No male player won his first French Open when he was the #1 seed in the Open era

[Fiji]

In the open era no male player won his first French Open title when he was the #1 seed.


When they won their first FO:


Kodes was the #7 seed

Borg was the #3 seed

Lendl was the #2 seed

Courier was the #9 seed

Kuerten was not even seeded

Nadal was the #4 seed


The players mentioned above all won at least one FO as the #1 seed but it was never their first FO.

Federer was number 2, behind Nadal... He got back to number 1 after winning Wimbledon...

Agassi was number 13 and on his way up from ranking of around 140 at the beginning of the year...



Gimeno was the #6 seed when he won his first and only RG.

Năstase was the #2 seed when he won his first and only RG.

Panatta was the #8 seed when he won his first and only RG.

Vilas was the #3 seed when he won his first and only RG.

Wilander was unseeded when he won his first RG.

Noah was the #6 seed when he won his first and only RG.

Chang was the #15 seed when he won his first and only RG.

Gómez was the #4 seed when he won his first and only RG.

Bruguera was the #10 seed when he won his first RG.

Muster was the #5 seed when he won his first and only RG.

Kafelnikov was the #6 seed when he won his first and only RG.

Moya was the #12 seed when he won his first and only RG.

Costa was the #20 seed when he won his first and only RG.

Ferrero was the #3 seed when he won his first and only RG.

Gaudio was unseeded when he won his first and only RG.



Could this be a bad omen for Nole?

I'm bumping the thread after RG this year when Nole fails to win the title again.

 

[OhYes]

It's an interesting coincidence, but nothing more.
Same thing when they come up with statistics - "Player who wins first set between these two, usually wins the match". Except when he doesn't (rolleyes)
I'm not superstitious, but I believe if you put enough pressure on a player presenting him these irrelevant facts... let just say that he doesn't need such info.

 

[Mainad]

Could this be a bad omen for Nole?

Trouble is, he can't shed enough points between now and RG to lose the number #1 ranking! He's stuck with it! :shock:

Maybe if he can persuade the organisers at RG to adopt the Wimbledon seeding system he might be in with a chance as Nadal would then automatically become top seed! :wink:

 

[JanowiczJ]

Meaningless stat. I bet if you did the same research regarding wimbledon the results would be very similar.

In the last 40 years of wimbledon I can only remember 2 guys, maybe 3 winning it for the first time while being the #1 seed.

 

[Fiji]

bump............