Talk:ITF World Champions

Proposed merger of this article into the Tennis statistics article
The result was not to merge into Tennis statistics, as no consensus was reached. -- Tennis expert 18:35, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Please comment about the proposed merger either here or at the tennis statistics talk page. I am proposing that the merger occur on or after December 20, 2006. Thanks. Tennis expert 17:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I AGREE WITH THE MERGING


 * About the citation needed : "the ITF was punishing Stefan Edberg for not playing the Grand Slam Cup" was written in the French monthly magazine "Tennis Magazine" : I suppose the edition number is needed. I will look at it.Carlo Colussi 09:29, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Tennis Magazine (France) wrote in his February 1991 edition N°179 with Edberg on cover and the following title "Le scandale Edberg" (needless to translate) : " "On" a choisi de sanctionner un champion qui n'avait pas craint d'avouer publiquement le peu d'importance qu'il accordait à la Coupe du Grand Chelem, la fameuse invention de la FIT pour "casser" l'ATP Tour " (" "One" has chosen to sanction a champion who hadn't feared to publicly confess the little importance he granted to the Grand Slam Cup, the famous ITF invention to "break" the ATP Tour.").


 * The French magazine, supported by the Swedish, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese magazines, sent a protest letter to Chatrier, then President of the ITF, asking him "de rétablir la justice sportive et de désigner le vrai champion du monde" (to restore sporting justice and to award the true world champion").


 * A committee including Nastase, Smith, Santana and Gorman voted Edberg as world champion and the 13 jurymen of the French sports paper "L'Équipe" unanimously voted Edberg as world champion.


 * When Edberg came to Roland Garros 1991 the French magazine gave to the Swede all the supporting letters of the magazine readers. Carlo Colussi 08:03, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

I oppose the proposed merger. Since the world champion is named by the ITF and not the winner per se of a world championship tournament, this is not acctually statistics but more like a relatively important form of trivia. It should therefor have its own artice, but there should of course be links between the articles. John Anderson 08:45, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

ITF use the same "grand-slam consistency" logic in 1989 and 1990
For 1990

The DOT ratings calculation, which are a statistical measure of performance independant from human interference or opinion, give the following as the best 5 players at the end of 1990.

1. Ivan Lendl 2722 2. Stefan Edberg 2700 3. Boris Becker 2684 4. Mats Wilander 2649 5. Andre Agassi 2625

It's interesting to note that Edberg had very bad luck with the draws: he had to face Sergi Brugera in the 1st round of the Roland Garros and Alexander Volkov in the 1st of the US Open, a very dangerous player on that surface. On the down side, he couldn't even win a set in those matches. Finally, he lost both Roland Garros and US Open in 1st round.

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