It definitely won't be repeated, but that's more so because of the devaluation of doubles and mixed doubles in recent decades. You will rarely see top singles players dedicating any time to doubles matches these days, which was quite different from the 80s and 90s when more of them were doing it, most notably McEnroe and Peter Fleming when John was the #1 singles player in the world.
There's an obvious reason why people don't, though. Doubles is a great game in and of itself, but the standard is so much lower that it has no place in a discussion about singles players and the number of Slams won. I remember people pushing for Jamie Murray to be Sports Personality of the Year in the UK when he was at his peak and it was just laughable.
It doesn't really matter though, does it. The sheer number has never been achieved. The amount of fitness, dedication, and will power needed to achieve it, even against fodder opponents is a testament to her prolonged greatness. The next best most successful doubles slam player (both men and women) is well below her count. The fact that McEnroe has 16 and Navratilova has 59 in itself speaks volumes of her achievement.
Well yes, except for the fact that no one cares about doubles titles, much less mixed doubles ones. They only care about normal slams.
I don't know who they are, but at least based on this thread, quite a number of people do. I am not inserting the slam counts in the GOAT debate. I don't really care who the GOAT is. I am just admiring the talent of an amazing professional here. The fact that she was able to achieve so much in multiple formats is an incredible achievement. @GuybrushThreepwood, I had no idea Court had the record for most slams at 62. Thank you for the correction.
It is definitely between those two IMO but there is some context that needs to be added here. Graf throughout her career was 100% focused on tennis whereas Serena had a period where she was trying to do all kinds of stuff. I think it was Chris Evert who wrote an open letter to her saying she was throwing her career away.
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Agreed, cant stand her. The way she screams over the net at the other girl on a cushioned, unmissable volley. And the croud an commentators cheer like its lion like heart and will to win. Even though she's stones of muscle mass on most of her adversaries.
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Lost to Coric in 3 tight sets who then thrashed everyone to win Cinci.
Such a stupid stubbornness. Glad that he’s treated by the same standards as common people.
Why didn't he just faked the whole thing? Pretty sure his political connections could had emitted an official vaccination certificate and they could even film the event of him taking a fake vaccine just for the credibility.
Pretty sure the ban will be overturned, imo.
If they open to Novax they have to open it to everybody who did small offenses and got banned. Doubt it will happen
Thiem no surprise but wasn't expecting the other two! Halep out on the ladies draw bit of a surprise too
Her shot selection has been awful in this match. She is just throwing away points.
She has had without a doubt the worst 52 weeks for any pro after winning their maiden GS. (not counting anyone who suffered a major injury).
It’s not really a surprise with Tsitsipas anymore - he’d fit right in on this United squad with his mentality.
I've watched all her matches since the win last year and there have been flashes of good play that shows it's in there - she had a very open draw though last time out granted. The media are making too much of her injuries and not enough of her coaching choices I reckon. If her dad gets out the way / coaches stick around for longer than 2 tournaments each she's got more wins, maybe slam wins, in her future.
Yes it was pretty bizarre and coupled with basic lapses of concentration when points were 'won' (netted passes/drops) or coasting (40:15 up in the second set then gets broken 'cos she appears to think that that game's in the bag) and it wasn't a good performance at all. But then, it's similar to a lot of her matches this past 12 months: cruising then switching off.
