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US Open men's champions

Order by the year each man first won the US Open. You place all 33 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

US Open men's champions
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How the US Open men's champions timeline game works

New York's Grand Slam is the subject: the men who won the US Open singles title, ordered by the year of each player's first win. Under the name is a description with his nationality and a note about his game or record. One champion starts on the timeline with the year showing. Slot each new card into a gap; right answers reveal the year, and wrong ones still put the player in place but cost one of three lives.

The tournament has been played on more than one surface over its history, and the deck runs from amateur greats to recent champions. Repeat winners appear only for their first title. The descriptions mix national labels with hints about style, and those style hints are more useful than nationality. One-time champions from the middle of the deck are where you'll be guessing.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 33 cards you might be dealt, with 5 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Ken Rosewall Australian veteran champion
  • Neale Fraser Australian left-hander
  • Roy Emerson Australian amateur great
  • Rod Laver Australian Grand Slam winner
  • Rafael Osuna Mexican doubles and singles star
  • Fred Stolle Australian finalist made good
  • Arthur Ashe American; won it as an amateur
  • Stan Smith American serve-and-volleyer
  • Ilie Nastase Romanian flair player
  • Jimmy Connors American five-time champion here
  • Manuel Orantes Spanish clay-courter
  • Guillermo Vilas Argentine baseliner
  • Ivan Lendl Czech-born baseliner
  • Boris Becker German power server
  • Pete Sampras American slam record holder
  • Stefan Edberg Swedish net rusher
  • Andre Agassi American returner
  • Marat Safin Russian power hitter
  • Lleyton Hewitt Australian counterpuncher
  • Andy Roddick American big server
  • Roger Federer Swiss five-time champion here
  • Rafael Nadal Spanish left-hander
  • Novak Djokovic Serbian multiple champion
  • Marin Cilic Croatian big hitter
  • Stan Wawrinka Swiss backhand specialist
  • Dominic Thiem Austrian first-slam winner
  • Daniil Medvedev Russian counterpuncher
  • Carlos Alcaraz Spanish youngest number one

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