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This article lists the professional tennis players who reached the highest ranking among their compatriots during the Open Era. The rankings used are ATP rankings for men (since 23 August 1973 for singles, and 1 March 1976 for doubles) and WTA rankings for women (since 3 November 1975 for singles, and 4 September 1984 for doubles).
On 11 September 2017, Garbiñe Muguruza and Rafael Nadal made Spain the first country since the United States 14 years ago to simultaneously top both the ATP and the WTA rankings, with Muguruza making her debut in the No. 1 spot. The most recent previous such pair were Serena Williams and Andre Agassi, 28 April to 11 May 2003. [1]
* Goran Ivanišević is included for both Yugoslavia and Croatia, and Novak Djokovic is included for both Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia.
* Monica Seles is included for both United States and Yugoslavia.
Nation | Grand Slams Won | Player(s) |
---|---|---|
USA | 51 | Pete Sampras (14), Jimmy Connors (8), Andre Agassi (8), John McEnroe (7), Jim Courier (4), Arthur Ashe (3), Stan Smith (2), Roscoe Tanner, Vitas Gerulaitis, Johan Kriek, Michael Chang, Andy Roddick |
Spain | 31 | Rafael Nadal (22), Sergi Bruguera (2), Carlos Alcaraz (2), Andrés Gimeno, Manuel Orantes, Carlos Moyá, Albert Costa, Juan Carlos Ferrero |
Nation | Ranking | Player(s) | Date reached |
---|---|---|---|
Argentina | 3 | Horacio Zeballos | 9 September 2019 |
Australia | 1 |
Paul McNamee John Fitzgerald Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde Matthew Ebden |
25 May 1981 8 July 1991 6 July 1992 16 November 1992 26 February 2024 |
Austria | 2 | Oliver Marach | 28 May 2018 |
Bahamas | 1 | Mark Knowles | 24 June 2002 |
Belarus | 1 | Max Mirnyi | 9 June 2003 |
Belgium | 10 | Dick Norman | 26 April 2010 |
Bolivia | 91 | Federico Zeballos | 8 January 2024 |
Brazil | 1 | Marcelo Melo | 2 November 2015 |
Canada | 1 |
Grant Connell Daniel Nestor |
15 November 1993 3 November 2002 |
Chile | 5 | Hans Gildemeister | 27 April 1987 |
China | 78 | Zhang Ze | 18 March 2019 |
Chinese Taipei | 62 | Hsieh Cheng-Peng | 10 June 2019 |
Colombia | 1 |
Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah |
15 July 2019 15 July 2019 |
Croatia | 1 |
Mate Pavić Nikola Mektić |
21 May 2018 18 October 2021 |
Czech Republic | 1 | Tomáš Šmíd | 17 December 1984 |
Ecuador | 1 | Andrés Gómez | 15 September 1986 |
El Salvador | 5 | Marcelo Arévalo | 14 November 2022 |
Finland | 1 | Henri Kontinen | 3 April 2017 |
France | 1 |
Yannick Noah Nicolas Mahut |
25 August 1986 6 June 2016 |
Germany | 6 |
Boris Becker Udo Riglewski |
22 September 1986 25 March 1991 |
Greece | 64 | Stefanos Tsitsipas | 29 August 2022 |
India | 1 |
Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes Rohan Bopanna |
26 April 1999 21 June 1999 29 January 2024 |
Indonesia | 68 | Christopher Rungkat | 17 June 2019 |
Israel | 5 |
Andy Ram Jonathan Erlich |
7 July 2008 7 July 2008 |
Italy | 7 | Fabio Fognini | 20 July 2015 |
Kazakhstan | 21 | Andrey Golubev | 16 May 2022 |
Latvia | 108 | Ģirts Dzelde | 4 October 1993 |
Mauritius | 570 | Kamil Patel [45] | 6 December 1999 |
Mexico | 1 | Raúl Ramírez | 12 April 1976 |
Monaco | 12 | Hugo Nys | 12 June 2023 |
Netherlands | 1 |
Tom Okker Paul Haarhuis Jacco Eltingh Wesley Koolhof |
5 February 1979 31 January 1994 16 January 1995 7 November 2022 |
New Zealand | 6 | Michael Venus | 29 August 2022 |
Pakistan | 8 | Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi | 6 June 2011 |
Peru | 15 | Luis Horna | 2 February 2009 |
Philippines | 18 | Treat Huey | 11 July 2016 |
Poland | 1 | Łukasz Kubot | 8 January 2018 |
Romania | 2 | Horia Tecău | 23 November 2015 |
Russia | 4 | Yevgeny Kafelnikov | 30 March 1998 |
Serbia | 1 | Nenad Zimonjić | 17 November 2008 |
Serbia and Montenegro | 9 | Nenad Zimonjić | 20 March 2006 |
South Africa | 1 |
Bob Hewitt Frew McMillan Danie Visser Pieter Aldrich |
1 March 1976 25 April 1977 29 January 1990 23 July 1990 |
Spain | 1 | Emilio Sánchez | 3 April 1989 |
Sweden | 1 |
Anders Järryd Stefan Edberg Jonas Björkman |
12 August 1985 9 June 1986 9 July 2001 |
Switzerland | 8 | Marc Rosset | 2 November 1992 |
Ukraine | 33 | Sergiy Stakhovsky | 6 June 2011 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Jamie Murray Joe Salisbury Neal Skupski |
4 April 2016 4 April 2022 14 November 2022 |
United States | 1 |
John McEnroe Stan Smith Peter Fleming Robert Seguso Ken Flach Jim Grabb Jim Pugh Rick Leach David Pate Kelly Jones Richey Reneberg Patrick Galbraith Jonathan Stark Jared Palmer Alex O'Brien Donald Johnson Bob Bryan Mike Bryan Rajeev Ram Austin Krajicek |
27 April 1981 2 March 1981 1 February 1982 9 September 1985 14 October 1985 12 June 1989 19 June 1989 26 March 1990 14 January 1991 12 October 1992 1 February 1993 18 October 1993 1 August 1994 20 March 2000 8 May 2000 28 January 2002 8 September 2003 8 September 2003 3 October 2022 12 June 2023 |
Yugoslavia | 1 | Slobodan Živojinović | 8 September 1986 |
Zimbabwe | 1 | Byron Black | 14 February 1994 |
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (March 2018) |
This article lists the professional tennis players who reached the highest ranking among their compatriots during the Open Era. The rankings used are ATP rankings for men (since 23 August 1973 for singles, and 1 March 1976 for doubles) and WTA rankings for women (since 3 November 1975 for singles, and 4 September 1984 for doubles).
On 11 September 2017, Garbiñe Muguruza and Rafael Nadal made Spain the first country since the United States 14 years ago to simultaneously top both the ATP and the WTA rankings, with Muguruza making her debut in the No. 1 spot. The most recent previous such pair were Serena Williams and Andre Agassi, 28 April to 11 May 2003. [1]
* Goran Ivanišević is included for both Yugoslavia and Croatia, and Novak Djokovic is included for both Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia.
* Monica Seles is included for both United States and Yugoslavia.
Nation | Grand Slams Won | Player(s) |
---|---|---|
USA | 51 | Pete Sampras (14), Jimmy Connors (8), Andre Agassi (8), John McEnroe (7), Jim Courier (4), Arthur Ashe (3), Stan Smith (2), Roscoe Tanner, Vitas Gerulaitis, Johan Kriek, Michael Chang, Andy Roddick |
Spain | 31 | Rafael Nadal (22), Sergi Bruguera (2), Carlos Alcaraz (2), Andrés Gimeno, Manuel Orantes, Carlos Moyá, Albert Costa, Juan Carlos Ferrero |
Nation | Ranking | Player(s) | Date reached |
---|---|---|---|
Argentina | 3 | Horacio Zeballos | 9 September 2019 |
Australia | 1 |
Paul McNamee John Fitzgerald Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde Matthew Ebden |
25 May 1981 8 July 1991 6 July 1992 16 November 1992 26 February 2024 |
Austria | 2 | Oliver Marach | 28 May 2018 |
Bahamas | 1 | Mark Knowles | 24 June 2002 |
Belarus | 1 | Max Mirnyi | 9 June 2003 |
Belgium | 10 | Dick Norman | 26 April 2010 |
Bolivia | 91 | Federico Zeballos | 8 January 2024 |
Brazil | 1 | Marcelo Melo | 2 November 2015 |
Canada | 1 |
Grant Connell Daniel Nestor |
15 November 1993 3 November 2002 |
Chile | 5 | Hans Gildemeister | 27 April 1987 |
China | 78 | Zhang Ze | 18 March 2019 |
Chinese Taipei | 62 | Hsieh Cheng-Peng | 10 June 2019 |
Colombia | 1 |
Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah |
15 July 2019 15 July 2019 |
Croatia | 1 |
Mate Pavić Nikola Mektić |
21 May 2018 18 October 2021 |
Czech Republic | 1 | Tomáš Šmíd | 17 December 1984 |
Ecuador | 1 | Andrés Gómez | 15 September 1986 |
El Salvador | 5 | Marcelo Arévalo | 14 November 2022 |
Finland | 1 | Henri Kontinen | 3 April 2017 |
France | 1 |
Yannick Noah Nicolas Mahut |
25 August 1986 6 June 2016 |
Germany | 6 |
Boris Becker Udo Riglewski |
22 September 1986 25 March 1991 |
Greece | 64 | Stefanos Tsitsipas | 29 August 2022 |
India | 1 |
Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes Rohan Bopanna |
26 April 1999 21 June 1999 29 January 2024 |
Indonesia | 68 | Christopher Rungkat | 17 June 2019 |
Israel | 5 |
Andy Ram Jonathan Erlich |
7 July 2008 7 July 2008 |
Italy | 7 | Fabio Fognini | 20 July 2015 |
Kazakhstan | 21 | Andrey Golubev | 16 May 2022 |
Latvia | 108 | Ģirts Dzelde | 4 October 1993 |
Mauritius | 570 | Kamil Patel [45] | 6 December 1999 |
Mexico | 1 | Raúl Ramírez | 12 April 1976 |
Monaco | 12 | Hugo Nys | 12 June 2023 |
Netherlands | 1 |
Tom Okker Paul Haarhuis Jacco Eltingh Wesley Koolhof |
5 February 1979 31 January 1994 16 January 1995 7 November 2022 |
New Zealand | 6 | Michael Venus | 29 August 2022 |
Pakistan | 8 | Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi | 6 June 2011 |
Peru | 15 | Luis Horna | 2 February 2009 |
Philippines | 18 | Treat Huey | 11 July 2016 |
Poland | 1 | Łukasz Kubot | 8 January 2018 |
Romania | 2 | Horia Tecău | 23 November 2015 |
Russia | 4 | Yevgeny Kafelnikov | 30 March 1998 |
Serbia | 1 | Nenad Zimonjić | 17 November 2008 |
Serbia and Montenegro | 9 | Nenad Zimonjić | 20 March 2006 |
South Africa | 1 |
Bob Hewitt Frew McMillan Danie Visser Pieter Aldrich |
1 March 1976 25 April 1977 29 January 1990 23 July 1990 |
Spain | 1 | Emilio Sánchez | 3 April 1989 |
Sweden | 1 |
Anders Järryd Stefan Edberg Jonas Björkman |
12 August 1985 9 June 1986 9 July 2001 |
Switzerland | 8 | Marc Rosset | 2 November 1992 |
Ukraine | 33 | Sergiy Stakhovsky | 6 June 2011 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Jamie Murray Joe Salisbury Neal Skupski |
4 April 2016 4 April 2022 14 November 2022 |
United States | 1 |
John McEnroe Stan Smith Peter Fleming Robert Seguso Ken Flach Jim Grabb Jim Pugh Rick Leach David Pate Kelly Jones Richey Reneberg Patrick Galbraith Jonathan Stark Jared Palmer Alex O'Brien Donald Johnson Bob Bryan Mike Bryan Rajeev Ram Austin Krajicek |
27 April 1981 2 March 1981 1 February 1982 9 September 1985 14 October 1985 12 June 1989 19 June 1989 26 March 1990 14 January 1991 12 October 1992 1 February 1993 18 October 1993 1 August 1994 20 March 2000 8 May 2000 28 January 2002 8 September 2003 8 September 2003 3 October 2022 12 June 2023 |
Yugoslavia | 1 | Slobodan Živojinović | 8 September 1986 |
Zimbabwe | 1 | Byron Black | 14 February 1994 |