Re: "Serena slam"

On Apr 6, 7:05=A0pm, jingus <jin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> DavidW wrote:
> > "jingus" <jin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>
> >>the reason why mt. everest ascents are no longer "history making" is
> >>because they are now routine.
>
> > I'm talking about much earlier when they were not routine.
>
> if it had been the case that only three (3) people had summitted on
> mt. everest in 50+ years, everytime somebody tried there would be some
> discussion about the small number of people who had succeeded. =A0the
> reaons being that in that case, not only would the first successful
> summit been significant, but the subsequent 1 or 2 would have also been
> successful if people coming after them had not repeated the feat over a
> long period of time.
>
> that's why the "serena slam" was significant, it had been a long time
> since any one player had held all four grand slam titles at the same
> time.

8 years is not *that* long a time. Graf held all 4 GSs in 1994.