Sunday, October 18, 2009

Order of 15 Greats in the Open Era Tennis

Only since Jimmy Connors

1) Federer - 15 slams and dominance
2) Borg - 11 slams in 3-slam era; Influence to the game
3) Sampras - 14 slams
4) Lendl - 8 slams only but very dominant; Near miss in Wimby
5) Connors - 8 slams and long career; Influential
6) Agassi - 8 and career make up for less prestigious 4 Aussie
7) McEnroe - 7 slams and year 1984
8) Nadal -8 slams and clay dominance; Will move up
9) Wilander - 7 slams and 3-slam 1988
10) Edberg - 6 slams but more dominant than Becker.
11) Becker - 6 slams
12) Courie - 4 slams
13) Hewitt - 2 slams only but dominant albeit in weak era
14) Kuerten - 3 slams but only in RG
15) Safin? Rafter? Kafelnikov? - Hard to decide

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