There is only one way to judge tennis greatness, and that’s the ability to win grand slam titles.  Current female player Carolyn Wozniaki, for example, has spent many weeks holding the #1 ranking yet she has never been in serious…

There is simply no question about it: Rod Laver is the best male tennis player who ever lived. Laver is one of only two men to win each of the grand slam events more than once, and he is the…

There is simply no doubt that Roy Emerson is the second greatest tennis male player who ever lived. A dozen male players won enough grand slam titles to have had a chance at winning each title more than once, but…

Roger Federer is the third-greatest male tennis player of all time.  Being still on tour, it’s possible that Federer could leave the game as the best ever, but to do that he’s at least got to win one more French…

Rafael Nadal is the greatest clay-court male tennis player of all time, holding an unequaled seven French Open titles. He has played 53 matches at Roland Garros and has lost exactly once, in the fourth round 2009 to Robin Soderling,…

Pete Sampras holds 14 grand slam titles, the second-most of any player in history. But he is the fifh-greatest player of all time, not the second. But for Roger Federer, Sampras would be the undisputed King of Wimbledon.  But Federer…

Bjorn Borg is the sixth-greatest male tennis player of all time, the holder of eleven grand slam titles:  he won Wimbledon five times and he won the French Open six times. Only three payers in the history of the game…

It was said of the big-serving Tilden that he could hold five balls in his left hand, fire four of them across the net for aces and then toss the fifth into the crowd for a souvenir. No player has…