You can win 20 slams - choose your distribution

mahatma

Hall of Fame
5 in all slams. Make it 5 continuous years of CYGS and retirement. Craziest stories in sport that can be. Just utter domination of the sport when you played.

That’s my way of reaching 20 slams. Blitz.
 

Cortana

Legend
5 in all slams. Make it 5 continuous years of CYGS and retirement. Craziest stories in sport that can be. Just utter domination of the sport when you played.

That’s my way of reaching 20 slams. Blitz.
This. 5 years of winning everything and then retire at the top of your game because of boredom. People will call you GOAT no matter how many slams others win.
 

Searchlight

Rookie
10 Wimbledons
9 US Opens
1 French

Would rather be the all time champ at 2 Slams. Molla Mallory has 8 US Opens and Navratilova has 9 Wimbledons...don't care that much about Australia...
 

Sudacafan

Bionic Poster
Most pseudo-original thread idea: who was the best 20 or more slam winner?
It's just another zillionth GOAT thread disguised in a best player with x slams thread.
 
20 Us opens for sure. It’s always been the hardest slam to dominate. The other 3 have been dominated quite a bit by various guys. Not the us open though. Pete, Connor’s and Fed were the closest to dominate but they only won 5. Of course Tilden too but that was 30000 years ago
 
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Pheasant

Legend
The length of the career was not specified. So I will go with this. After I graduate from high school, i will train like a wild man. Then, from ages 19-23, I will bag 5 consecutive CYGS, then retire. I would be so bored of crushing the world, that I would have to quit and do something else.

20 slam titles in 5 years is substantially more impressive than 20 in 16 years like Federer did, or 22 in 18 years like Nadal, or 24 in 16 years like Djoker did.

Pheasant is now #3 all time, trailing only MuryGOAT and Benoit Paire after bagging 5 consecutive CYGS.
 

Sport

G.O.A.T.
1 AO.
16 RG.
2 W.
1. USO.

There's nothing greater than breaking an unbreakable record. Funny how the only way to break Nadal's 14 RG is in hypotheticals.
 

Sudacafan

Bionic Poster
If I can't have exact 5 of each out of 20 slams, I'd go with 47 slams total in whatever fashion and not more than that, if I were a Nadal fan.
 
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The length of the career was not specified. So I will go with this. After I graduate from high school, i will train like a wild man. Then, from ages 19-23, I will bag 5 consecutive CYGS, then retire. I would be so bored of crushing the world, that I would have to quit and do something else.

20 slam titles in 5 years is substantially more impressive than 20 in 16 years like Federer did, or 22 in 18 years like Nadal, or 24 in 16 years like Djoker did.

Pheasant is now #3 all time, trailing only MuryGOAT and Benoit Paire after bagging 5 consecutive CYGS.
Who wants to experience such an artificially quick ascent? It's like climbing a mountain with the seilbahn rather than the via ferrata.
 
USO 8 for the record And a little margin.
RG 7 because it’s the most attractive venue and clay rocks.
Wimbledon 3 to have more than Murray but imo grass sucks.
AO 2 to be a multi champ but least prestigious slam, far away and I’m a miserable bugger who hates the term happy slam.
 

Sport

G.O.A.T.
5-5-5-5. No one in the history has won a quintuple career Slam.
But that would represent weak domination at each Slam.

What's 5 RG compared to 14 RG? Weak domination. I'd rather ultradominate 1 Slam with double figures than having 5 at each. Having 5 at each you're not the greatest at any Slam.
 

BorgTheGOAT

Legend
It isn’t.
You are right. It isn’t. France has way more tennis history and clay is a way more traditional surface than hard, not to mention that the USO switched a couple of times and doesn’t have a unique status with the surface. It might appear as more prestigious since in the recent history there were way more good US players than French players.
 

RS

Bionic Poster
Probably answered differently the last time I was asked. I know for sure that I've always been a fair man, so there can't be too much of a difference.

5 Australian
3 France
7 Wimbledon
5 US Open
You whishing Andy Murray even on the outside the top 1000 Wladimir Kiltschko's level.
 

TennisD

Professional
4 AO
6 FO
3 WB
7 USO

Honestly I just love the USO and feel like Wimbledon would be the hardest to win with my personal game. Not really worried about holding records anywhere.
 

RaulRamirez

Legend
Much as I think one slam is as good as any other slam (for years now) and I generally don't care too much about distribution and who is the goat of a given slam, my answer may be at odds with that:

9 Wimbys
6 US Opens
3 RG
2 AO.

Why? I don't know. This would give me the most in the OE for the first two, and still multiples at the other two. Ask me again in a week, and ...
 
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