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Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack
boy is doubles tennis ever sad. Nestor and Mirnyi are grand slam champions, but not only does the stadium look like a mid-January Coyotes game, but they don't even really celebrate after winning match point. I've seen more emotion from singles players winning their first match of an ATP 500 tourney.
I guess it's just a niche of tennis that will never be popular, but still congrats to Nestor on his 8th slam...dude is almost 40 and still racking them up.
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Doubles used to be very popular in the 70s and early 80s when you had the top players playing both singles and doubles. Guys like Stan Smith, Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors, Ilie Nastase and of course, John McEnroe are all Grand Slam singles and doubles winners. John Newcombe won 7 singles finals and 17 doubles finals. I used to love watching McEnroe and Peter Fleming. Johnny Mac might have been the greatest doubles player I've seen.