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The open era in tennis began in 1968, when the Grand Slam tournaments, such as Wimbledon, abandoned the longstanding rules of amateurism and allowed professionals to compete.

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[edit] Open Era Facts/Records

[edit] Men

[edit] By Player

  • Rod Laver of Australia is the only male player during the open era to have won all four Grand Slam singles tournaments in a calendar year (the Calendar Year Grand Slam) (1969). (He also won the Calendar Year Grand Slam in 1962, before the open era began.)
  • Andre Agassi of the United States won all four Grand Slam singles tournaments during his career (the Career Grand Slam). He is the only male player to have won Grand Slam singles tournaments on four different surfaces (hardcourt, clay, grass, and Rebound Ace).
    • Only man in the open era to have won a Career Grand Slam plus an Olympic gold medal in singles (the Career Golden Slam).
    • Won seven of the nine ATP Masters Series tournaments during his career.
    • Most overall ATP Masters Series titles (17).
    • Oldest world #1 male tennis player (33 years and 13 days).
    • Most U.S. Open singles tournaments played (21).
    • Most years finished in the top ten (16) (tied with Connors).
  • Roger Federer of Switzerland holds numerous open era records:
    • Longest winning streak on hard court: 56 (2005-06).
    • Longest winning streak on grass court: 48 (2003-present).
    • Longest winning streak against top ten players: 26 (2003-2005).
    • Most consecutive finals won: 24 (2003-2005).
    • Highest number of ranking points at the end of the year: 8,370 (2006).
    • Highest number of ranking points at any time of the year: 8,370 (November 20, 2006).
    • Highest number of race points (since 2000): 1,674 (November 20, 2006).
    • Earliest to clinch the year-end No. 1 ranking: September (2004).
    • Winner of his first seven Grand Slam singles finals.
    • Most consecutive Grand Slam singles finals: 6 (Wimbledon 2005-present).
    • Shares with Lendl the record for most consecutive Grand Slam men's singles semifinals, with 10 (Wimbledon 2004-present).
    • First man to win four ATP Masters Series (since 1990) tournaments in one season (2005). Repeated that achievement in 2006.
    • Holds the best 3-year match winning percentage (94.3%) and tournament winning percentage (69.4%) (2004-2006).
    • Holds a record five winning streaks of 20 or more consecutive matches:
      • 23 (Jun 2004-Aug 2004: W Halle, Wimbledon, Gstaad, Toronto, 1st round Cincinnati).
      • 26 (Aug 2004-Jan 2005: W U.S. Open, Bangkok, Tennis Masters Cup, Doha, SF Australian Open).
      • 25 (Feb 2005-Apr 2005: W Rotterdam, Dubai, Indian Wells AMS, Miami AMS, QF Monte Carlo).
      • 35 (Jun 2005-Nov 2005: W Halle, Wimbledon, Cincinnati AMS, U.S. Open, Davis Cup match, Bangkok, F Tennis Masters Cup).
      • 29 (Aug 2006-Nov 2006: W U.S. Open, 2 Davis Cup matches, Tokyo, Madrid AMS, Basel, Tennis Masters Cup ongoing)
    • First man to win at least 10 titles in a season without losing in a final (2004).
    • First man ever to record a "double bagel" at a year-end championship. (Federer defeated Gastón Gaudio in a semifinal of the 2005 Tennis Masters Cup.)
    • Only player to have won both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the same year for three consecutive years (2004-2006).
    • Only player to ever have won at least three Grand Slam singles tournaments in a year twice (2004 and 2006).
    • First man to win the ATP Masters Series tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami back-to-back in consecutive years (2005-2006).
    • First man to win at least 10 singles titles in each of three consecutive years (2004-2006).
    • Holds the best percentage of finals reached in a year, 94.1% in 2006 (16 out of 17).
    • Holds the record for most single-season earnings (U.S. $8,343,885 in 2006).
  • Ivan Lendl
    • Longest winning streak indoors: 66 matches (between October 1981 and January 1983).
    • Only player to have won three tournaments in consecutive weeks on three different surfaces.
    • Reached the most consecutive finals: 18 between 1981-82.
    • Shares with Federer the record for most consecutive Grand Slam men's singles semifinals, with 10 (U.S. Open 1985-Australian Open 1988).
    • Only player to have won 90+ matches in consecutive years (1980-1982).
    • Only player to have won at least 90 percent of his matches in four different years (1982: 106-9; 1985: 84-7; 1986: 74-6; 1987: 74-7).
    • Shares with Sampras the record for most Masters men's singles titles, with five.
  • Lleyton Hewitt of Australia holds the record of being the youngest World No. 1, at the age of 20 years and 8 months (2001).
  • Rafael Nadal holds the longest winning streak on clay: 62 matches (2005-present).

[edit] By Year

  • 2005
    • Rafael Nadal of Spain became the first male teenager to reach second place in the ATP Entry Rankings since Boris Becker.
    • Nadal won eight titles on clay in 2005, the most since Thomas Muster won seven in 1995.
    • Nadal's 24 match winning streak was the longest streak of any teenager in the open era.
    • For the first time since 1990, two men won at least ten singles titles each in one season: Roger Federer (11) and Rafael Nadal (11).
  • 2006
    • Roger Federer's victory at the Australian Open was his record seventh win in seven Grand Slam finals. Only Williams Renshaw and Richard Sears achieved the same feat, but they played in the 19th century. Interestingly, all of Renshaw's wins came at Wimbledon, and all of Sears' wins were at the U.S. Championships.
    • Federer became the first player to win the Indian Wells-Miami double for the second consecutive year.
    • By winning the French Open, Nadal set a clay court winning streak of 60 matches--besting the previous record of 53 wins by Guillermo Vilas. His victory over Federer in the finals prevented the latter from winning four consecutive Grand Slam singles titles. Federer's Grand Slam finals record now stands at 9-1.
    • After winning the Madrid Masters, Federer became the first player to win at least ten singles titles in three consecutive years.

[edit] Women

  • Margaret Smith Court of Australia holds the record for most Grand Slam singles titles by any person, with 24 (11 in the open era).
  • Margaret Smith Court and Steffi Graf are the only females to have won a calendar year Grand Slam in the open era. Graf also won the Olympic gold medal the year she won the Grand Slam (1988), making her the only player ever to have won the Golden Slam. Court actually won a record six consecutive Grand Slam singles tournaments in that she also won the last Grand Slam event of 1969 (U.S. Open), then all four titles in 1970, and then the first Grand Slam singles tournament of 1971 (Australian Open). Martina Navratilova shares this unique record as she won the last three Grand Slams of 1983 and the first three of 1984. Graf also won six consecutive Grand Slams that she played (French Open 1995 - U.S. Open 1996); however, she did not play the 1996 Australian Open.
  • When Steffi Graf won the 1995 U.S. Open singles title, she became the first and so far the only player, male or female, to win 4 titles at each of the Grand Slam tournaments.
  • Steffi Graf became the first woman in the open era to lose in the first round of a Grand Slam as a defending champion, at Wimbledon in 1994. Three more Grand Slam champions followed her:
  • 2005
    • Lindsay Davenport created history at Indian Wells. As the top seed (and world No. 1), she inflicted a double bagel on then world No. 3 Maria Sharapova in a semifinal. It was the first time in the open era that a player ranked in the top three had been double-bageled.
    • Lindsay Davenport became the first female player to notch 50 wins at the Australian Open during the open era.
    • Justine Henin-Hardenne (Belgium) became the first reigning French Open champion to lose in the first round at Wimbledon during the open era.
    • Maria Sharapova became the first Russian woman to reach the number one spot in the rankings, holding it for seven non-consecutive weeks.
  • 2006
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