Seagull58
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Murray has a 100% winning record against him in Grand Slam finals apart from Australia. He's also never won the French.
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Murray has a 100% winning record against him in Grand Slam finals apart from Australia. He's also never won the French.
Seagull58
In the Algarve
Laver couldn't play slams for 4 years at the peak of his career. He won the slam the year before he turned pro and he won the slam the first year back in the open era.
Seagull58
In the Algarve
Laver's 200 singles titles are the most in tennis history, and he holds the all-time male singles records of 22 titles in a single season (1962) and seven consecutive years (1964–70) winning at least 10 titles per season. He excelled on all of the court surfaces of his time: grass, clay, hard, carpet, and wood/parquet.
Despite being banned from playing the Grand Slam tournaments for the five years prior to the Open Era, he still won 11 singles titles because he is the only player to twice achieve the calendar-year Grand Slam, in 1962 and 1969, and remains the only man to do so during the Open Era. He also won eight Pro Slam titles, including the calendar year Pro "Grand Slam"[12][13] in 1967, and contributed to five Davis Cup titles for Australia during an age when Davis Cup was deemed as significant as the Grand Slams
Add his 8 pro slams and he has 19 slam titles!
Seasidesage
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Plenty of prize money, not a lot of Grand slams. Lots of losing finals though, like 5 of the last 6 Australian Opens for example?
BadFish
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The point is that comings second doesn't make you a loser. A serial runner up, maybe but that is a far cry from being a loser.
Seasidesage
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Not too many titles though eh?
I agree.
Pogue Mahone
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Enough to make him one of the most successful sportsmen these islands have ever produced.
Sad that you consider him a perennial loser when he has achieved so much.
Seasidesage
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Tennis is an irrelevance to me, all about the anti English stance and the Portugal shirt, I see no reason to forgive or indeed to support the guy ever since. To be fair I also like to see Scotland lose at just about anything really...
Pogue Mahone
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The anti-English stance was a joke. The sort of friendly joke that you would have with any Scottish friend in the pub. To take it seriously, as you obviously do, is pathetic, really. Lighten up.
Seasidesage
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Seriously? No. I won't be going out booing the bloke, but want him to win, no I don't. If that upsets you I'll get over it...
Pogue Mahone
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Oh, I'm not upset. So no worries, you carry on.
matthew
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I would say Laver's the only one you can debate about if he surpasses Fed.
12 of Federer's grand slams came before 2007 when Roddick was his main rival and he had to beat players like Safin and Baghdatis in grand slam finals.