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Sampras, Hingis and other tennis players who did not have enough “Roland Garros” before the “Career helmet”
Winning all four Grand Slam tournaments is the dream of any tennis player. Who could not do this because of the French Open?
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“Roland Garros” – a toughie for most tennis players. You can perfectly play hard, but at the same time experience serious problems on the ground. There is a whole group of eminent players who won several Grand Slam tournaments, but did not collect the Career Helmet, that is, they could not win at least once all four competitions of this category. For example, the same Russian Maria Sharapova, after winning the Australian Open in 2008, had to go a long way in four seasons in order to win the title missing in Career Helmet in France. Winning all four Grand Slam tournaments is the dream of any tennis player. We recall the grandees of world tennis stumbled on the courts of Paris. There were 13 such players.
Men:
Pete Sampras – 14 (2 + 0 + 7 + 5)
Jimmy Connors – 8 (1 + 0 + 2 + 5)
John Newcomb – 7 (2 + 0 + 3 + 2)
Stefan Edberg – 6 (2 + 0 + 2 + 2)
Boris Becker – 6 (2 + 0 + 3 + 1)
Frank Sedgman – 5 (2 + 0 + 1 + 2)
Ashley Cooper – 4 (2 + 0 + 1 + 1)
Arthur Ash – 3 (1 + 0 + 1 + 1)
Women:
Louise Brow-Clapp – 6 (1 + 0 + 4 + 1)
Martina Hingis – 5 (3 + 0 + 1 + 1)
Virginia Wade – 3 (1 + 0 + 1 + 1)
Lindsay Davenport – 3 (1 + 0 + 1 + 1)
Angelica Kerber – 3 (1 + 0 + 1 + 1)
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Pete Sampras (USA)
American Pete Sampras For a long time it was the leader in the total number of titles at the Grand Slam tournaments – 14, until Roger Federer, and later the whole Big Three, passed it in 2009. That’s just unlike Nadal, Djokovic and Federer, the “kit” of Sampras was incomplete. He lacked the title on the courts of Roland Garros. For three consecutive seasons on the courts of Paris, the American reached the quarter-finals (1992-1994), and in 1996 made his way even further to the semi-finals, but the future champion stopped him there – Evgeny Kafelnikov.
Jimmy Connors (USA)
Even closer to the Career Helmet was an American Jimmy connors. And Jimmy holds a unique record – he won the US Open on three different surfaces. His active career years fell on the period when the tournament completed almost a century-long history of playing on the grass, then played for three years on the ground and then finally decided on hard. It so happened that Connors won the US Open on grass (1974), and on the ground (1976), and on hard (1978, 1982, 1983). In 1974, the American almost assembled the calendar “Grand Slam” – he won in Australia, Wimbledon and the USA, but he missed Paris that year, as did the next few years. Since 1976, the American also stopped flying at the Australian Open, but since 1979 he regularly began to try to succeed at the Roland Garros. However, it did not go further than the semi-final (1979, 1980, 1984, 1985).
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Jimmy Connors Tennis record holder and long-liver
September 2, the legendary Jimmy Connors turns 60 years old. The tennis career of the American lasted more than 25 years, and during this time he won more than 100 titles and set a number of other records.
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Stefan Edberg (Sweden)
Swede Stefan Edberg was closest to Career Helmet – in just one set. He led the final of Roland Garros -1989 at the 17-year-old Michael Chang – 2: 1 in batches, but a motorized American of Asian descent won in five sets and took the title from Edberg. Three more times, Stefan was in the quarter-finals of the French Open (1985, 1991, 1993).
Boris Becker (Germany)
Eternal rival Stefan Edberg German Boris Becker also won 6 titles at the Grand Slam tournaments, but he also did not have enough victory in Paris. Moreover, Boris was three times in the semi-finals of Roland Garros (1987, 1989, 1991), including in 1989 he lost just to Edberg.
Martina Hingis (Switzerland)
Swiss Martina Hingis, like the American Jimmy Connors, she could put together the calendar “Grand Slam” in 1997, and she didn’t miss the “Roland Garros”, she played perfectly and even reached the finals, but the Croat stopped her there Willow mayoli. In 1999, Martina again made her way to the decisive match, where she played with Steffi Graf and even took the first set, but the German still defeated her and took the trophy to herself.
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The beauty of the day. Martina Hingis – great and beautiful!
The famous Swiss for the third time leaves tennis. This time forever.
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Lindsay Davenport (USA)
American Lindsay Davenport performed around the same period as Martina Hingis. Closest to the title she was at Roland Garros in 1998, when she lost in the semifinals to the future champion – Spaniard Aranche Sanchez-Vicario. By the way, Hingis at that tournament lost in another semifinal to Monica Seles.
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Kleisters, Davenport, and Other Moms Inspiring Azarenka
Victoria Azarenka after the birth of a child wants to repeat the ways of Kim Kleisters, Lindsay Davenport, Margaret Court and other tennis mothers.
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Angelica Kerber (Germany)
Angelica Kerber once won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open. At the “Roland Garros” the German twice made it to the quarter-finals (2012, 2018), but since Angelica is currently an active tennis player, she has not yet lost the chance to win the “Career helmet”.
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Shock in German. How Frau Kerber surprised Serena Williams
Angelica Kerber in the Wimbledon finale played unmistakably and defeated Serena Williams. The German lacks Roland Garros for the Career Helmet.
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The list of 13 tennis players who before the Career Slam did not have enough to win at the Roland Garros also included Australians John Newcomb, Frank Sedgman and Ashley Cooper, Americans Arthur Ash and Louise Brow-Clapp, British Virginia Wade.
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