Which player will win most slam titles over the next 10 years?

Who will win most slams?

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Which of these players will win most slams over the next ten years? What I mean is, if we count the forty slams between 2011 French Open and 2020 Australian Open, which of these players will have most major titles and how many do you think? I think Nadal will win 9/40 of these for a total of 18 career slam titles.
 
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Out of that group definitely Nadal. I dont think any of these young players have it in them to step up to be the next dominant champion. I think in the next few years we will see some surprise slam wins from older more established players
 
accidental said:
Out of that group definitely Nadal. I dont think any of these young players have it in them to step up to be the next dominant champion. I think in the next few years we will see some surprise slam wins from older more established players
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Yes, if Nadal wins another 9 slams he will hold a total of 18 major titles. That would be tough to trump. But if we are only looking at the future slam titles, then if Dimitrov, for example, won 10 slams in the next 10 years, then he would trump Nadal in future slams – 10 > 9.
 
SoBad said:
How many more slams do you think Nadal will win? And which player on the list would you replace and with which more promising player?
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I would say Nadal will win at least 5 more! The other player would be someone unknown....it can some know junior who matures very early! Even though Raonic, Dolgopolov, Nishikori and Berankis have potential to win slams they aren't going to dominate for all ten years! We will see....
 
Except of Nadal the other poll choices are ridiculous.

Neither of them will even make it to the Top 10.
- Maybe Raonic cracks the Top10 for a few weeks but that´s it.
 
you know what....grigor dimitrov so young, could do it, nadal i don't see him winning more than 14 to be honest. all speculation though, it is very early in 2011 who the hell knows who will emerge next year and start whooping ass and become dominant
 
PSNELKE said:
Except of Nadal the other poll choices are ridiculous.

Neither of them will even make it to the Top 10.
- Maybe Raonic cracks the Top10 for a few weeks but that´s it.
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I second this. Djokovic will win at least one, Murray will win at least one. I can see del potro winning 2+. Nadal at 3+.
 
Djokovic, Del Potro, and even Murray and Cilic should atleast be poll options. Sweeting, Nishikori, Ilhan, and Donskoy are ridiculous poll options.
 
SoBad said:
Yes, if Nadal wins another 9 slams he will hold a total of 18 major titles. That would be tough to trump. But if we are only looking at the future slam titles, then if Dimitrov, for example, won 10 slams in the next 10 years, then he would trump Nadal in future slams – 10 > 9.
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Lol... Dimitrov isn't winning any slams. And I doubt Nadal wins 9 additional slams, my guess is he'll win 5-7 more.
 
forzamilan90 said:
you know what....grigor dimitrov so young, could do it, nadal i don't see him winning more than 14 to be honest. all speculation though, it is very early in 2011 who the hell knows who will emerge next year and start whooping ass and become dominant
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It's true that making predictions is difficult, especially about the future. I think Dimitrov can win at least 10 slams, and would win many more without Nadal around. 18 total for Nadal looks like a stretch now, but say he defends his FO/W/USO this year, that's already 12/18, he does calendar year slam next year and he's just a couple of slams away!
 
aceX said:
I second this. Djokovic will win at least one, Murray will win at least one. I can see del potro winning 2+. Nadal at 3+.
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Delpotro would be lucky to make it inside top 20 before retirement, so far he is struggling to get back into top 100. Djokovic will probably have another stab at the AO down the road, but as long as Nadal and Dimitrov are in form, I don't see a title happening for him. And Murray - are you serious?
 
NadalAgassi said:
Djokovic, Del Potro, and even Murray and Cilic should atleast be poll options. Sweeting, Nishikori, Ilhan, and Donskoy are ridiculous poll options.
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You have a point that there is a speculative element to listing these four players in the top ten for the next decade, but I still like them better than the four that you are proposing. Del Potro is very unlikely to even return inside the top 20, let alone make a slam final. Djokovic had many chances and all he came up with was two AO titles. Murray had plenty of bites at the cherry and has proven beyond doubt that he is not slam title material.

You want to replace Nishikori with Cilic, but I remember what happened when those two played each other in a slam. Sweeting has the big game to win slams, just mental issues, Ilhan also. Donskoy hasn’t really shown results yet, but he oozes talent with his effortless fluid game.
 
To be honest most of these players would be lucky to even reach a slam final and become the next Arnaud Clement or Rainer Schuttler.

There are some young players who nobody around here seems to mention with these guys but who could potentially be even better. Filip Krajinovic for example who is still only 18 years old and has beaten Zeballos, and also took the first set of Djokovic before Djokovic retired at the Serbian Open.
 
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accidental said:
To be honest most of these players would be lucky to even reach a slam final and become the next Arnaud Clement or Rainer Schuttler.

There are some young players who nobody around here seems to mention with these guys but who could potentially be even better. Filip Krajinovic for example who is still only 18 years old and has beaten Zeballos, and also took the first set of Djokovic before Djokovic retired at the Serbian Open.
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Yeah Filip Krajinovic sounds like a real hotshot. Won a set from hungover Djokovic before Djokomama said “son, you’ve done enough to promote this event, come on, let’s go”. Oh, and he has defeated great Horacio Zeballos, that’s huge, maybe our Andres here will book a few majors as well. Four of these “nobodies” in the poll won junior USO/W, that’s gotta count for something.
 
PSNELKE said:
Except of Nadal the other poll choices are ridiculous.

Neither of them will even make it to the Top 10.
- Maybe Raonic cracks the Top10 for a few weeks but that´s it.
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Yeah, I'm sure the guy who Roddick thinks is good enough to be top 10 won't make it :roll:
 
SoBad said:
It's true that making predictions is difficult, especially about the future. I think Dimitrov can win at least 10 slams, and would win many more without Nadal around. 18 total for Nadal looks like a stretch now, but say he defends his FO/W/USO this year, that's already 12/18, he does calendar year slam next year and he's just a couple of slams away!
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LOL, I'm a Rafa fan but seriously 7 slams in a row!? No way that's happening, he'd have to remain injury free for the first time and he'd have to fight off stiff competition.

IMO this year, FO-WIM double seems realistic, not sure he'll defend the USO. If he can take 2 titles a year for the next 3 years then win the FO on it's own for a couple years after that, then he'll reach 17, but that's the absolute maximum he'll get. However, if he does accomplish the three-peat again this year then I'll re-evaluate my predictions.
 
Manus Domini said:
Why aren't Young and Harrison on that poll?

At least Harrison more than Sweeting!
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Sweeting is much better than Harrison, at least he won USO Jr which Harrison desperately tried to do many times and failed. Young is not making the polls as long as he remains his mom's hostage.
 
SoBad said:
Sweeting is much better than Harrison, at least he won USO Jr which Harrison desperately tried to do many times and failed. Young is not making the polls as long as he remains his mom's hostage.
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I was joking about Young

plus sweeting's older than harrison
 
SoBad said:
Yeah Filip Krajinovic sounds like a real hotshot. Won a set from hungover Djokovic before Djokomama said “son, you’ve done enough to promote this event, come on, let’s go”. Oh, and he has defeated great Horacio Zeballos, that’s huge, maybe our Andres here will book a few majors as well. Four of these “nobodies” in the poll won junior USO/W, that’s gotta count for something.
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Why you so mad?

Krajinovic has had bigger wins than some of these guys. Lol'd hard at Ilhan being in there. And what has Sweeting done since winning the US Open 5 years ago? Has he even cracked the top 100 yet? he's already like 23. Krajinovic has been as high as 170 last year and is the same age as Tomic, who many seem to think is the real deal. He also beat your buddy Donskoy in that Serbia tournament.
 
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accidental said:
Why you so mad?

Krajinovic has had bigger wins than some of these guys. Lol'd hard at Ilhan being in there. And what has Sweeting done since winning the US Open 5 years ago? Has he even cracked the top 100 yet? he's already like 23. Krajinovic has been as high as 170 last year and is the same age as Tomic, who many seem to think is the real deal. He also beat your buddy Donskoy in that Serbia tournament.
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I am sorry if I offended you or Krajinovic, but it seemed that you were attacking great players in my poll for no reason. Krajinovic deserves credit for defeating Donskoy in three sets in the Serbian open, but let’s be realistic here. Donskoy had to come up through the qualies against the likes of Karanusic, while your pal Krajinovic got wild-card silver-spooned into the main draw fresh and ready. And I remember how Serbian linespeople called Donskoy balls that were 3ft in “out”, and Krajinovic balls that nearly hit the fence “in” many times in that match.
 
SoBad said:
I am sorry if I offended you or Krajinovic, but it seemed that you were attacking great players in my poll for no reason. Krajinovic deserves credit for defeating Donskoy in three sets in the Serbian open, but let’s be realistic here. Donskoy had to come up through the qualies against the likes of Karanusic, while your pal Krajinovic got wild-card silver-spooned into the main draw fresh and ready. And I remember how Serbian linespeople called Donskoy balls that were 3ft in “out”, and Krajinovic balls that nearly hit the fence “in” many times in that match.
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Am I really attacking them? I said they would be lucky to reach a slam final and be the next Clement or Scheuttler. 99% of pros would kill to have careers like them, top 10 career high rankings and solid years in the top 20-30.

Honestly, in the case of Sweeting he would be extrememly lucky to reach anywhere near those guys level of success. I just looked him up, his highest ranking right now is 98. Just broken through to the top 100 at 23 years old. Even Scheuttler, who is apparently so bad that it would be an insult to have a career like him, reached the top 100 at an earlier age. I dont think Sweeting will ever be top 10. Or Ilhan. Its a tossup for any of these guys. Much better juniors than these guys have failed to reach those heights in the past, and some of those guys were doing much better than these players at an earlier age.

And no need to apologise. Im not even mad. I'll have to take your word for it though on your cool Donskoy-Krajinovic story. Bro.
 
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accidental said:
Am I really attacking them? I said they would be lucky to reach a slam final and be the next Clement or Scheuttler. 99% of pros would kill to have careers like them, top 10 career high rankings and solid years in the top 20-30.

Honestly, in the case of Sweeting he would be extrememly lucky to reach anywhere near those guys level of success. I just looked him up, his highest ranking right now is 98. Just broken through to the top 100 at 23 years old. Even Scheuttler, who is apparently so bad that it would be an insult to have a career like him, reached the top 100 at an earlier age. I dont think Sweeting will ever be top 10. Or Ilhan. Its a tossup for any of these guys. Much better juniors than these guys have failed to reach those heights in the past, and some of those guys were doing much better than these players at an earlier age.

And no need to apologise. Im not even mad. I'll have to take your word for it though on your cool Donskoy-Krajinovic story. Bro.
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I am happy that there is no animosity, but it still feels wrong to have journeymen like Clement and Schuetller brought into the same discussion as Sweeting and Ilhan who are these fantastic talented players. Sweeting has had emotional and substance problems that are not his fault. I remember how he had Del Potro on the ropes in IW the other year. He was in complete control of the match, and then just blanked out and started double-faulting games away. Ilhan is the same way – talent way beyond what results show. Either of these two could start snatching slam titles at any moment and the field wouldn’t know what hit them.
 
SoBad said:
I am happy that there is no animosity, but it still feels wrong to have journeymen like Clement and Schuetller brought into the same discussion as Sweeting and Ilhan who are these fantastic talented players. Sweeting has had emotional and substance problems that are not his fault. I remember how he had Del Potro on the ropes in IW the other year. He was in complete control of the match, and then just blanked out and started double-faulting games away. Ilhan is the same way – talent way beyond what results show. Either of these two could start snatching slam titles at any moment and the field wouldn’t know what hit them.
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I dont think its right to call players who have reached grand slam finals and been ranked in the top 10 'journeymen'. Sweeting and Ilhan would be lucky to beat Clement and Schuttler even now, despite those guys being 10 years older.

Sweeting is 23 and is ranked lower than Clement is right now at 33. Clement reached the final of the Aus Open at 23. Sweeting has played a grand total of 2 Aus Open matches.

Honestly, this group of young players seems very unimpressive. The juniors from the last 5 years or so have been very slow to progress compared to previous years. If you look at the years 2000-2004 there were juniors who were very dominant and made the transition to the tour almost immeadiately.

Monfils, Gasquet, Wawrinka, Baghdatis were all outstanding juniors, better than any of the players above, and had more success than this current group is right now at earlier ages. They have all had maybe a year total in the top 10 each if theyre lucky, none have made an impact at any slams, except for Monfils lone semi final. Will these guys ever reach a slam final? I wouldnt count on it. That's why I find it hard to believe any of these players in your poll will be winning slams. Their progress just isnt tracking well for them to be future slam winners.
 
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Why would Nadal be compared to those players. What about Djokovic, Tsonga and Baghdatis and the rest of the top 10. Anyway i think it will be Nadal.
 
jayoub95 said:
Why would Nadal be compared to those players. What about Djokovic, Tsonga and Baghdatis and the rest of the top 10. Anyway i think it will be Nadal.
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Tsonga and Baghdatis are barely in top 20 and if you think one of them will make another slam QF, you need to check with your dealer. Djokovic and possibly even Murray belong on this list, but that's already been discussed with NadalAgassi, so I suggest you read up on that.
 
SoBad said:
Tsonga and Baghdatis are barely in top 20 and if you think one of them will make another slam QF, you need to check with your dealer. Djokovic and possibly even Murray belong on this list, but that's already been discussed with NadalAgassi, so I suggest you read up on that.
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So you think those other rookie players on your list will get more grand slams than this years top 20. If you do you have some issues. Maybe Raonic will win some grandslams but not now, maybe a couple of years. It's a pretty dumb poll because obviously Nadal is by far, better than them all.
 
jayoub95 said:
So you think those other rookie players on your list will get more grand slams than this years top 20. If you do you have some issues. Maybe Raonic will win some grandslams but not now, maybe a couple of years. It's a pretty dumb poll because obviously Nadal is by far, better than them all.
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Well if you think that the combined number of major titles won by Tsonga and Baghdatis ever exceeds zero, maybe you need to clean your pipe. Unless a pie-eating contest counts as a major title, in which case Baghdatis would still have to contend with Nalbandian in the final.

And in case you can’t read, the poll is about future slam titles, as I explained twice already. So if Nadal wins 9 more for a total of 18 and Dimitrov wins 10 total slam titles, Dimitrov would still win in this poll.
 
accidental said:
I dont think its right to call players who have reached grand slam finals and been ranked in the top 10 'journeymen'. Sweeting and Ilhan would be lucky to beat Clement and Schuttler even now, despite those guys being 10 years older.

Sweeting is 23 and is ranked lower than Clement is right now at 33. Clement reached the final of the Aus Open at 23. Sweeting has played a grand total of 2 Aus Open matches.

Honestly, this group of young players seems very unimpressive. The juniors from the last 5 years or so have been very slow to progress compared to previous years. If you look at the years 2000-2004 there were juniors who were very dominant and made the transition to the tour almost immeadiately.

Monfils, Gasquet, Wawrinka, Baghdatis were all outstanding juniors, better than any of the players above, and had more success than this current group is right now at earlier ages. They have all had maybe a year total in the top 10 each if theyre lucky, none have made an impact at any slams, except for Monfils lone semi final. Will these guys ever reach a slam final? I wouldnt count on it. That's why I find it hard to believe any of these players in your poll will be winning slams. Their progress just isnt tracking well for them to be future slam winners.
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I don’t think it is necessary to keep recycling these names. Of the six you keep bring up, perhaps Gasquet, Monfils and Wawrinka are fairly talented, but lack mental strength and qualities of a champion. Baghdatis, Schuettler, and Clement don’t even belong in this discussion. They only achieved anything because of no competition – they just competed against each other, so somebody had to win some time. You can’t even compare them to the top ten selected for my poll – rankings don’t tell the entire story. I wouldn’t bet a dime on Clement beating Mikhail Biryukov in a slam, let alone Ricardas Berankis.
 
NO WAY Nadal is going to win 9 more. I doubt he will win even 4 or 5 more. His body is close to being done. And after 1 or 2 FO, he will be done on clay as the young ones will eat him up on clay. Think about it. You think he is going to be dominating the Tour at 27+? NO WAY. He's not a Fed or Agassi. His game is fit only for a 17 - 24 year old.
 
SoBad said:
I don’t think it is necessary to keep recycling these names. Of the six you keep bring up, perhaps Gasquet, Monfils and Wawrinka are fairly talented, but lack mental strength and qualities of a champion. Baghdatis, Schuettler, and Clement don’t even belong in this discussion. They only achieved anything because of no competition – they just competed against each other, so somebody had to win some time. You can’t even compare them to the top ten selected for my poll – rankings don’t tell the entire story. I wouldn’t bet a dime on Clement beating Mikhail Biryukov in a slam, let alone Ricardas Berankis.
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Monfils was the most dominant junior since Edberg. He won 3 of the 4 junior slams. Gasquet was winning tour level matches at 15 years old and was the number 1 junior at 16 despite playing only half the year. Those guys were far far better juniors than most of the players on your list and still have not been anywhere near winning a slam in the 6 years since turning pro.

2 of those guys who only achieved because of 'no competition' achieved so much more than your entire group above has. baghdatis was 20 years old when he made the Aus Open final! That was only 5 years ago.

'Mental strength and qualities of a champion'? Please. you must be trolling. This group of yours is out there playing challenger qualifying matches and losing to nobodies every week. What kind of champion mentality is that? Go back and look at virtually every slam champion for the last 20 years and you will see they were on the ATP tour full time when they were teenagers, not playing in the middle of nowhere and trying to scrape through qualifying against journeymen.
 
SoBad said:
Well if you think that the combined number of major titles won by Tsonga and Baghdatis ever exceeds zero, maybe you need to clean your pipe. Unless a pie-eating contest counts as a major title, in which case Baghdatis would still have to contend with Nalbandian in the final.

And in case you can’t read, the poll is about future slam titles, as I explained twice already. So if Nadal wins 9 more for a total of 18 and Dimitrov wins 10 total slam titles, Dimitrov would still win in this poll.
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Ok whatever. But still Nadal is older than those players so when he retires they will still be playing in 10 years time. Pretty good poll. LOL
 
Why don't you take a look at the poll results and oh i forgot, the poll might change in 10 YEARS if its still around.;-)
 
TenFanLA said:
NO WAY Nadal is going to win 9 more. I doubt he will win even 4 or 5 more. His body is close to being done. And after 1 or 2 FO, he will be done on clay as the young ones will eat him up on clay. Think about it. You think he is going to be dominating the Tour at 27+? NO WAY. He's not a Fed or Agassi. His game is fit only for a 17 - 24 year old.
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Nadal’s elegant style will allow him to remain dominant far longer than any of those other players you mention. Of course, it will be much harder for Nadal to do, because he is already facing much stronger competition than Federer ever faced. Still, he could pull of the next three FO-W-USO triples and that’s nine slams already. Alternatively, he could repeat the triple-slammer this year, do a calendar slam next year, and then win RG/W in 2013. Either way, that would be at least 9 additional slams for Nadal.
 
Born to play said:
Nadal, but you have to add Nole to the poll. But even if that happens I still would choose Rafa
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Djokovic might win another AO title three years down the road, but do you really want to bet on that?

P.S. By the way, option 9 in the poll should have been "Ernests Gulbis". If anyone wants to vote for Gulbis, you have to vote in the Sweeting box. Apologies for the mix-up, I entered appropriate notation in the OP.
 
FedererBestTennis said:
Why is Del Potro not on this list?
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Because he is barely ATP 200 ranked - he is not winning a slam, trust me.

tennisdad65 said:
or why is Nadal on this list?
Its like comparing Kobe or Jordan to NBA bench warmers.
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Nadal is on the list because he is one of the greatest players of all time who has barely entered his prime and is widely expected to win many more slams, as is evident from the polling results in this thread.
 
Why have poll with Nadal at the top and leave out Djockovic and Del Potro who have already won Grand Slams and Murray who's been to 3 finals.

Of that group it's obvious (to me anyway) that Nadal win win most and if Djcokovic continues playing well, he would be second.

As for the rest I doubt any will more than 2 between them
 
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