[Volcana]

I thought it would be interesting to compare the active GS singles winners to their better known historical counterparts.<br />THey are ranked by number of GS titles, then percentage winning GS finals. That is, I'm rewarding those who win when they make the final.

I could have gone the other way, of course. Who's better? A player who makes 12 GS finals, and only wins 2? Or a player who only makes 6 GS finals, and wins five?

The number in parentheses is the players rank alltime by GS wins. The missing numbers are pre-Open era players. Too many people haven't heard of too many players. From the pre-Open era I included Wills Moody, Connolly, Lenglen, Bueno and Gibson.

rank rec.
(01) 24-05 Margaret Smith Court
(02) 22-09 Steffi Graf
(03) 19-03 Helen Wills Moody
(04) 18-14 Martina Navratilova
(05) 18-16 Chris Evert
(06) 12-06 Billie Jean King
(07) 09-00 Maureen Connolly
(08) 09-04 Monica Seles
(09) 08-00 Suzanne Lenglen
(10)
(11)
(12) 07-05 Maria Bueno
(13) 07-11 Evonne Goolagong

(22) 5-2 Althea Gibson

(25) 5-6 Martina Hingis

(28) 4-1 Venus Williams

(30) 4-4 Hana Mandlikova

(32) 4-8 A. Sanchez Vicario

(34) 3-0 Virginia Wade

(39) 3-2 Lindsay Davenport

(45) 2-0 Tracy Austin

(47) 2-0 Jennifer Capriati

(56) 2-2 Mary Pierce

 

[Volcana]

*bump*

I'm just bumping this to get a link to it.

 

[aspyrin]

Wait for Serena fans to see this.

 

[bobito]

(07) 09-00 Maureen Connolly

This stat says it all. 11 slams entered, lost in the first two when she was 14 and 15 and then won the next 9 before a freak accident ended her career at the age of 20. Little Mo would have completely owned the record books had it not been for the riding accident. GOAT :worship:

 

[Miracle Worker]

Why you did this?

 

[Compton Great]

*bump*

I'm just bumping this to get a link to it.

I see what you did there :lol:

 

[Volcana]

Why you did this?

I wanted to put a link to this thread in this thread. When you pull things up in search, you get a link to the search page. I wanted a link to this thread.