Date: June 14th, 2019 11:20 AM
Author: curious juggernaut
• I tried to take stock of tennis’s unbreakable Open Era records and here’s what I came up with in order:
1. A match ending 70-68 in the fifth set, and all the other records—points played, aces, games in a set, the 980 points played—that go with it.
2. Nadal’s 12 French Opens. For that matter, any player winning any major a dozen times.
3. Three players competing simultaneously with more than 50 singles Grand Slam titles among them.
4. Martina’s 59 overall Grand Slam titles. (Yes, Margaret Court won 62.)
5. The Bryan Brothers winning more than 100 titles (over nearly a quarter-century) with the same partner.
6. Two sisters winning almost 30 Grand Slam singles titles between them, and teaming to win more than a dozen Grand Slam titles together in doubles, and generally ruling a sport for a quarter-century.
7. Tracy Austin winning a Grand Slam singles title at 16 (and a WTA title the same month she turned 14.)
https://www.si.com/tennis/2019/06/12/tennis-mailbag-rafael-nadal-roland-garros-ashleigh-barty
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4282853&forum_id=2#38388426)