Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Titles, finals, matches and prize money - Updated, Monday, August, 24th, 2009
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Career titles in the open era
All surfaces - open era
In the open era, Federer is alone in 7th place, with 61 career titles won on all surfaces; he needs another title to catch the next players on the list, which are Vilas and Borg. Here is the complete list os players who have won at least 30 singles titles (the original data was taken from www.tennis28.com/titles/career.html; there are some minor discrepencies when the data is compared to the pleyer profiles at www.atptennis.com/en/players/)
1 - Jimmy Connors - 109 (0r 105, according to ATP)
2 - Ivan Lendl - 94
3 - John McEnroe - 77
4 - Pete Sampras - 64
5 - Guillermo Vilas - 62
5 - Bjorn Borg - 62 (or 61, according to ATP)
7 - Roger Federer - 61
7 - Andre Agassi - 60
8 - Illie Nastase - 57 (or 53, according to ATP)
10 - Boris Becker - 49
11 - Rod Laver - 47 (or 39, according to ATP)
12 - Thomas Muster - 44
13 - Stefan Edberg - 42
14 - Rafael Nadal - 36
14 - Stan Smith - 36 (or 35, according to ATP)
16 - Michael Chang - 34
17 - Mats Wilander - 33
18 -.Arthur Ashe - 32 (or 33, according to ATP)
18 - Manuel Orantes - 32 (or 33, according to ATP)
20 - John Newcombe - 31
Career finals in the open era
All surfaces - open era
In the open era, Federer is in 9th place, with 83 career finals reached on all surfaces; he needs another two finals to catch the next player on the list, which is Bjorn Borg.
Once again, there are some discrepencies in the numbers, depending what source you use; in elaborating this list, I used the ATP website data and noted with a * when the guys at tennis28 have a different thing written down. Here are all the players that played in at least 40 singles finals:
1 - Jimmy Connors - 154 (105*-49)
2 - Ivan Lendl - 144 (94-50)
3 - John McEnroe - 108 (77-31)
4 - Guillermo Vilas - 102 (62-40)
5 - Andre Agassi - 90 (60-30)
6 - Pete Sampras - 88 (64-24)
6 - Ilie Nastase - 88 (53*-35)
8 - Bjorn Borg - 85 (61*-24)
9 - Roger Federer - 83 (61-22)
9 - Stefan Edberg - 78 (42-36)
11 - Boris Becker - 77 (49-28)
12 - Manuel Orantes - 68 (33*-35)
13 - Mats Wilander - 59 (33-26)
14 - Michael Chang - 58 (34-24)
15 - Thomas Muster - 55 (44-11)
15 - Arthur Ashe - 55 (33*-32)
17 - Rod Laver - 54 (39*-15)
17 - Stan Smith - 54 (35*-19)
19 - Vitas Gerulaitis - 53 (24*-29)
20 - Brian Gottfried - 51 (25-26)
21 - Goran Ivanisevic - 49 (22-27)
22 - John Newcombe - 47 (31-16)
23 - Rafael Nadal - 46 (36-10)
23 - Yevgeny Kafelnikov - 46 (26-20)
25 - Tom Okker - 45 (22*-23)
26 - Carlos Moya - 44 (20-24)
27 - Andy Roddick - 43 (27-16)
28 - Ken Rosewall - 42 (25*-17)
29 - Lleyton Hewitt - 41 (27-14)
29 - Eddie Dibbs - 41 (21*-20)
31 - Brad Gilbert - 40 (20-20)
Career grass court titles - open era
1 - Roger Federer - 11
2 - Pete Sampras - 10
3 - Jimmy Connors - 9
4 - John McEnroe - 8
Career hardcourt titles - open era
1 - Andre Agassi - 46
2 - Jimmy Connors - 45
3 - Roger Federer - 39
3 - Pete Sampras - 36
Other surfaces - open era
Federer has also 8 wins on clay, which ties him in 37th place overall; Vilas tops the list with 46 titles; Muster is second with 40.
Federer has also 4?/3?/2? wins on carpet (depends on where you check); Connors and McEnroe share first spot with 44?/43? titles each.
Outdoor titles - open era
Federer currently ranks in 5th place alone in outdoor titles won during the open era, with 47 wins; here is the complete list:
1 - Guillermo Vilas - 56
2 - Jimmy Connors - 54
3 - Ivan Lendl - 52
4 - Andre Agassi - 48
5 - Roger Federer - 47
6 - Thomas Muster - 43
7 - Pete Sampras - 41
8 - Bjorn Borg - 40
9 - Ilie Nastase - 39
10 - Rafeal Nadal - 36
Indoor titles - open era
Federer has won 13 indoor titles in his career, which ties him on 14th place in the open era list.
1 - Jimmy Connors - 55
2 - John McEnroe - 52
3 - Ivan Lendl - 42
4 - Boris Becker - 30
5 - Bjorn Borg - 24
6 - Pete Sampras - 23
7 - Rod Laver - 22
7 - Ilie Nastase - 22
9 - Stan Smith - 21
10 - Arthur Ashe - 20
11 - Stefan Edberg - 18
12 - Goran Ivanisevic - 15
13 - Brian Gottfried - 14
14 - Roger Federer - 13
15 - Wojtek Fibak - 12
15 - Vitas Gerulaitis - 12
15 - Yevgeny Kafelnikov - 12
15 - Andre Agassi - 12
Most titles won in a year in the open era
Federer is the only player to have won at least 10 (or, in his case, 11) or more titles in 3 diferent seasons (also he did it in consecutive years, from 2004 to 2006).
He is also the only player to have won at least 10 titles in a year (11 in 2004) without losing in a final.
He is currently tied in 7th place for the most career titles in one year, with 12; here is the complete list of all players with 11 titles or more:
1 - Guillermo Vilas (1977) 16
2 - Jimmy Connors (1974) 15
2 - Ivan Lendl (1982) 15
2 - Ilie Nastase (1973) 15
5 - John Mc Enroe (1984) 13
5 - Illie Nastase (1972) 13
7 - Roger Federer (2006) 12
7 - Rod Laver (1970) 12
7 - Jimmy Connors (1976) 12
7 - Thomas Muster (1995) 12
11 - Roger Federer (2004) 11
11 - Roger Federer (2005) 11
11 - Rafael Nadal (2005) 11
Federer also won 8 titles in 2007, which was a record for the year; he also won 7 titles in 2003, which was also a record for that year. So for 5 straight years he has won at least as many titles as anybody else that year.
Career match wins in the open era
At this moment Federer has a career singles record of 664 wins and 156 losses, which is the most of any active player (Moya, who is already 32 years old, is in second place more than 80 wins behind); he is in 10th place at the moment;
Here is his career win-loss record:
1998: 2-3
1999: 13-17
2000: 36-30
2001: 50-20
2002: 65-23
2003: 78-17
2004: 74-6
2005: 81-4
2006: 92-5
2007: 69-9
2008: 66-13
2009: 47-7
(For some reason, the total doesn't add up, so if anyone knows where the mistakes are, please let me know)
Here is the complete list of all the players that have won 600 career matches or more:
1 - Connors - 1222
2 - Lendl 1070
3 - Vilas - 920
4 - McEnroe - 867
5 - Agassi - 860
6 - Edberg - 806
7 - Sampras - 762
8 - Nastase - 724
9 - Becker - 713
10 - Federer - 664
11 - Chang - 661
12 - Muster - 626
13 - Smith - 615
14 - Ashe - 613
Prize money in the open era
Prize money in one season
In 2007 Federer once again broke his own record for most prize money in a season, beating his U.S. $8,343,885 for the 2006 season.
By winning the Masters title Federer became the first player in history to win more than $10 million in a season. He came into the event with $7.4 million in 2007 earnings and added $1.2 million for winning the title with a 4-1 record. The Swiss also collects $1.5 million from the $3 million ATP Masters Series Bonus Pool, taking his season haul to $10,130,620.
As the prize money goes up every year, he will probably break his own record several times in the next few seasons.
At the 2007 US Open Federer earned with $2.4 million, the highest prize money ever at a single tournament, due to a $1 million bonus for winning the 2007 US Open Series and US Open consecutively.
Career prize money in the open era
Federer since he was 27 is already in first place in the all time money list!
1 - Roger Federer - $49,534,419 (after Canadian Open 2009)
2 - Pete Sampras - $ 43,280,489
3 - Andre Agassi - $ 31,152,975
Old predictions
The future (2007)
If Federer continues to win an average of 11 or more titles per year, even if only during the next three years, he will climb to number 3 on the all-time list of players with most titles in their career, and hold the records for most grass (already happened after Wimbledon 2009), hardcourt and outdoor titles by the end of his career.
Career titles in the open era
All surfaces - open era
In the open era, Federer is alone in 7th place, with 61 career titles won on all surfaces; he needs another title to catch the next players on the list, which are Vilas and Borg. Here is the complete list os players who have won at least 30 singles titles (the original data was taken from www.tennis28.com/titles/career.html; there are some minor discrepencies when the data is compared to the pleyer profiles at www.atptennis.com/en/players/)
1 - Jimmy Connors - 109 (0r 105, according to ATP)
2 - Ivan Lendl - 94
3 - John McEnroe - 77
4 - Pete Sampras - 64
5 - Guillermo Vilas - 62
5 - Bjorn Borg - 62 (or 61, according to ATP)
7 - Roger Federer - 61
7 - Andre Agassi - 60
8 - Illie Nastase - 57 (or 53, according to ATP)
10 - Boris Becker - 49
11 - Rod Laver - 47 (or 39, according to ATP)
12 - Thomas Muster - 44
13 - Stefan Edberg - 42
14 - Rafael Nadal - 36
14 - Stan Smith - 36 (or 35, according to ATP)
16 - Michael Chang - 34
17 - Mats Wilander - 33
18 -.Arthur Ashe - 32 (or 33, according to ATP)
18 - Manuel Orantes - 32 (or 33, according to ATP)
20 - John Newcombe - 31
Career finals in the open era
All surfaces - open era
In the open era, Federer is in 9th place, with 83 career finals reached on all surfaces; he needs another two finals to catch the next player on the list, which is Bjorn Borg.
Once again, there are some discrepencies in the numbers, depending what source you use; in elaborating this list, I used the ATP website data and noted with a * when the guys at tennis28 have a different thing written down. Here are all the players that played in at least 40 singles finals:
1 - Jimmy Connors - 154 (105*-49)
2 - Ivan Lendl - 144 (94-50)
3 - John McEnroe - 108 (77-31)
4 - Guillermo Vilas - 102 (62-40)
5 - Andre Agassi - 90 (60-30)
6 - Pete Sampras - 88 (64-24)
6 - Ilie Nastase - 88 (53*-35)
8 - Bjorn Borg - 85 (61*-24)
9 - Roger Federer - 83 (61-22)
9 - Stefan Edberg - 78 (42-36)
11 - Boris Becker - 77 (49-28)
12 - Manuel Orantes - 68 (33*-35)
13 - Mats Wilander - 59 (33-26)
14 - Michael Chang - 58 (34-24)
15 - Thomas Muster - 55 (44-11)
15 - Arthur Ashe - 55 (33*-32)
17 - Rod Laver - 54 (39*-15)
17 - Stan Smith - 54 (35*-19)
19 - Vitas Gerulaitis - 53 (24*-29)
20 - Brian Gottfried - 51 (25-26)
21 - Goran Ivanisevic - 49 (22-27)
22 - John Newcombe - 47 (31-16)
23 - Rafael Nadal - 46 (36-10)
23 - Yevgeny Kafelnikov - 46 (26-20)
25 - Tom Okker - 45 (22*-23)
26 - Carlos Moya - 44 (20-24)
27 - Andy Roddick - 43 (27-16)
28 - Ken Rosewall - 42 (25*-17)
29 - Lleyton Hewitt - 41 (27-14)
29 - Eddie Dibbs - 41 (21*-20)
31 - Brad Gilbert - 40 (20-20)
Career grass court titles - open era
1 - Roger Federer - 11
2 - Pete Sampras - 10
3 - Jimmy Connors - 9
4 - John McEnroe - 8
Career hardcourt titles - open era
1 - Andre Agassi - 46
2 - Jimmy Connors - 45
3 - Roger Federer - 39
3 - Pete Sampras - 36
Other surfaces - open era
Federer has also 8 wins on clay, which ties him in 37th place overall; Vilas tops the list with 46 titles; Muster is second with 40.
Federer has also 4?/3?/2? wins on carpet (depends on where you check); Connors and McEnroe share first spot with 44?/43? titles each.
Outdoor titles - open era
Federer currently ranks in 5th place alone in outdoor titles won during the open era, with 47 wins; here is the complete list:
1 - Guillermo Vilas - 56
2 - Jimmy Connors - 54
3 - Ivan Lendl - 52
4 - Andre Agassi - 48
5 - Roger Federer - 47
6 - Thomas Muster - 43
7 - Pete Sampras - 41
8 - Bjorn Borg - 40
9 - Ilie Nastase - 39
10 - Rafeal Nadal - 36
Indoor titles - open era
Federer has won 13 indoor titles in his career, which ties him on 14th place in the open era list.
1 - Jimmy Connors - 55
2 - John McEnroe - 52
3 - Ivan Lendl - 42
4 - Boris Becker - 30
5 - Bjorn Borg - 24
6 - Pete Sampras - 23
7 - Rod Laver - 22
7 - Ilie Nastase - 22
9 - Stan Smith - 21
10 - Arthur Ashe - 20
11 - Stefan Edberg - 18
12 - Goran Ivanisevic - 15
13 - Brian Gottfried - 14
14 - Roger Federer - 13
15 - Wojtek Fibak - 12
15 - Vitas Gerulaitis - 12
15 - Yevgeny Kafelnikov - 12
15 - Andre Agassi - 12
Most titles won in a year in the open era
Federer is the only player to have won at least 10 (or, in his case, 11) or more titles in 3 diferent seasons (also he did it in consecutive years, from 2004 to 2006).
He is also the only player to have won at least 10 titles in a year (11 in 2004) without losing in a final.
He is currently tied in 7th place for the most career titles in one year, with 12; here is the complete list of all players with 11 titles or more:
1 - Guillermo Vilas (1977) 16
2 - Jimmy Connors (1974) 15
2 - Ivan Lendl (1982) 15
2 - Ilie Nastase (1973) 15
5 - John Mc Enroe (1984) 13
5 - Illie Nastase (1972) 13
7 - Roger Federer (2006) 12
7 - Rod Laver (1970) 12
7 - Jimmy Connors (1976) 12
7 - Thomas Muster (1995) 12
11 - Roger Federer (2004) 11
11 - Roger Federer (2005) 11
11 - Rafael Nadal (2005) 11
Federer also won 8 titles in 2007, which was a record for the year; he also won 7 titles in 2003, which was also a record for that year. So for 5 straight years he has won at least as many titles as anybody else that year.
Career match wins in the open era
At this moment Federer has a career singles record of 664 wins and 156 losses, which is the most of any active player (Moya, who is already 32 years old, is in second place more than 80 wins behind); he is in 10th place at the moment;
Here is his career win-loss record:
1998: 2-3
1999: 13-17
2000: 36-30
2001: 50-20
2002: 65-23
2003: 78-17
2004: 74-6
2005: 81-4
2006: 92-5
2007: 69-9
2008: 66-13
2009: 47-7
(For some reason, the total doesn't add up, so if anyone knows where the mistakes are, please let me know)
Here is the complete list of all the players that have won 600 career matches or more:
1 - Connors - 1222
2 - Lendl 1070
3 - Vilas - 920
4 - McEnroe - 867
5 - Agassi - 860
6 - Edberg - 806
7 - Sampras - 762
8 - Nastase - 724
9 - Becker - 713
10 - Federer - 664
11 - Chang - 661
12 - Muster - 626
13 - Smith - 615
14 - Ashe - 613
Prize money in the open era
Prize money in one season
In 2007 Federer once again broke his own record for most prize money in a season, beating his U.S. $8,343,885 for the 2006 season.
By winning the Masters title Federer became the first player in history to win more than $10 million in a season. He came into the event with $7.4 million in 2007 earnings and added $1.2 million for winning the title with a 4-1 record. The Swiss also collects $1.5 million from the $3 million ATP Masters Series Bonus Pool, taking his season haul to $10,130,620.
As the prize money goes up every year, he will probably break his own record several times in the next few seasons.
At the 2007 US Open Federer earned with $2.4 million, the highest prize money ever at a single tournament, due to a $1 million bonus for winning the 2007 US Open Series and US Open consecutively.
Career prize money in the open era
Federer since he was 27 is already in first place in the all time money list!
1 - Roger Federer - $49,534,419 (after Canadian Open 2009)
2 - Pete Sampras - $ 43,280,489
3 - Andre Agassi - $ 31,152,975
Old predictions
The future (2007)
If Federer continues to win an average of 11 or more titles per year, even if only during the next three years, he will climb to number 3 on the all-time list of players with most titles in their career, and hold the records for most grass (already happened after Wimbledon 2009), hardcourt and outdoor titles by the end of his career.
