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So..who really IS the greatest ATP player of all time..?
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A recent poll here at Tennis Now asked who you thought the Greatest of All Time (GOAT) was in the men's professional tennis.
32% of you thought Roger Federer was the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time)..but is he? Sure he's won 15 career grand slam titles in the matter of six years (with his first coming in 2003 at Wimbledon)..but there are some things he hasn't done that other players have accomplished.
Roy Emerson somehow was left off this list, with a grand slam title collection spanning a whopping
28 combined singles and doubles grand slam titles, 12 alone being singles titles, a record for most grand slam titles won by an individual that stood for 33 years until it was surpassed by Pete Sampras in 2000, and he was surpassed by Roger Federer in 2009.
Rod Laver is the only person to have won a calendar year grand slam, twice! No other person has come close to this amazing feat at all in the past decade. Only Don Budge has achieved this feat, but only once.
My personal thoughts, I think Laver is the hands down GOAT. a CYGS is something not anyone can do at the snap of a finger, it requires a player to play almost the entire calendar year and trek all around the world to other various tournaments around the world on top of those grand slam tournaments.
Let me know what you think, you agree with the poll results? Disagree with me? Leave a comment.
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