Since you brought it up… Some of the greatest men’s doubles players were John Newcombe and Tony Roche from the mid 1960s through mid ’70s, and later in the 1980s, the team of John McEnroe and Peter Fleming were considered the best doubles team, and had something like 57 titles, including four Wimbeldon and three US Open doubles wins.

On the women’s side, also in the 1980s Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver were the greatest female doubles pair, ever. They won 78 titles together, including 20 Majors finals (7 Oz, 5 Wimby, 4 US and 4 FO) In ’84 they won the first ever, Grand Slam in women’s doubles. They hold the longest match-winning streak in Open Era doubles history, with 109 consecutive matches from April 1983 through July 1985. Take it in — that’s over two years without losing a single match to anyone, anywhere… Now add this: in the ’82, ’83 and ’84 seasons in singles, Martina only lost a total of about SIX matches! That’s how dominant SHE was… In 1987 she took the singles, doubles AND mixed doubles titles at the US Open. Overall, she won singles and doubles at the same tournament a record 84 times. Because she competed regularly in S, D and mixed, Navratilova has the winningest record of any player (male or female) in tennis history. Her lifetime win-loss record in singles is 1442-219, with 167 titles; she has 177 doubles titles and 10 in mixed doubles, and a combined 59 Majors titles. Since it’s hard to foresee tennis players going back to competing in doubles the way they did in the past, it’s safe to say Martina’s record as the winningest player in history will probabaly never be broken.

I did not know that all the top players used to play double too ?? When did that tradition change Graice san??

I do agree that may be he should not play Cincinati!! Can he do that when he is not injured??