Talk:List of male tennis players

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We don't want articles of transitory validity, do we ?
It'd be much better to make a list of all time best known tennis pros, IMO. Kpjas 2002-11-17

Is the list ordered in any particular sequence ? Jay 13:25, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I'm going to sort it alphabetically then. Jay 09:56, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Shouldn't it be by last name? -- Jao 19:58, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
yes, pls do it! Jay 10:33, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Alternative Open-Era list

I generated a list of all players who have won four or more matches in the Open Era and filtered it into red/blue links. The good news: 490/755=65% of the links are already blue. The bad news: there's still 265 red links, and no guarantee that all the blue ones link to the correct articles! See User:Dantheox/players --Dantheox 01:24, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Supposed records

Federer doesn't hold record for most consecutive weeks as No. 1, he "just" holds record for most consecutive weeks as ATP No. 1 : the ATP ranking has first been published on August, 23 1973. Tennis has existed at least a century (born between 1858 and 1870 and not in 1874) before the ATP ranking was created. Players such as Gonzales or Tilden or Laver have been No.1 for 7 or 8 years but at the time there was no computer and weekly rankings. So Federer's records are just last quarter century records but not all-time records. Some players have been No.1 before 1973 and for very long periods (see World number one male tennis player rankings).

Carlo Colussi 12:17, 5 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] candidate for greatest player of all time

ok for all without McEnroe !

Fred30 13 (talk) 09:37, 4 April 2008 (UTC)