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What Rafael Nadal’s Australian Open loss means for Federer, Djokovic and career Slams race – ESPN.co.uk
The big question remains: Who will finish with the most Slam titles? But tennis’s next generation could take advantage of this opportunity.
For most of tennis’s existence, winning even a single Grand Slam tournament meant career affirmation.
From 1990 to ’98, 16 different players won a major, six for the first and only time. If there was a big-picture narrative involved, it likely had to do with reaching No. 1 in the ATP rankings.
A lone Slam win prompted Thomas Muster’s rise to No. 1 in early 1996, just as it did for Carlos Moya in 1999. Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Patrick Rafter reached the summit in 1999 as well, just as Lleyton Hewitt,…
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