Talk:Chronological list of men's Grand Slam tennis champions

message: Not listed are French champions 1891-1920's.Ryoung122 03:44, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not just one person disagrees with you and and my World Almanac does not have a heading that says "all-time Grand Slam Champions" with a listing of the pre-25 French. Fyunck(click) 04:28, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 1891-1920's

message: I can weigh in here.
Some history
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The ILTF (the sports governing body) didn't establish the major tournaments in the current configuration of the Australian, French, Wimbledon and the US - until their meeting in late 1923. Hence these group of 4 tournaments as being the majors was only from 1924 on (with the French being active from 1925 due to it not being open to all-comers (amateur) until 1925). The only one of the currently existing majors that was a major before 1924 was Wimbledon. That is because it was voted as such in 1913, again by the ILTF when it listed its three Majors (that lasted from 1913 to 1923) - Wimbledon, the World Hard Court Championship and the World Covered Court Championship.
Conclusions
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To list the Australian Championships, French Championships and the US Championships as majors before 1924 is an example of interpreting history through current standards and perspectives. The fact is the Australian Championships and the French Championships weren't regarded by people of the time, as majors titles, before 1924. (The US was a slight exception because it had a sort of defacto status as a major, even though it wasn't officially recognised as such).
Listing particularly the French as a Grand Slam tournament before 1925 is misleading. Many don't know that it was only open to members of French Clubs before that.
With regard to Wikipedia standards - surely the issue of consistency between Wikipedia entries are important. The fact is that on Suzanne Lenglen's wikipedia page - doesn't list her pre-1925 French championship victories, as being part of her major wins. In my view it judges correctly and instead lists her wins at the World Hardcourt Championships on Clay as major wins instead.
To argue that current encylopedia's list the current 4 majors as being Grand Slam tournaments since their beginnings - is the standard we should aim for, is just wrong thinking. Just because the writer of an encylopedia was ill informed doesn't mean that the people's encylopedia (Wikipedia) needs to be too. 
Golf takes a much more mature perspective on this recognizing that the major titles have evolved over time. Hence, Bobby Jones won the 'Grand Slam' even though wins at the time don't match the current tournaments, because it was recognized as the Grand Slam at the time. Golf is okay with that, and so should Tennis historians be okay with the changing nature of what are tennis' majors.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tmartin prof (talk • contribs) 00:17, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  pre-1925 

message: It isn't chronological, the years are all over the place and there is no way to sort them in order. --Jameboy (talk) 15:23, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It's chronological from year of first major title. Fyunck(click) (talk) 19:24, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: But the article title is misleading as it doesn't mention "first major title", so what I was expecting to see here is what is actually at List of Grand Slam men's singles champions. I think we should improve the article titles or perhaps merge them. --Jameboy (talk) 23:13, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: So you have what you want at another article. They should not be merged as they handle two different topics. Certainly the article title could be changed, but what would be a better title? Fyunck(click) (talk) 23:39, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It isn't really two different topics, it's the same topic but showing different presentations of more or less the same data. The other one is strictly chronological based on the events whereas this one is more focused around the players. Both are useful. Maybe the titles could be something like List of Grand Slam men's singles champions by event and List of Grand Slam men's singles champions by player. I'm sure others could word it better than I can. --Jameboy (talk) 23:27, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not chronological