Open Era tennis records – men's singles
The Open Era is the current era of professional tennis. It began in 1968 when the Grand Slam tournaments allowed professional players to compete with amateurs, ending the division that had persisted since the dawn of the sport in the 19th century. The first "open" event was held in Bournemouth, England,[1] followed by the inaugural open Grand Slam event a month later.[2]
Note the following:
- Unless otherwise sourced, all records are based on data from the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP),[3] the International Tennis Federation (ITF),[4] and the official websites of the four Grand Slam tournaments.
- All rankings-related records are based on ATP Rankings, which began in 1973.
- The names of active players appear in boldface for their career totals, currently active streaks, and in-progress season totals.
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Grand Slam tournaments
Career totals
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Consecutive records
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Consecutive per year totals
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Per event career totals
3+ titles
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5+ finals
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Match wins
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Match record (minimum 20 wins)
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Per event consecutive records
Titles
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Matches won
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Sets won
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Per court type career totals
Match wins
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Match record (minimum 20 wins)
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Career achievements
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Note that Agassi and Nadal also won an Olympic gold medal, adding a "golden" designation to their Career Grand Slam.
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3 | Björn Borg | 1976 Wimbledon, 1978 French Open, 1980 French Open |
Rafael Nadal | 2008 French Open, 2010 French Open, 2017 French Open | |
2 | Roger Federer | 2007 Australian Open, 2017 Wimbledon |
1 | Ken Rosewall | 1971 Australian Open |
Ilie Năstase | 1973 French Open |
Calendar year achievements
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All tournaments
Career totals
Titles, finals, semifinals
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Matches played, won, win rate
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Playing top 10 ranked opponents
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Per court type career totals
Titles
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Matches won
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Match win rate
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Win streaks
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† Note: Sources are not in agreement as to the length of Borg's winning streaks. News articles of the time in question clearly tell of the Borg streaks[8] as does counting the ITF results, yet more sources use the Vilas streak as the record.
Consecutive matches won on each court type
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Titles won and finals reached across consecutive tournaments played
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Consecutive wins in tournament finals and against top 10 opponents
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Individual tournament totals
Note that Grand Slams are in boldface, and ties are grouped by player in chronological order.
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Single season records
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Per year cumulative records
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Note: M/Y is average number of matches per year during the streak
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Year-end championships
There have been three prominent men's tours during the Open Era, each with a year-end championship involving only its top players for that year.
(1970–present) This is a combination of the year-end championship for two separate tours: the ITF Grand Prix that ran until 1989, and the ATP Tour that replaced it. For record-keeping purposes, the ATP has incorporated the entire history of the ITF Masters Grand Prix alongside its ATP World Tour Finals; thus they are both listed as "ATP" here. In total, these year-end events have been held at numerous venues around the globe and played on several surfaces (indoor hard courts since 2006).
(1971–1989) The WCT Finals, as the season-ending championship for the World Championship Tennis tour, was held in Dallas, Texas and played on indoor carpet courts.
Overall totals
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ATP totals
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WCT totals
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Masters tournaments
(1970–present)
This collection of 9 annual tournaments are the most important after the Grand Slams and the year-end championships. They have existed in two phases, first as the Super Series of ITF's Grand Prix tour. When the ATP took over the men's tour in 1990 they became the Super 9 and then the Masters; their official name is now the ATP World Tour Masters 1000.
Career totals
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Titles per court type
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Achievements per the 9 annual tournaments
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Consecutive records
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Single season records
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Olympic tournaments
Tennis became an official Olympic sport in 1988.
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ATP Rankings achievements
The ATP computes weekly rankings used to determine tournament eligibility and seedings. At the end of each year they also become the official ATP season rankings.
Total weeks as of May 30, 2016[update] with currently-ranked names in boldface[12]
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Year-end totals through 2015
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Other achievements | Player | Record |
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Earliest to clinch year-end No. 1 | Roger Federer | September 2004 |
Roger Federer | September 2006 | |
Rafael Nadal | September 2010 | |
Novak Djokovic | September 2015 | |
Youngest No. 1 | Lleyton Hewitt | 20y 9m (2001) |
Youngest year-end top 10 | Michael Chang | 17y 9m (1989) |
Youngest year-end top 100 | Aaron Krickstein | 16y 4m (1983) |
Oldest No. 1 | Andre Agassi | 33y 4m (2003) |
Oldest year-end top 10 | Ken Rosewall | 41y 1m (1975) |
Oldest year-end top 100 | Ken Rosewall | 44y 1m (1978) |
Prize money
Note the following:
- Prize money has increased throughout the era, in some cases greatly in a short time span. For example, the Australian Open winner received $916,000 in 2004 and $3,400,000 in 2016.
- Career totals include doubles prize money, which is negligible for all of the listed players except frequent doubles player Yevgeny Kafelnikov.
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Miscellaneous
Instances of winning titles on 3 surfaces across consecutive tournaments played
# | Player | Years |
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5 | Jimmy Connors | 1972, 74 (2), 75, 76 |
3 | John McEnroe | 1981, 83, 84 |
Ivan Lendl | 1985 (2), 89 | |
1 | Björn Borg | 1979 |
Roger Federer | 2004 | |
Rafael Nadal | 2008 |
Other
- Most times elected ATP Player of The Year: 6 – Pete Sampras, 1993–98
- Won a Masters tournament without having serve broken or losing a set: Roger Federer twice in Cincinnati – 2012[13] and 2015[14]
- Oldest title winner: Pancho Gonzales was 43.3 years old when he won the 1971 Pacific Southwest Open
- Most career aces: 10,505 by Ivo Karlović[15]
- Longest match: John Isner defeated Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon 2010 in an 11-hour-5-minute first round match played over three days. (Isner also set the record for aces in a match with 113 and Mahut became second with 103.)
- Fastest completed match: 28 minutes and 20 seconds – Jarkko Nieminen defeated Bernard Tomic at the 2014 Miami Masters[16]
- Most double faults hit in a match (since 1990): 26 – Marc Rosset during a four set loss to Michael Joyce at Wimbledon 1995[citation needed]
- Fastest serve recorded (since 1991): 163.4 mph (263 km/h) – Samuel Groth[17]
- Fastest second serve recorded (since 1991): 144 mph (232 km/h) – Ivo Karlović[citation needed]
See also
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