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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 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)
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)
ok for all without McEnroe !
Fred30 13 (talk) 09:37, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
There is not a birth year for some notable recent or quite recent players, Anders Järryd (retired 1995), Felix Mantilla (active), Todd Martin (ret. 2004), Jarkko Nieminen (active) and Tommy Robredo (active). Each one's article has the year. Why not this one? 85.217.51.162 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
There are: ranked among the top 25 singles players in the "Open Era"; been ranked in the top five prior to the Open Era and ranked World No. 1 in singles or doubles
There is no need to furthermore list #1 in singles, as they all must be within the top 25 or top 5. Or am I wrong? 85.217.41.210 (talk) 10:10, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
The present criteria don't have ATP World Tour Masters 1000/ATP Masters Series/Tennis Masters Series/Mercedes-Benz Super 9/Championship Series, Single Week/Grand Prix Tour Championship Series title wins as a criterion, but it very likely should. Will add it at some point unless there are objections. (Suggest just mentioning, in the notes right column, the number of such titles won without listing them.) Mayumashu (talk) 11:09, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
the list when complete will be too long. why don't we limit it to grand slam singles semi-finalist or better? also, maybe we should say top 20 instead of top 25 ranking? Mayumashu (talk) 22:33, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
I think so, but won't add it at this point. List is at Major professional tennis tournaments before the Open Era Mayumashu (talk) 00:47, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
For the sake of greater brevity, this list definitely needs to includes a player's best performance at a Grand Slam rather than all of their quarterfinal-or-better appearances. Otherwise, why not include every period for which the player had been ranked in the top 25 as well? Which, of course, would make little sense. Rovingrobert (talk) 07:59, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
This list was gratuitously complicated by having singles and doubles players in the same article. I split the article in two: "List of male singles tennis players" and "List of male doubles tennis players". Need help removing Doubles references from the Singles article, and vice versa. Rovingrobert (talk) 02:33, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
The consensus is against a merge because editors consider List of male tennis players, List of male doubles tennis players, List of male singles tennis players to be distinct topics. Cunard (talk) 05:40, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
It has been proposed to merge List of male tennis players, List of male doubles tennis players, List of male singles tennis players, by Rovingrobert (talk · contribs) in April 2016. -- 70.51.45.100 (talk) 04:48, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
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. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.There are many players who would be included on both the singles and doubles lists based on their significance in each, especially in past eras where playing singles and doubles was the norm. Having a combined list of singles and doubles players also makes the article broader and more likely to be read and edited. Rovingrobert (talk) 08:27, 22 April 2016 (UTC) [Merge proposer]
In response to User:Wolbo's comments, the criteria for inclusion obviously contains different information when the articles are separate, but I am not sure what reasoning there would be behind having one player on two different lists. Presumably you would want all relevant information on one player in one handy place. As for the lack of maintenance argument, I sincerely believe that separate singles and doubles articles leads to an esoteric audience. The subjects of each article are simply too specific for the purpose of the article(s) when separated. Rovingrobert (talk) 07:54, 24 April 2016 (UTC) [Merge proposer]
It is a lot of work, but I would start with highest ranking and highest ranking's year.
When create columns for GS, AO, RG, WIM, USO, OLY and Finals
Also, I think all doubles information should be removed:
Name | Birth | Death | Nation | HoF | HR | HRA | GS | AO | RG | WIM | USO | OLY | FIN | Criteria for inclusion |
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Andre Agassi | 1970 | – | 2011 | 1 | 1995 | 8 / 15 / 26 / 36 | 4 / 4 / 6 / 7 | 1 / 3 / 5 / 9 | 1 / 2 / 5 / 7 | 2 / 6 / 10 / 13 | 1 / – / – | 1 / 4 / 6 | ||
Boris Becker | 1967 | – | 2003 | 1 | 1991 | 6 / 10 / 18 / 23 | 2 / 2 / 2 / 4 | – / – / 3 / 4 | 3 / 7 / 9 / 11 | 1 / 1 / 4 / 4 | 3 / 8 / 9 | |||
Björn Borg | 1956 | – | 1987 | 1 | 1977 | 11 / 16 / 17 / 21 | 6 / 6 / 6 / 7 | 5 / 6 / 6 / 8 | – / 4 / 5 / 6 | 3 / 8 / 9 | ||||
Michael Chang | 1972 | – | 2008 | 2 | 1996 | 1 / 4 / 8 / 13 | – / 1 / 3 / 3 | 1 / 2 / 2 / 4 | – / – / – / 1 | – / 1 / 3 / 5 | – / 1 / 1 | |||
Marin Čilić | 1988 | – | 6 | 2016 | 1 / 2 / 4 / 10 | – / – / 1 / 1 | – / – / – / 1 | – / 1 / 1 / 4 | 1 / 1 / 2 / 4 | |||||
Jimmy Connors | 1952 | – | 1998 | 1 | 1974 | 8 / 15 / 31 / 41 | 1 / 2 / 2 / 2 | – / – / 4 / 8 | 2 / 6 / 11 / 14 | 5 / 7 / 14 / 17 | 3 / 4 / 12 |
Update: Here it is: ((Tennis wfsq cell|w=19|f=29|s=42|q=50))
Ilyan (talk) 14:03, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
Please don't keep editing this list here... use your sandbox. I moved this stuff to your sandbox so you can work on it but I doubt many will want the change. Fyunck(click) (talk) 19:12, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
There currently are no citations, so are citations actually needed? If they are, to verify what information? CharlesTStokes (talk) 07:19, 14 September 2022 (UTC)