His best ATP season at the Masters 1000 level came in 2016 when he reached five finals and won three titles. These came in a row in Madrid, Rome, Cincinnati, Shanghai, and Paris, with victories in Rome, Shanghai, and Paris. Subsequently, the Brit’s run in the French capital pressed...
Today, Troy Aikman earns anannual salary of about $7.5 millionas Fox's lead game analyst, but before his career in the broadcast booth, the Cowboys quarterback was a legend on the field. Thesix-time Pro Bowlerspent all 12 years of his career in Dallas, a Cowboys record for quarterbacks,...
(27) than do 27franchises. His Super Bowl victories (five) outnumber the all-time playoff-win tallies for one team (the still new-ish Texans) and match another's (the not-at-all new-ish Bengals). Since 2006, Brady has six of the top 30 postseason QBR performances -- h...
I think an even more interesting category is the category of players with multiple, high profile victories in careers where they struggled winning lesser tournaments. Do you know how many casual tennis fans think Stan Wawrinka and Murray have had comparable careers because they both won 3 GS? I...
Four cyclists have five Tour de France victories, but there was a time when one man surpassed them all. In 2004, Lance Armstrong won his sixth straight Tour de France, but his titles (seven overall) would be scratched from the record books in 2012, when Armstrong accepted a ban from the...
The only problem was, even with all those victories, Rogers lost his desire to play. He has won only one tournament since and has not finished higher than 128th on the money list in the past six years. He seldom plays competit...
Federer, significantly, isn’t. Just as his victories often break or extend an obscure record, so do his losses curtail or forestall another. Had Federer won he would have reached his tenth consecutive Roland Garros quarterfinal. Alas he is stranded on nine, and might one day bore his ...
Scheduled consecutively on Court 3, both teenagers assembled tremendous four set victories against experienced professionals in Benjamin Becker and Igor Sijsling respectively. Channel 7 immediately anointed them ‘Greek gods in the making’. Tomorrow the younger of the Greek gods, Kokkina...
Serena Williams is widely regarded as the most successful women’s tennis player of all time. With a total of 23 Grand Slam tournament victories during her career, she has won the most Grand Slam titles of all time. Q. Why are Slavs so good at tennis?
Just as his victories often break or extend an obscure record, so do his losses curtail or forestall another. Had Federer won he would have reached his tenth consecutive Roland Garros quarterfinal. Alas he is stranded on nine, and might one day bore his grandchildren with the story ...