Nadal is one FO shy of matching Sampras's TOTAL!

[Tennis_Freak99]

NUFF SAID! NO EXCUSEZ

 

[Standaa]

forget the goat race

this was the real catching up all along

 

[Breakpointerer]

Thoughts go out to 90s Clay

 

[AlexanderTheGreat08]

And at the major that Sampras failed to win

 

[Tennis_Freak99]

And at the major that Sampras failed to win

DAMN

 

[scotus]

Wow, what an achievement!

 

[pj80]

to be fair to pete he is 14-7 at all the others. double the amount

 

[NatF]

Yeah that's silly tbh.

 

[UnderratedSlam]

Failed to even reach the finale...

Just one semis...

The "Great Pete" couldn't hold a ball in court for long. Ace machine vulture of Speedy-Court Era.

And at the major that Sampras failed to win

 

[BeatlesFan]

And at the major that Sampras failed to win

Along with McEnroe, Connors, Edberg and Becker. Many ATG's lack the FO.

 

[UnderratedSlam]

Along with McEnroe, Connors, Edberg and Becker. Many ATG's lack the FO.

It is by far the most cursed event for ATGs.

It says a lot.

Tough to win.

 

[Born_to_slice]

Impressive, yet boring record.

 

[Adv. Edberg]

And at the major that Sampras failed to win

Sure but Was a lot harder for Sampras back then than Nadal

 

[TheNachoMan]

PETE still leads at 3 of 4 slams

 

[roysid]

Polyester strings changed everything in 2000s. Surface didn't become much of a barrier anymore.
Plus it was baseline rally everywhere

 

[ND-13]

At this rate, Nadal may even go to beat Roger's count at FO alone ,,,, LOL

 

[WYK]

to be fair to pete he is 14-7 at all the others. double the amount

And he did it over a 14 year career VS Nadals 19 years as a pro so far. And not once did Pete use stem cells to further his career

 

[Oval_Solid]

sampras would have won it if they had built the roof while he was still playing

 

[DSH]

 

[FrontHeadlock]

It is by far the most cursed event for ATGs.

It says a lot.

Tough to win.

It is, but it's also that the other 3 majors (as well as the YEC) are far more correlative to each other.

Remember that pre-88 both AO and W were on grass and USO was on fast HC. In fact, if you look at the list of players who have won both W and USO, you will see they are fairly well correlated.

So you can say that ATGs were cursed at RG but you can also say that ATGs were helped by having more of the big tournaments on fast surfaces. Even today, I think something like 35% of all tournaments/points on offer are on clay, while only 25% of majors are (and if you are someone who includes YEC as a "big 5" tournaments, then it's even worse at 20%).