“It has been 86 Grand Slam tournaments,” the aged Rose DeWitt Bukater mentioned wistfully, “since an American man has received a serious singles championship.”
There have been the a long time by which the Yankees owned Main League Baseball. There was NFL domination by the Patriots and Chiefs over a lot of the previous twenty years. The Canadiens, Islanders and Oilers had deeds to the Stanley Cup for the higher a part of 20 years. First, the Celtics, then the Bulls and Lakers had been lords of the NBA.
However there has by no means been a sport dominated by hegemony like the lads’s facet of tennis for the reason that 2003 U.S. Open, when Andy Roddick grew to become the final American man to win a Grand Slam. A professional sport or professional sport league has by no means been extra dynastic.
For whereas there have been 86 majors since Roddick’s triumph, simply 13 completely different champions have emerged, The Huge Three of Novak Djokovic (24), Rafael Nadal (22) and Roger Federer (19) combining for 65 of them with Carlos Alcaraz (5) and Jannik Sinner combining for 9 tiles and certainly all seven Slams over the previous two calendar years.
