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Grand Slam.

Grand Slam tennis events demand specific racquet and string choices. Find comparative reviews, tension protocols, and gear breakdowns for elite-level play.

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Grand Slam ·6 min · June 2026

The GOAT Debate Is Broken: A Framework for Arguing About Grand Slam Champions Without Going in Circles

There is a sentence that ends most arguments about tennis history and starts most of the bad ones: "Just count the majors." Whoever holds the most Grand Slam singles titles is the greatest, the…

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Grand Slam ·6 min · June 2026

Grand Slam Tennis: What the Term Actually Means, and the Six Variants That Followed

Last September, watching the U.S. Open with the sound up, we heard a commentator use the phrase "Grand Slam" twice in under a minute, and mean two different things each time.

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Grand Slam ·5 min · June 2026

American Tennis Players With Grand Slam Titles: A Reference Guide to the Greats and the Gap

The week before the 2025 US Open, we printed the men's singles draw and did something that took ninety seconds and felt slightly grim: we counted the Americans. Eleven in the 128.

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History ·5 min · May 2026

American Tennis History: Did the Pipeline Really Run Dry After the 1990s?

There is a sentence you will hear in nearly every conversation about American tennis history: that the United States produced an unbroken line of champions until the 1990s, and then the well went dry.…