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Always discussions as to "who the best are that never won a Grand Slam"....

Who would headline your list.  Let me start with:  Todd Martin, Tim Mayotte.  Who else would you add?  And this list is international and lets include the women.  So to start that one, Elena Dementieva for starters....

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active players included or just the retired ones to be in the list?
All players.  So if you want, you could already include James Blake, who at one time was Top 5 ranked.  If I am remembering correctly Conchita Martinez was also Top 5 ranked but never won any of the big ones.

Hey leave my coaches son out of this!!! LOL JK keep him in.

So I don't recognize these guys, who are they?
Kevin Curren always came so damn close at Wimbledon.  Monster serve.
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Conchita Martinez won Wimbledon in 94. 

How about Marcelo Rios, reached number 1 ranking in 98, but never won a Grand Slam.

Better topic of discussion yet, what's better or given the choice, which of these two scenarios would you prefer to achieve?: Winning one grand slam title (one-slam wonder) but never reached number 1 ranking OR reached a number 1 ranking but never won one single Slam?  Okay, discuss amongst yourselves.  Or maybe the question should be, which one is harder to achieve between the two scenarios?

Great question Bobby.  My first instinct was to say 1 slam, but then I thought of Thomas Johansson and second-guessed myself.  Maybe I'd go with reaching number 1.  No one could ever take that away from you.  You'd be able to say, "At one point, I was the best tennis player on the planet. Period."

I totally agree with Mr. Mayor, and good catch on Conchita Martinez.  At least for the men the number 1 ranking would be more of a feat without winning a slam.  The way ranking points are distributed I would think now more than ever it would be almost impossible. Rios did it, but that was before they changed the points for events. 

On another note, Kevin Curren was a beast.  Someone else would be Miloslav Mecir.  He played great during his day.

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