Which Rackets Win The Most Slams – An Update
You may remember at the end of last month I made on post which tennis rackets win the most grand slams in which I looked at how each brand of racket has performed at Grand Slam level since the start of the open era in 1968.
I know a few of you liked that post so I thought I'd update you on a couple of amends and changes I've made.
In the post itself I asked you guys for any corrections and any errors you spotted as I was missing a couple of rackets and wasn't sure if all the data was correct. Enter Jean Claude Marty.
As you can see from the comment above Jean-Claude uncovered the rackets I was missing (Brian Teacher and Andres Gimeno) and he also emailed me a list of corrections on the rackets I'd got wrong. Turns out Slazenger had won 11 slams not 1 😉
In terms of the amends the following changed:
- Rackets I had listed as been won by Seamco and Rawlings were in fact Slazenger rackets
- Lendl used Addidas rackets instead of Kneissl
- Agassi won his first slam with a Donnay not a Head
- McEnroe won his first 2 slams with Wilson before switching to Dunlop
- Brian Teacher used a Pro Kennex
- New brands added were WIP, Pro Kennex and Spalding
The full updated post is here: Which Tennis Rackets win the Most Grand Slams?
It also turns out that Jean Claude has a book coming out with all this information for both the men's and women's games which I think is pretty cool and I'll be doing a feature on the book when its released.
If any of you guys are historians of the game then I'm sure this will be a must buy and I know from researching the racket myself this book will have taken a huge amount of effort to make. And it goes into far more detail than I did, including pictures and more information about the rackets themselves.
I also think it'd be cool if Roger himself were somehow to find out about this book as from how he talks about the game and its past I reckon he'd find it interesting. So if anyone has any ideas on that then please let me know!
Hi Jonathan,
My book is for sale on the site of the french publishing CHIRON. Here is the link which allows to visualize the cover and to order:
http://www.editionschiron.com/252-les-raquettes-de-legende-9782702713945.html
Many thanks for your help. Regards. JCM
Hi Jean Claude!
Cool, I will check it out and tweet about it.
Jonathan