Following Katie Boulter's defeat at the US Open it meant that British women won 13 matches in the Grand Slams in 2024. Apart from 2019 when 18 `matches were won including 14 by Jo Konta this was the best since 1987 when 19 were won.Starting from 1968 not surprisingly the best year was back in 1969 when 33 matches were won. The most won in a year by a British woman was 15 by Ann Jones in 1969 and Jo Durie in 1983.
Out of interest, what is the mens record since Open tennis began - for slam wins in a year?
I'm not sure off hand but it must be better than the women because of Andy Murray. The men must have managed some wins in the Henman/Rusedski era. Roger Taylor certainly manged a few in the late 60's and early 70's.
A quick look at a sample of women's 15K qualifying matches (week 19-27). Byes not counted as matches or wins. The MD first round are only for qualifiers. More wins than I'd have guessed. At some point I'll add a few more matches to see if the percentages change - Perhaps also do similar for the men's.
A quick look at a sample of women's 15K qualifying matches (week 11-28). Byes not counted as matches or wins. The MD first round are only for qualifiers. More wins than I'd have guessed.
A quick look at a sample of men's 15K qualifying matches (week 13-21). Byes not counted as matches or wins. The MD first round are only for qualifiers.
This is an assessment by Jeff Sackman of the speed of the surface at each ATP Tour event. In essence he uses aces as a proxy for surface speed, but comparing how many aces the cohort of players taking in the event would have been expected to have served given the factors involved such as return quality, conditions etc and compares that with how many aces actually got served. The upshot is a metric where 1 is average (ie they served as many aces as expected) and higher reflects a higher than average surface speed based on this assessment.
Youll see a link in the link below taking one to the same comparisons in past years. Interestingly the same events appear at the top most years, Chengdu being one , the Tour Finals another- with some of the clay events like Umag being consistently low.
Simplistically, if the group of players at an event would have been expected to serve 100 aces in total and serve 95, their metric is 0.95. Another 32 players may enter another event and based on the factors involved be expected to serve 200 aces. They actually serve 190 aces, again a metric of 0.95 and this would suggest the two events have the same speed of court surface. Or something like that.