Grand Slam Wooden Spoon Winners

This isn't a useful stat in any way, shape or form - just a little bit of fun :)

Looking here at the players who are at the bottom of the chain of 7 losses in Grand Slam main draws since 2000 (i.e. the player in each slam who lost to the player who lost to the player who lost to the player who lost to the player who lost to the player who lost to the player who lost to the eventual champion!)

Seeds in parentheses

Year Australian Open French Open Wimbledon US Open
2000 Cedric Pioline(13) Galo Blanco Michael Russell Bob Bryan
2001 David Sanchez Martin Damm Franco Squillari(27) Nikolay Davydenko
2002 Flavio Saretta Max Mirnyi(26) Juan Ignacio Chela(19) Agustin Calleri
2003 Hicham Arazi Justin Gimelstob Dick Norman Joachim Johansson
2004 Rainer Schuttler(6) Joachim Johansson John van Lottum Marat Safin(13)
2005 Felix Mantilla Fabrice Santoro Vincent Spadea Noam Okun
2006 Fernando Vicente Oliver Marach Greg Rusedski Jeff Morrison
2007 Luis Horna Fernando Gonzalez(5) Juan Monaco(32) Fernando Gonzalez(7)
2008 Donald Young Viktor Troicki Igor Kunitsyn Brendan Evans
2009 Kristof Vliegen Yen-Hsun Lu Nicolas Lapentti Dmitry Tursunov
2010 Robin Haase Rainer Schuttler Ramon Delgado Illya Marchenko
2011 Denis Gremelmayr Daniel Brands Lukas Lacko Karol Beck
2012 Gilles Muller Eric Prodon Alex Bogomolov, Jr. Mikhail Kukushkin

It's called the wooden spoon on the WTA forum.

2007 was Gonzo's year!

2011 RG Brands.

Probably one of the most accurate since he was the weakest player on the draw

Bernard Tomic or Daniel Brands

Daniel Brands! Somebody make sure serenidad is OK!

by countries:
FELIX SANTORO ??!! NO PLAYER'S NAME
7:
USA
4:
ARG
ESP
GER
RUS
2:
BEL
CHI
NED
SWE
1:
AUT
BLR
BRA
COL
CZE
FRA
GRB
ISR
MAR
PAR
PER
SRB
TPE
UKR

by countries:
FELIX SANTORO ??!! NO PLAYER'S NAME


Oops. I meant Fabrice of course...

Lukas Lacko "wins" the 2011 Wimbledon wooden spoon!

Karol Beck recieves the ignominy at this year's US Open through the first round retirement...

by countries:
7:
USA
4:
ARG
ESP
GER
RUS
2:
BEL
CHI
FRA
NED
SVK
SWE
1:
AUT
BLR
BRA
COL
CZE
GRB
ISR
MAR
PAR
PER
SRB
TPE
UKR

after USO 2011

Congratulations to Gilles Muller for winning the wooden spoon at this year's AO! :P

Fun idea! So many great things posted here before I registered.

Marat Safin must be unique. A wooden spoon in USO 2004 and then a win in the very next slam. He is also the only one on the list to have achieved both in the same tournament. Though I believe I read somewhere McEnroe once got a wooden spoon in Wimbledon.

This US Open it will be either Karlovic:( (if Djokovic wins) or Kukushkin (if Murray wins).

No update for AO 2013? The winner: Tommy Haas. I wonder if leng jai knows?

Denis Kudla wins it for the French Open this year :p

Denis Kudla wins it for the French Open this year :p

That means both this year's winners have done well soon afterwards :)

That means both this year's winners have done well soon afterwards :)

Exactly :lol: I thought it was funny that I just randomly remembered to check today, and it happened to be one of Kudla's best weeks! Maybe some players should start going for this award more often :p