What is an Anti-grand-slam?

If you enter a tournament and don't win, it's usually some consolation to lose to someone who does very well (say, the eventual winner). So then it must be pretty bad if you lose to someone who loses in the next round. Now what if you get beat in the first round by someone who gets beat in the second round by someone who gets beat in the third round, etc? Then that must be the worst possible outcome when entering a tournament. It would be like winning the "anti-tournament."

So I have compiled the list of anti-grand-slam winners in the open era, so the world can begin to appreciate these great achievements. Hopefully information for the women's tournaments will be coming soon.

Men's Anti-grand-slam Winners (open era):

Notes: Footnotes:

So without further ado, here are the men's anti-grand-slam winners in the open era:

Australian French Wimbledon US Open
1968 Joseph Mateo Lance Lumsden Billy R Knight
1969 Bob Giltinan [6] Ivan Molina Bob Giltinan David Lloyd
1970 Anthony Hammond [6] Jean-Francois Caujolle Szabolcz Baranyi Onny Parun [bye]
1971 Alvin Gardiner [6] Bob Giltinan Pat Cramer D Richard Russell
1972 Owen Davidson [6,bye] Ion Tiriac Jim Osborne Pat Dupre
1973 Jun Kuki [6] Piero Toci Neale Fraser Rayno Seegers
1974 Robert Casey [6] Michel Leciercq Peter Szoke Jun Kamiwazumi
1975 John James [5] Patricio Cornejo John Andrews Howard Schoenfield
1976 Joao Soares [6] Chris Kachel Jay Royappa [Q] Ove Nils Bengtson
1977 Allan Stone [6]
Eric Friedler [6]
Chris Kachel Make Machette Ricardo Cano
1978 Richard Lewis [6] Jiri Granat John McEnroe [#11] George Amaya
1979 George Hardie [6] Bernard Fritz John Yuill [LL] Adriano Panatta [#15]
1980 Jay Lapidus [Q] Bernard Boileau Byron Bertram George Hardie
1981 Chris Johnstone Mark Edmondson Phil Dent Bill Cowan
1982 Jonathan Smith Tim Mayotte Rick Fagel Eddie Edwards
1983 Henrik Sundstrom [#9,bye] Jose Luis Damiani Sashi Menon Chip Hooper
1984 Russell Simpson Matt Doyle Tom Cain [Q] Thierry Tulasne
1985 Mark Wooldridge Shlomo Glickstein Jimmy Arias Robert Seguso [WC]
1986 Victor Pecci, Sr [WC] Jeremy Bates Ulf Stenlund
1987 John Fitzgerald [bye] Peter Lundgren Gary Donnelly Bruno Oresar
1988 Larry Scott Sergio Casal Mark Petchey [WC] Jean-Philippe Fleurian
1989 Michael Kures Tore Meinecke Patrick Baur [Q] Paul Chamberlin
1990 Kelly Evernden Guillaume Raoux [WC] Danny Sapsford [WC] Paul Chamberlin
1991 Peter Doohan [WC] Jeff Tarango Jordi Arrese Francisco Montana [Q]
1992 Karsten Braasch Javier Sanchez Richard Fromberg Felipe Rivera [Q]
1993 Grant Doyle [WC] Nicolas Escude [WC] Brian Devening [Q] Henri Leconte
1994 John Sullivan [Q] Grant Stafford Richard Krajicek Greg Rusedski
1995 Goran Ivanisevic [#4] Hernan Gumy [Q] Vincent Spadea Greg Rusedski
1996 Jonathan Stark Nicolas Lapentti Michael Joyce Marcelo Filippini
1997 Juan Albert Viloca Emilio Benfele Alvarez Nicolas Lapentti Patrick McEnroe
1998 Marcelo Filippini Javier Sanchez Andrei Pavel John van Lottum
1999 Joseph Sirianni [WC] Karol Kucera [#11] Cecil Mamitt Andrew Ilie
2000 Cedric Pioline [#13] Galo Blanco Michael Russell [Q] Bob Bryan [WC]
2001 David Sanchez Martin Damm Franco Squillari [#28] Nikolay Davydenko
2002 Flavio Saretta Max Mirnyi [#26] Juan Ignacio Chela [#19] Augustin Calleri
2003 Hicham Arazi Justin Gimelstob Dick Norman [Q] Joachim Johansson [Q]
2004 Rainer Schuttler [#6] Joachim Johansson John van Lottum Marat Safin [#13]
2005 Felix Mantilla Botella Fabrice Santoro Vincent Spadea Noam Okun [Q]
2006 Fernando Vicente Olivier Marach Greg Rusedski Jeff Morrison
2007 Luis Horna Fernando Gonzalez Juan Monaco Fernando Gonzalez
2008 Donald Young Viktor Troicki Igor Kunitsyn [WC] Brendan Evans [WC]
2009 Kristof Vliegen Yen-Hsun Lu Nicolas Lapentti Dmitry Tursunov
2010 Robin Haase Rainer Schuttler Ramon Delgado [LL] Illya Marchenko
2011 Denis Gremelmayr [Q] Daniel Brands Lukas Lacko [Q]

Record Holders:

Here are some notable achievements in the history of anti-grand-slams:

Most career anti-grand-slams:

Most anti-grand-slams in one year: Successful defense of an anti-grand-slam: Highest seed to win anti-grand-slam: