Tennis Stats for The Big Four

After another amazing Wimbledon Final yesterday, the question this tournament was are we seeing the end of the Big Four? Well two of the 'Big Four' just played out one of the greatest 5 set Wimbledon Finals in recent memory. It's worth taking a look at the Grand Slam champions since 2003. That year saw Federer win his maiden slam at Wimbledon when he defeated Mark Philippoussis, 7–6, 6–2, 7–6. Fast forward to the current day and 44 Grand Slam tournaments later, the breakdown (Big Four only) is as follows: Roger Feder: 25 Finals, 17 Wins Rafael Nadal: 20 Finals, 14 Wins Novak Djokovic: 14 Finals, 7 Wins Andy Murray: 7 Finals, 2 Wins Between these guys they have won 40 of the past 45 Grand Slams spanning 11 years. However, the Big Four wasn't truly born until 2008 when Djokovic won the Australian and Murray was a runner-up at the US Open that year to Federer. It was the Big One (Federer), then Big Two (add Nadal) and then Big Four. 2003  Andre Agassi  (8/8)...

As I predicted in my last post it would be a Murray and Djokovic Final in Australia, also citing Murray's triumph over Federer in the semi (wish I had've put my money where my blog is). There is no doubt in the tennis world that Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have played the best tennis in the past 6 months. Many predicted after Murray's breakthrough victory at Flushing Meadows that this was the dawn of tennis' new big rivalry. Rafa and Roger have served up the greatest rivalry in tennis history that spans back to 2004. Having played 8 Grand Slam finals (Rafa leads 6-2) and winning 28 titles between them, makes it the greatest. The question is can Rafa or Federer make it to any more finals? The chances of them both making a final against each other seems even less likely. That's mainly due to the rise of Novak, and more recently Andy. Could the greatest tennis rivalry ever be handing a baton to another of the greatest rivalries? The fact that this top four has...

As we enter the first slam of 2013, let's have a look at a very e xciting year ahead for the Big Four... o r will it be the B ig Three? Novak Djokovic Novak enters the 2013 Australian Open as World Number 1 and favourite to retain his title . He is going for his 4th win in Melbourne and his 6th Slam in total (same number of slam wins as Becker and Edberg). Having attended Novak's last big final at the ATP World Tour finals in London, he finished the 2012 season in style. His biggest strength now is belief and confidence to turn situations in his favour. Against Federer and Murray in that tournament Novak showed great guile, both in terms of play and psychology to get the edge in these victories. For that reason I see Novak dominating 2013, potentially getting the 'Grand Slam'. A ustralian Open Pre dictions 1st Round v. Paul-Henri Mathieu :   Head to Head : First meeting   Prediction: This will be a straight sets victory for Novak . The last time Novak lo...