Open Era tennis records – men's singles

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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.

Grand Slam tournaments

Career totals

Consecutive records

Consecutive per year totals

Per event career totals

3+ titles

5+ finals

Match wins

Match record (minimum 20 wins)

Per event consecutive records

Titles

Matches won

Sets won

Per court type career totals

Match wins

Match record (minimum 20 wins)

Career achievements

Note that Agassi and Nadal also won an Olympic gold medal, adding a "golden" designation to their Career Grand Slam.

# Won the tournament without losing a set
3 Sweden Björn Borg 1976 Wimbledon, 1978 French Open, 1980 French Open
Spain Rafael Nadal 2008 French Open, 2010 French Open, 2017 French Open
2 Switzerland Roger Federer 2007 Australian Open, 2017 Wimbledon
1 Australia Ken Rosewall 1971 Australian Open
Romania Ilie Năstase 1973 French Open

Calendar year achievements

All 4 quarterfinals Year
Australia Rod Laver 1969
Australia Tony Roche
Australia John Newcombe
Czech Republic Ivan Lendl 1983
United States John McEnroe 1985
Czech Republic Ivan Lendl (2) 1987
Czech Republic Ivan Lendl (3) 1988
Sweden Mats Wilander
Sweden Stefan Edberg 1991
United States Pete Sampras 1993
United States Andre Agassi 1995
United States Andre Agassi (2) 2001
All 4 quarterfinals Year
Switzerland Roger Federer 2005
Switzerland Roger Federer (2) 2006
Switzerland Roger Federer (3) 2007
Switzerland Roger Federer (4) 2008
Spain Rafael Nadal
Switzerland Roger Federer (5) 2009
Switzerland Roger Federer (6) 2010
Spain Rafael Nadal (2)
Serbia Novak Djokovic
Switzerland Roger Federer (7) 2011
Spain Rafael Nadal (3)
Serbia Novak Djokovic (2)
United Kingdom Andy Murray
All 4 quarterfinals Year
Switzerland Roger Federer (8) 2012
Serbia Novak Djokovic (3)
United Kingdom Andy Murray (2)
Spain David Ferrer
Serbia Novak Djokovic (4) 2013
Spain David Ferrer (2)
Serbia Novak Djokovic (5) 2014
United Kingdom Andy Murray (3)
Serbia Novak Djokovic (6) 2015
Switzerland Stan Wawrinka

All tournaments

Career totals

Titles, finals, semifinals

Matches played, won, win rate

Playing top 10 ranked opponents

Per court type career totals

Titles

Matches won

Match win rate

Win streaks

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

Titles won and finals reached across consecutive tournaments played

Consecutive wins in tournament finals and against top 10 opponents

Individual tournament totals

Note that Grand Slams are in boldface, and ties are grouped by player in chronological order.

Single season records

Per year cumulative records

Note: M/Y is average number of matches per year during the streak

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

ATP totals

WCT totals

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

Titles per court type

Achievements per the 9 annual tournaments

Consecutive records

Single season records

Olympic tournaments

Tennis became an official Olympic sport in 1988.

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 with currently-ranked names in boldface[12]

Top 4 #
1. United States Jimmy Connors 669
2. Switzerland Roger Federer 640
3. Czechoslovakia Ivan Lendl 510
4. Spain Rafael Nadal 498
5. United States Pete Sampras 484
Cons. top 4 #
1. United States Jimmy Connors 651
2. Switzerland Roger Federer 522
3. Czechoslovakia Ivan Lendl 501
4. Serbia Novak Djokovic 465
5. United States Pete Sampras 403
Top 5 #
1. United States Jimmy Connors 705
2. Switzerland Roger Federer 667
3. Spain Rafael Nadal 552
4. Czechoslovakia Ivan Lendl 524
5. United States Pete Sampras 511
Cons. top 5 #
1. United States Jimmy Connors 658
2. Switzerland Roger Federer 548
3. Czechoslovakia Ivan Lendl 524
4. Spain Rafael Nadal 522
5. United States Pete Sampras 491

Year-end totals through 2015

Other achievements Player Record
Earliest to clinch year-end No. 1 Switzerland Roger Federer September 2004
Switzerland Roger Federer September 2006
Spain Rafael Nadal September 2010
Serbia Novak Djokovic September 2015
Youngest No. 1 Australia Lleyton Hewitt 20y 9m (2001)
Youngest year-end top 10 United States Michael Chang 17y 9m (1989)
Youngest year-end top 100 United States Aaron Krickstein 16y 4m (1983)
Oldest No. 1 United States Andre Agassi 33y 4m (2003)
Oldest year-end top 10 Australia Ken Rosewall 41y 1m (1975)
Oldest year-end top 100 Australia 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.
Career Prize money Ending
1. Serbia Novak Djokovic $99,673,404 2016
2. Switzerland Roger Federer $98,011,727 2016
3. Spain Rafael Nadal $78,109,778 2016
4. United Kingdom Andy Murray $45,157,463 2016
5. United States Pete Sampras $43,280,489 2003
6. United States Andre Agassi $31,152,975 2006
7. Spain David Ferrer $28,892,430 2016
8. Germany Boris Becker $25,080,956 1999
9. Czechoslovakia Tomas Berdych $24,621,176 2016
10. Russia Yevgeny Kafelnikov $23,883,797 2003
Single season Prize money Year
1. Serbia Novak Djokovic $21,646,145 2015
2. Spain Rafael Nadal $14,570,935 2013
3. Serbia Novak Djokovic $14,250,527 2014
4. Serbia Novak Djokovic $12,803,737 2012
5. Serbia Novak Djokovic $12,619,803 2011
6. Serbia Novak Djokovic $12,447,947 2013
7. Spain Rafael Nadal $10,171,998 2010
8. Switzerland Roger Federer $10,130,620 2007
9. Switzerland Roger Federer $9,343,988 2014
10. Switzerland Roger Federer $8,768,110 2009

Miscellaneous

Instances of winning titles on 3 surfaces across consecutive tournaments played

# Player Years
5 United States Jimmy Connors 1972, 74 (2), 75, 76
3 United States John McEnroe 1981, 83, 84
Czechoslovakia Ivan Lendl 1985 (2), 89
1 Sweden Björn Borg 1979
Switzerland Roger Federer 2004
Spain Rafael Nadal 2008

Other

See also

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References

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