Statistics as of November 18, 2008 ****************************************************************************************** This lists all men's tennis players who have either won more than 73.0 % of their (open-era) major-tournament matches or have won more than 25 overall titles. For players who also played before the Open era, the major titles and overall titles include both Open-era titles and major amateur-era titles, but not pro titles before the Open era. ****************************************************************************************** Career Major Match Career Match Major Overall Player W-L% (Open Era) * W-L% (Overall) ** Titles Titles *** ------- -------------------- --------------------- ------ ----------- Bjorn Borg .892 (141-17) .831 (606-123) 11 62 Rod Laver .857 (60-10) .801 (470-117) 11 53 Roger Federer .866 (162-25) .805 (617-149) 13 57 Pete Sampras .842 (203-38) .774 (762-222) 14 64 Ken Rosewall .829 (92-19) .756 (506-163) 8 36 Jimmy Connors .826 (233-49) .810 (1154-270) 8 109 Ivan Lendl .819 (222-49) .815 (1068-242) 8 94 John Newcombe .816 (93-21) .722 (440-169) 7 34 John McEnroe .815 (167-38) .816 (881-198) 7 77 Andre Agassi .809 (224-53) .760 (870-274) 8 60 Boris Becker .803 (163-40) .769 (713-214) 6 49 Rafael Nadal .851 (80-14) .813 (335-77) 5 31 Mats Wilander .796 (144-37) .720 (571-222) 7 33 Stefan Edberg .791 (178-47) .749 (806-270) 6 41 Arthur Ashe .791 (106-28) .742 (613-213) 3 33 Lleyton Hewitt .756 (118-38) .751 (486-161) 2 26 Andy Roddick .750 (90-30) .756 (459-148) 1 26 Jim Courier .756 (118-38) .681 (506-237) 4 23 D. Nalbandian .733 (77-28) .674 (291-141) 0 9 Guillermo Vilas .753 (137-45) .767 (940-286) 4 62 Tony Roche .739 (68-24) .676 (278-133) 1 10 Marat Safin .730 (92-34) .622 (403-245) 2 15 Y. Kafelnikov .733 (99-36) .666 (609-306) 2 26 Roy Emerson .733 (33-12) .735 (367-132) 12 15 Novak Djokovic .773 (51-15) .731 (185-68) 1 11 Roscoe Tanner .732 (90-33) .665 (556-280) 1 15 Tom Okker .716 (73-29) .706 (520-217) 0 31 Ilie Nastase .703 (97-41) .712 (728-295) 2 57 Thomas Muster .670 (77-38) .698 (626-271) 1 44 Stan Smith .713 (102-41) .705 (615-257) 2 39 Michael Chang .682 (120-56) .679 (661-312) 1 34 Manuel Orantes .717 (66-26) .711 (614-250) 1 32 V. Gerulaitis .699 (86-37) .704 (494-208) 1 27 ***************************************************************************************** Sources: * -- Tennis statistics site: www.tennis28.com (for Major Match W-L%) ** -- ITF official site: www.itftennis.com (for Overall Match W-L%, players 2002 and before) -- ATP official site: www.atptennis.com (for Overall Match W-L%, current players) *** -- http://www.tsn.ca/tennis/winners/?tour=atp (for Overall titles, then add major amateur-era titles) Note: The numbers given below are the ranks (within each category) of the players on this list. Midranks are used when multiple players are tied within a category. ------------- Conclusions: ------------- To obtain an overall player rating, we may add his ranks within each category (lower is better here). Ranks for each category -------------------------- majwl overwl majttl overttl sumrnks [1] Borg 1 1 4.5 5.5 12 [2] Sampras 5 8 1 4 18 [3] Federer 2 6 2 8.5 18.5 [4] Connors 7 5 7.5 1 20.5 [5] Lendl 8 3 7.5 2 20.5 [6] Laver 3 7 4.5 10 24.5 [7] McEnroe 10 2 11 3 26 [8] Agassi 11 11 7.5 7 36.5 [9] Rosewall 6 12.5 7.5 15 41 [10] Nadal 4 4 15 21.5 44.5 [11] Becker 12 9 13.5 11 45.5 [12] Vilas 19 10 16.5 5.5 51 [13] Newcombe 9 19 11 16.5 55.5 [14] Edberg 14.5 15 13.5 13 56 [15] Wilander 13 20 11 18.5 62.5 [16] Ashe 14.5 16 18 18.5 67 [17] Emerson 23 17 3 29 72 [18] Hewitt 17.5 14 21 25 77.5 [19] Nastase 30 21 21 8.5 80.5 [20] Roddick 20 12.5 27.5 25 85 [21] Courier 17.5 27 16.5 27 88 [22] Smith 29 24 21 14 88 [23] Djokovic 16 18 27.5 31 92.5 [24] Orantes 27 22 27.5 20 96.5 [25] Muster 33 26 27.5 12 98.5 [26] Kafelnikov 23 31 21 25 100 [27] Chang 32 28 27.5 16.5 104 [28] Okker 28 23 32.5 21.5 105 [29] Gerulaitis 31 25 27.5 23 106.5 [30] Safin 26 33 21 29 109 [31] Roche 21 29 27.5 32 109.5 [32] Tanner 25 32 27.5 29 113.5 [33] Nalbandian 23 30 32.5 33 118.5 ------------------ Another approach: ------------------ We may calculate the z-scores within each category for each player (a measure of how far the player is above or below this group's average in a category). We may then add the z-scores to obtain an overall rating (higher is better here): Z-scores for each category -------------------------- majwl overwl majttl overttl z-score.sum [1] Borg 2.077 1.772 1.492 0.912 6.253 [2] Connors 0.93 1.376 0.764 2.901 5.972 [3] Federer 1.625 1.282 1.977 0.7 5.584 [4] Lendl 0.809 1.47 0.764 2.266 5.31 [5] Sampras 1.208 0.697 2.219 0.997 5.121 [6] Laver 1.469 1.206 1.492 0.531 4.698 [7] McEnroe 0.739 1.489 0.522 1.547 4.297 [8] Agassi 0.635 0.433 0.764 0.827 2.66 [9] Nadal 1.365 1.433 0.037 -0.4 2.434 [10] Rosewall 0.983 0.358 0.764 -0.189 1.916 [11] Becker 0.531 0.603 0.279 0.362 1.775 [12] Vilas -0.338 0.565 -0.206 0.912 0.933 [13] Edberg 0.322 0.226 0.279 0.023 0.85 [14] Newcombe 0.757 -0.283 0.522 -0.273 0.722 [15] Wilander 0.409 -0.321 0.522 -0.316 0.294 [16] Emerson -0.686 -0.038 1.734 -1.077 -0.067 [17] Ashe 0.322 0.094 -0.448 -0.316 -0.348 [18] Hewitt -0.286 0.263 -0.691 -0.612 -1.325 [19] Roddick -0.39 0.358 -0.933 -0.612 -1.577 [20] Nastase -1.207 -0.472 -0.691 0.7 -1.669 [21] Djokovic 0.009 -0.114 -0.933 -1.247 -2.284 [22] Courier -0.286 -1.057 -0.206 -0.739 -2.287 [23] Smith -1.033 -0.604 -0.691 -0.062 -2.389 [24] Orantes -0.964 -0.491 -0.933 -0.358 -2.745 [25] Okker -0.981 -0.585 -1.176 -0.4 -3.142 [26] Muster -1.78 -0.736 -0.933 0.15 -3.299 [27] Kafelnikov -0.686 -1.339 -0.691 -0.612 -3.327 [28] Gerulaitis -1.276 -0.623 -0.933 -0.569 -3.402 [29] Chang -1.572 -1.094 -0.933 -0.273 -3.872 [30] Roche -0.581 -1.151 -0.933 -1.289 -3.954 [31] Tanner -0.703 -1.358 -0.933 -1.077 -4.072 [32] Nalbandian -0.686 -1.189 -1.176 -1.331 -4.381 [33] Safin -0.738 -2.169 -0.691 -1.077 -4.675