Talk:All-time tennis records – Men's singles

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Henry Guerin

In Career totals Henry Guerin is on 1st place with 42 wins. Didn't find any info about this player, please check if it is a vandalism. Also Djokovic is missing, he should be first with 24 career wins. Amnet (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 04:21, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Protection

Is it possible to make this page protected? It's quite relevant for the tennis world and it has been subjected to much vandalism in the past couple of days. 2804:1020:6C13:9500:3B06:8316:3F5B:35A9 (talk) 19:22, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Analysis of records

Today, the ultimate pursuit in tennis is to win the Grand Slam; winning all four Grand Slam tournaments in the same calendar year. In 1982, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) broadened the definition of the Grand Slam as meaning any four straight major victories, including the ones spanning two calendar years that became known as the non-calendar year Grand Slam, though it later reversed its definition. In the history of men's tennis, only two players have won the calendar Grand Slam, Don Budge (1938) and Rod Laver (1962 and 1969). Budge remains the sole player to have won six majors in a row (1937–1938). In the Open Era, only one player has achieved the non-calendar year Grand Slam, Novak Djokovic (2015–2016). This is followed by a career Grand Slam, a feat achieved by a player winning each of the majors during their career, which eight players have done. Winning just one of these major tournaments in a year is a sought-after achievement but winning all four or more consecutively, if we apply Prochnow's (2018) analysis retrospectively in Budge's case, transforms a player into a legend.

So who is this fine peer-reviewed scholar who's analysed tennis so thoroughly and objectively? Oh. It's the author of "Green Bay Packers: Dude, Where's My Super Bowl?" and "Best Bars in Milwaukee to Watch the 2014 World Cup in Brazil". In the Bleacher Report. Why is Wikipedia citing a BR article as if it was the New England Journal of Medicine? Delusions of grandeur, or just trying to deceive the readers?

You didn't even get the date correct. He did his "analysis" (i.e. wrote an opinion piece) in 2013. 92.40.194.46 (talk) 17:23, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]