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Question 2

Name the 29 tennis players who have won 5 or more mens' grand slam single titles (all time)

DWetz/TN to bid first this time, hopefully tennis is a better category

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12-01-2018 , 10:42 PM

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eyebooger

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Phew. Almost gave up an own goal there. Glad it worked out.

If there's another hyper-British/Euro category, there's no need to go super aggressive. We're fighting an American and a Canadian.

As for this one, I'm imagining this will be bid into the stratosphere.

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12-01-2018 , 11:07 PM

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12-01-2018 , 11:08 PM

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we'll go with a nice gentle starter

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12-01-2018 , 11:13 PM

#30

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15

eleanor, scale of 1 to 10, how well do you know tennis?

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12-02-2018 , 06:00 AM

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Yeah sorry for that awful bid EB. Will make sure discussing, just got excited when I saw the category.

Tennis wise, pretty good but there’s a fair few on my maybes then me certain list right now

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12-02-2018 , 06:01 AM

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This is far better.

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12-02-2018 , 06:02 AM

#33

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I’d say a 7 for out of 10

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12-02-2018 , 06:06 AM

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For the record, One for Arthur was the only one I knew in that category, and that was only because of a sheep that, coincidentally, eleanor ran earlier this year.

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12-02-2018 , 06:09 AM

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Originally Posted by True North

For the record, One for Arthur was the only one I knew in that category, and that was only because of a sheep that, coincidentally, eleanor ran earlier this year.

Haha yeah my winning Sheep. Back on MLK day. Should probably run something pre end of year

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12-02-2018 , 10:39 AM

#36

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Originally Posted by eleanor60

I’d say a 7 for out of 10

Okay, sounds good.

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12-02-2018 , 11:50 AM

#37

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You good with bumping it again, DW?

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12-02-2018 , 02:23 PM

#38

DWetzel

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That sounds like an invitation.

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12-02-2018 , 07:11 PM

#39

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12-02-2018 , 07:16 PM

#40

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thin air, TN...

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12-02-2018 , 07:33 PM

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Wow. OK, well, that's past what I'm comfortable with. How are you with pre-Open era players?

It would suck to go down 2-0, but I think we may have to let this one go.

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12-02-2018 , 10:31 PM

#42

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I can come up with most of the obvious-ish ones. I don't think that's enough.

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12-03-2018 , 06:11 AM

#43

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Same here.

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12-03-2018 , 09:01 AM

#44

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EB you got this? I can post my list and you can discuss

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12-03-2018 , 09:36 AM

#45

eyebooger

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At work now. Will post ideas later tonight. Will need most assistance with the older guys if you have any knowledge of them.

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12-03-2018 , 06:09 PM

#46

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My first group in almost certain
Federer
Nadal
Djokovic
Sampras
Becker
Agassi
Perry
McEnroe
Emerson
Bjorg

Fairly confident on:
Connors
Laver
Lendl
Ashe

I know there were a bunch of French winners a while ago but can’t for the life of me think of any

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12-03-2018 , 06:19 PM

#47

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I'll be back later with a list.

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12-03-2018 , 10:53 PM

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Back home now. Here is the list of I put together earlier today.

Open Era people:
Federer
Borg
Sampras
Agassi
Edberg
Lendl
Laver
Becker
McEnroe
Connors
Emerson
Wilander
Newcombe

Old people:
Budge
Perry
Tilden
Sears
Lacoste

Unfortunately that only gets us to 20. You had Ashe and I didn't, but I don't feel good about him. He definitely won the US Open and Wimbledon, but I'm not sure he won either multiple times. Kuerten and Courier are two other modern people who are winners, but I'm very iffy on the 5-time aspect.

That's 23 if we want it, but I don't feel great about it.

They had a good strategy by asking about pre-Open Era people. I wish we had done that.

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12-04-2018 , 03:43 AM

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I like Courier, but also iffy on five, Rosewall is one we forgot about and he must have won a bunch.

Wish I could remember the French players from the 20s when they dominated tennis. The name Henri keeps coming to mind but that’s probably 1) just a standard French name I think of, 2) useless without a last name.

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12-04-2018 , 03:49 AM

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Did Kuerten win five? He was a beast on clay but was also injured a bunch.

Honestly I’m pretty much stumped and can’t think of any others. Whoever we go for is going to be a bit of a Hail Mary at this point.

This era - dominated by the big three with Murray winning a few but nowhere near 5

Previous era, Roddick and Hewitt won a few each as Sampras and Agassi cane to the end of their careers. Goran won one but nowhere near 5

Then we are in becker/ Lendl/ McEnroe/ Wilander times so we really are looking for people some time back

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