From: clc5q@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: More Tennis Records
Date: 21 Jul 92 14:46:11 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Originator: clc5q@hemlock.cs.Virginia.EDU


Open Era Records, courtesy ATP:
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Most computer ranking points: 3997, Stefan Edberg, February 25, 1991

Most tournaments won in a season: 15, shared by:

	Ilie Nastase, 1973
        Jimmy Connors, 1974
        Guillermo Vilas, 1977
        John McEnroe, 1979
        Ivan Lendl, 1982

Most Doubles Titles in a Season: 17, John McEnroe, 1979

Highest Match Winning Percentage: 96.5, John McEnroe, 1984 (82-3 record)

Longest Match Winning streak: 46, Vilas, 1977-78
    NOTE: Everyone knows the record is 50 by Vilas in 1977, so there must
     be some confusion here in the way ATP counts things. Perhaps he played
     a non-ATP tournament during the 50 match streak? The 50 match streak
     was entirely contained in 1977, ending with the controversial match
     that Nastase won over Vilas on October 2, 1977, in the finals of the
     Gold Racquet tournament in Aix-en-Provence.  Nastase used the "spaghetti
     racket", which was double-strung to provide incredible spin. The ATP
     (or whatever governing body there was then) had already announced that
     spaghetti rackets would be disallowed in all tournaments starting on
     Monday, October 3, 1977.  The other players who had experimented with
     it stopped using it after the ruling, but Nastase used it until the
     last day.  When Nastase and Vilas were inducted into the Hall of Fame
     in 1991 at Newport, I remember Vilas saying his streak would have been
     100 matches if it weren't for that spaghetti racket match.  I thought
     to myself that he was exaggerating, and that he couldn't have started
     another streak of 49 matches right after that match.  Apparently, he
     started a 46 match streak after that tournament, and it continued
     through the 1978 Australian Open (which he won) and a few weeks
     afterwards.  However, the ATP is not penalizing Vilas for getting
     injured and forfeiting a match to Eddie Dibbs in the round robin
     stage of the Grand Prix Masters at the end of 1977 (actually held in
     January of 1978).  Apparently, they considered the Grand Prix Masters
     to be an exhibition tournament, like the current Grand Slam Cup.
     (In addition to the forfeit, Vilas lost to Borg in the semis, 6-3, 6-3.)
     In any case, it appears that Vilas could have had a 97 match winning
     streak if he had beaten Nastase on October 2, 1977, in the disputed match.

Most Prize Money in a Season (exhibitions not included): $2,363,575, Edberg '91

Career Prize Money, end of 1991:

 1. Lendl,      $18,211,061
 2. McEnroe,    $11,586,545
 3. Edberg,     $10,997,271
 4. Becker,     $ 9,376,755
 5. Connors,    $ 8,332,004
 6. Wilander,   $ 7,377,193
 7. Vilas,      $ 4,904,922
 8. Agassi,     $ 4,255,449
 9. Gomez,      $ 4,140,425
10. Jarryd,     $ 3,986,703


Career Titles Won:  (Again, OPEN ERA only)

 1. Connors        109
 2. Lendl           91
 3. McEnroe         77
 4. Borg            62
 5. Vilas           61
 6. Nastase         57
 7. Laver           47
 8. Smith           39
 9. Ashe            33
    Edberg          33
    Wilander        33
12. Newcombe        32
    Orantes         32
    Rosewall        32
15. Becker          31
16. Okker           30
17. Gerulaitis      27
18. Clerc           25
    Gottfried       25
20. Noah            23

Edberg and Becker have added a couple of titles each to these totals.


Career Doubles Titles (OPEN ERA only)
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 1. Tom Okker       78
 2. John McEnroe    74
    Frew McMillan   74
 4. Peter Fleming   66
 5. Bob Hewitt      65
 6. Raul Ramirez    62
 7. Stan Smith      61
 8. Marty Riessen   60
 9. Tomas Smid      55
10. Brian Gottfried 54
    Sherwood Stewart 54
12. Ilie Nastase    51
13. Wotjek Fibak    48
14. Anders Jarryd   47
15. Bob Lutz        44
16. John Newcombe   41
17. Emilio Sanchez  38
18. Rod Laver       37
19. Sergio Casal    35
    Mark Edmondson  35

McEnroe added 1 at Wimbledon, but I think that's all this year. Sanchez/Casal
might have added to their totals, and we'll see them in Barcelona, I guess.
Anders Jarryd is playing again with John Fitzgerald and might have won in
1992 at some tournament --- I don't know. Jarryd won 8 titles in 1991, which
was the best for that year.

That's all for now.

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