The Record Books

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Federer is up to 923 total career wins. Some record books have Vilas on 923 while another record section had him, until recently, on 926 but this has now "gone up" to 929 ! He must have sneaked in some wins when no one was watching.
  Anyway, Fed will pass this "moving" total some time early in 2014 and will have only Connors (1,253 and "counting") and Lendl (1,071"ish") ahead of him. No chance of catching these two, of course, although he might well manage to nudge ahead of Jimmy Mac with whom he now shares third place in titles won - 77.
  Have to reckon that Rafa, on 60 titles at the moment, will pass this figure too, and could conceivably pass Lendl (94 titles) although Connors (110) could be out of reach.
  An appearance at the AO in January will push Fed up to third in total GS appearances behind Agassi (61) and the overall leader.....Fabrice Santoro, with 70. Bit of a trick question for a pub quiz, that.
  Fed has the most GS wins in the Open era - 260. He's the only player to have managed at least 50 victories at each of the slams and two wins at RG next year will give him at least 60 at all four venues.
  One record NO ONE has got - somewhat surprisingly - is two titles at EACH of the slams. Fed has only won the French once, while Rafa has only won one Australian and is probably in the best position to do it.
  In contrast, Steffi Graf managed, incredibly, to win each of the slams AT LEAST FOUR TIMES. Now that's some record.

sirfredperry wrote:
  Some clever stats guys can probably tell us just how many of Djoko's wins over Rafa have come when the Spaniard was number one. Probably quite a few.

How about a not-so-clever gal…

Nadal (#1) v Djokovic.

2013 WTF F Novak Djokovic (SRB) 2 L 3-6, 4-6
2011 Wimbledon F Novak Djokovic (SRB) 2 L 4-6, 1-6, 6-1, 3-6
2011 Rome F Novak Djokovic (SRB) 2 L 4-6, 4-6
2011 Madrid F Novak Djokovic (SRB) 2 L 5-7, 4-6
2011 Miami F Novak Djokovic (SRB) 2 L 6-4, 3-6, 6-7(4)
2011 IW F Novak Djokovic (SRB) 3 L 6-4, 3-6, 2-6

Laverfan you are quite a clever gal, interesting that Novak had no victories over Nadal as #1 till 2011 and then just rolled them up in short succession.

Ta for that Laverfan. Well it always used to be a thing that Rafa could beat Fed when Rafa was two to Fed's one. Seems Djoko can repeat the trick and with the way the rankings go he may have quite a few opportunities to do it again in 2014. Ah, the days when the numero uno spot would change hands almost every week!

Talking of records. Did anyone see the BBC poser asking to list the six men's number ones whose surnames ended in a VOWEL ? Felt very pleased getting Moya, but failed to get all six and felt stupid afterwards. OK then, no cheating - who are the other five ?

McEnroe
Agassi
Nastase
Ashe
Not sure about the other one

Newcombe

Hmmmmmmm

Born Slippy wrote:Newcombe

That's the one - I could picture the moustache but couldn't remember the name.

legendkillarV2 wrote:Hmmmmmmm

No, that doesn't end in a vowel

Well it does to me so  

Ashe aint one

Ferrero

I kept thinking of Robredo, but it is Ferrero.

PS: BS got to it first.