complete the career Grand Slam. Don't these writers do any research? Why do they keep publishing this mis-information?

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/7103128.cms

(For the record, Don Budge was the youngest, 2 days before his 23rd Birthday, when he won the French Open in June of 1938). In fact Nadal isn't even the 2nd Youngest - Laver was younger than Nadal by about two months when he completed his career Slam in September of 1962).

I guess if you say a thing so many times, it becomes the truth right?
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Great than we can agree that Roger is at best 3 in line for most slams LOL
 
Eternally_damned said:
Interesting, so Nadal is actually only the third youngest to achieve the career slam. Kinda puts things more in perspective. People definitely should get their facts straight.
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He's the third in the Open Era and also the youngest of the three (Nadal, Agassi and Federer) to do so.

Will be awesome when he achieves the Double Golden Career Slam winning the 2012 Olympics on grass, as well :)
 
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dandelion_smiley said:
whats your definition of vastly?
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Depends on who you're talking about.

Because if he's talking about Nadal, then he might as well have won one on hardcourts, one underwater, and one on a football gridiron. Because then he could claim Nadal the GOAT even more.

But if we're talking about federer, he wouldn't say vastly, but that the surfaces are homogenized and so Federer didn't really have to do anything extraordinary to accomplish it.

nevermind that the courts haven't changed over the last 3 years or so. But it's ok.
 
Bud said:
Yup... youngest in the OE and on 3 vastly different surfaces.
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3 different surfaces, yes. Vastly different? Not in terms of speed.

Their was a much, much wider difference at the opposite ends (grass and clay) of the speed range prior to 2001.

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Bud said:
He's the third in the Open Era and also the youngest of the three (Nadal, Agassi and Federer) to do so.

Will be awesome when he achieves the Double Golden Career Slam winning the 2012 Olympics on grass, as well :)
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Where is it going to be held? We will have to wait and see what condition he is in first!
 
Bud said:
He's the third in the Open Era and also the youngest of the three (Nadal, Agassi and Federer) to do so.

Will be awesome when he achieves the Double Golden Career Slam winning the 2012 Olympics on grass, as well :)
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So in other words Nadal is NOT the youngest to do it.
 
jackson vile said:
Where is it going to be held? We will have to wait and see what condition he is in first!
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I believe it will probably be held at Wimbledon since the Olympics are in London in 2012

Be awesome for Nadal to win a second Olympic Gold Medal and on Grass! He's definitely the frontrunner at this point in time.

I believe this will be the first Olympic tennis competition not played on HC (will go double check). Was the 1992 Barcelona surface HC?

1992 was played on outdoor clay.
 
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Rafa's Olympic Surface Slam!

If Rafa wins the gold on grass in 2012 he may also have a chance to win an Olympic Gold Medal on clay at the 2016 games in Rio, at 30 years of age :shock:

How cool would that be... An Olympic surface slam! :grin:

*******s may revolt :lol:
 
Bud said:
If Rafa wins the gold on grass in 2012 he may also have a chance to win an Olympic Gold Medal on clay at the 2016 games in Rio, at 30 years of age :shock:

How cool would that be... An Olympic surface slam! :grin:

*******s may revolt :lol:
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Prepare for the trolling!
 
Aaah, JV and Bud are fighting it out among themselves :D

As a Fedfan first and a Nadal fan second, i think Nadal has a better chance, especially as Federer will be a bit too old by 2012. And Nadal is getting better across all surfaces.

In any case, its 2 years away, so lets not get ahead of ourselves. Calm down JV.
 
Bud said:
Yup... youngest in the OE and on 3 vastly different surfaces.
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3 surfaces that all play slow. Unlike in the past when clay played slow, and grass played fast. Check that statistics on court speed, it will show that Wimbledon grass now plays as slow as Roland Garros clay.
 
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3 surfaces that all play slow. Unlike in the past when clay played slow, and grass played fast. Check that statistics on court speed, it will show that Wimbledon grass now plays as slow as Roland Garros clay.
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Roger and Nadal could not have won those slams any other way.
 
Bud said:
Hard court, clay court and grass court. Did I really have to define that for you?



Once again, he's the youngest to complete the career slam in the Open Era. Go look up what Open Era means and stop asking.
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I'm not asking what Open Era means, I know what it means. The true statement is that Nadal is not the youngest to complete the career slam. Period.

Otherwise you can add as many qualifiers on it that you like.
 
Bud said:
If Rafa wins the gold on grass in 2012 he may also have a chance to win an Olympic Gold Medal on clay at the 2016 games in Rio, at 30 years of age :shock:

How cool would that be... An Olympic surface slam! :grin:

*******s may revolt :lol:
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That would be quite an achievement
 
Bud said:
If Rafa wins the gold on grass in 2012 he may also have a chance to win an Olympic Gold Medal on clay at the 2016 games in Rio, at 30 years of age :shock:

How cool would that be... An Olympic surface slam! :grin:

*******s may revolt :lol:
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Does anyone reeeeeeaally care about the Olympic singles medal ??
 
Does anyone reeeeeeaally care about the Career Slam ??

I mean Roger has already won it. Rafa is only imitating him.

It mattered when Roger did it since Agassi had done it a while back, under meth that too, i might add.

Being the youngest to do this or that is an interesting statistic for stat retentives but nothing more.
 
Bud said:
If Rafa wins the gold on grass in 2012 he may also have a chance to win an Olympic Gold Medal on clay at the 2016 games in Rio, at 30 years of age :shock:

How cool would that be... An Olympic surface slam! :grin:

*******s may revolt :lol:
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that would be (4 yearsX4 majors for the slam=16 years) 16 years to complete that slam of yours :D
 
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