"Surface combos"

[dapchai]

I'm referring to the combo of each slam (among RG, WC, USO) with the highest 500/1000 tune-up tourney(s):

"Clay slam": MC + Madrid/old Hamburg + Rome + RG
"Grass slam" (?): Halle/Queens + WC (too bad there's no M1000 on grass, while Halle and Queens play at the same time)
"Summer slam": Montreal/Toronto + Cincy + USO

As far as I know, Nadal has won each of these at least once; Federer and Murray have won the grass slam, and Roddick has won the summer slam. Any other player with similar records?

 

[weakera]

Djokovic must have won HC Slam, isn't he called the HC goat by his fans surely he must have done it

 

[The Guru]

Djokovic must have won HC Slam, isn't he called the HC goat by his fans surely he must have done it

Yep AO+IW+Miami multiple times

 

[weakera]

Yep AO+IW+Miami multiple times

So a fake one with the slam in front lol? And even by your definition only one of the two?

Haha

 

[Third Serve]

So a fake one with the slam in front lol? And even by your definition only one of the two?

Haha

you seem very pressed for someone whose idol currently holds the Slam record

 

[FrontHeadlock]

Djokovic has won the "irrelevant post-USO slam" twice, in 2013 and 2015: Shanghai + Paris + WTF.

 

[Kralingen]

Rafter did the summer HC one, what a monster he was in ‘98. Beat prime PETE twice as well.

 

[JaxTeller]

Nadal is the most versatile, and I'm not joking..
He has to change his playstyle the most w.r.t the surfaces coz of that whip..

 

[ibbi]

The grass one has been done countless times.

The hard court one I want to say Rafter, Agassi, Roddick and Nadal are the only ones to do it? I could be imagining things.

The clay one has literally only been done once.

Leaving out Australia and the Sunshine double seems disingenuous.

 

[FrontHeadlock]

Leaving out Australia and the Sunshine double seems disingenuous.

Totally disagree here, as they are not lead-in events to the AO. They are really separate parts of the calendar.

Why do you think they should be included?

 

[weakera]

you seem very pressed for someone whose idol currently holds the Slam record

It's not about the slam record. It's about sending a message

 

[Kralingen]

Kinda shocking that Fed never did the summer HC one. I guess he usually won Wimby just before so was either skipping or not motivated for Canada. I know there was that freak Cincy loss to Murray in 06 and I think Hrbaty in 04. Closest he came was a final set TB to Djokovic in Canada in 2007 actually. Blew set points in the first set

Djok as well won Wimby all years he won the USO, I remember in 2018 he looked like he straight up tanked the 3rd set vs Pas in Canada. In 2011 he was one match from doing it but retired with shoulder injury vs Murray in the Cincy final.

 

[ibbi]

Totally disagree here, as they are not lead-in events to the AO. They are really separate parts of the calendar.

Why do you think they should be included?

It is slightly different in that they're not lead-in tournaments, sure, but what does that have to do with anything? Looking at them as lead-ins to begin with is sort of casual tennis fan behaviour, and I don't vibe with it.

There's 'seasons' within the tennis year, and those three tournaments comprise the season-opening hardcourt swing.

 

[DSH]

The grass one has been done countless times.

The hard court one I want to say Rafter, Agassi, Roddick and Nadal are the only ones to do it? I could be imagining things.

The clay one has literally only been done once.

Leaving out Australia and the Sunshine double seems disingenuous.

Agassi came very close to doing so but lost to Sampras in the 1995 US Open final.

 

[FrontHeadlock]

It is slightly different in that they're not lead-in tournaments, sure, but what does that have to do with anything? Looking at them as lead-ins to begin with is sort of casual tennis fan behaviour, and I don't vibe with it.

There's 'seasons' within the tennis year, and those three tournaments comprise the season-opening hardcourt swing.

I hear you. I look at it the opposite way, in that the other three "slams" referenced in the OP are categorized as such because the events precede a Major and thus are tune-up events before a player ideally peaks at the Major. Thus, it's a bit more cohesive of a group of tournaments where all the top players tend to approach them similarly.

If you start grouping other events together, why not group all HC events from Canada thru the WTF?

 

[SamprasisGOAT]

Rafter did the summer HC one, what a monster he was in ‘98. Beat prime PETE twice as well.

Pete wasn’t prime in 98 son but yes rafter was a monster in that period

 

[GabeT]

you seem very pressed for someone whose idol currently holds the Slam record

He knows it doesn’t end well

 

[Hitman]

Where is the AO-IW-Miami combo?

Also while not a slam, there was the fall combo of Madrid/Shangai-Paris-WTF

 

[dapchai]

Djokovic has won the "irrelevant post-USO slam" twice, in 2013 and 2015: Shanghai + Paris + WTF.

Shanghai is nowhere close to the YEC both geographically and conditionally. But Paris + YEC seems to be a good combo, except the fact that YEC is never a slam.

Yep AO+IW+Miami multiple times

Leaving out Australia and the Sunshine double seems disingenuous.

No guys. The Sunshine double are in their own category and will never be AO's tune-ups. Not to mention the locations are too far apart and AO takes place 1-1.5 months earlier.

Would be nice if there's a 500 tourney leading up to the AO.

 

[FrontHeadlock]

except the fact that YEC is never a slam.

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