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100 Greatest of All Time
Do not edit war on the naming within this article. There is a long standing consensus within the tennis project that we do not edit war between the usage of 'Grand Slam' and 'major' as it is a waste of editor time and effort. Both are perfectly acceptable and are widely used and sourced. If you wish to discuss this please do so on the central tennis project talk page.--Wolbo (talk) 18:42, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Grand Slam terminology
I do not really like or use the term Grand Slam to signify an individual major tournament. This is an error with the term made many years ago that has perpetuated itself into common lexicon. But while I look at it as if using the term "ain't", there is no doubt that it is in common usage and is actually used by the four major tournaments. It is plastered all over the press. In interviews I hear the players use the term "Grand Slam" and "Major" interchangeably. Books do likewise. Even the ITF uses the term Grand Slam tournament. Websters also tells us it's acceptable (although it's the second choice). In prose at wikipedia, so as not to confuse with winning a Graf/Laver style Grand Slam, we should always use the term "Grand Slam tournament", but in a chart this is almost always just shortened to Grand Slam. Major is also fine to use but changing just for the sake of changing doesn't serve anyone's interest. And the term "Major" has it's problems also as many writers throw the term major around as pertaining to important tournaments, not just the four Majors.


 * In the particular case at 100 Greatest of All Time, the only column I had a problem with was the last column because the Pro Slams and ILTF Championships are not called Grand Slam tournaments. Majors is a better fit there when talking about all those tournaments collectively. Fyunck(click) (talk) 19:36, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
 * FWIW, I agree with that change.--Wolbo (talk) 20:18, 25 June 2019 (UTC)