Rafa held slams on all 3 surfaces TWICE

nadalfan2013

Professional
I think this is probably the most underrated achievement Rafa has had. He has held slams on all surfaces twice.

2008 French Open (clay)
2008 Wimbledon (grass)
2009 Australian Open (hard)

and

2010 French Open (clay)
2010 Wimbledon (grass)
2010 US Open (hard)

Has any other player achieved this?
 

Rafa the King

Hall of Fame
No he is the only one. In the open era only Wilander, Agassi, Nadal, Federer and Djokovic have won slams on all surfaces.
Nadal was the first to hold slams on all surfaces, since then Rog and Novak have done it. He is the only one to do it twice.
Nadal is the only one to have won on all surfaces in one calender year.
Wilander and Nadal are the only ones to have won 2+ slams on all surfaces
 

S'in-net

Semi-Pro
Whilst you are correct, those runs are 'broken' runs
Both those runs included a (CYGS attempt) loss :
1) Muzziah USO 08
2) Ferrer MelB 11

Djokovic is the only player in the history to hold all four slams at the same time on three different surfaces
Budge and Laver and Laver again, held all four slams at the same time on two different surfaces
and the (completed) Grand Slam conversation, has only these players that can be mentioned : Budge - Laver - Djokovic
 

nadalfan2013

Professional
Whilst you are correct, those runs are 'broken' runs
Both those runs included a (CYGS attempt) loss :
1) Muzziah USO 08
2) Ferrer MelB 11

Djokovic is the only player in the history to hold all four slams at the same time on three different surfaces
Budge and Laver and Laver again, held all four slams at the same time on two different surfaces
and the (completed) Grand Slam conversation, has only these players that can be mentioned : Budge - Laver - Djokovic

Don't change the subject... Here I'll post Rafa the King's beautiful reply:

No he is the only one. In the open era only Wilander, Agassi, Nadal, Federer and Djokovic have won slams on all surfaces.
Nadal was the first to hold slams on all surfaces, since then Rog and Novak have done it. He is the only one to do it twice.
Nadal is the only one to have won on all surfaces in one calender year.
Wilander and Nadal are the only ones to have won 2+ slams on all surfaces
 

BlueB

Legend
I think this is probably the most underrated achievement Rafa has had. He has held slams on all surfaces twice.

2008 French Open (clay)
2008 Wimbledon (grass)
2009 Australian Open (hard)

and

2010 French Open (clay)
2010 Wimbledon (grass)
2010 US Open (hard)

Has any other player achieved this?
Check back in when he holds all 4. Sorry.

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Mainad

Bionic Poster
Will you ever stop obsessing over your fallen idol?

Honest question.

He's just pointing out a few stats about his fav player that maybe no-one has fully considered before. I'm an exception. I've been pointing out for some time that Nadal is the only player in the open era, apart from Wilander, to win multiple Slam titles on all 3 surfaces. No other active player has yet achieved this!
 

Rafa the King

Hall of Fame
If Rafa did not play it is his fault. That does not make it uninterrupted.

This way you can say Rafa won FO from 2005-2014 since 2009 he was injured and it shouldn't count

No no, it's about holding slams, so any possibility concerning the past 4 slams counts as long as the same slam is not counted twice in two comparisons.
 

cockneyDjoker

Hall of Fame
I think this is probably the most underrated achievement Rafa has had. He has held slams on all surfaces twice.

2008 French Open (clay)
2008 Wimbledon (grass)
2009 Australian Open (hard)

and

2010 French Open (clay)
2010 Wimbledon (grass)
2010 US Open (hard)

Has any other player achieved this?

Nadal will never be considered GOAT because of his lopsided clay resume. :):)

It doesn't matter how many of these useless stats you present that will never change :cool::cool::cool:

The fact is Nadal will be remembered as the 3rd best player of the last 10 years and the 4th best off clay behind Djokovic, Federer and Murray. :D:D:D
 

clayqueen

Talk Tennis Guru
Nadal will never be considered GOAT because of his lopsided clay resume. :):)

It doesn't matter how many of these useless stats you present that will never change :cool::cool::cool:

The fact is Nadal will be remembered as the 3rd best player of the last 10 years and the 4th best off clay behind Djokovic, Federer and Murray. :D:D:D
In that case no one will be considered GOAT if there is such a thing because of their lack of clay slams or only winning one clay slam.
 

cockneyDjoker

Hall of Fame
In that case no one will be considered GOAT if there is such a thing because of their lack of clay slams or only winning one clay slam.
Nadal only has 5 slams outside RG. Murray will probably end up with a better non-clay resume than Nadal. :cool::cool:

The fact is that Djokovic and Federer are better at 3/4 slams and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Murray ends up also being better at 3/4 slams. :D
 

S'in-net

Semi-Pro
Don't change the subject... Here I'll post Rafa the King's beautiful reply:
No he is the only one. In the open era only Wilander, Agassi, Nadal, Federer and Djokovic have won slams on all surfaces.
Nadal was the first to hold slams on all surfaces, since then Rog and Novak have done it. He is the only one to do it twice.
Nadal is the only one to have won on all surfaces in one calender year.
Wilander and Nadal are the only ones to have won 2+ slams on all surfaces

1) Connors was the first player in the open era to win slams on three surfaces,
which he did in Career AND at the same GS...then :
2) Wilander
3) Agassi
4) Nadal
5) Federer
6) Nadal again
7) Djokovic which was the NCYGS

Notable Open Era CYGS/NCYGS successes or close attempts :

1) Laver : MelB 69 Won/RG 69 Won/AELTC 69 Won/USO 69 Won (2 surfaces won on)
2) Connors : MelB 74 Won/RG 74 (dnp)/AELTC 74 Won/USO 74 Won (2 surfaces won on)
3) Wilander : MelB 88 Won/RG 88 Won/AELTC 88 qf/USO 88 Won (2 surfaces won on)
4) Sampras : AELTC 93 Won/USO 93 Won/MelB 94 Won/RG 94 qf (2 surfaces won on)
5) Agassi : RG 99 Won/AELTC 99 RU/USO 99 Won/MelB 00 Won 9 (2 surfaces won on)
6) Federer : AELTC 05 Won/USO 05 Won/MelB 06 Won/RG 06 RU (2 surfaces won on)
7) Federer : AELTC 06 Won/USO 06 Won/MelB 07 Won/RG 07 RU (2 surfaces won on)
8) Nadal : RG 08 Won/AELTC 08 Won/USO 08 sf/MelB 09 Won (3 surfaces won on)
9) Nadal : RG 10 Won/AELTC 10 Won/USO 10 Won/MelB 11 qf (3 surfaces won on)
10) Djokovic : AELTC 11 Won/USO 11 Won/MelB 12 Won/RG 12 RU (2 surfaces won on)
11) Djokovic : AELTC 15 Won/USO 15 Won/MelB 16 Won/RG 16 Won (3 surfaces won on)

The only players who appear twice on the list in the open era are Federer/Nadal/Djokovic
The only players with a successful NCYGS (or CYGS) are Laver and Djokovic
The only player with a successful NCYGS (or CYGS) on three surfaces is Djokovic
 

S'in-net

Semi-Pro
Open era Grand Slam records :
Only players to have made all four finals in one year :
1) Laver 69
2) Federer 2006
3) Federer 2007
4) Federer 2009
5) Djokovic 2015

Only players to have made all four semi finals in one year :
1) Federer 5 times
2) Djokovic 4 times
3=) Laver/Roche/Lendl/Nadal/Murray 1 time each

Players to have made all four quarter finals in one year :
1) Federer 8 times
2) Djokovic 6 times
3) Murray 4 times
4=) Lendl/Nadal 3 times
 

punterlad

Hall of Fame
I think this is probably the most underrated achievement Rafa has had. He has held slams on all surfaces twice.

2008 French Open (clay)
2008 Wimbledon (grass)
2009 Australian Open (hard)

and

2010 French Open (clay)
2010 Wimbledon (grass)
2010 US Open (hard)

Has any other player achieved this?
Also in 2008 he won Olympic gold. I've said way before u came on here that nadal 2008 and 2010 were the best years in the open era. I based this on the fact the majors and olympics are the biggest and most prestigious events. Federer and Djokovic have had more consistent years.

For me what nadal did in 2010 was even better than Djokovic holding all four at once. To win 3 majors on three surfaces in space of 4 months will never be done again and shows nadal to be at his best the most adaptable player of all time.

It has to be acknowledged by us though if we are fair minded that while we celebrate the greatness of nadal his greatness also illustrates federer and Djokovic greatness both of whom only fell short of what nadal achieved because of Rafa at the FO.

The more you analyse it the more it has to be acknowledged that nadal federer and Djokovic the theee greatest players to ever play the game. Just because they are more recent than other true greats like Sampras and laver and borg shouldn't dilute the fact of how unbelievable those three have been. Remember federer and Djokovic have achieved consistent success throughout the whole calendar year like no other player .

Nadal 2013 was awesome on two surfaces btw.
 
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Emperor of Belgrade

Guest
Laver already did that and he did it twice in a calendar year outclassing Novak. What RAFA did is unique and he stands alone.
Djoker's was on 3 different surfaces and also has WTF alongside those 4 Majors, that's UNIQUE too.
 

jm1980

Talk Tennis Guru
Wake me up when clay warrior defends any title off the dirt... Something that won't happen until 2018 at the earliest since he's currently holding ZERO non-clay titles
 

S'in-net

Semi-Pro
2008 Wimbledon - 2010 Wimbledon was kind of bad mixing the AO with the USO was the worst
Wake me up when clay warrior defends any title off the dirt

You're toooo far

He's got to hold a singles title of the dirt first
Then wait one further year to see the successful defence

It won't be successful offence because these days he does not play offence, off the dirt
Hence no success :p
 

Start da Game

Hall of Fame
I think this is probably the most underrated achievement Rafa has had. He has held slams on all surfaces twice.

2008 French Open (clay)
2008 Wimbledon (grass)
2009 Australian Open (hard)

and

2010 French Open (clay)
2010 Wimbledon (grass)
2010 US Open (hard)

Has any other player achieved this?

yes nadal is the only one to have held slams across the three surfaces in a calendar year as well as a non-calendar year, twice like you mentioned.......fediva and ultron both held slams on all three surfaces but in a non-calendar year......nike buggers did not care to build a GOAT story out of it like how they did with fraud in 2009, rafa should have ditched nike long back and endorsed and uplifted some local spanish brand.......
 

Luckydog

Professional
Yep Federer is certainly the most successful it can not be denied... but he is not the greatest.
Most successful,but not greatest? Sounds a little complicated.
The only question is: if Fed is not the greatest,who is?
Nadal? Stop it.
The greatest is not a guy who couldn't defend any title outside clay.
 
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eagletennis

Semi-Pro
Most successful,but not greatest? Sounds a little complicated.
The only question is: if Fed is not the greatest,who is?
Nadal? Stop it.
The greatest is not a guy who couldn't defend any title outside clay.
Nadalfan2013 is probably one of the biggest trolls here.But gotta agree with him here.The way how Nadal domminated field with probably 2 of top 4 players all time is just remarkable.Tiger wasn't GOAT in golf but for a short time he was most dominating player in history.Jack is still gonna be GOAT.Same with Nadal and Fed
 

Luckydog

Professional
Nadalfan2013 is probably one of the biggest trolls here.But gotta agree with him here.The way how Nadal domminated field with probably 2 of top 4 players all time is just remarkable.Tiger wasn't GOAT in golf but for a short time he was most dominating player in history.Jack is still gonna be GOAT.Same with Nadal and Fed
I'll say Nole is GOAT,will you agree?
 

eagletennis

Semi-Pro
I'll say Nole is GOAT,will you agree?
No.I ll say Novak is biggest overachiever but Federer is definitely more accomplished and Nadal dominated both players in their prime.Although you can definitely make a case that Djokovic 2011 was single most dominated year ever.......I have no idea what I just did there:D
 

6august

Hall of Fame
Has any other player lost in THREE CONSECUTIVE Slams finals to ONE PLAYER during his peak time?

Unbelievable!
 

metsman

Talk Tennis Guru
Nadalfan2013 is probably one of the biggest trolls here.But gotta agree with him here.The way how Nadal domminated field with probably 2 of top 4 players all time is just remarkable.Tiger wasn't GOAT in golf but for a short time he was most dominating player in history.Jack is still gonna be GOAT.Same with Nadal and Fed
When exactly did Nadal dominate the field with 2 of the top 4 players ever in it? Names don't mean anything, you have to play like it. Djokovic dominated a field with Federer and Nadal in it too in 2015...what does that mean? Federer dominated a field in 06 that had Nadal, Djokovic, and Agassi in it technically...lmao.


And when exactly was Nadal the most dominating player in history?

08 clay season-09 clay season was super impressive obviously, but it's not like either of Djokovic or Fed were at their peaks and for 1 year other players have come close/ matched/exceeded those heights. Borg, Mac, Pete, Fed, Novak.

To me the most impressive peaks are Borg and Fed because they completely dominated the field for 3+ years in a row. Unsurprisingly, they are the top 2 in my open era rankings.
 
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