Records and Facts

This post is dedicated to all tennis fans who are crazy like me who can never forget the records created by these legends. Whenever people talk about records in tennis it is always stuck to Men. One game where women has created more records than men in both all time and open era. This clearly shows that women are better in the court than men and many women players have had long career time than men.

As requested by one of my friends here comes some of the record details, Facts and Trivia in both Men and Women grand slams both in all time and open era. I have not covered everything. For more details please refer my source.

Source : www.wikipedia.org

RECORDS:

List of top five players who holds the most grand slams in combined (Singles,Doubles and Mixed Doubles) titles:



List of top five players who holds the most grand slams in singles during all time.



List of top five players who holds the most grand slams in singles during open era.



List of top five players who holds the most grand slams in doubles.



FACTS:

Men:

Guillermo Vilas - The only player to win ATP Tour singles titles in five different continents in the same year: 5 (Europe, South America, North America, Africa, and Asia) in 1977.

Lleyton Hewitt - Youngest male player to be the World No. 1 at 20 years and 8 months old (2001).

Michael Chang - Youngest man ever to win a Grand Slam singles title, winning the French Open in 1989 at the age of 17 years and 3 months. It was the only grand slam tournament he would ever win.

Ken Rosewall - Oldest man ever to win a Grand Slam singles title, winning the Australian Open in 1972 at the age of 37 years and 2 months.

Roy Emerson

He is the only male player to have won singles and doubles titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments.
Roy Emerson and Rod Laver are the only male players to win each Grand Slam title at least twice in their career.
He is the only male player to have won singles and doubles titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments.

Rod Laver

He is the only tennis player to have twice won all four Grand Slam singles titles in the same year — first as an amateur in 1962 and second as a professional in 1969.
He is the only male player during the open era to have won a calendar year Grand Slam.

Björn Borg

Shares with Roger Federer the record for most consecutive singles match winning streak at Wimbledon: 41.
Shares with Roger Federer the record for most consecutive times reaching French Open and Wimbledon finals: 4.
Shares with Roger Federer the record for most consecutive Wimbledon singles titles: 5.
Shares with Rafael Nadal the record for most consecutive French Open singles titles: 4.
Shares with Pete Sampras and Roger Federer the record for most consecutive years winning at least one Grand Slam title: 8.
Shares with Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Ivan Lendl the record for most consecutive French Open singles finals in Open Era: 4.


Pete Sampras

Shares with Jimmy Connors and Roger Federer the record for the most US Open singles titles in the open era: 5.
Shares with Björn Borg and Roger Federer the record for the most consecutive years winning at least one Grand Slam singles title: 8.
Shares with Ivan Lendl the record for the most singles finals reached at one Grand Slam tournament (US Open): 8.
Shares with Ivan Lendl the record for the most consecutive years appearing in at least one Grand Slam singles final: 11.
Shares with Ivan Lendl the record for the most Tennis Masters Cup singles titles: 5.


Andre Agassi

Only male player to have won all Grand Slam titles, Davis Cup title, Olympic singles gold medal and Tennis Masters Cup (singles) title.
Shares with Jimmy Connors the record of most years finishing in the top ten: 16.
Shares the record of most Australian Open singles titles in Open era with Roger Federer: 4.
The first player to complete the career grand slam on three different surfaces.


Roger Federer

Federer has won 16 Grand Slam singles titles, more than any other male player.
Federer and Nadal are the only male players to hold (or have held) three Grand Slam singles titles on three different surfaces at the same time.
Shares with Björn Borg and Pete Sampras the record for the most consecutive years winning at least one Grand Slam singles title: 8.
He and Andre Agassi have won all four Grand Slam singles tournaments on three different surfaces.


Women:

Martina Hingis - In 1998 at the Australian Open, Hingis became the youngest player to successfully defend a Grand Slam singles title in the open era (17 years old).

Matina Hingis - In 1999 at the Australian Open, Hingis became the only player in history to win the same Grand Slam tournament in singles and doubles three consecutive years with three different doubles partners.

Lindsay Davenport - In 2005, Davenport became the first female player to have won 50 singles matches at the Australian Open.

Margaret Court

In 1970, she became the first woman during the open era and the second woman in history to win all four Grand Slam singles titles in the same calendar year.
Court won 24 Grand Slam singles titles, a feat no other player has achieved.
She also had a successful doubles career, winning 24 women's and 19 mixed doubles titles, taking Court's overall Grand Slam titles to a record 62.
The International Tennis Hall of Fame states, "For sheer strength of performance and accomplishment there has never been a tennis player to match (her).”

Chris Evert

She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships, including a record seven championships at the French Open and a record six championships at the U.S. Open.
Evert's career win–loss record in singles matches of 1,309–146 (.900) is the best of any professional player in tennis history.
Evert never lost in the first or second rounds of a Grand Slam singles tournament.

Martina Navrátilová

She and King each won 20 Wimbledon titles, an all-time record.
She holds the open era record for most singles titles (167) and doubles titles (177).

Steffi Graff

In 1988, Graf became the first and only tennis player (male or female) to achieve the Calendar Year Golden Slam by winning all four Grand Slam singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year.
Won more singles titles at Wimbledon and the French Open (13) than any other player (man or woman).
Only player to have four times won three of the four Grand Slam singles titles in a calendar year (1989, 1993, 1995, 1996).
Only player to have won every Grand Slam singles title twice in two decades (1980s and 1990s).
Only player in history, man or woman, to have defended all the 4 Grand Slam singles title at least once.

Monica Seles

By winning the 1990 French Open, became the youngest woman ever to win the tournament.
Monica Seles is the only player to win the first 6 grand slams final she entered without a loss.
Seles is the only teen to hold 8 grand slams titles before turning 20.

Venus Williams

In 1997, Williams became the first unseeded singles finalist at the US Open.
Venus WIlliamsHolds fastest serve recorded by a woman in all four Grand Slam tournaments:

* Australian Open: 125 mph in 2003 quarterfinal against Daniela Hantuchová.
* French Open: 128 mph in 2007 second round against Ashley Harkleroad, and again in 2010 against Dominika Cibulková.
* Wimbledon: 129 mph in 2008 final against Serena Williams.
* US Open: 129 mph in 2007 first round against Kira Nagy.

The only female tennis player to have won three career gold medals at the Olympic Games.

Comedy Master

Well, today after returning from my shopping I learnt that our own legendary comedy king Mr.Nagesh a.k.a Gundu Rao passed away due to some illness. He was a legendary actor who not only did comedy roles but also some character roles. He walked away from his family and started his career in Railways department but switched to acting career since he was not satisfied. He joined some drama troupes and became the most sensible comedy actor to live in this world. He is one of the actor who mingled with the next generation and also acted with them. It was producer Balaji who gave Nagesh an opportunity to enter into in this film industry.

He has acted under numerous director. He dedicated himself to this industry. He fits exactly into the character. Be it the poor poet(Tharumi) in thiruvilayadal, Innocent Server in Server Sundaram, Villianous comic pimp in Thillana Mohanambal,an upcoming film director in Kadhallikka Neram Illai or revengful villian in Aboorva Sagodhargal he blends himself into the character. I cannot identified any character which he didn't perform in his career. He even acted as a dead body in Magalir Mattum movie, a poor college boy in Yadheer Neechal and also actor himself in Thillu Mullu.

In the next generation he has acted with vijay in Poove Unakkaga as a grand father, Madhavan in Minnalae as a grand father, arjun in Rhythm as caring father and Dhanush in Kadhal Kondaen as Fr. Rozario. He even acted with Vadivelu in the full length comical movie. You can never count the number movies and characters he was into.

He became the number one expected person in almost all of the Kamal Hasan's movie. He did good comedies with Kamal. Some the pieces with kamal which cannot be forgetten are Michael Madhan Kama Rajan, Avai Shanmugi, Nammavar, panchathanthiram and also in the recent Dasavadharam.

Though he rose to numerous height he was a down to earth person who cared for other people. But it is very unfortunate that the Indian government didn't recognize his work. Many people are given Padma awards(I don't want to quote people who really didn't deserve the this award may be later year) and I think this guy also deserved one. Hope at least in future people get proper recognition for their work.

A common man who worked for the government was never expected to become legend and change the history of Film Industry. Thanks to producer Balaji who gave Nagesh, an extra ordinary material to the Film world. He would be remembered as the comedy king of the yestyear. Long Live his work and May he rest in Peace.

The Jingles Master!!!!

This has been my long due post. It is about the one and only music creator (or what ever equivalent you can say) A.R.Rahman a.k.a Dilip Kumar. Many call him Rahman or A.R.R, but I like to call him the jingles master. Right from his first movie Roja I have always liked his way of creating a music(entire electronic music thing). When ever his creation is released I hear it for more than hundred times in a single day. In simple I feel the magic in his music. They way he mixes the different styles of instruments into a single blend of composition is incomparable.Even his music in Delhi-6 is very fresh. I know that there are very few good composers in our Tamil Film industry like Ilayaraja,M.S.V, etc. and Rahman is one among them. Nowadays I feel the composers are just repeating the numbers from older version. I have this one music director(whose identity I m not interested in disclosing) who has the same standard of five songs. But if you take A.R.R he is not the kinda of a person who repeats the music. For example you can take Roja which is very different from Uzhavan(has folk numbers). Take "aathangara maramae" from "kizhakku cheemaiyalaey", which has a good folk touch. I guess he has his own kinda of techniques to draw the music lovers to his music. The way he uses the flutes in his scores is awesome.

Most people compare A.R.R with Ilaya. But I think this is very mean since they are from two different periods. When A.R.R started his music career Ilaya was unreachable. They both have different ways of exploring the music and are the best in the Indian film industry. I became a crazy fan of A.R.R after hearing his numbers in Duet. He is the only person who knows the way of using the music in a different way. I call him the jingles master because he uses even the sound from a needle in his composition. Well this can be felt only if you hear his songs in headphones.

Some of the songs that are irreplaceble(esp.jingles) in my list aer as follows: Hear all these songs in headphones to hear the jingles clearly.
Chinna Chinna Aasai - Roja
Marghazhi Poove-May Madham
Yegiri Kudhithaen -Boys
Munbaeva-Sillunu Oru Kadhal
Enakku 20 Unakku 18 (all songs)
Kabhi Kabhi Adithi - Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na
Jashn-E-Bahaara - Jodha Akbar
Dil Gira Dafatan - Delhi-6
O Saya- Slum Dog Millionaire

Actually this list is extending so I will stop here(everyone of them has become a tone in my mobile). He has worked with almost all legendary directors like K.B, Bharathiraja, Mani, Shankar, RGV, etc. He adapts easily with each director which can be identified in his scores.

Even his new composition are fabulous like delhi-6,conncetions and slum dog millionaire. He has reached and grabbed many awards and among them the much coveted "Golden Globe Award". He is just one step away to have his hand on his Oscars. This man really deserves the Oscars for his numerous works that reached the entire globe. His works like Bombay Dreams and Pray For Me Brother got the world recognition. This man brought the Indian music into the world stage. I am not very sure of the following comparison. When M.S.Subbhulakshmi rendered her number in U.N., other countries came to know about our country and its culture and when A.R.R did his magical numbers the other countries stopped and started to hear from us all. This shows his dedication and more than that he has proved himself to be deserving any highest award in the world. Well the questions will be answered on Feb 22nd when Oscars are being announced.

When I started to write this sentence I was not able to concentrate coz I was hearing to "Masakalli from Delhi-6". Apart from his music composition I like him for his dedication to social works. Most people doesn't have any clue about his mission works and all other charity stuffs(that includes me). I admire him for his modesty and simplicity. I cannot find any trace of pride or ego(garvam and agandhai). I have become crazy enough that I collected his entire collection of songs and hear to them at least once in a day. Added to that I wake up everyday only on hearing his number(Yes, Margazhi Poove is my alarm tone).I feel like recharged when ever I hear his music. I wish his music lives long in this world. I m eagerly waiting for him to catch hold of the Oscars.