"That's going to be my goal this year, to do better in the Grand Slams, all the Grand Slams," the 2014 U.S. Open finalist said.
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I mean, two grand slams just from pretty much nowhere.
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It comes in big portions, especially in the grand slams.
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The pair split the season's four grand slams between them.
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That made the Grand Slams happy, the players pretty happy.
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I mean, anything can happen, especially in the Grand Slams.
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Also Grand Slams (pole, led every lap and fastest lap).
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I've had success against him in Grand Slams, in particular.
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"That's why Grand Slams are the hardest tournaments," Vandeweghe said.
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His 18 career grand slams are the most in NL history.
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All four Grand Slams now have different ways to decide matches.
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I'm always thinking, I can do well in the grand slams.
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"Obviously, grand slams are what's most important to me," explained Williams.
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She's won 24 grand slams and countless other trophies and titles.
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Albies, 219.06, became the youngest player with four career grand slams.
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I'm always thinking I can do well in the Grand Slams.
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The sisters may continue to compete and win more Grand Slams.
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He is 2-4 against Djokovic, including two wins in grand-slams.
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I'm going to have a chance in next Grand Slams, for sure.
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I can come out and be a contender to win Grand Slams.
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"I actually like tough first rounds in Grand Slams particularly," said Djokovic.
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She won Grand Slams and she was number one before I was.
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The problem -- the rule changes only apply to WTA Tournaments ... NOT Grand Slams.
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Her Australian Open win means she's now won back-to-back grand slams.
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She won the first of her five grand slams at Wimbledon in 2004.
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Too many Grand Slams in such a tiny corner at the same time.
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Williams has four grand slams, and year after year in which to compete.
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I don't feel sad that I couldn't win Grand Slams because of them.
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Getting to No. 1, winning Grand Slams, winning Masters 1000s, it ain't normal.
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She'll be over 35 and a new mother trying to win Grand Slams.
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MLB's "Papa Slam" promotion gave people discounts on pizza when players hit grand slams.
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Each of the Grand Slams now utilize a different system for deciding deadlocked matches.
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Winning all four of the Grand Slams in one year is an amazing achievement.
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She won a string of nine straight grand slams and 50 consecutive singles matches.
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Martina Navratilova, winner of 31 women's doubles Grand Slams, warned about amateurs' biggest mistake.
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"We have experienced huge emotions in Grand Slams, especially in that final," Wawrinka said.
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Before 1985, the only combined men's and women's events were the four Grand Slams.
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This film is shaping up to be one of Marvel's (yet again) grand slams.
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Edmondson had played in two previous Grand Slams, making the first and second round.
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Grand Slams, like the people who play in them, have their own style identity.
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In women's events outside the Grand Slams, coaching from the stands is not allowed.
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J. D. DREW What is it with the Indians and Game 133 grand slams?
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Plenty of other professional women who haven't won any Grand Slams can certainly relate.
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Dyson had none this season and no career grand slams, but that ended Monday night.
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"She was not motivated by 22, she was motivated to win grand slams," he said.
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Friday's match marked the 16th time the sisters have played each other at Grand Slams.
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She's clearly dreaming up all the startups she'll start… And Grand Slams she'll win…. And….
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"I feel more support here," he said when asked to compare the four Grand Slams.
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The Cubs have seven grand slams on the season, the most in the National League.
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And his overall record at grand slams suggests that he belongs in such illustrious company.
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The walk with security accompaniment was unavoidably public and different from the other Grand Slams.
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For years, along with the other three Grand Slams, the tournament had worked with IBM.
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At the Grand Slams and elsewhere, the women and men can cover for each other.
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It also extended tennis' Big Three's dominance over the Grand Slams for another few months.
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He loves to play these kinds of matches, big rivalries, semis, finals of Grand Slams.
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The Grand Slams were always the week where I kind of wanted it too much.
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Serena: Fact: Naming your daughter Serena will automatically qualify her for all the Grand Slams. 10.
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The victory also gave Williams sole possession of the Open Era record for career Grand Slams.
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"At the moment, we don't have any grand slams," the Mayo Clinic's Yogish Kudva told me.
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He became the fifth shortstop to hit two grand slams in the same four-game series.
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Zverev said the next goal in his career was to go deeper into the grand slams.
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Djokovic has appeared in 51 straight grand slams since his debut at the 2005 Australian Open.
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I won two grand slams, so that's why I believe much more in myself right now.
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She's been following Federer to all the Grand Slams, like a clean-cut Deadhead, ever since.
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It would also leave the Serb four behind Federer's men's record total of 20 Grand Slams.
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For two seasons running, all of the Grand Slams have been won by these three players.
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You need to gain as much experience as you can since there's only four Grand Slams.
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"Obviously, the Grand Slams have a right to do what they want to do," Williams said.
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This year at the U.S. Open, though, two men can clinch Grand Slams in newer disciplines.
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"Of course, I would love to be the one who achieves more Grand Slams," Nadal said.
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But Wilander does not really buy into that, especially when grand slams reach the second week.
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He is also looking to be the first from his country to win multiple grand slams.
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Additionally, Williams has won 14 women's doubles and two mixed doubles Grand Slams in her career.
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"Since she still feels she can win grand slams, she doesn't want to stop," Mouratoglou said.
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I won three Grand Slams in my career and I know what it takes to do it.
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Nadal and Federer have each won six titles this year, splitting the four grand slams between them.
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I have Grand Slams to win, I have people to inspire, and that's what I'm here for.
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Astros 10, Mariners 6 Jose Altuve and Yuli Gurriel hit grand slams as Houston defeated host Seattle.
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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga captured the silver by pairing with Michael Llodra, winner of three doubles Grand Slams.
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"It's a different mind-set than singles," said Mike Bryan, winner of 16 men's doubles Grand Slams.
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Djokovic joined Federer and Nadal as a part of a select group who have career Grand Slams.
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"I was always dreaming to being number one and to be in the grand slams," she said.
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Benneteau, too, doubted that he could have won any Grand Slams in the absence of the troika.
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Her brother, Hassan Ndayishimiye, was the first Burundian player to compete in junior Grand Slams in 2011.
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Coming into his match with Federer, he was 4-2 at Grand Slams against top-10 opponents.
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Wimbledon is the only one of the four grand slams that schedules play on only 13 days.
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"I'm the one that won those doubles Grand Slams, but it didn't look like it," she said.
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There are no plans to extend the trial to the Grand Slams or the men's tour ATP.
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Let's just leave the discounts, and keep calling them Grand Slams, and everyone can come away happy.
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It's not about like on average, the question is when you hit, are you hitting grand slams?
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We want to keep it, especially if it's helped us and if it's won us Grand Slams.
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It is particularly important to get the incentives right at grand slams, because the stakes are so high.
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Eight different players have won the nine Grand Slams since then with only Japan's Naomi Osaka winning two.
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And by the way, even when people don't hit grand slams, they still can have very successful businesses.
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Strawberry is one of five MLB players to hit two pinch-hit grand slams in the same season.
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Biggest weakness: Kyrgios has struggled to perform at Grand Slams, having never progressed beyond the quarter-finals stage.
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"I don't have a doubt that if I wanted to win Grand Slams, I would commit," he said.
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"I lost, I think, around 15 or even more Grand Slams in my career for injuries," Nadal said.
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She is back with her old coach Thomas Hogstedt and she has won grand slams with him before.
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"There is the most attention during Grand Slams, and more people come out than anywhere else," Osaka said.
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Having won so many Grand Slams and being No. 1 for so many years, she deserves a seeding.
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It took her five more Grand Slams over two years to win again — at the 1981 U.S. Open.
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"I think there is too much focus on the Grand Slams these days, which isn't fair," Federer said.
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For me last year, it definitely gave the confidence and this push to play well at the Grand Slams.
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"I think that obviously the Grand Slams have a right to do what they want to do," she said.
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After a year-long drought of Grand Slams, it took a return to Wimbledon for Serena to secure it.
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"It's definitely inspiration seeing her claim the trophy last year and winning two Grand Slams right after," she said.
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Biggest weakness: Lack of experience and a disappointing record at Grand Slams, where the expectation has weighed him down.
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"It's an amazing feeling, obviously, to be able to hold four Grand Slams at the same time," Djokovic said.
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"Next year it will finish, and I cannot play any more Grand Slams," Diatchenko said of her protected ranking.
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"If everything goes quite normal, we have to beat two players with 15 or more Grand Slams," Thiem said.
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" He added: "Anyone that's been watching the grand slams of curling, we've got European teams winning all the time.
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Graph the data points for total number of Grand Slams in terms of age of first Grand Slam win.
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For someone who has been already No. 1 and has won Grand Slams, she was just picking my brain.
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"These guys have more than 50 Grand Slams combined, and they are still constantly working to improve," he said.
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Thirty used to be the retiring age for tennis, but in recent years older players have won grand slams.
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Incredibly the evergreen Swiss has won 10 percent of the 200 grand slams staged since tennis turned professional in 1968.
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I'm still trying to compete and win Grand Slams and most of all do it while I have a daughter.
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"Some top players come out and play their best when it's most needed, which is grand slams," Djokovic told reporters.
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My freshman year, I had a game where I hit two grand slams in a game and had eight RBIs.
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"The conditions definitely didn't make it easy," said Williams, the London 2012 Olympic champion and winner of 22 Grand Slams.
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We only earn it in the Grand Slams and a few other tournaments, but men earn more than we do.
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They are all superstars in various fields — invention, movie-making, investing, Olympic gold medals, innovation, entrepreneurship and tennis grand slams.
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She won 12 Grand Slam women's doubles titles (two Career Grand Slams), along with four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles.
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The Bryan brothers won Olympic gold at the London 2012 Games and own 112 titles together, including 16 grand slams.
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"I have some figuring out to do, what happens to me in deciding moments in grand slams," he told reporters.
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"I'm trying to look at social media as little as possible during Grand Slams, during big tournaments," Zverev told reporters.
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"Any of the three of us would like to have more Grand Slams in the end," he said, including Djokovic.
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The Japanese top seed struck 52 winners as she stretched her winning run in the Grand Slams to 16 matches.
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Over the years, Mr. Watson has traveled to 15 states to hunt and has logged five grand slams, he said.
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Women get equal prize-money at the Grand Slams but often earn less than their male counterparts at other tournaments.
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Just one year after winning three of four grand slams in 2015, she lost finals in the Australian and French Opens.
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His quality-adjusted haul is equivalent to 173 grand slams, whereas Mr Sampras's 14 titles are revised down to only 11.7.
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Djokovic was on a roll until Cincinnati, having won three titles, including two Grand Slams, on three different surfaces this year.
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She looks like she will have a great future and I can't wait for to see her in more grand slams.
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The truly coveted record is by Margaret Court, who won about half of her 24 Grand Slams during the amateur era.
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Williams, 34, the winner of 21 Grand Slams in her career, says she used to compare herself to the slimmer players.
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"The more opportunities I get to be in the latter stages of Grand Slams, the more experience I gain," she said.
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He has made the finals in 19 of the last 25 Grand Slams, and will face Stan Wawrinka in Sunday's final.
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But outside Grand Slams, ATP and WTA tournaments use no-ad scoring and super tiebreakers for men's and women's doubles matches.
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"That's why I came back, to try to have great results in the grand slams and the big tournaments," she said.
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Jose Altuve and Yuli Gurriel hit grand slams as the Houston Astros defeated the host Seattle Mariners 43-24 Friday night.
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Friday's showdown will be the 40th meeting between the duo with Nadal leading 24-15 and 10-3 in Grand Slams.
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"Grand Slams are at this stage of my career and life always the priority in terms of achievements," Djokovic told Reuters.
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Dylan Farrell is a senior at Cornell University who enjoys booking basement shows and eating Grand Slams at the local Denny's.
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He was the No. 1 player in the world from 1964 to 1970, winning 200 singles titles and 11 Grand Slams.
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But the tennis itself was only part of the challenge, as Futures tournaments are a world apart from the Grand Slams.
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Rod Laver was the only player to achieve the feat when he won all four Grand Slams in 1962 and 1969.
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His on-court coaching visits, which are allowed at WTA Tour events but not at Grand Slams tournaments, often grow tense.
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"Any defeat is difficult in the Grand Slams, especially the one that, you know, came from months of buildup," he said.
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Including her doubles titles, Gibson won 11 grand slams, more than Arthur Ashe, who has a whole stadium named after him.
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Royals 211, Astros 2 Ryan O'Hearn and Whit Merrifield belted their first career grand slams, and Kansas City bashed host Houston.
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I know, of all the grand slams Wimbledon seems like the least exciting dress-wise, thanks to its all-white requirement.
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Between them, those five have won 52 of the past 57 grand slams, leaving little room for anyone else to prosper.
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He'd won three consecutive grand slams, and the title at Roland Garros was the only one missing from his prestigious trophy case.
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Grand Slams are the tournaments where I want to play my best, and hopefully get a chance to fight for the title.
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Williams defeated Angelique Kerber (7-5, 6-3) and is now the second woman in history to have won 22 grand slams.
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Gonzalez is tied with Dante Bichette and Andres Galarraga for the second-most grand slams in franchise history behind Todd Helton (seven).
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After losing in the first round at all five Grand Slams previously, she has won four matches at the year's first major.
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Starting in January 299, she would go a two-year tear, winning seven Grand Slams, with a match record of 210-25.
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"I guess having a day in between play is fine, because that's what happens in the Grand Slams of tennis," McIlroy said.
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She will return to action in time to contest three of the four grand slams next year, missing only the Australian Open.
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For her part, Serena has made no hints about retiring any time soon, and she seems driven to win more Grand Slams.
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Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic have won the last 11 Grand Slams between them and an incredible 19 since 2003.
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Steve Pearce, Toronto: Became one of just three players in history to hit two walk-off grand slams in the same season.
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"Turning pro was the best thing I ever did," Laver said when asked how many other Grand Slams he might have won.
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On June 21980, 19713, Robinson hit two consecutive grand slams for the Orioles against the second Washington Senators franchise at RFK Stadium.
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Federer, 37, expressed sympathy for the younger generation of tennis players, saying that their successes outside the Grand Slams were being overlooked.
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This won't change until she maybe one day wakes up and is not motivated to win grand slams, but for now she is.
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The Japanese world number one has only won three titles but arrives in Paris having won the last two Grand Slams on offer.
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MLB had an ongoing "Papa Slam" promotion with the pizza chain, in which people received discounts on pizza when players hit grand slams.
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He played in 2653 grand slams before finally making it to a semi-final, and he's only 2265-22014 against the Big Four.
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The 14th seed has now emerged as a genuine contender, having shown the composure and ruthlessness required for success at the Grand Slams.
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Proceeds from fines at the grand slams go to the Grand Slam Development Fund, which helps support the International Tennis Federation tournament program.
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The loss snapped Osaka's 63-match winning streak in Grand Slams after she won the 2018 U.S. Open and this year's Australian Open.
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Was named 2016 WTA "Newcomer of the Year" after making third-round appearances at three Grand Slams and reaching her first WTA final.
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It was a shock, then, in 1984, when Borg decided to retire at just 26, after winning 11 grand slams, citing mental burnout.
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It has happened twice for the men since 1922, the first year when both men and women competed for the four Grand Slams.
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I have big goals, I want to win Grand Slams and if I do that I can aim to be world number one.
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Others will hope for a long-awaited breakthrough from the next generation, after Federer, Nadal and Djokovic hogged all the Grand Slams last year.
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Since reaching the last 16 here in 2010, Venus has made it to at least the quarter-finals at the three other grand slams.
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Held at London's O2 Arena, it is the most prestigious tournament outside of the Grand Slams, usually featuring the year's top eight men's players.
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Indeed, despite her tender age, Osaka, whose mother is Japanese and father Haitian, has reached the third round in each of the Grand Slams.
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Fast forward 12 months and he could be on the verge of holding all four Grand Slams for the second time in his career.
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But while the infrastructure of the world's four Grand Slams gets constantly upgraded, the furniture at the top of men's tennis remains bolted down.
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It gave the Mariners grand slams in back-to-back games — Taylor Motter hit one against his former team in the first inning Friday.
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"It's really a shame after doing all that, traveling the long road I did, not to finish off the four Grand Slams," Federer said.
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But the year was largely deflating, as he was bundled out early from the grand slams while battling hip problems through most of them.
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Apple won't continue to hit product "grand slams," but that doesn't mean the company won't still do well, Citi analyst Jim Suva said Friday.
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Earlier today, Raymond Moore—the CEO of Indian Wells, the biggest tennis tournament in the world besides the Grand Slams—resigned with immediate effect.
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"We look forward to welcoming her and again go on that journey of breaking the all-time record for the most number of Grand Slams."
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Women's sports definitely do well on the international stage: witness the Olympics, the tennis Grand Slams, the record-breaking ratings for the Women's World Cup.
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Halep was upset by lower-ranked opponents in each of the grand slams and her best result was making the semi-finals at Flushing Meadows.
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While Cabal and Farah won two Grand Slams this year, they have been less dominant in tournaments with no-ad scoring (like the ATP Finals).
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Encarnacion's slam in 93th lifts Indians past Angels CLEVELAND — The game had a little bit of everything, including two grand slams — by the same team.
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Combined events, including the Grand Slams, are among tennis's greatest strengths going forward, with women's sports set to take on greater importance and market share.
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Federer was asked very late on Thursday night whether he believed the Grand Slams were devoting a sufficient percentage of their revenue to prize money.
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"To say only the Grand Slams should be targeted is just not right," Richard Lewis, the chief executive of Wimbledon, said in a recent interview.
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He is once again the favorite to win this year's French Open, the only one of professional tennis' four grand slams played on clay courts.
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The next two Grand Slams, the French Open and Wimbledon, have yet to decide on wild cards for Sharapova, a past winner of both tournaments.
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While Federer has gone seven straight Grand Slams without adding to his collection, the Swiss said in Melbourne he still thinks he can win more.
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Strycova has only been past the third round once before in 24 Grand Slams, and that was when she reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in 2014.
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Over the span of his 21-year-career, Andre Agassi, 45, won eight Grand Slams and became one of the most popular athletes of his generation.
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The Bad News -- The French Open -- where the whole catsuit drama went down -- could still ban it because the rule change doesn't apply to Grand Slams.
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No player in the professional era has ever lost more finals at any one of the four grand slams and gone on to win that event.
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Murray has won 45 titles, including three Grand Slams, finished 2016 as world number one and is the only man to retain the Olympic singles gold.
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You need to win two sets to triumph in most matches—except in the men's singles at the four "grand slams", which are best-of-five.
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Grand Slams can often seem a surprise-free procession as the seeds muscle through the opening rounds before the serious business starts in the second week.
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He played only 12 matches in 2018, missing three Grand Slams with a knee injury, which led to his singles ranking plummeting from 15 to 262.
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It will include a wooden racket that once belonged to the founder and tennis legend René Lacoste, who won 10 grand slams from 1925 to 1929.
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Djokovic dominated 2015, winning three of the year's four grand slams, and already looks in the groove in the build-up to this month's Australian Open.
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Williams has not won the U.S. Open since 2014, but she has won five Grand Slams since then, including Wimbledon and the Australian Open twice each.
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Dear readers, She has won 23 Grand Slams — more than anyone in history — and is chasing the all-time women's record of nine Wimbledon singles titles.
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The Ukrainian has not fared well at grand slams and will be eager to get past the third round at Melbourne Park for the first time.
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Since, she's collected four more Grand Slams, been ranked the No. 1 player in the world and banked nearly $300 million in prize money and endorsements.
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Even players who like the idea of supporting the team often consider regular tour events and Grand Slams more important than participation in the Fed Cup.
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"I just feel like there has been a weight on me," Osaka told reporters after the Czech ended a 16-match win streak in the grand slams.
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"She's a great player who has won many Grand Slams, and I'm just going to go on court, enjoy the match, and show my best," Ostapenko added.
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Despite losing to Daniil Medvedev in the semi-final of the Cincinnati Masters, the Serbian tennis player won last four out of the five Grand Slams played.
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Nadal has complained for years that the ATP Finals, which is the most important tournament after the Grand Slams, should occasionally be played outdoors or on clay.
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The big-serving American also fired 64 aces, the third-most at Wimbledon, as he extended his winning streak against qualifiers at grand slams to 10 matches.
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Ultimately, the goal for us is like that of other countries, to get players into the top 100, play Grand Slams, build the profile of the sport.
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He also won Wimbledon for a second time in 2010 before claiming his first U.S. Open title, becoming the seventh man to win all four Grand Slams.
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The poor outside shooting can also be explained by how Golden State's offense pressures opponents into feeling like grand slams are the only option on every possession.
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The CEO of one of the biggest joint tennis tournaments outside the Grand Slams is receiving backlash after making sexist comments during a Sunday morning news conference.
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"Federer is infinite class, while Nadal is perseverance, sweat and also talent, otherwise you cannot win all the Grand Slams he achieved," the veteran shot-stopper said.
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The last time the Phillies had two grand slams in the same game came back on April 27, 2009 when Raul Ibanez and Ryan Howard each connected.
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Williams plans to return to the court in March, and has made it no secret that her eyes are still set on winning 25 Grand Slams titles.
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A fourth U.S. Open title would also give the 33-year-old Spaniard 19 Grand Slams moving him to within one of matching Federer's record of 193.
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He also won Wimbledon for a second time in 353 before claiming his first U.S. Open title, becoming the seventh man to win all four Grand Slams.
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Murray knows his third-seeded opponent in Friday's semi-final — the Briton's fourth in Paris and his 19th in grand slams — may well present a tougher challenge.
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Australian Barty will face big-serving American Madison Keys who maintained her consistency in Grand Slams with a 6-2 6-4 defeat of Czech Katerina Siniakova.
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"For me it's much sweeter to get to the semifinal here than in probably other Grand Slams because I didn't expect it from my side," Görges said.
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Of the 15 first-round opponents Zhang had drawn in Grand Slams, 10 were ranked inside the top 20 and only two were ranked outside the top 50.
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Zverev is now coached by Ivan Lendl, who helped Andy Murray break his long drought at Grand Slams, and has already credited him for helping raise his game.
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I think especially this space is one where I call it, to use a baseball analogy, instead of looking for only grand slams, what are the good doubles?
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Although women have been paid equal prize money at all four grand slams since 2007, they still lag behind the men on their own year-round tennis circuit.
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Fognini was playing the day after being handed a suspended ban from two grand slams and $24,000 fine for verbally abusing a female umpire at the U.S. Open.
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"We've been through a lot of talks with the Grand Slams in the last three years, and the increases have been significant and we're very grateful," Stakhovsky added.
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Her defeat removes one of the major challengers to Williams's bid the equal Steffi Graf's Open era record of 22 grand slams by lifting the trophy next Saturday.
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Nadal is the favorite to win the tournament and secure his 21990th major, which would move the Spaniard to just one behind Federer's record of 227 Grand Slams.
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Murray, like Dimitrov and other top players, used this time to work hard physically to ready himself for the best-of-five-sets format of the Grand Slams.
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Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka, each with three Grand Slams, have been impressive co-stars while Andy Roddick, Marin Cilic and Juan Martin del Potro have briefly shone.
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"I think when people will see her regularly in the Grand Slams, they are really going to gravitate to her because her game is really atypical," Dehaes said.
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This was only the second time that Konta had been ranked high enough to even play at Miami, a premier mandatory event one step below the Grand Slams.
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With few ranking points to defend, Barty is well-positioned to secure direct entry to the year's remaining grand slams - a refreshing change from the grind of qualifying.
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I think Grand Slams have been more equal in terms of scheduling, which is not the case obviously at this year's French Open, which was unacceptable, I believe.
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Not trying to sound cocky or anything, but I've always said that I've always been working hard physically, I'm always trying to improve the performance at the grand slams.
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His seasons in 2011 and 2015, in which he won three of the four grand slams and sustained winning percentages above 90%, are among the greatest recorded by anyone.
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Pearce is the third player in major league history with two game-ending grand slams in the same season, joining Cy Williams in 1926 and Jim Presley in 1986.
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Ninth seed Isner has taken 41 Grand Slams to reach his first semi-final — one less than compatriot Sam Querrey who reached the milestone a year ago at Wimbledon.
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"Venus is a very capable claycourt player, she's won grand slams before and the mental part of the game is going to be very important this year," Evert said.
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Underlining the fickle nature of grand slams, Nadal's first-round slayer and compatriot Fernando Verdasco exited after a hard-fought four-set loss to pint-sized Israeli Dudi Sela.
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But ironically, on a difficulty-adjusted basis, the easiest to achieve of Mr Nadal's major titles still nudged his career resume in grand slams just ahead of Mr Federer's.
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It hasn't touched the network's most valuable sports assets, which include "Monday Night Football," NBA games, prime time college football, several tennis and golf grand slams and so on.
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"If you take into consideration the locations of all four grand slams, I think Paris has the most challenging position in terms of dealing with residents around," he said.
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Top seed Novak Djokovic, who made a spectacular return to form last year and won the last two Grand Slams, takes on American Mitchell Krueger in the evening session.
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As one of the best tennis players in the world, with multiple Grand Slams to her name, she's been dominating the game for decades – and looking good doing it.
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He has won two grand slams (including Wimbledon in 2013) as well as an Olympic gold medal, and he regularly makes at least the final four in big tournaments.
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"It used to be that fans would just stumble upon our matches, but now they are seeking doubles matches at the ATP tournaments and the Grand Slams," he said.
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Outside the Grand Slams, doubles matches feature no-ad scoring — at deuce, the next point decides the game — and a 10-point super tiebreaker instead of a third set.
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What to know: The Australian great had one of the greatest runs in the history of tennis, amassing 16 grand slams in the decade, including 12 from 1960-1965.
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One thing to know: Possibly the most dominant player the tennis world has ever seen, Serena Williams has won 23 Grand Slams as a singles player and 39 overall.
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After losing in the first round of the 1981 U.S. Open, Richards began aiding the young star, eventually coaching her to victories at each of the four Grand Slams.
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Today, as Naomi arrives at top tournaments and Grand Slams with a sizable entourage, Mari usually travels alone to low-level satellite events, often in small towns and cities.
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The last time seven different players won seven straight Grand Slams was 2011 through 2012: Kim Clijsters, Li Na, Petra Kvitova, Sam Stosur, Victoria Azarenka, Maria Sharapova and Williams.
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He is the only singles player to have completed two Grand Slams — winning all four major tournaments in the same calendar year (he did it in 1962 and 1969).
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The superbly conditioned Sakkari, who last year reached the third round of three Grand Slams, became the highest-ranked Greek woman in history when she cracked the top 40.
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Following disappointing performances at the remaining Grand Slams, Osaka regained some form towards the end of last season, picking up titles at the Pan Pacific Open and China Open.
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Not many players have reached the quarterfinals of all four Grand Slams in both singles and doubles, but Pavlyuchenkova, a 25-year-old Russian, has built an enviable résumé.
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After Court insisted that she be feted on the occasion of the 2543th anniversary of winning all four Grand Slams in 1970, she will be honored throughout this tournament.
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In another five-setter, Nadal won again, 7-26, 23-25, 27-26 (21), 43-24, 24-22002, preventing Federer from equaling Pete Sampras's record of 14 Grand Slams.
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The old format originally had home and away ties, usually played between February and November, preventing higher-ranked players competing at Grand Slams and ATP tournaments from taking part.
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Compared to Nadal and Murray, who have racked up years of beatdowns by Djokovic at the hardcourt Grand Slams, Thiem comes into the match relatively free of scar tissue.
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"But you have to win tournaments like this, or do well in tournaments like this, in order to do well in Grand Slams," she said of being in Auckland.
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Djokovic, bidding to hold all four Grand Slams simultaneously for the second time in his career, had no such dramas as he followed Osaka on to Court Suzanne Lenglen.
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He's a sportsman who won all four Grand Slams in the same year that the Soviet Union started shipping nuclear missiles to an island a few hundred miles from America.
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The only thing lacking from the German's list of honors is success at the grand slams, having only made it to the last 16 just once, at Wimbledon last summer.
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It was his fourth consecutive championship, and a record 28th overall, in the Masters 1000, a series of nine tournaments considered the most prestigious other than the four grand slams.
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"I want to win Grand Slams," she told the press after a heartbreakingly close loss to two-time champion Petra Kvitova in the third round of Wimbledon back in 2014.
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Grand Slams count for twice as much as the next tier of events, the Masters series, and winning a competition is worth two-thirds more than losing in the final.
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Tiebreaks will be employed at 12-5003 in the deciding sets of all matches for the first time this year — meaning all four Grand Slams have different deciding set formats.
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He was the first man since Rod Laver to hold all four grand slams simultaneously and was halfway to the calendar-year slam that Australian great Laver achieved in 1969.
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Had Federer converted one of the two match points that came his way at 8-7 in the fifth set he would have moved six Grand Slams clear of Djokovic.
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"Well, numbers are all relative, it's really a nice accomplishment but it doesn't win me any more Grand Slams," Sharapova said courtside as the clock ticked past 1:00 a.m.
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Wawrinka, the 2014 champion, is also coming back from knee surgery and a back injury in the second half of 2018, but typically flies under the radar through Grand Slams.
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I used to draw up my own knockout brackets, to bring additional cups to the four (I think it was only four, the grand slams) that the game offered. Nerd.
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Giorgi, whose mother sews all of her tennis outfits, has reached the second week of Grand Slams twice before, at Wimbledon in 2012 and the United States Open in 2013.
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The celebrations are expected to become a regular thing for Andreescu, who pundits predict will soon climb to number one in the world rankings and win many more Grand Slams.
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Zhu, who exited the first three Grand Slams of the year in the first round, converted two of three break point opportunities but struggled to cause problems for her opponent.
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The clock, allowing players 20 seconds between points as per the rules at grand slams, was first used on Sunday but American junior Brandon Holt said he barely noticed it.
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Prime slots on the major show courts at the biggest tournaments and Grand Slams attract greater exposure and Azarenka said this could be a reason why women players earn less.
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Yet the Serb also brings a wiser, harder edge after coming through a period of personal and physical anguish, and breaking a two-year drought at the Grand Slams last year.
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Admitting that, at 28, she was now one of the "older statespersons" of the women's tour, Ivanovic said it was getting tougher to get through the early rounds of grand slams.
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But the rain delays that have ravaged the tournament meant the Serbian played four days in succession up to Friday and denied him the usual rest days associated with grand slams.
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Media reports said the 30-year-old Serb, who is president of the Players' Council, was pushing for a revolt over the way revenues from the four grand slams were distributed.
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He is arguably the most talented player of his generation, and has the potential to win many grand slams once Mr Djokovic and Andy Murray, who are both approaching 30, retire.
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Hoping to avenge for her stunning loss to the German in January's Australian Open, Serena also had another goal in mind: tying Steffi Graf's modern-era record of 22 Grand Slams.
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Running the numbers also forces us to recognise just how hard Mr Wawrinka has needed to work to break the stranglehold his most fearsome peers have held at the grand slams.
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Friday will mark the 30th time that Serena and Venus have competed against each other in their careers, and the 16th time that they have played each other at Grand Slams.
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The victory, which marks Serena's seventh Australian Open title, puts the younger of the two Williams sisters in sole possession of the all–time Open Era record for career Grand Slams.
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Predicting the outcome of women's Grand Slams has been a fool's game since Serena Williams earned her 23rd title at the 2017 Australian Open before breaking off to have a baby.
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It is a feat that is so difficult that it has not been achieved by a man since Australian Rod Laver won the second of his calendar Grand Slams in 29.
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Several of his tallies at the grand slams rank among the top ten in the modern era, including his 11 finals, 21 semi-finals, 30 quarter-finals, and 189 match wins.
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Casual tennis fans have most likely heard of Mike and Bob Bryan, the 2500-year-old twins who have won 2500 Grand Slams together and four of these year-end championships.
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She's won 18 Grand Slams [singles titles], she's one of the most successful female tennis players in the history of the game, and there's no one that knows what she does.
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If you look at it from a foreigner's point of view, it's this massive event which I think surpasses things like the Grand Slams in tennis and the Champions League final.
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Should Federer win he would join Novak Djokovic and Roy Emerson with the most Australian Open titles and would equal Rod Laver's record of claiming four grand slams after turning 30.
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Nadal now sits just one title away from Roger Federer's record men's tally of 20 grand slams, but the Spaniard says he's not thinking about chasing down the Swiss star's tally.
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Initially it appeared the eagerly-anticipated clash between two dynamic shotmakers, who are expected to be battling for grand slams in the near future, would live up to the pre-match billing.
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Despite all being written off as fading forces at various times in the past few years, last year's Grand Slams were shared out between Federer, Nadal and Djokovic — all in their 30s.
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A day after celebrating his 13th birthday, Federer played the aggressive game that has propelled him to five titles, including two grand slams, this year, attacking the net and rocketing second serves.
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"After them taking off most of last year to come back, winning all four grand slams was quite an achievement, regardless of how good they are," said Anderson, who is also 31.
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But Serbian Djokovic is yet to drop a set and has found some ominous form as he attempts to hold all four Grand Slams simultaneously for the second time in his career.
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In recent years, the Grand Slams have increased the share of prize money paid to players who lose in the early rounds, making it easier to make a living by playing honestly.
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"Tennis players never really thought about winning the Olympics, you grew up thinking about winning grand slams but now, with tennis in the Olympics, of course you think about it," Williams said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Victoria Azarenka once was a fixture in the business end of Grand Slams and but for great rival Serena Williams would have more than two Australian Opens in her collection.
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In the case of the big three, now aged 37, 33 and 32 respectively, it could be argued they have already exhausted the narrative, claiming 53 Grand Slams between them since 193.
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After all, they have won the last 10 Grand Slams on offer and only Andy Murray (twice) has managed to keep their hands off of it since Lleyton Hewitt won in 2002.
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Tournament organizers are also hoping that a sweeping number of changes will help the prestigious clay event to better compete with the other Grand Slams, with increased prize money and better technology.
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Among those playing in the Wimbledon invitational, she was by far the most dominant during her career, winning 23 Grand Slams in singles, 26 in women's doubles, and 353 in mixed doubles.
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Only three of her 23 Grand Slams singles titles have come at Roland Garros, and not one of those three came when she had not played a clay-court tournament in preparation.
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Three years ago Djokovic became the first man since Australian great Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four Grand Slams simultaneously when he beat Andy Murray to win the French Open.
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He beat Federer and Djokovic on his way to the season-ending ATP Finals title in 2.823 but had never made it past the last-eight stage at the Grand Slams before.
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Pavlyuchenkova, a quarter-finalist at all four Grand Slams, hastened her exit with eight double-faults, including one on break point which gifted Muguruza a 4-2 lead in the second set.
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Perhaps the hardest man to score on in tennis, Djokovic has won eight of the last 20 grand slams, and his age will give him a chance to break Federer's slams record.
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The competition, named after 77-year-old Australian Laver, the only player to win two calendar year grand slams among 11 major titles in all, will be annual, except in Olympic years.
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The Serb, who has won the last two Grand Slams following a spectacular return to form last year, has continued to quell all challengers in his path in the season's first major.
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But for all her success, she had struggled in the majors; after winning Wimbledon for the second time in 2014, Kvitova didn't advance to the semifinals in her next 16 Grand Slams.
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Before her breakthrough against Serena Williams last year in Flushing Meadows, Osaka lost in the third round of Grand Slams seven times and got as far as the fourth round only once.
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"But for sure she's the best player in the world because she won so many Grand Slams," Halep added in reference to Williams, who is a 33-time Grand Slam singles champion.
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Pliskova, the only player seeded in the top 20 to make the second week at the last three Grand Slams, could face the winner of the Halep-Williams match in the quarterfinals.
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Promising more information about matches at Grand Slams and the ATP and WTA Tours, he suggested I chip in some money so we could buy knowledge of the upper floors of the operations.
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Djokovic, 32, has won four of the last five Grand Slams and is two shy of Rafa Nadal on the all-time list and four away from matching Federer's record tally of 20.
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On Monte Carlo's clay in April, the Argentine reached his first quarter-final at the Masters level, the rung just below tennis's grand slams, before falling in a tight match against Rafael Nadal.
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With Djokovic awaiting in the final it would have still been a tall order for Nadal to claim his third Wimbledon crown and move to 19 Grand Slams in total — one behind Federer.
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The top eight women and doubles pairings compete in the tournament, which has run in various guises since 1972 but has always sat well below the four grand slams in terms of prestige.
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Titled Serena Match Point, the 8-bit game is available on ESPN's Snapchat Discover channel, and features 22 levels — one for each of the record-tying 22 Grand Slams that Williams has won.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Two days of rain delays at Roland Garros have had tennis fans huddled under umbrellas musing about when the French Open, like the other three grand slams, will have a roof.
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Titles on the WTA Tour slowed to a trickle and a spate of early losses in the grand slams saw her ranking slide down to a lowly 74th in the summer of 2016.
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The Indians hit two grand slams in a game for the first time since Manny Ramirez and Dave Roberts did it in an 18-23 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Sept.
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Murray and Kerber were playing their first grand slams as top seeds and both looked all but powerless to deal with the style of game they were confronted with from across the net.
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"You look at players who came on to the scene when they were 15, (Steffi) Graf, (Martina) Navratilova etc, and they are women who went on to win multiple Grand Slams," he said.
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"She's world number two after this, only one more step to be number one... she's going to win many more grand slams," 1994 Wimbledon champion Conchita Martinez said of the new title-holder.
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"When she lost to Steffi Graf at Wimbledon in 1993, I was crying," said Jan Kodes, a fellow Czech tennis player who won three Grand Slams — including one Wimbledon title — in the 1970s.
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The tournament, which in 1973 became the first of the Grand Slams to offer equal prize money to men and women, has been nimbly patching cracks in its proud foundation of gender equality.
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The rule for women, specific to the Grand Slams and not tour events, was not known to many female players, many of whom freely practice wearing sports bras as tops on hot days.
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"The funnest week of my career so far, better than the Grand Slams," said Kyrgios, who for all his evident talent has yet to get past the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament.
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Kerber's win bookended a sequence of six different women winning the Grand Slams that followed her U.S. Open victory in 2016 — all of whom remain in contention for this year's U.S. Open title.
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Her victory over Russian teenager Potapova to kickstart her 19th campaign at Melbourne Park was no great surprise given she has now lost only once in 74 first-round matches at Grand Slams.
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"I think Muguruza is the clear favorite to win, of course, because of her experience at the Grand Slams," Henin, who won the 2004 title at Melbourne Park, told Reuters in an interview.
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The victory on Friday was the 21st straight win for Djokovic at Grand Slams against left-handed players since the 32-year-old Serb lost to Nadal in the 2014 Roland Garros final.
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Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal, with a total of 39 Grand Slams between them, gave Fognini plenty of advice during breaks in play as the second set went with serve until the tiebreak.
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The reports also suggested he had demanded officials from the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which runs the men's Tour but not the grand slams, and Tennis Australia leave a players' meeting on Friday.
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"People don't realize how much players rely on sound to judge the speed and where on the racket your opponent hit the ball," said Bethanie Mattek-Sands, winner of five women's doubles Grand Slams.
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Osaka, who has enjoyed a meteoric rise and won the last two grand slams to reach number one in the world, has career earnings of $10.8 million and has made millions more in endorsements.
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Comments made by French player Julien Benneteau to a radio station suggesting Federer is given preferential treatment by tournament organizers, particular in Grand Slams, also threatened to disturb his week at the O2 Arena.
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Missed the 13 Australian Open with injury then embarked on an incredible run that included winning five of the next six grand slams while losing in the semi-finals of the 2003 French open.
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"But over the last seven, eight years of my career I always wanted to perform my best and play my best tennis at the grand slams and that's still the case now," he said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The raw material has never been in doubt but Germany's Alexander Zverev now has the mentality to start punching his weight in the grand slams, according to two former French Open champions.
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"The record that I managed to break today, yes, is one of the better ones, because, obviously, as a professional tennis player, you always aim to play your best in Grand Slams," Djokovic said.
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It made Federer the first player ever to win five titles at three different grand slams and at 35, the oldest grand slam winner since Ken Rosewall won the 1972 Australian Open at 37.
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S.) 6-43 6-0 Brisbane: Semi-final loss to Alize Cornet (France) 4-1 Retired 4-KRISTINA MLADENOVIC (record at WTA events and grand slams in 2017) French Open: Beat Shelby Rogers (U.
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"He's a player who has enormous talent, could be winning grand slams or fighting for the top positions of the ranking, but there is a reason why he is where he is," Nadal said.
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Svitolina, who trains with Monfils, has now made it to the semi-finals of the last two Grand Slams and credits the Frenchman for improving her ability to handle big shots and bigger expectations.
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Following her 2017 Wimbledon triumph, the second of her two major titles, Muguruza reached the semi-finals at the 2018 French Open but has not had a deep run at the Grand Slams since.
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Grand Slams, particularly the Australian Open, have shifted more prize money to the earlier rounds of the tournaments, so even a first-round loss in qualifying can be one of a player's biggest paydays.
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Rafael Nadal y Roger Federer, los dos tenistas con más Grand Slams individuales, tendrán mañana su primer cara a cara desde octubre de 2017 para determinar quién avanza a la final de Roland Garros.
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The 29-year-old Sharapova, who can return from April 26 and will be able to play in three of the year's four grand slams, said she could not wait to get back on court.
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It will be the 27-year-old Radwanska's fifth trip to the fourth round at the U.S. Open but she has failed to advance beyond that stage in New York, unlike the other grand slams.
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At 35 years of age Serena Williams, who won her 23rd major title in Melbourne on January 28th, is two years older than Ms Clijsters, and has won eight grand slams since the Belgian retired.
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The 18-year-old continued a remarkable year with 7-5 6-2 defeat of the floppy-haired Greek who most believe is the most likely of the new generation to start winning Grand Slams.
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Chinese qualifier Zhang, on a fairytale run after snapping her streak of 43 first-round exits at grand slams, overhauled a hobbling Madison Keys 3-6 6-3 6-3 in the day's late match.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Stan Wawrinka's woeful run at recent Grand Slams continued on Thursday when the Swiss lost 7-1333(7) 6-3 7-6(6) in the Wimbledon second round against Italian journeyman Thomas Fabbiano.
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However, it added that while there was no widespread problem at the top of professional tennis, it had "evidence of some issues" at Grand Slams and Tours that could dent the integrity of the sport.
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Kyrgios was jeered by the home crowd last year when he lost a second-round match from two sets up against Italian Andreas Seppi and he won only two matches in grand slams in 2017.
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He has won two Olympic tennis singles titles, three Grand Slams, and was the winner of the 2016 ATP World Tour Finals – making him the No. 1 tennis player in the world at the time.
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The Croatian would become only the 11th man in the Open era to reach the final of all four Grand Slams if he progresses through to the last two of this year's Coupe des Mousquetaires.
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The only previous pinch-hit grand slams in the majors this season had been hit by San Diego's Hunter Renfroe against the Los Angeles Dodgers and ex-Giant Hunter Pence, now with Texas, at Pittsburgh.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Rafael Nadal took sole ownership of one record when he claimed a 12th French Open title on Sunday but says matching Roger Federer's haul of 153 Grand Slams will not become an obsession.
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The wrist injury forced him to withdraw from last year's French Open and miss Wimbledon, meaning he failed to reach the quarter-finals of any of the grand slams for the first time since 2004.
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"I went through everybody I thought was relevant, that won Grand Slams and were good young," he said on Monday night with daylight fading but the All England Club still abuzz after his daughter's upset.
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Eso incluye a la excampeona venezolana-española Garbiñe Muguruza y al suizo Roger Federer, quien habló con The New York Times sobre sus veinte años en Grand Slams y si planea retirarse pronto del tenis.
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"I won three Grand Slams in my career, and I know what it takes to do it," said Wawrinka, who was seeded 23rd and is ranked only 30th, territory unfamiliar to him since April 2008.
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Mats Wilander, el campeón australiano de siete Grand Slams y que estaba en el centro porque es comentarista para Eurosport TV, describió las sesiones de entrenamiento del español como una manera de explorar sus límites.
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Murray, who in 2013 beat Djokovic to became the first British man to win Wimbledon since 1936, has finished runner-up to the Serbian in both of this year's grand slams in France and Australia.
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Multiple records and 18 more grand slams have followed but Nadal, who once again dedicated his victory the his family and support team, remained as humble as ever as he reflected on his latest triumph.
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"The WTA Finals and grand slams are two different things but also two of the biggest things of the year," added Cibulkova, who was beaten by Li Na in the Australian Open final two years ago.
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Rick's take: The WTA has 54 events globally, not including the four Grand Slams; this latest announcement is testament to the WTA's Steve Simon and his leadership skills amid ever-growing global interest in women's sports.
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Having reached the final in consecutive Grand Slams, Osaka meets double Wimbledon champion Kvitova for the first time in her career in what is now a face-off for the number one ranking in women's tennis.
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The world number 97 had failed to win a match in his two previous main draw appearances at grand slams or even string together more than two wins at Tour-level before arriving at Melbourne Park.
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After his career dropped into a pattern over the last few years—losses to the likes of Djokovic leading to defeats at the hands of lesser-knowns—Federer missed two grand slams last season with injury.
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There was little he could do, however, as Tsitsipas raised his game once more, showing a composure and ruthlessness that have him marked for success at the Grand Slams as he raced away to seal victory.
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"We have a lot of equal play on the main courts in the other three Grand Slams," Venus Williams said after her three-set victory over Alexandra Dulgheru in the first match on No. 1 Court.
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But my point is that there are a lot of players that get to the round of 16 in Grand Slams, and none of them have had the hype that Gauff has gotten in recent months.
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He engineered a nine-year, $12 billion deal with the N.B.A. and a $7.3 billion deal for the college football playoffs, among many other major events, including all four tennis Grand Slams and golf's Masters tournament.
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Grand Slams are such tough tournaments because they go on for two weeks, you need to be consistent and strong physically, it's out of five sets, and you can't lose your tennis game, which sometimes happens.
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"We're going to do one thing: If he's not playing well in Grand Slams in the next two years, you can come back to me and tell me 'You don't know anything about tennis,'" Nadal said.
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The ranking system itself was pilloried and she was criticized for playing too many tournaments that affected her play at Grand Slams, while her tenure also coincided with serious injuries to all-time great Serena Williams.
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While she wasn't on the top of her game, Williams treated fans to flashes of greatness, blitzing Andreescu and an array of aces, forehands, and power tennis that helped Williams win her 219 earlier Grand Slams.
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Murray, who had a hip resurfacing operation in February, having announced his probable retirement from the sport, has won 45 singles titles, including three Grand Slams, but the Scot is a relative novice in the doubles tournaments.
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The four grand slams, which operate independently of the tours, have demanded a quicker turnaround of 22018 seconds after a point is completed, although this year's U.S. Open will relax the rule to the tour-standard 22017.
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The triumph made Andreescu, 18, the youngest Indian Wells champion since Serena Williams in 1999 and the first wildcard to take home the title from one of the biggest tennis tournaments outside of the four Grand Slams.
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With the other half of the draw being contested by Britain's Johanna Konta and 19-year-old Marketa Vondrousova, Roland Garros is guaranteed to provide a ninth different Grand Slam champion in the last 10 Grand Slams.
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"A review of your historical record of misconduct at Grand Slams, never mind elsewhere, provides little justification for an adjustment," board director Bill Babcock wrote in the decision letter that was published by the New York Times.
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After Mr Murray won Wimbledon in July, we argued that his consistency in Grand Slams, in which he has reached 22008 finals, might have made him as successful as Boris Becker or John McEnroe in another era.
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While Federer has dominated on grass and hardcourts in assembling his 20 Grand Slams, and Nadal has racked up an astonishing 11 French Open championships among his 17, Djokovic is arguably showing the greatest flexibility across surfaces.
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Players above 26 metres (2136 foot 221) served at least one ace for every 10 serves, according to the ITF's most recent State of the Game data obtained from the Fed Cup, Davis Cup and Grand Slams.
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The 29-year-old, who was aiming to become the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to win all four grand slams in a year, suffered a third-round loss to American Sam Querrey at Wimbledon.
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World number 43 Sakkari, who has now reached the third round at all four Grand Slams, started aggressively but could not match Barty's consistency or shotmaking with the Australian hitting 24 winners against nine from her opponent.
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Laver, who defeated Gimeno by 6-3, 6-4 in the other semifinal, had not been back to the All England Club since winning Wimbledon in 1962, when he completed the first of his two Grand Slams.
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More elite women's singles players compete in doubles because their best-of-three-sets singles format is less prohibitive to adding a second event than the best-of-five format men play in singles at Grand Slams.
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"You see women who have won Grand Slams just hitting hard off both sides without really trying to hit slice or volleys and sometimes not even running all that fast," said Jean-Christophe Faurel, Gauff's new coach.
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Medvedev, 23, arrived in Melbourne after a 2019 season featuring four titles and a Tour-leading 59 match wins and came into Monday's contest against Wawrinka having won both career meetings at Grand Slams in four sets.
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Women players are already allowed to summon their coaches during changeover once per set, apart from at Grand Slams, and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) will trial a new system allowing coaches to interact from the stands.
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The world number one's dominance has seen pundits line up to declare the end of the 'Big Four' — suggesting Federer, Rafa Nadal and Andy Murray are unable to compete on equal terms at grand slams with Djokovic.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Andy Murray has been the standout performer on clay for the past 12 months but world number one Novak Djokovic will be favorite to complete his set of grand slams at this year's French Open.
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Djokovic, who in May complained that "everyone holds me accountable for everything that happens in tennis at the moment", says his team would prefer it if he stepped away and just focused on winning more Grand Slams.
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Djokovic and American Williams, who fought off competition from footballer Carli Lloyd and Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce among others, were rewarded for dominating their sport last year, with each winning three of the four grand slams.
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But a five-month barren patch for a player who has won 12 grand slams, coinciding with a hot streak for one who has collected three, has not convinced the Elo algorithm that the two have traded places.
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"I've said from the beginning, I just didn't want to think about it until after Australia because... grand slams mean a lot to me," she told reporters ahead of next week's first round clash with Switzerland's Belinda Bencic.
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The golden medallion, the one he earned with twin brother Bob at London 2012, is his most prized souvenir from a trophy-laden career that has earned the 38-year-olds 112 titles together, including 16 grand slams.
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Fourth seed Alexander Zverev continues to fall short at Grand Slams as the German was knocked out by world number 138 Ernests Gulbis 7-53(2) 4-6 5-7 6-3 6-0 in the third round.
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Kyrgios, then 19, famously beat Nadal in the fourth round in 2014 but rather than go on to win the Grand Slams that were predicted at the time, the Australian maverick has made headlines more for his behavior.
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Dimitrov, who has slipped just outside the top 20 in the world after early exits in his last three Grand Slams appearances, would not go out without a fight, though, and took the third set in another tiebreak.
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Maybe she is saving the growl for the final against tenacious Romanian former world number one Simona Halep when, for the third time, she will stand one win away from matching Margaret Court's 24 Grand Slams singles titles.
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"Tennis has done an amazing job, I think, in addressing equal prize money, through the Grand Slams and through these major combined events — and Madrid was one of the leaders in that process, in stepping up," Simon said.
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Ranked No. 1 in the world — a spot he has seldom relinquished over the last four years — Djokovic has won four of the last seven grand slams, with his eye on a fifth at the 2019 U.S. Open.
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Williams is also the oldest woman to have played in a Grand Slam final and one of only two women (with Steffi Graff) to earn the Golden Slam — winning all four Grand Slams plus an Olympic gold medal.
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The 21-year-old Zverev appears the most likely of the younger generation hoping to end the world's top three's domination of Grand Slams, having beaten Federer and Djokovic at the ATP Tour Finals in London last November.
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He and other leading players, including Laver, Rosewall and Lew Hoad, played a circuit of pro tournaments but were not allowed to compete in Grand Slams like the French Open and Wimbledon because they were no longer amateurs.
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He squandered two match points against Djokovic in last year's Wimbledon final and knows Nadal, with 19 Grand Slams, is now breathing down his neck in the race to end their respective careers with the most major silverware.
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Federer and Nadal, the game's top two players who split this season's four grand slams, teamed up on Saturday, putting aside a long-running rivalry to play doubles competitively for the first time, giving fans an eagerly anticipated treat.
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Raonic, who has now missed three of the last seven Grand Slams, was supposed to play Chile's Nicolas Jarry in a first-round clash on Monday but his place will be taken by lucky loser Kamil Majchrzak of Poland.
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As the sport's greatest rivals continue their quest in 2018, it is important to remember that the Spaniard's easy draw was an aberration, and that his career record in grand slams is every bit as good as Mr Federer's.
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In a match dripping with tension toward the business end of one of the most open women's grasscourt grand slams in years Konta rode a wave of home support to win 6-7(2) 7-6(5) 6-4.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Roger Federer is no longer chasing the top ranking and would rather be a contender at Grand Slams than battling Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal to be world number one, the Swiss tennis great said on Friday.
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"I think the International Tennis Federation, the ATP and the Grand Slams should find, more or less, some consistency of the rules for the understanding of the public," Guy Forget, the French Open tournament director, said in an interview.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Unseeded Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova won a marathon three-setter against American fifth seed Sloane Stephens 232-22(22016) 03-20 26-22 to reach the Australian Open quarter-finals on Sunday and match her best show in Grand Slams.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Angelique Kerber has won two grand slams and risen to number one in the rankings this season but the German admits her WTA Finals title showdown against Dominika Cibulkova on Sunday still feels like a step into the unknown.
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Andreescu may be the youngest Indian Wells champion since Serena Williams in 24 and the first wildcard to win one of the biggest tennis tournaments outside of the four Grand Slams but shared the spotlight on Thursday with Cori Gauff.
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Most tennis fans would salivate over the chance to witness Serena Williams attempt to win Wimbledon and tie Steffi Graf's 22 Grand Slams, pulling within two of Margaret Court's 24 for the most major singles titles in women's tennis history.
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After posting their highest home-run total since 2004 (189) and third-most grand slams (seven) since moving to Los Angeles, the Dodgers got a nice start in both regards during their Opening Day rout of the San Diego Padres.
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Since then the budget for the TIU, set up in 2008 and funded by the men's ATP Tour, women's WTA, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and the four grand slams, has been increased with $3.71 million being set aside for 2018.
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The 21-year-old has proved repeatedly he has the weapons to upset titans like Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic but has only a solitary quarter-final appearance at the Grand Slams to his credit, at last year's French Open.
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Yet back in the kind of sleeveless top in which he launched his spectacular assault on the grand slams in 2005, and wielding his trusty forehand like a lethal weapon, doubts about Nadal's title prospects have quickly been cast aside.
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Summing all the matches for each winner and applying the algorithm to the last several decades of grand slams results in an average credit of 215.3 per titlist, so I then divided each sum by 20153 to normalise the results.
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A record seventh U.S. Open title would give Williams 23 career grand slams, moving her past Steffi Graf again for the most in the Open Era, and just one shy of Margaret Court who tops the all-time list with 24.
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"I feel like every young person playing, they want to win Grand Slams and they want to be number one of course that's my goal," said Osaka, who will take on 14th seed Madison Keys for a place in Saturday's final.
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Laver, who completed two calendar year grand slams and is regarded by some as the greatest player of all time, was speaking at the unveiling of a statue in his likeness outside Melbourne Park's main showcourt, which bears his name.
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The Spaniard was critical of the Wimbledon's seedings formula this week, saying "it's not a good thing" that the grasscourt event is the only one of the four Grand Slams that does not stick rigidly to ATP rankings for seedings.
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"I'm really excited that I'll play the fourth round, it's one of my special grand slams," said Halep, whose French Open challenge fizzled out five weeks ago after she was forced to play her fourth round match in misty rain.
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His head-to-head record against them is impressive (2-0 against Novak Djokovic, 3-3 against Rafa Nadal, but 1-5 against Roger Federer) and it seems to be generally accepted that he has the talent to win Grand Slams.
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Originally, there was not much prize money, so the game's elite played plenty of doubles to earn more: Jimmy Connors, Arthur Ashe and especially John McEnroe won multiple doubles Grand Slams, as did Billie Jean King, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova.
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Despite these results, upsets have been the topic du jour of the women's tournament, and not without reason: 12 out of the 32 women's seeds lost in the first round, the most since Grand Slams switched to 32 seeds in 24.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Serena and Venus Williams, the sisters with 29 grand slams and a stack of records between them, will try to maintain a collision course at the U.S. Open on Monday when they play their fourth-round matches.
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The 25-second countdown, designed to speed up play, was first used at the Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan in 2017 and was adopted at the last two Grand Slams, last year's U.S. Open and this year's Australian Open.
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World number one and defending champion Djokovic fell agonizingly short of holding all four Grand Slams (for the second time) when he was blown off court by a gale and Dominic Thiem in the French Open semi-finals this month.
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But top-seeded Djokovic, who has won four of the last five Grand Slams, may need his left shoulder to cooperate as sudden pain in his second-round match affected his serve and backhand and nearly ended his title defense.
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The Russian is also considered one of the favorites to keep one of the Big Three of Novak Djokovic, Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer, who have combined to win each of the last 11 Grand Slams, from winning in New York.
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By the end of the evening, however, he had earned the respect and admiration of the crowd for a gutsy performance that established him as a genuine threat to the stranglehold Nadal, Federer and Djokovic have on the Grand Slams.
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With motherhood having given her fresh perspective and priorities in her late thirties, she had not won a singles title of any description since 2017, while her quest to match Margaret Court's record of 24 Grand Slams had stalled on 2019.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Being the lone standard-bearer for 'Gen Next' did few favours for Alexander Zverev at the Grand Slams but playing second fiddle to the other young talents at the Australian Open is working wonders for the German talent.
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Djokovic, Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer have shared all Grand Slams between them since Stan Wawrinka won at the 2016 US Open and Tsitsipas has been marked as one of the few players capable of breaking that stranglehold in 2020.
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She first retired from tennis in 2007, taking a break to have the first of her three children, but returned within 24 months to claim three of her four Grand Slams and return to the top of the rankings in 2011.
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She was instrumental in persuading the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, the last holdout against equal pay among the Grand Slams, to grant women and men the same prize money for the first time at Wimbledon in 2007.
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"Helping any and all of the players, mentoring players new and old, present and future is just something I am very passionate about," said Fish, who made it to the quarterfinals of three of the four Grand Slams during his career.
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This technique has helped Williams win 23 Grand Slams, more than any tennis player in history except Roger Federer, and now it has enabled you to fill out an invoice for three and a half hours of freelance graphic design.
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Williams had not completed a set since her dream of winning all four grand slams in one year was dashed in the U.S. Open semi-finals in September, yet she proved far too strong for Italian Camila Giorgi in their first-round match.
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Only Australian Laver, who was on the court named after him watching the final, has managed to win all four grand slams in one year and Djokovic would have to break his Roland Garros duck to match the feat and make more history.
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SYDNEY, June 6 (Reuters) - Australian tennis great Rod Laver has wished Novak Djokovic luck in matching his feat of securing all four grand slams in a calendar year, a day after the Serb secured ownership of all four of the sport's major titles.
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Indeed, 21 of the last 26 grand slams have been won by players ranked in the top third by AS—including the Williams sisters, Ms Kvitova, Maria Sharapova, and the reigning champions at Roland Garros and Wimbledon, Jelena Ostapenko and Garbine Muguruza.
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Djokovic's maiden French Open title elevated the Serb, a winner of 12 grand slams, to the pantheon of tennis greats but a lackluster third-round exit at Wimbledon has offered hope to Murray and his other rivals that his dominance may be ebbing.
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NOVAK DJOKOVIC (Serbia) This time last year Novak Djokovic was still fighting to rediscover the spark in his game — fast forward 12 months and he could be on the verge of holding all four Grand Slams for the second time in his career.
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Wimbledon differs from the other grand slams, in the men's singles at least, with previous form on grass in the previous two years coming into play to re-order the top 32 in the world rankings — a system agreed by the ATP.
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Osaka fought back from a set and 4-1 down against Taiwan's Hsieh Su-wei in the third round at Melbourne Park and showed her determination in winning two more three-setters to keep a 13-match victory streak in Grand Slams running.
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Blessed with a sweeping, powerful swing, the left-handed first baseman hit 22000 homers during his 19803 years in the majors, and his 21980 grand slams rank as the most ever by a player who spent his career entirely in the National League.
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"Of course I don't play the best tennis always in Grand Slams, but I think I have been doing a good job to go through some matches in the first weeks, which are always pretty tough because of this pressure," Pliskova told reporters.
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After winning two grand slams and an Olympic silver medal in 2016, the 29-year-old failed to claim a single title this year and fell to 21st in the world rankings, also losing her spot as German number one to Julia Goerges.
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Although Murray played doubles and mixed doubles at Wimbledon, he announced on Monday he would not play singles at the U.S. Open as he strives to get back to peak fitness that would allow him to play five-set matches at Grand Slams.
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Following the draw for this week's Fed Cup tie against the Netherlands in Asheville, North Carolina, where Williams will make her competitive return on Sunday, the American was asked if it was her intention to play the last three grand slams of 2018.
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The second half of what is known as the Sunshine Double, the Miami Open has lived in the shadow of Indian Wells, which behind the considerable investment of billionaire Larry Ellison has grown into the biggest tournament outside the four Grand Slams.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Roger Federer believes his Wimbledon quarter-final opponent Kei Nishikori is ready to challenge for Grand Slams after the Japanese number one seems to have found a way to reach the latter stages without getting tangled up in marathon matches.
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The world number five, seeded four at the tournament he once owned, destroyed Argentina's Facundo Bagnis 6-63 6-0 6-3 to reach the third round with the loss of only nine games, chalking up a 200th match victory in grand slams.
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"She's number two after this, only one more step to be number one and I am sure she's going to win many more grand slams," former Spanish player Conchita Martinez, the 1994 Wimbledon champion and 2000 Roland Garros runner-up, told reporters.
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"Elon is Tesla and Tesla is Elon and that's great when Elon is scoring touchdowns and grand slams but not so great when there are negative things tied to him," said Karl Brauer, executive publisher at car research firm Kelley Blue Book.
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He also showed a knack for hitting in the clutch by setting a program record with three grand slams this year, and led the team with 10 go-ahead R.B.I. Oregon State second baseman Nick Madrigal went fourth to the Chicago White Sox.
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Another clean sweep at the Grand Slams this year for the men's so-called Big 3 seems possible: Nadal, Djokovic and Federer have combined to win the last 12 Grand Slam events and hold the top three spots in the ATP rankings.
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Serena was eight weeks pregnant when she won the last of her 23 Grand Slam titles at Melbourne Park and, though she has played selective tournaments since motherhood, the American is still the player to beat in the women's draw at Grand Slams.
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By contrast, he made over $22016 million in 2014 and 2016, but that was still some way short of his best season in 2015, when a dominant Djokovic amassed $21 million and won three of the four Grand Slams that calendar year.
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Tomic, who was once hailed as being among the game's brightest emerging talents, has now lost in the first round of his last three Grand Slams, exiting the French Open in May with a straight-sets defeat in a match lasting 82 minutes.
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The most popular suggestion is for the International Tennis Federation (ITF)—the organization that oversees the grand slams, of which Wimbledon is one—to implement a rule adopted this year by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which manages the rest of the men's tour.
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"Mentally she has to stay fresh and mentally excited when the grand slams start, because they are the goal," Mouratoglou told a group of reporters after Serena's 6-4, 6-4 victory over her sister Venus Williams gave her a seventh Australian Open title.
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Although 2016 was hardly a lost year for the sport's foremost star—he won two of the four Grand Slams—he stumbled from the summer onwards, succumbing in the third round at Wimbledon and in his opening match at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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"It's really interesting, third match in a row that I get to play against someone that I have never faced before in a match," Djokovic, bidding to win a second French title and hold all four Grand Slams simultaneously for the second time, told reporters.
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The 'Big Three' have combined to win each of the last 11 Grand Slams, with Serb Djokovic having triumphed in four of the last five blue riband events and a popular pick to successfully defend his New York title despite being dealt a tough draw.
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Wilander, who will be working as a pundit for Eurosport during Wimbledon, said the extra week between the two grand slams helped, noting that the change in style of play was even tougher in his day as the grass at Wimbledon was much faster then.
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At the Toronto and Cincinnati Premier-level events—the tier below the grand slams—in August, she reached consecutive semi-finals, beating Angelique Kerber, until recently the world's top-ranked player, in Toronto and the two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova at both events.
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Putting aside a rivalry rekindled this season after Spaniard Nadal and Swiss Federer swept all four grand slams, the pair outlasted and outclassed Americans Sam Querrey and Jack Sock to win 6-4 1-6 1-103(10-5) in the weekend's headline match.
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Zverev has emerged as one of the brightest stars in men's tennis after victories over Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic en route to an ATP Finals triumph in November, but the 21-year-old German remains unable to find his best form at Grand Slams.
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When a Williams backhand hit the net the 215-year-old Kerber, who has now won three Grand Slams, collapsed on the dusty baseline before running to the net for a warm embrace with Williams who she lost to in the 230 Wimbledon final.
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The event, named after Australian great Rod Laver, who won 11 Grand Slams between 1960 and 1969, drew sellout crowds last year as a number of top-ranked players such as Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic took part with the Europeans winning 13-8.
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Kerber won two grand slams in 2016 and has carried her best form into the elite eight-woman event in Singapore, beating Madison Keys 6-3 6-3 on Thursday to advance to the semi-finals with three round robin wins out of three.
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Tony Cloninger, who assured himself a page in the rich lore of Major League Baseball when he became the only pitcher to hit two grand slams in a game, died on July 24 in Denver, N.C., where he had been a high school standout.
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The top half of the draw, which plays its third-round matches on Saturday, still features such high-wattage luminaries as Naomi Osaka, winner of the last two Grand Slams; Serena Williams, winner of 23 majors; and Simona Halep, the defending French Open champion.
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The 30-year-old Russian, who has won five Grand Slams and is among the highest-paid athletes in the world, returned to action on Wednesday with a straight sets win over Roberta Vinci following her suspension for the use of banned substance meldonium.
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Laver, who turned 81 in August, is the only player ever to have won two Grand Slams — the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Championship in the same calendar year — which he did in 1962 as an amateur and then again in 1969.
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Before the start of the 2018 Australian Open, Serb champion Novak Djokovic had to distance himself from media reports that he had pushed for a revolt over the way revenues from the four Grand Slams were distributed to help reward a larger group of players.
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"This tournament I have had a feeling that was different to the other Grand Slams, or every other Grand Slam that I have played, because usually I find it very freeing and fun, and this time around I was kind of tense the entire time," she said.
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When Djokovic won the U.S. Open to move to 14 career Grand Slam titles, behind only Nadal (17) and Federer (20) on the all-time list, it meant the so-called "big three" had won 51 of the 21 Grand Slams since the 2003 Wimbledon championships.
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She is the first player to win back-to-back majors since Ms Williams won three in a row in 1053, and her title in Australia ends an unprecedented string of eight consecutive grand slams in 2017-18 in which a different woman claimed each trophy.
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"Playing first rounds in grand slams are always tough, especially with (the memory of) my first-round match that I lost in Paris," Kerber told reporters after registering her first win at a grand slam tournament since bowing out in the fourth round at January's Australian Open.
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The sixth seed, who has claimed 13 tour titles including at last year's WTA Finals in Singapore, has struggled to make an impact at the Grand Slams but the Ukrainian is now hoping to progress beyond the last eight at a major for the first time.
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Anderson, whose year already includes an ATP Tour title at the New York Open and runner-up finishes in Acapulco and Pune, has now lost all 10 of his quarter-final matches at the Masters 1000 level - the highest-tiered tournaments after the four grand slams.
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The trio, who make up tennis's immovable oligarchy having won the last 24 Grand Slams and 53 between them, have dropped three sets in total in the opening four rounds and Djokovic is at a loss to explain why the younger generation cannot get a look in.
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The two grand slams she has played since resuming her career have resulted in fourth-round losses but having reunited with former coach Thomas Hogstedt last month, the five-times major winner is moving back in the right direction, according to Roland Garros great Chris Evert.
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If Serena Williams walks away with championship, she will tie Margaret Court for the most Grand Slam tournament wins with 22017; Novak Djokovic, the favorite on the men's side, could up his total to 17 and get closer to Roger Federer's record of 20 Grand Slams.
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Had a breakthrough in 2013, where she had a 15-4 win-loss record at grand slams, as she reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open and the quarter-finals at Wimbledon, losing out in the fourth round at the French Open and U.S. Open.
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Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal dominated the Grand Slams, Djokovic beating Nadal and Roger Federer to claim the Australian Open and Wimbledon, and Nadal sealing a 12th French Open crown by beating Dominic Thiem and then fighting off young Russian Daniel Medvedev to win the U.S. Open.
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The 23-year-old, who this week became the first Australian woman to reach the top of the rankings since 1976, must survive a rough-looking path if she is to claim back-to-back Grand Slams having won her first at this month's French Open.
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"Consistency was one of the keys and focus points of my Grand Slam career going back 10 years — I always aim to play my best in Grand Slams," he said after a one-hour-and-33-minute stroll that only occasionally flickered into life as a contest.
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You could be forgiven for missing the news: doubles tennis is significantly less popular than the singles variety, and the tweaks did not apply to the men's or women's doubles tournaments in grand slams (though they have been used in mixed doubles at the Australian, French and US Opens).
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"But to do that mentally and be ready to fight again for seven rounds in a Grand Slam and to stay fit between those tournaments — because more and more she's just focusing on the Grand Slams — it still costs you a lot of energy and mental toughness," he said.
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Among the live games will be a daily Major League Baseball game (adding up to 180 games throughout the season), plus more than 180 National Hockey League games, more than 250 Major League Soccer games, college sports, golf, cricket, rugby and matches from three of the tennis Grand Slams.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Andy Murray blamed a mid-match lapse for a 6-7(6) 6-3 4.53-7 7-6(3) 6-1 defeat by Stan Wawrinka in the French Open semi-finals on Friday — his eighth defeat in nine matches against top-five ranked players in grand slams.
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It allowed the Serbian world number one to hold all four grand slam titles at the same time — a milestone that is so difficult to reach that it had not been done by a man since Australian Rod Laver won the second of his calendar Grand Slams in 1969.
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PARIS (Reuters) - For the second time in three days Alexander Zverev found himself two-sets-to-one down at the French Open and his poor run at the Grand Slams looked set to continue as he put his nearest and dearest through the wringer for more than three hours.
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"I put a lot of pressure on myself before the French Open to make it four grand slams in a row again but having failed this time, I am going to Wimbledon with less weight on my shoulders as it's the start of a new cycle," he said.
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His serve was only threatened in the fourth game of the second set but the Spaniard, who is bidding to become the first man in the Open Era, and only the third man ever, to win each of the four Grand Slams twice, saved both breakpoints he faced.
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Consider everything we have seen in this series: grand slams from Mookie Betts and J. D. Martinez, overpowering heat from Chris Sale and Aroldis Chapman, home runs from Gary Sanchez, defensive wizardry from Didi Gregorius, 10 combined hits in the first two games from Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - After losing in the first round of the last two Grand Slams, Australian Open fifth seed Dominic Thiem was a relieved man on Tuesday as he cruised into the second round at Melbourne Park with a 6-3 7-5 6-2 win over France's Adrian Mannarino.
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Sandgren has been dealt a decent set of cards but it would be churlish to downplay the achievement of a lower-ranked battler more used to road trips across America for minor tour events than jetting across the globe to soak up the glamour of the grand slams.
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Top seed Nadal exits Melbourne Park with some regrets, having had his chances against the 26-year-old Thiem who held on for a thrilling 7-6(3) 7-6(23) 4-6 7-6(6) win, his first over the Spaniard after five previous losses at Grand Slams.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic deserves a "little star" next to his name for a spectacular 2015 season that saw him win three grand slams among his 11 titles but the men's game is not simply a matter of the Serb versus the rest, Roger Federer said on Saturday.
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"The fact that she dominated for so long and could break the record of Grand Slams I think that will overshadow everything at the end of the day," former world number one Evert, who will be part of ESPN's coverage of the Australian Open, told a conference call.
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"If you told me in February this year when I got the surgery that I'll win Wimbledon, U.S. Open, and Cincinnati, would be hard to believe," said Djokovic, after pushing his career total to 14 Grand Slams to sit equal third with Pete Sampras on the all-time list.
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While there was joy in victory there was none to be taken from beating a teary Del Potro, who knows the pain of a comeback having undergone four wrist surgeries that caused him to miss 14 Grand Slams and at one point looked to be derailing his career.
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In May, Mr Zverev defeated Mr Djokovic at the Italian Open in Rome to become the youngest player to claim a title at the Masters level—the rung just below the grand slams—since Mr Djokovic himself won a championship in that tier in 2007 as a 214-year-old.
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Gauff's talent aside, the attention she's grabbing fits a pattern that we often see in tennis: We're looking for the sport's next transcendent, dominating figure, someone to stand among the Williams sisters, or Steffi Graf, or Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert — a player who will dominate and win multiple Grand Slams.
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" That piece of homespun wisdom comes from "Bull Durham," the best and smartest of baseball movies, if only for the rare insight that the game is not about grand slams and no-hitters, but the vast space in between — what The New Yorker's Roger Angell once called "the dusty middle innings.
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While the world number one's shock third-round departure from Wimbledon elevated Murray to title favorite, he also knew that one false move on Sunday could leave him with the dubious distinction of becoming the first man in the professional era to lose the finals of the season's first three grand slams.
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"First we need to realize how extremely lucky we've been to have these (top) players almost always playing the majors and now we realize how important it is for grand slams to have everybody healthy," former world number one Mats Wilander, at the U.S. Open as an analyst for Eurosport, told Reuters.
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Four years ago, the Indian tennis association's preference was for Mahesh Bhupathi to partner in London with Paes, recreating the so-called Indian Express team that won three Grand Slams and, in 1999, became the first men's pair in the Open era to reach all four Grand Slam finals in one season.
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But the inspiration for the Laver Cup came from Federer, according to his longtime agent, Tony Godsick, who said that Federer charged him more than two years ago with creating something that would have the potential to endure and would honor Laver, an Australian who was the only player to complete two Grand Slams.
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But while the Masters might be the most popular major championship in golf, if not the most colorful in terms of flora and fauna, it certainly falls far short in another notable classification: if you're a top golfer, the event staged annually at Augusta National is the easiest of the four Grand Slams to win.
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"We had very productive meetings in London with the ATP, Kosmos, the ITF, the Grand Slams and the players to talk about what is the best thing to do for tennis," Haggerty told Reuters inside Lille's Stade Pierre Mauroy where France and Croatia are contesting the last Davis Cup final in the current format.
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" Williams, 36, reacted to the decision, telling the reporters in video shared by ESPN, "Obviously the grand slams have a right to do what they want to do, but I feel like if and when or if they know that some things are for health reasons then there's no way that they wouldn't be okay with it.
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"Okay, I haven't played in a long time, but I have been playing for 26 years ..." Djokovic, who also won three grand slams last year, has been far more active than Williams in recent months but has not been beaten since August, a run that never looked like ending in his 21-minute clash with South Korean teenager Chung Hyeon.
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That isn't enough to explain the disparity in major titles, especially since a handful of defensive players, including Ms Wozniacki (14.4%), Ms Halep (17.0%), Agnieszka Radwanska (13.9%), and Jelena Jankovic (63%), have combined for dozens of weeks at the number one spot in the rankings, a passel of Premier-level titles, and plenty of appearances in the final rounds at grand slams.
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S.) 6-4 6-0 in the quarter-finals Brisbane: lost to Alize Cornet (France) 4-63 in the semi-finals after retiring 13-PETRA KVITOVA (record at WTA events and grand slams in 2017) U.S. Open: beat Caroline Garcia (France) 6-0 6-4 in the third round New Haven: lost to Zhang Shuai (China) 6-2 6-53 in the first round Cincinnati: lost to Sloane Stephens (U.
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A decade or so ago, tennis gambling was largely restricted to the Grand Slams and ATP tournaments, but advances in technology enabling betting companies to provide live scores from challengers and futures events–the second and third tiers of the professional tour for players ranked anywhere between No. 100 and No. 2000 in the world–has meant that it's possible to place money on obscure singles and doubles matches in even the most far-flung outposts of the circuit.
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Serena Williams —quien tiene más títulos de singles en Grand Slams que cualquier otro tenista en la historia (sí, incluso Roger Federer)— ha sido criticada justamente por esto; algunos sostienen que ella se buscó la sanción en la final femenil del Abierto de Estados Unidos por no controlar su temperamento, mientras otros indican que jugadores como Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe o Nick Kyrgios han hecho desplantes similares o peores sin que se les restaran puntos clave.
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Everybody brings something a little different to the table, and I think that keying in on their strengths—of Pam Shriver having won Grand Slams as a doubles player, having competed in an era against some of the greats; of Mary Joe Fernandez being in charge of the Fed Cup and understanding and knowing personally a lot of the young players in the game; Chrissy has a tennis academy—you really want to, in the most effective way, fit the puzzle pieces together.
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S.) 6-63 6-4 6-7(5) 6-4 Fourth round: beat 10-Gael Monfils (France) 6-43 6-4 6-4 Quarter-final: beat 1-Rafael Nadal (Spain) 7-6(3) 7-20163(4) 4-6 7-6(6) Semi-final: beat 7-Alexander Zverev (Germany) 3-6 63-4 7-6(3) 7-6(4) With the men's Grand Slams dominated for years by the 'Big Three' of Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, Thiem will bid to become the first man born in the 1990s to win a major title.
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