Men's tennis records
These are just some of the records kept. They will not always be accurate as you read them as the statistics change every week. Mostly these records are accurate as of the end of 2007. They are statistics for singles only.
Men to win the Grand Slam
Don Budge 1938
Rod Laver 1962, 1969
Men to win all four grand slams but not in one calendar year.
Andre Agassi
Don Budge
Roy Emerson
Rod Laver
Fred Perry
Roger Federer
Rafael Nadal
Titles in the Open era
1 J. Connors 109
2 I. Lendl 94
3 J. McEnroe 77
4 P. Sampras 64
5 B. Borg 62
6 G. Vilas 62
7.Roger Federer 60
8 A. Agassi 59
9 I. Nastase 57
10 B. Becker 49
11 R. Laver 47
12 T. Muster 44
13 S. Edberg 41
14 S. Smith 39
15 M. Chang 34
16 A. Ashe 33
17 M. Wilander 33
18 Lleyton Hewitt 25
Grand Slam title wins
Roger Federer : 17
Pete Sampras : 14
Roy Emerson : 12
Bjorn Borg : 11
Rod Laver : 11
Bill Tilden : 10
Rafael Nadal : 9
Fred Perry : 8
Andre Agassi : 8
Jimmy Conners : 8
Ken Rosewall : 8
Ivan Lendl : 8
Novak Djokovic
Winning streaks since 1990
1. Roger Federer 41 (March 2007) missing out on Guillarmo Villas record of 47 matches set before 1990.
2. Roger Federer 36 ( Jan 2006)
3. Thomas Muster 35
3. Roger Federer 35 (ended by Nalbandian in the Masters Cup, November 2005)
5. Pete Sampras 29 (1994)
6. Andre Agassi 26 (1995)
7. Jim Courier 25 (1992)
8. Pete Sampras 24 (1999)
9. Roger Federer 23 (2004)
10. Stefan Edberg 21 (1990, ’91)
10. Ivan Lendl 21 (1990)
12. Pete Sampras 21 (1996)
13. Pete Sampras 20 (1996-97)
Rafael Nadal surpasses Guillermo Vilas's record winning streak on clay after winning the first round of the French 2006. As he won the French Open, his record will be difficult to beat and has only just been broken by Federer at Hamburg 2007. Nadal had won 81 times in succession on clay.
Roger Federer equals Borg's winning streak on grass at Halle, Germany 2006. Should he keep winning at Wimbledon he will surpass that record to 48. By winning Wimbledon 2007, he also equaled Borg's record of 5 consecutive wins at Wimbledon.
Most aces in a match
49 R. Krajicek
47 G. Kuerten
46 G. Ivanisevic
46 M. Philippoussis
Most aces in 2005:
Roddick at 912.
Fastest individual serves recorded since 1991 (in mph)
Andy Roddick 155
Greg Rusedski 149
Taylor Dent 145
Jo-Wilfred Tsonga 144
Joachim Johansson 144
Mark Philippoussis 142.3
Joachim Johansson 141
Julian Alonso 140
Gilles Elseneer 140
Miscellanaeous
Wimbledon and the US Open Roger Federer is the first man in the Open era to take Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in consecutive years (2005) He has done that a third time (2006) He has now done this the fourth time (2007)
Seven men have won the two Grand Slam events in the same year, with Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe and Pete Sampras doing it twice apiece. Rod Laver and Boris Becker also pulled off the feat. Roger Federer is now the next one.
Federer wins his first U.S. Open title with a win over Hewitt to become the first player since Swede Mats Wilander in 1988 to win three grand slams in the same year, and the first man in the Open Era to win his first four grand slam finals. Federer also became the first man to win back to back US Opens since Patrick Rafter in 1988.
Federer is the first man to progress to a grand slam final 8 consecutive times. He is the holder of the grand slam record at 17 times.
Agassi played in his 61st Grand Slam event which is now a record and he has played for 21 consecutive years at the US Open (2006)
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