The Yokozuna tennis ranking criteria can be applied not only to a player's overall Grand Slam tennis career, but also to individual Grand Slam tournaments -- a player winning two consecutive Wimbledon titles is a "Wimbledon Yokozuna", a player reaching back-to-back French Open finals is a "French Open Ozeki", and so on.
The tables below display tournament-specific (TS) Yokozuna and Ozeki (= Grand Champions and Champions) ranks for both men and women. A player's overall career rank is in brackets if it differs from the tournament specific rank. One factor to be aware of is that the Australian Open were poorly attended for much of the 1970s and early 1980s. Players like Johan Kriek or Steve Denton are therefore somewhat unlikely TS champions; while the great Bjorn Borg has no Australian Open Championship rank as he played this event only once.
Similar concerns apply also to the other Slams, although to lesser degrees. Some French Open tournaments up to 1977 were not attended by all world-class players due to disputes with the WTC/WTT, although the drain was less dramatic than at the Australian Open. The 1973 Wimbledon tournament, won by Jan Kodes, was boycotted by many world class players. And the US Open changed surface repeatedly: they were played on grass 1968-74, moved to clay 1975-77, and since 1978 they are played on a fast hard court. Jimmy Connors won the tournament on all three surfaces.
With these caveats in mind, the tables below suggest that the French Open are quite different from the other Grand Slams: three of the seven male French Open TS Yokozuna peaked at an overall rank of Ozeki: Jan Kodes, Sergei Bruguera and Gustavo Kuerten. Moreover, plentiful overall Sekiwake and even one Komosubi (Regina Marsikova) were able to attain a TS Ozeki rank at the French Open.
By contrast, Wimbledon is only for overall greats. All Wimbledon TS Yokozuna--in both mens' and ladies' tennis--are also overall Yokozuna, and there is only one overall Sekiwake--the unforgettable Goran Ivanisevic--who obtained TS Ozeki status at the All England Championships.
Analysis on how players score across tournaments is provided in a follow-up post.
| Australian Open | French Open | Wimbledon | US Open | Yokozuna | Ozeki | Yokozuna | Ozeki | Yokozuna | Ozeki | Yokozuna | Ozeki | Rosewall | Ashe | Kodes (O) | Laver (Y) | Laver | Rosewall (Y) | Connors | Rosewall (Y) | Vilas (O) | Connors (Y) | Borg | Rosewall (Y) | Newcombe | Roche | McEnroe | Ashe | Kriek (O) | Newcombe (Y) | Lendl | Franulovic (S) | Borg | Kodes | Lendl | Roche | Wilander | Edmondson (S) | Courier | Nastase | McEnroe | Smith | Edberg | Kodes | Lendl | Denton (S) | Bruguera (O) | Solomon (S) | Becker | Nastase | Sampras | Smith | Edberg | Cash | Kuerten (O) | Panatta (S) | Edberg | Connors (Y) | Rafter (O) | Orantes (S) | Courier | Becker (Y) | Nadal | Vilas | Sampras | Lendl (Y) | Federer | Newcombe (Y) | Agassi | Chang | | Gerulaitis | Federer | Cash | | Vilas | Federer | Kafelnikov | | McEnroe (Y) | | Stich | | Borg (Y) | | Sampras (Y) | | Wilander (Y) | | Agassi (Y) | | Gerulaitis | | Safin | | Noah (S) | | Ivanisevic (S) | | Wilander (Y) | | Nadal | | Chang | | Krajicek | | Becker (Y) | | Djokovic | | Kafelnikov | | Rafter | | Chang | | | | Corretja (S) | | Roddick | | Courier (Y) | | | | Agassi (Y) | | Nadal (Y) | | Agassi (Y) | | | | Costa (S) | | | | Martin (S) | | | | Ferrero | | | | Safin | | | | Coria (S) | | | | Hewitt | | | | Federer (Y) | | | | Roddick | | | | | | | | Djokovic | | ||||
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| Australian Open | French Open | Wimbledon | US Open | Yokozuna | Ozeki | Yokozuna | Ozeki | Yokozuna | Ozeki | Yokozuna | Ozeki | Court | Wade | Court | Haydon | King | Haydon | Court | Wade | Goolagong | Melville | Evert | Richey | Evert | Court (Y) | King | Richey | Navratilova | Gourlay (S) | Navratilova | Goolagong (Y) | Navratilova | Goolagong (Y) | Evert | Casals | Graf | Turnbull (S) | Graf | Morozova | Graf | Wade | Austin (O) | Melville | Seles | Evert (Y) | Seles | Mihai (S) | V. Williams | Sabatini | Navratilova | Goolagong (Y) | Hingis | Shriver (S) | Sanchez-V. | Jausovec | S. Williams | Martinez | Graf | Turnbull (S) | Capriati | Mandlikova (Y) | Henin | Marsikova (K) | | Sanchez-V. (Y) | Seles | Mandlikova (Y) | | Kohde (S) | | Ruzici | | Novotna | Hingis | Sukova | | Sukova | | Mandlikova (Y) | | Hingis (Y) | V. Williams | Sabatini | | Sabatini | | Jaeger | | Davenport (Y) | | Sanchez-V. (Y) | | Sanchez-V. (Y) | | Martinez | | Henin (Y) | | Hingis (Y) | | Pierce | | Majoli | | Sharapova | | Davenport (Y) | | Davenport (Y) | | Hingis (Y) | | Mauresmo | | S. Williams (Y) | | V. Williams (Y) | | Clijsters | | | | Dementieva | | Henin (Y) | | Capriati (Y) | | | | Clijsters | | Clijsters | | S. Williams (Y) | | | | Sharapova | | S. Williams (Y) | | Kuznetsova | | | | Henin (Y) | | Mauresmo | | Ivanovic | | | | Jankovic (S) | | Sharapova | | | | | | | | ||||
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