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January 3, 2008
Hi Coach,
You can see the opening round of the first Grand Slam of 2008 the
Australian Open starting tonight on ESPN2 and ESPN2HD.
For complete TV schedule visit:
http://www.ariastennis.com/tennistv.html .
To visit the Australian Open web site click:http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/index.html
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Tennis history is in the making. To better understand
how significant this year will be I’ve included the following article:
Article from the ESPN Tennis web site (http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/index
):
Tennis' top 10 individual seasons in the Open era By
Keith Hawkins ESPN.com
Updated: January 7, 2008
Tom Brady put together a regular season for the ages: an NFL-record 50
touchdown passes (he threw 50 in 2005 and 2006 combined) to go along
with a 16-0 record in the regular season. That's about as close to
perfection as it gets, and one of the single greatest seasons an
individual has ever had in a team sport.
But what about those individuals in individual sports? Steffi Graf's
1988 "Golden Slam" and Martina Navratilova's 1984 campaign made Page 2's
Top 25 greatest individual seasons.
Here's ESPN.com's top 10 individual tennis seasons in
the Open era (since 1968).:
1. 1988 Steffi Graf - She won the Golden Slam (all four majors plus
Olympic gold). Granted, opportunities come around only once every four
years to pull that off, but Graf remains the only player -- male or
female -- to accomplish the feat.
2. 1984 Martina Navratilova - Where to begin? Three Grand Slam singles
titles and an Open era-record 74 straight match wins. She also combined
with Pam Shriver to win all four Slam titles in doubles.
3. 1969 Rod Laver - The only men's player in the Open era to win the
season Grand Slam. Enough said.
4. 1983 Martina Navratilova - Three Slam titles to go along with the
single-season win percentage mark (.989, 86-1), a record that still
stands today.
5. 1970 Margaret Court - Before Graf there was Court, the first woman to
win the season Grand Slam in the Open era.
6. 1974 Jimmy Connors - A record of 99-4 and 14 titles in 20 events.
Connors won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open. He didn't have
a chance to win all four Slams because he was banned by the French Open
after he had signed a contract to play World Team Tennis. He took over
the No. 1 ranking in July 1974 and held it 160 straight weeks.
7. 2006 Roger Federer - What didn't he do? He didn't win all four Grand
Slams (losing the French Open), but Federer became the first player
since Rod Laver in 1969 to reach the final in all four Grand Slams. He
went 92-5 and won 12 titles (including three Slams), becoming the first
player in the Open era with double-digit titles in three consecutive
years.
8. 1984 John McEnroe - His win percentage of .965 (82-3, Wimbledon, U.S.
Open titles) remains the best single-season record on the men's tour in
the Open era.
9. 2002 Serena Williams - She twisted her ankle in Sydney, Australia,
and missed the year's first Grand Slam. When she returned, Serena won
eight of the 12 events she entered including all three Grand Slams --
beating older sister Venus in straight sets at the French Open,
Wimbledon and U.S. Open. The 2002 season remains the only time Serena
finished the year No. 1.
10. 1988 Mats Wilander - Lost in Graf's spectacular '88 season was the
fact that Wilander won three of four Slams. Wilander, Federer and Laver
are the only men to win at least three Grand Slams in a season.
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