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Those three are winning just about everything but that's because they are the 3 best players in the world, and by quite some distance too. Nikolay Davydenko is the world number four and is obviously a very good player but he is miles behind Novak Djokovic in 3rd place (more than 2000 points behind him in fact.)

Since the 2005 Australian Open, no men other than the current top three have won a Grand Slam title and out of the last 20 Grand Slams, 17 of them have been won by either Federer, Nadal or Djokovic.

I don't think any women have been quite so dominant and it will be even more the case now that Henin has retired. In the same timeframe (i.e. in the last 20 Grand Slams) there have been nine different female winners.

Justine Henin-6
Maria Sharapova-3
Serena Williams-3
Amelie Mauresmo-2
Venus Williams-2
Kim Clijsters-1
Ana Ivanovic-1
Svetlana Kuznetsova-1
Anastasia Myskina-1

For women's tennis, I'd say it's more becoming a case of a country dominating. What odds on the winner of Wimbledon being of Russian extraction??

Fairly short I'd have said.

I forget which on of the leggy beauties it was that said that she feels at times as if she's playing at a "Russian Open" at the French Open.

Where is David Nalbandian in the world rankings - he's a cracking player, capable of beating Federer on his day IMO.