FAQ for rec.sport.tennis (3/6) - Player Information
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Subject: FAQ for rec.sport.tennis (3/6) - Player Information
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Summary: Answers to frequently asked questions about tennis, including
information about professional tournaments, rankings and players.
X-Last-Updated: 1998/05/02
Archive-name: sports/tennis-faq/player-info
FAQ for rec.sport.tennis -- File 3 of 6
Player Information
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3 3.1 Grand Slam Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.2 Grand Slam Event Winners - Open Era . . . . . .
3.3 Number of Grand Slam Singles Titles Won . . . .
3.4 Players - Career Singles Titles . . . . . . . .
3.5 Head-to-Head Records . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.6 Player and Fan Club Information . . . . . . . .
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3.1 Grand Slam Winners
The highest achievement in professional tennis is winning the Grand
Slam, which means winning all four major titles, the Australian Open,
the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open, in the same calendar
year. Therefore, those four tournaments are also called the Grand
Slam events.
Following are Grand Slam winners and the year(s) they won the Grand
Slam:
Budge 1938 Connolly 1953
Laver 1962 Court 1970
" 1969 Graf 1988 *
* Graf won a "Golden Slam" -- The Grand Slam plus the 1988 Olympic
Gold Medal.
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3.2 Grand Slam Event Winners in the Open Era
Note: During the late seventies through 1985, the Australian Open was
held in the month of December. The Australian Open was held in
January starting in 1987 and was not held in 1986.
Men
(Jan.) (Dec.)
Australian French Wimblebon US Open Australian
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1998 Korda
1997 Sampras Kuerten Sampras Rafter
1996 Becker Kafelnikov Krajicek Sampras
1995 Agassi Muster Sampras Sampras
1994 Sampras Bruguera Sampras Agassi
1993 Courier Bruguera Sampras Sampras
1992 Courier Courier Agassi Edberg
1991 Becker Courier Stich Edberg
1990 Lendl Gomez Edberg Sampras
1989 Lendl Chang Becker Becker
1988 Wilander Wilander Edberg Wilander
1987 Edberg Lendl Cash Lendl
1986 Lendl Becker Lendl
1985 Wilander Becker Lendl Edberg
1984 Lendl McEnroe McEnroe Wilander
1983 Noah McEnroe Connors Wilander
1982 Wilander Connors Connors Kriek
1981 Borg McEnroe McEnroe Kriek
1980 Borg Borg McEnroe Teacher
1979 Borg Borg McEnroe Vilas
1978 Borg Borg Connors Vilas
1977 Gerulaitis Vilas Borg Vilas Tanner
1976 Edmondson Panatta Borg Connors
1975 Newcombe Borg Ashe Orantes
1974 Connors Borg Connors Connors
1973 Newcombe Nastase Kodes Newcombe
1972 Rosewall Gimeno Smith Nastase
1971 Rosewall Kodes Newcombe Smith
1970 Ashe Kodes Newcombe Rosewall
1969 Laver Laver Laver Laver / Smith **
1968 B Bowrey Rosewall Laver Ashe / Ashe **
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Women
(Jan.) (Dec.)
Australian French Wimblebon US Open Australian
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1998 Hingis
1997 Hingis Majoli Hingis Hingis
1996 Seles Graf Graf Graf
1995 Pierce Graf Graf Graf
1994 Graf Sanchez V. Martinez Sanchez V.
1993 Seles Graf Graf Graf
1992 Seles Seles Graf Seles
1991 Seles Seles Graf Seles
1990 Graf Seles Navratilova Sabatini
1989 Graf Sanchez V. Graf Graf
1988 Graf Graf Graf Graf
1987 Mandlikova Graf Navratilova Navratilova
1986 Evert Navratilova Navratilova
1985 Evert Navratilova Mandlikova Navratilova
1984 Navratilova Navratilova Navratilova Evert
1983 Evert Navratilova Navratilova Navratilova
1982 Navratilova Navratilova Evert Evert
1981 Mandlikova Evert Austin Navratilova
1980 Evert Goolagong Evert Mandlikova
1979 Evert Navratilova Austin B Jordan
1978 Ruzici Navratilova Evert C O'Neil
1977 Goolagong Jausovec Wade Evert Melville-Reid
1976 Goolagong S Barker Evert Evert
1975 Goolagong Evert King Evert
1974 Goolagong Evert Evert King
1973 Court Court King Court
1972 Wade King King King
1971 Court Goolagong Goolagong King
1970 Court Court Court Court
1969 Court Court A Jones Court / Court **
1968 King Richey King Wade / King **
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** US Open had Amateur and Pro tournaments in 1968 and 1969.
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3.3 Number of Grand Slam Singles Titles Won (Players playing in Open Era)
1. Emerson 12 * 1. Court 24
2. Laver 11 2. Graf 21
Borg 11 3. Navratilova 18
4. Sampras 10 Evert 18
5. Rosewall 8 5. King 12
Connors 8 6. Seles 9
Lendl 8 7. Goolagong 7
8. Newcombe 7 8. Mandlikova 4
McEnroe 7 Hingis 4
Wilander 7 10. Sanchez Vicario 3
Wade 3
* Didn't win any GS titles in the Open Era.
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3.4 Players with Highest Number of Career Singles Titles (Open Era)
1. Martina Navratilova 167 1. Jimmy Connors 109
2. Chris Evert 157 2. Ivan Lendl 94
3. Steffi Graf 103 3. John McEnroe 77
4. Evonne Goolagong 88 4. Bjorn Borg 62
5. Margaret Court 79 Guillermo Vilas 62
6. Billie Jean King 67 6. Ilie Nastase 57
7. Virginia Wade 55 7. Pete Sampras 52
8. Monica Seles 41 8. Boris Becker 49
9. Helga Masthoff 37 9. Rod Laver 47
10. Olga Morozova 31 10. Thomas Muster 44
Conchita Martinez 31
Andre Agassi 36
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3.5 Head-to-head win-loss records of selected top players
The head-to-head tables for current players is no longer maintained.
A more selective record of top players' head-to-heads will be posted
in the future.
Other Notable Match-Ups:
Navratilova-Evert 43-37 Lendl-Connors 23-13
Navratilova-Shriver 37-3 Lendl-McEnroe 20-15
Navratilova-Graf 9-9 Borg-McEnroe 7-7
Navratilova-Sabatini 15-6 Lendl-Edberg 13-14
Seles-Navratilova 10-7 Lendl-Becker 11-10
Martinez-Navratilova 4-1 Becker-Edberg 25-10
Graf-Sabatini 29-11
Seles-Sabatini 12-3
Head-to-head records include regular tournaments, Davis Cup, the World
Team Cup, etc., but not exhibitions and the Grand Slam Cup.
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3.6 Player and Fan Club Information
Most players can be written to in care of the agencies that represent them.
Addresses of the major agencies are provided immendiately below. For many
players in the subsequent list, the agency representing the player is shown.
In most cases, the web sites listed in this section are unofficial player
information sites. They are listed as a convenience for those who may
wish to find news, statistics, and/or photos of a particular player.
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Major Agencies: International Management Group (IMG)
One Erieview Plaza
Suite 1300
Cleveland, OH 44114, USA
Tel. 216-522-1200
Advantage International (Advantage)
1751 Pinnacle Drive, Suite 1500
McLean, VA 22102, USA
Tel. 703-905-3300
ProServ
1101 Wilson Blvd.
Suite 1300
Tel. Arlington, VA 22209, USA
AMI Promanagement (AMI)
370 Felter Ave.
Hewlett, NY 11557, USA
Tel. 516-569-8922
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Players:
ANDRE AGASSI - IMG
http://www.superstars.com/andreagassi/index.html
http://www.ids.net/~mattg/agassi/agassi.html
KARIM ALAMI - Advantage
SABINE APPELMANS - Advantage
http://www.ping.be/~ping0200/sabine.html
http://www.xs4all.be/~kghysens
YAYUK BASUKI
http://www.perspektif.net/yayuk
http://www.cam.org/~etoombs/yayuk.html
BORIS BECKER
http://freeweb.aspide.it/free/borisbecker
http://www.ids.net/~japolin/boris.html
ALBERTO BERASATEGUI - Proserv
JONAS BJORKMAN - Advantage
ARNAUD BOETSCH - IMG
SERGI BRUGUERA - IMG
JENNIFER CAPRIATI
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/medschool/students/gstein/Capriati
MICHAEL CHANG - Advantage
http://www.mchang.com (Official)
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ct_chan/mchang.html
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/8319/mc.html
AMANDA COETZER - ProServ
http://web.idirect.com/~coetzer
http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h89/h8924465
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/4504
ALEX CORRETJA
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Bleachers/8686/alex_home.html
ALBERT COSTA - Advantage
JIM COURIER - IMG
http://members.aol.com/ARegas/index.htm
KIMIKO DATE
http://www.twics.com/~finlandh/date/kimiko.htm
http://www.goldwin.co.jp/atlanta/date/index.html
http://tsk-www.ss.titech.ac.jp/~shino/Kimiko/kimikoHP.html
LINDSAY DAVENPORT - IMG
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/lindsaydavenport/index.html
RUXANDRA DRAGOMIR - AMI
STEFAN EDBERG - ProServ
THOMAS ENQVIST - IMG
http://www.mygale.org/10/enqvist/index.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Field/4509
MARY JOE FERNANDEZ - IMG
http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~wil/mary-joe.html
WAYNE FERREIRA - IMG
http://homepage.esoterica.pt/~edias/wferreira
AMY FRAZIER - Advantage
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/medschool/students/gstein/Frazier
ANDREA GAUDENZI - AMI
INES GORROCHATEGUI
http://www.epix.net/~bknizer/ines.html
STEFFI GRAF
Steffi Graf International Supporters' Club
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Jackie Tanner, 12108 Stoney Spur, San Antonio, TX 78247-3439, USA
(e-mail: 73753.2571@CompuServe.COM)
Chris Skelton, 308-2077 Prospect St, Burlington, Ontario L7R 1Z4, Canada
(e-mail: cskelton@hookup.net)
http://www.hookup.net/~cskelton
http://www.octonet.com/~jo
http://www.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/internet/sport/tennis/graf.html
PAUL HAARHUIS - Advantage
TIM HENMAN - IMG
http://www.advantage-tennis.com/henman/memdet.htm
MARTINA HINGIS - IMG
http://www.hingis.ch
http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~geertt/martina.html
http://www2.active.ch/~markus/martina.html
http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~ransari/martina.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/5190/index2.html
RIKA HIRAKI
http://www2b.meshnet.or.jp/~deuceit
ANKE HUBER
http://www.pncl.co.uk/~a.huber/index.html
http://www.calvin.edu/~tslage78
http://student.uq.edu.au/~s335129/huber/huber.html
GORAN IVANISEVIC
http://www.waterw.com/~sbhakta/goran.htm
LUKE & MURPHY JENSEN - ProServ
YEVGENY KAFELNIKOV - IMG
JANA KANDARR - IMG
http://www.tref.nl/1378/sport/jana1.htm
PETR KORDA - ProServ
http://www.eccentrica.com/user/petro/korda.html
ANNA KOURNIKOVA - IMG
http://www.healey.com.au/~bgrosman/anna
RICHARD KRAJICEK - Advantage
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Sideline/2958
GUSTAVO KUERTEN
http://www.virtuacomm.com/gugakuerten
FLORENCIA LABAT
http://members.tripod.com/~Chris_G/index.html
MAGNUS LARSSON
http://members.aol.com/cowiedd/larsson.html
MIRJANA LUCIC
http://www.lucic.com
http://209.75.40.56
IVA MAJOLI - IMG
http://srcm1.zems.fer.hr/~majoli
MAGDALENA MALEEVA - Advantage
http://www2.minn.net/gmoney
http://www.angelfire.com/ga/magmal/index.html
TODD MARTIN - Advantage
CONCHITA MARTINEZ - Advantage
http://ogyalla.konkoly.hu/staff/zsoldos/Conchita/home.html
LORI MCNEIL - IMG
RACHEL MCQUILLAN
http://home.t-online.de/home/Frank.Freitag/index.html
CARLOS MOYA
http://www.laredcafe.com/jasm/moya.html
THOMAS MUSTER - AMI
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/9644/muster.html
http://www3.sympatico.ca/laflamme3/Muster.htm
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA - IMG
JANA NOVOTNA - Advantage
http://www.waterw.com/~sbhakta/novotna.htm
LEANDER PAES
http://www.its.uci.edu/~jaykay/leander.html
BARBARA PAULUS - IMG
MARK PHILIPPOUSSIS - Advantage
http://www.primenet.com/~zed/mp/mp.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/9519/MP.html
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3279/MARK.HTML
MARY PIERCE - IMG :
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~benatar/pierce.htm
DAVID PRINOSIL
http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/sideline/2158
PATRICK RAFTER - IMG:
http://www.ntplx.net/~radagast/rafter
LISA RAYMOND - Advantage
MARCELO RIOS - IMG :
http://www.entelchile.net/mrios
http://www.marcelorios.cl
http://cec.uchile.cl/~irivera/chino.html
http://www.cmet.net/mrios.htm
MARC ROSSET - IMG
CHANDA RUBIN - Advantage :
http://www.satchmo.com/nolavl/chanda.html
GREG RUSEDSKI
http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/~mauds/greg.html
GABRIELA SABATINI - ProServ:
http://www.satlink.com/sabatini
http://www.louisville.edu/~jsjuno01/gaby.html
PETE SAMPRAS - IMG:
http://www.sportsline.com/u/sampras (Official)
http://www.australia.net.au/~gumby/index.htm
ARANTXA SANCHEZ VICARIO - IMG
http://members.tripod.com/~CMSTRONG/index.html
PATTY SCHNYDER
http://www.sportpromotion.ch/pattyonline
MONICA SELES - IMG:
http://www.primenet.com/~zed/seles/seles.html
http://users.aol.com/Rostco/monica/monica.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/7491/index.html
ANNE-GAELLE SIDOT
http://depinfo.u-bourgogne.fr:80/~panne/agsidot
VINCE SPADEA - IMG
BRETT STEVEN
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Sideline/9274/steven.htm
JASON STOLTENBERG - Advantage
KATARINA STUDENIKOVA - AMI
AI SUGIYAMA :
http://www.opel.co.jp/AI/Aihome.html
http://www.goldwin.co.jp/atlanta/sugiyama/index.html
TAMARINE TANASUGARN
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Loge/8390
GUILLERMO VILAS
http://www.overnet.com.ar/Users/vilas.html
MALIVAI WASHINGTON - ProServ
http://maltennis.com/Found.html
DAVID WHEATON - IMG
JUDITH WIESNER - Advantage
VENUS WILLIAMS
http://surf.to/venuswilliams
TOOD WOODBRIDGE
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/7298
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