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Players who have advanced the furthest at all of the majors? I.e. Djokovic has won each, Sinner has reached the finals in all, and so on.

If that is correct, who is tier C? Cilic?

DU Pioneers wrote: ↑Fri Jul 18, 2025 1:50 am Players who have advanced the furthest at all of the majors? I.e. Djokovic has won each, Sinner has reached the finals in all, and so on.

If that is correct, who is tier C? Cilic?

That looks correct to me, and yes Cilic would be the missing name as he's reached at least the semis at all 4 majors.

DU Pioneers wrote: ↑Fri Jul 18, 2025 1:50 am Players who have advanced the furthest at all of the majors? I.e. Djokovic has won each, Sinner has reached the finals in all, and so on.

If that is correct, who is tier C? Cilic?

Yes, this is the correct answer.

Cilic would have made it too obvious?
You concept of OBVIOUS is not obvious at all, Mick
Good stat.

Guess Alcaraz makes at least C when he makes AO SF. Right?

patrick wrote: ↑Fri Jul 18, 2025 4:12 pm Guess Alcaraz makes at least C when he makes AO SF. Right?

Given that he has titles in 3 other slams, his status according to this metric is dependent only on AO best performance.

Which achievement in Grand Slams happened multiple times in WTA history, but never happened in ATP history. The answer does not rely on comprehensive stats like winning certain percentages of games, sets etc. It has nothing to do with what happened within particular matches - only the final result (won or lost) that matters.

Holding the title of all four grand slams at the same time.

dave g wrote: ↑Mon Nov 03, 2025 1:31 pm Holding the title of all four grand slams at the same time.

Djokovic won all four from Wimbledon 2015 to Roland Garros 2016.

And Laver had a calendar slam in 1969.
I think we will need a bit more of a hint. That is a bit too vague for me.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 03, 2025 4:07 pm And Laver had a calendar slam in 1969.
I think we will need a bit more of a hint. That is a bit too vague for me.

Laver's calendar slam predates the ATP so it wouldn't have counted either.

I assumed that Mick meant OPEN ERA.

Yes, I meant Open Era. Which still does not disqualify Laver. To prevent going further down this road - I also did not mean Steffi's golden slam. First - it is not entirely related to slams performance, second - it happened only once. The achievement I meant happened several times in WTA history

Another hint (more like eliminating unnecessary distractions): this achievement has nothing to do with age (a-la "the youngest to..." or "the oldest to...")

A player that reached two slam finals in a year, but did not win either?