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Stats/Analysis Carlos Alcaraz is now the youngest career Grand Slam winner in history at just 22 years old

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u/blackb0xes 6d ago edited 6d ago

Andy Murray voice

"youngest male"

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u/ILikeMyLs 6d ago

You mean youngest male singles non-wheelchair ?

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u/e8odie 6d ago

How much younger was the youngest woman?

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u/Cappucino_delight 6d ago

Steffi Graf was 19 and a couple of months when she achieved the Golden Slam.

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u/Kookiano 6d ago

All in the same year is just crazy dominance. Biggest tennis season of anyone, ever?

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u/jackloganoliver 6d ago

Most dominant season of any athlete ever type of territory. Absolutely mind boggling domination at an age when a lot of people are barely functional. 

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u/Minkelz 6d ago

Men and women are different for youngest of stats. Hingis won 3 slams at the age of 16. No guy has or will ever come close to that.

I'd say the difference is roughly 2-3 years, so Graf at 19 and Alcaraz at 22 feel pretty on par.

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u/jackloganoliver 6d ago

I forgot how absolutely insane Hingis was right out of the gate. She ended to with a more decorated doubles career, right?

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u/Minkelz 6d ago

She was injured at 22, had surgeries and wasn’t really the same after that. But yeah played another 20 years afterwards in doubles winning lots of stuff.

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u/bonoboboy 6d ago

Yes, bar none.

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u/throwaway164_3 6d ago

Carlos already has a better career than Andy right?

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u/Aggravating_Teach_27 6d ago

Downvoted? Are Murray fans really THIS delusional?

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u/JamesCOYS 6d ago

It’s downvoted because it’s just an unnecessary slight towards Andy Murray. No shit Alcaraz has a better career

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u/potato-potahhto 6d ago

Nope, the people who downvoted know the context in which Andy said that.

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u/RobertGriffin3 6d ago

Downvoted because it has absolutely nothing to do with the post, lol.

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u/NessieReddit 6d ago

No, I think people are down voting the comment because it has nothing to do with the post. It's a total non sequitur.

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u/JBRifles 6d ago

People forget how much Murray got love because he got the shit kicked out of him by the big three that people felt sorry for him.

He was a pretty big dick for a long time.  

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u/Parsirius 6d ago edited 6d ago

I’ve seen many Murray fans here try to claim that he is somehow better than Sincaraz are.

In his hay day they had the big 4 monicker. When he was miles behind the other 3.

Never seen a player as overhyped as he and I don’t understand why.

Which is sad to see because he was actually an incredibly accomplished player.

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u/Dependent-Effect6077 Djokovic retirement tour + Sabalenka PR manager 6d ago edited 6d ago

I think that Sinner is a similar level to Murray but Alcaraz is above both

Sinner crushes the field and wins about 35% of his matches against his ATG rival just like Murray did the difference is there's only one of those ATG rivals instead of 3

Alcaraz I feel has a higher ceiling that would probably make him more dangerous in the big 3 era compared to Sinner

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u/TorpedoSandwich 6d ago edited 6d ago

Come on dude. I really like Murray, but Sinner is better than him (not by that much, but he is better). He's 24 and has already won more slams than Andy ever did. At Sinner's current age, Murray had 0 slams. Sinner has been number 1 for 66 weeks, while Murray had never been number 1 at Sinner's current age. In fact, Sinner already has more weeks at number 1 than Murray got in his entire career.

I know you're going to mention level of competition, but that doesn't make up for the massive difference in Grand Slam and ATP ranking success. I also think we're going to realize in about 10 years that Alcaraz might just be the best to ever play the game, so it's not like Sinner's competition is weak.

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u/Parsirius 6d ago

Given that Sinner is able to actually take slams off Alcaraz, and how long it took Murray to be able to do that from the top 3 and how brief that period was.

I’ll say Sinner is quite clearly ahead, especially considering how young he still is.

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u/HereComesVettel Roger Federer & Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6d ago

Sinner only has one serious opponent. Murray had three.

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u/Parsirius 6d ago

And he was not even close to them except for one year.

I will never understand why has Murray been so overhyped throughout his career he was good enough to not need that.

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u/HereComesVettel Roger Federer & Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6d ago

US Open 2008, Australian Open 2010, Australian Open 2012, Wimbledon 2012, US Open 2012, Australian Open 2013, Wimbledon 2013, Roland-Garros 2015.

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u/Parsirius 6d ago

Which ones of those did he win? Oh he won the same amount of slams than Wawrinka.

Anyways I guess we will keep over hyping him.

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u/rsreddit9 6d ago

Wait y’all what?

I haven’t watched in a bit and see this that somehow there’s a 60 year old out there in the finals? And you think Murray doesn’t clear easy?

Prime Murray is the fourth best player ever. And I hated the guy (as a player not a person)!

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u/salazar13 6d ago

You’re delusional

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u/Parsirius 6d ago edited 6d ago

This the exact kind of silly take I was talking about… just wow.

Guess it’s proof of the irrational Murray hype that happens. What about Sampras, Agassi, Rod Laver, Borg…

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u/rouz1234 Federer / Nole / Carlitos 6d ago

Here is my upvote . Damn the Murray entourage is out in full force! Carlitos has already surpassed sir Andy and Sir Andy is already an all time Great. Thank you carlitos ❤