The one hit masters wonders from 2000 to 2024 and their makers

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In chronologically descending order

Popyrin - Rublev
Rune - Djokovic
Coric - Tsitsipas
Carreno Busta - Hurkacz
Fritz - Nadal
Norrie - Basilashvili
Fognini - Lajovic
Thiem - Federer
Khachanov - Djokovic
Isner - Zverev
Del Potro - Federer
Sock - Krajinovic
Dimitrov - Kyrgios
Cilic - Murray
Wawrinka - Federer
Ferrer - Janowicz
Soderling - Monfils
Ljubicic - Roddick
Robredo - Stepanek
Berdych - Ljubicic
Henman - Pavel
Mantilla - Federer
Canas - Roddick
Grosjean - Kafelnikov
Haas - Mirnyi
Pavel - Rafter
Portas - Ferrero
Norman - Kuerten
Pioline - Hrbaty


Federer was the maker of the most one masters wonders at 4, with loses to Mantilla, Wawrinka, Del Potro and Thiem.

Roddick and Djokovic with 2 losses each. Everyone else with a single loss.
 
Interesting thing regarding Federer is, had he won all four of those matches, he would have a career golden masters to his name by 2014, and also been outright IW leader with seven titles to match his Cincy seven titles.
 
Felix Mantilla being a Masters champ is just insanity.

But then I guess you look at someone like Popyrin or Coric and you'd think the same thing.

Or that Del Potro or Berdych or Ferrer are on the same level by only having one Masters.

Weird.
 
Few more I think will join this list

Tiafoe
Perricard
Adm
Maybe ruud ?? He can win more than 1.
Korda
Machac

These are the guys that ALMOST matter but don't really.

Except ruud of course.
 
nolefam_2024 said:
Few more I think will join this list

Tiafoe
Perricard
Adm
Maybe ruud ?? He can win more than 1.
Korda
Machac

These are the guys that ALMOST matter but don't really.

Except ruud of course.
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Unfortunately, Berrettini is also missing from the roll call, who like Ruud has this black mark of not having yet won a big title (therefore also a masters 1000) when in the meantime some contemporaries who were objectively inferior to him have done so.
 
Hitman said:
Interesting thing regarding Federer is, had he won all four of those matches, he would have a career golden masters to his name by 2014, and also been outright IW leader with seven titles to match his Cincy seven titles.
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Surprised that Thiem and DelPotro have just won 1 masters. Fed was in position to win both matches. Giving them a IW win seems right. They are too good to not win masters.
 
roysid said:
Surprised that Thiem and DelPotro have just won 1 masters. Fed was in position to win both matches. Giving them a IW win seems right. They are too good to not win masters.
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Agreed. Considering that Wawrinka, Thiem and Delpo are all slam champions and capable of beating the big 3, hard to call them "one hit masters wonders". The real "wonder" is why they didn't win more masters.
 
RoddickAce said:
Agreed. Considering that Wawrinka, Thiem and Delpo are all slam champions and capable of beating the big 3, hard to call them "one hit masters wonders". The real "wonder" is why they didn't win more masters.
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Delpo is understandable.
Wawrinka is biggest surprise ever. He is a knucklehead.
 
Winner Sinner said:
Unfortunately, Berrettini is also missing from the roll call, who like Ruud has this black mark of not having yet won a big title (therefore also a masters 1000) when in the meantime some contemporaries who were objectively inferior to him have done so.
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Berrettini is like Raonic...constantly injured, somewhat of threat. Ruud is the opposite. Rarely a threat, always there.
 
nolefam_2024 said:
Wow coric has masters ? I never knew. COVID has given scrubs a lot
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It was just a weak time. Only Djokovic was missing due to COVID. Nadal was already on his last legs after Wimbledon. Zverev was out for the year.

Really it's just Alcaraz & Medvedev who booted it and gave Coric the opening to play Norrie and a slumping Tsitsipas instead.
 
Titles and achievements don’t go always go with talent.

You have Sock, Popyrin, Coric having same count as Thiem, Delpo and Stan. The era you play has a lot to do with achievements.

But those in the know are aware as to how the tallies are achieved
 
MeatTornado said:
It was just a weak time. Only Djokovic was missing due to COVID. Nadal was already on his last legs after Wimbledon. Zverev was out for the year.

Really it's just Alcaraz & Medvedev who booted it and gave Coric the opening to play Norrie and a slumping Tsitsipas instead.
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Even if ONLY Djokovic was missing it's a huge miss.

Djokovic lost 2 matches between 2022 Rome and 2023 Dubai. Won 6 titles and 45/50 matches. He was at peak.

Let's remove fed from 2004/05 years. Can we do that.
 
BauerAlmeida said:
On clay, he was very good. He's not RG champion material but he's no Carretero.
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My god, I have to say that is a name I have never heard of! His career stats are crazy. Played on the main tour for what looks like barely 4 or 5 years. Only played 4 slam main draws winning just 2 matches, barely played any Masters yet won one in Hamburg. He was an accomplished junior though winning a boys French Open against Costa. It's almost giving Raducanu vibes.
 
nolefam_2024 said:
Even if ONLY Djokovic was missing it's a huge miss.

Djokovic lost 2 matches between 2022 Rome and 2023 Dubai. Won 6 titles and 45/50 matches. He was at peak.

Let's remove fed from 2004/05 years. Can we do that.
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Novak by 2022 was not going balls to the wall at every Masters 1000 event. You can't just pencil him in for a win.

A big part of the reason he had that winning streak was because he wasn't playing a full schedule.
 
MeatTornado said:
Novak by 2022 was not going balls to the wall at every Masters 1000 event. You can't just pencil him in for a win.

A big part of the reason he had that winning streak was because he wasn't playing a full schedule.
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Yes right. But even if he doesn't go balls to the wall at masters

He would swat away a scrub like coric like it's a top 1000 player. Coric can't even hope to hurt nole. The difference is that big.
 
nolefam_2024 said:
Yes right. But even if he doesn't go balls to the wall at masters

He would swat away a scrub like coric like it's a top 1000 player. Coric can't even hope to hurt nole. The difference is that big.
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But that's because Coric is just a mini-Djokovic. It's like Fed vs Gasquet.

Not every player has the same matchup issues that Coric does.
 
How did Wawrinka and Thiem only win 1 Masters. To me it just shows Masters are nearly as hard to win as Grand Slams, when you think about it. You can win 1 if you're lucky and the stars are aligned. But winning more than 1 requires more than some luck and fate. The list of players with 2 Masters or more between 2004 and 2024 must be awfully small. The big-4, the Sinner-Medvedev-Alcaraz-Zverev quad and then you can count the other examples with your fingers.
 
nolefam_2024 said:
Yes right. But even if he doesn't go balls to the wall at masters

He would swat away a scrub like coric like it's a top 1000 player. Coric can't even hope to hurt nole. The difference is that big.
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Sure, most likely if they faced off. But that's not how tennis works. He could potentially lose other players in the draw without ever facing Coric.
 
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