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Legend
With the dominance of the "Big Four" (well, before this year at least) of the last several years, some may forget past "big fours". How do they compare in your mind?
I've provided some staggering statistics of the current Big 4, but when you tally the career accomplishments of some past great quartets, it's actually fairly close.
Borg/Connors/McEnroe/Lendl= 34 slams, 73 GP/MS, 11 WTF = 118 total big titles
Edberg/Becker/Agassi/Sampras= 34 slams, 46 GP/MS, 10 WTF = 90 total big titles
Federer/Nadal/Djokovic/Murray= 37 slams, 68 GP/MS, 8 WTF = 113 total big titles*
(GP = Grand Prix, MS = Master Series)
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Current Big Four stats:
The Big Four have played in 80 tournaments where all four have competed. Collectively they have won 70 of these 80 tournaments (88%). Of the 10 tournaments they failed to win, they were runner-up in 4 of them, and 5 of these 10 tournaments occurred prior to them first being seeded as the Top 4 players (post-US Open 2008 ).
Since the 2005 Australian Open, the opening Grand Slam tournament of the 2005 ATP Tour, the Big Four have won all but one Major, all but two Tennis Masters Cups/ATP World Tour Finals (2005 and 2009) as well as both Olympic Games singles tournaments.
Similarly, ATP Masters/ATP Masters 1000 events have been dominated by the Big Four. Since 2009 of the forty-one events that have took place they won thirty-six. This includes all 9 in 2011. Moreover, between the 2010 Paris Masters and 2012 Paris Masters, they won 17 consecutive ATP Masters 1000 events.
As of the 2013 Rome Masters, they have won 109 titles from 121 finals at all levels of the ATP Tour since the start of the 2008 season.
Of these ATP Masters events, excluding the Paris Masters (where the Big Four have had little success) they have won:
All but one Indian Wells Masters events since (and including) 2004.
All but two Miami Masters events since (and including) 2005.
Every Monte-Carlo Masters event since (and including) 2005.
Every Rome Masters event since (and including) 2005.
All but one Madrid Masters event since (and including) 2005.
Every Canada Masters event since (and including) 2004.
All but one Cincinnati Masters event since (and including) 2005.
All but one Shanghai Masters event since its introduction in 2009.
All but one Hamburg Masters event between 2004–08 before it was downgraded to an ATP 500 tournament.
I've provided some staggering statistics of the current Big 4, but when you tally the career accomplishments of some past great quartets, it's actually fairly close.
Borg/Connors/McEnroe/Lendl= 34 slams, 73 GP/MS, 11 WTF = 118 total big titles
Edberg/Becker/Agassi/Sampras= 34 slams, 46 GP/MS, 10 WTF = 90 total big titles
Federer/Nadal/Djokovic/Murray= 37 slams, 68 GP/MS, 8 WTF = 113 total big titles*
(GP = Grand Prix, MS = Master Series)
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Current Big Four stats:
The Big Four have played in 80 tournaments where all four have competed. Collectively they have won 70 of these 80 tournaments (88%). Of the 10 tournaments they failed to win, they were runner-up in 4 of them, and 5 of these 10 tournaments occurred prior to them first being seeded as the Top 4 players (post-US Open 2008 ).
Since the 2005 Australian Open, the opening Grand Slam tournament of the 2005 ATP Tour, the Big Four have won all but one Major, all but two Tennis Masters Cups/ATP World Tour Finals (2005 and 2009) as well as both Olympic Games singles tournaments.
Similarly, ATP Masters/ATP Masters 1000 events have been dominated by the Big Four. Since 2009 of the forty-one events that have took place they won thirty-six. This includes all 9 in 2011. Moreover, between the 2010 Paris Masters and 2012 Paris Masters, they won 17 consecutive ATP Masters 1000 events.
As of the 2013 Rome Masters, they have won 109 titles from 121 finals at all levels of the ATP Tour since the start of the 2008 season.
Of these ATP Masters events, excluding the Paris Masters (where the Big Four have had little success) they have won:
All but one Indian Wells Masters events since (and including) 2004.
All but two Miami Masters events since (and including) 2005.
Every Monte-Carlo Masters event since (and including) 2005.
Every Rome Masters event since (and including) 2005.
All but one Madrid Masters event since (and including) 2005.
Every Canada Masters event since (and including) 2004.
All but one Cincinnati Masters event since (and including) 2005.
All but one Shanghai Masters event since its introduction in 2009.
All but one Hamburg Masters event between 2004–08 before it was downgraded to an ATP 500 tournament.
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