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I won't say much except by way of explanation, but let the graphics do my talking.
BIG THREE TITLES: 2001-24
Now compare:
BIG TITLES BY OTHER PLAYERS, 2001-24:
The only thing I'll explain for the above is that single big title winners are in light grey, while players who won multiple big titles have a color (e.g. you can see Andy Murray in the lightish green in the middle, as the clearly most dominant non-Big Three player during the era).
Last one (or two-in-one) - a somewhat simplified version.
The above are big titles only.
A couple spare notes:
BIG THREE TITLES: 2001-24
Now compare:
BIG TITLES BY OTHER PLAYERS, 2001-24:
The only thing I'll explain for the above is that single big title winners are in light grey, while players who won multiple big titles have a color (e.g. you can see Andy Murray in the lightish green in the middle, as the clearly most dominant non-Big Three player during the era).
Last one (or two-in-one) - a somewhat simplified version.
The above are big titles only.
A couple spare notes:
- The Big Three have won a big title every year going back to 2002, or 23 years in a row.
- 2024 was the first year since 2002 that one of the Big Three didn't win a Slam, or a span of 21 years.
- At least two of the three won Big Titles in every year from 2005-22.
- All three won big titles in every year from 2007-12, then again in 2014, and 2018-19.
- 2011 was the peak of the "hegemony," but really they were dominant from 2004 to 23.
- Carlos Alcaraz, shortly followed by Jannik Sinner, became the first non-Big Three player(s) to win multiple Grand Slams in a year in the 21st century, or since Andre Agassi in 1999.
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