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    #51
    Men's runners-up in that time who were non-European - Roddick, Baghdatis, Nishikori, Agassi, Philipoussis, Coria, Puerta, Hewitt. Most of those were 2003-2006. Infact none are after the 2006 Australian Open except Roddick and Nishikori.

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      #52
      They can't market 'Christine' Henin et al,
      That went way over my head, and I'm intrigued but googling is of no avail. Can someone enlighten me?

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        #53
        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ten...cognition.html
        'Christine' was during the on-court presentation ceremony following her 2003 title win.

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          #54
          Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View Post
          Men's runners-up in that time who were non-European - Roddick, Baghdatis, Nishikori, Agassi, Philipoussis, Coria, Puerta, Hewitt. Most of those were 2003-2006. Infact none are after the 2006 Australian Open except Roddick and Nishikori.
          Cyprus is Europe, surely. Baghdatis shouldn't be on that list.

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            #55
            Wow, that "Christine" thing is quite something, thanks Janik.

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              #56
              Just to show that the astonishing numbers of slam titles represented in the men's R1 singles draws at this year's Aussie and (especially) Wimbledon really are something special, not to be taken for granted, we have only 2 slam winners in the opening men's singles draw for the Cincinnati Open following Federer's withdrawal: Nadal with 15 titles and Del Potro with 1. Absent are Federer, Djokovic, Murray, Wawrinka and Cilic.

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                #57
                Originally posted by Janik View Post
                There is a reason why the people in charge of American Tennis have been very concerned for a number of years about what happens when Serena and Venus hang up their racquets. They can't market 'Christine' Henin et al, or so they apparently believe. The Williams' have been fighting the tide for a long, long while now without much indication of a successor appearing.
                Two months later, things look rather different.

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                  #58
                  I'm resurrecting this thread to note the, frankly, astonishing statistic that R1 of this current US Open's men's singles competition (and indeed R2, but not R3 following Murray's R2 exit) included the winners of a total of 58 singles slam titles - an all-time record equivalent to a full 14 and a half years worth of titles (and almost in fact precisely the last 14 and a half years events, but for the fact that 2 of Federer's were just beyond that window, whilst Gaudio and Safin have long since disappeared from the Tour).

                  That figure of 58 is just off the scale, compared with historic averages.

                  Made up, of course, of Federer 20, Nadal 17, Djokovic 13, Murray 3, Wawrinka 3, Del Potro 1, Cilic 1.

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                    #59
                    The corresponding stat on the women's side is almost as astonishing: 51 slam singles titles were represented in the R1 draw, which I'm pretty sure will also be an all-time record (see the figures for previous slams of the last 20 years on earlier pages of this thread).

                    The reasons are a bit different in the women's case. Unlike on the men's side, where absolutely every slam singles title since Safin's 2005 Australian win is represented, plus a small number of earlier ones, there are lots missing: slam champions of the past 15 years who do not appear are Myskina, Mauresmo, Henin, Ivanovic, Schiavone, Clijsters, Bartoli, Li Na and Pennetta. But that is partly compensated for by the fact that Venus and Serena won a good few titles more than 15 years ago.

                    The total of 51 is made up as follows: Serena Williams 23, Venus Williams 7, Sharapova-Meldonium 5, Kerber 3, Muguruza 2, Kvitova 2, Azarenka 2, Kuznetsova 2, Halep 1, Wozniacki 1, Stephens 1, Ostapenko 1, Stosur 1.

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                      #60
                      Women still burn out earlier but the men's top 4 is freakish, unchanged for a decade really.

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