Cumulative stats of tournament winners

[1991 - 2007]

Most aces winning a Grand Slam:

212, Goran Ivanisevic (Wimbledon 2001)
144, Pete Sampras (US Open 2002)
141, Pete Sampras (US Open 1995)
139, Richard Krajicek (Wimbledon 1996)
123, Andy Roddick (US Open 2003)


Most aces winning Roland Garros:

75, Gustavo Kuerten (2000, 2001)
69, Gustavo Kuerten (1997)
59, Yevgeny Kafelnikov (1996)


Most aces winning the Australian Open:

119, Thomas Johansson (2002)
99, Marat Safin (2005)
97, Pete Sampras (1997


Most aces winning a 32-draw tournament:

122, Goran Ivanisevic (Vienna 1997)
109, Martin Verkerk (Milan 2003)
108, Goran Ivanisevic (Zagreb 1997)
107, Goran Ivanisevic (Split 1998)
106, Ivo Karlovic (Stockholm 2007)


Most aces winning a Masters Series tournament:

98, Goran Ivanisevic (Paris 1993)
85, Andy Roddick (Cincinnati 2006)
84, Mark Philippoussis (Indian Wells 1999)
80, Goran Ivanisevic (Stockholm 1992)
80, Richard Krajicek (Key Biscane 1999)


Most aces winning a Masters Series tournament on clay:

50, Pete Sampras (Rome 1994)
48, Magnus Norman (Rome 2000)
40, Gustavo Kuerten (Monte Carlo 2001)
36, Jim Courier (Rome 1992)
35, Cedric Pioline (Monte Carlo 2000)

[most aces in Hamburg: 30, Michael Stich (1993)]


Fewest aces winning a Grand Slam:

15, Jim Courier (Roland Garros 1991)
17, Rafael Nadal (Roland Garros 2007)
18, Sergi Bruguera (Roland Garros 1994)
18, Thomas Muster (Roland Garros 1995)
19, Gaston Gaudio (Roland Garros 2004)


Fewest aces winning Wimbledon:

34, Andre Agassi (1992)
60, Roger Federer (2004)
68, Roger Federer (2006)
73, Lleyton Hewitt (2002)
85, Roger Federer (2005, 2007)


Fewest aces winning any tournament:

1, David Ferrer (Bucharest 2002)
1, Filippo Volandri (St. Poelten 2004)
1, Guillermo Perez-Roldan (San Marino 1991)
2, Alberto Berasategui (Montevideo 1994)
2, David Ferrer (Bastad 2007)


Fewest aces winning a tournament not being played on clay:

3, Jordi Arrese (Buzios 1991)
4, Andre Agassi (Scottsdale 1994)
5, Byron Black (Seoul 1996)
5, Gianluca Pozzi (Brisbane 1991)
5, Jeff Tarango (Wellington 1991)

[on grass: 10, Frabrice Santoro (Newport 2007)]


Most aces against winning a Grand Slam:

115, Pete Sampras (US Open 1996)
107, Pete Samrpas (US Open 1995)
105, Andre Agassi (Australian Open 2000)
97, Goran Ivanisevic (Wimbledon 2001)
94, Andre Agassi (Wimbledon 1992)


explanation of "aces against":
115 = In all matches of Sampras en route to his US Open 96 title, his opponents hit a total of 115 aces


Most aces against winning a 32-draw tournament:

91, Thomas Enqvist (Marseille 2002)
75, Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Tashkent 2002)
75, Goran Ivanisevic (Vienna 1997)
70, Dominik Hrbaty (Marseille 2004)
68, Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Halle 1997)
68, Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Milan 1995)


Fewest aces against winning a Grand Slam:

13, Sergi Bruguera (Roland Garros 1994)
16, Carlos Moya (Roland Garros 1998)
16, Roger Federer (Wimbledon 2007) [1 walkover]
17, Rafael Nadal (Roland Garros 2005)
17, Roger Federer (US Open 2004) [1 walkover]

Most points played winning a Grand Slam:

2008, Stefan Edberg (US Open 1992)
1947, Gustavo Kuerten (Roland Garros 1997)
1937, Pete Sampras (Wimbledon 1995)
1897, Andre Agassi (Wimbledon 1992)
1836, Pete Sampras (US Open 1996)


Most points played winning a Masters Series tournament:

1115, Albert Portas (Hamburg 2001)
1083, Sergi Bruguera (Monte Carlo 1991
1055, Felix Mantilla (Rome TMS 2003)
1054, Thomas Muster (Monte Carlo 1992)
1052, Andrei Medvedev (Monte Carlo 1994)


Most points played winning a 32-draw tournament:

1062, Goran Ivanisevic (Vienna 1997)
1024, Mark Philippoussis (Toulouse 1996)
1016, Magnus Gustafsson (Hilversum 1991)
1004, Michael Stich (Stuttgart Indoor 1993)
991, Roger Federer (Halle 2006)


Least points against winning a Grand Slam:

457, Andre Agassi (Australian Open 2003)
478, Roger Federer (Wimbledon 2006)
511, Andre Agassi (Australian Open 1995)
514, Jim Courier (Roland Garros 1991)
527, Sergi Bruguera (Roland Garros 1993)


Least points against winning a 32-draw tournament:

147, Guy Forget (Bordeaux 1991)
168, Richard Gasquet (Mumbai 2007)
175, Nikolay Davydenko (Poertschach 2006)
181, Pete Sampras (San Jose 1997)
184, Guy Forget (Sydney Outdoor 1991)

Tournament winners who had their serve not broken:

Kenneth Carlsen (Tokyo 2002)
Roger Federer (Doha 2005)
Ivan Ljubicic (Vienna 2006)
Joachim Johansson (Memphis 2004)
Richard Krajicek (Rosmalen 1994)
Michael Stich (Rosmalen 1992)
Joachim Johansson (Marseille 2005)
Pete Sampras (Lyon 1991)
Mark Philippoussis (Newport 2006)
Jonas Bjorkman (Nottingham 2002)
Ivan Ljubicic (Vienna 2005)
Tommy Haas (Memphis 2007)
Richard Krajicek (Rosmalen 1997)
Andy Roddick (Lyon 2005)


Least break points faced winning a tournament:

0, Tommy Haas (Memphis 2007)
3, Andy Roddick (Lyon 2005)
4, Andy Roddick (San Jose 2004)
4, Guillermo Canas (Shanghai 2004)
4, Goran Ivanisevic (Sydney Indoor 1992)
4, Richard Gasquet (Mumbai 2007)

Amazing statistics and a great read!

Keep up the good work Neely :yeah:

Just a question, when I looked on the ATP site I noticed some recent matches for which no stats are available, and I imagine this is more prevalent for older tournaments. Given the nature of the stats wouldn't this skew the picture a bit and make some findings potentially bogus?

I tried my best to eliminate frequent patterns of missing data like
http://www.atptennis.com/5/en/players/playerprofiles/popMatchStats.asp?sd=Singles&trnnum=604&trnyear=1991&rnd=4&plyr=K023 or http://www.atptennis.com/5/en/players/playerprofiles/popMatchStats.asp?sd=Singles&trnnum=604&trnyear=1996&rnd=4&plyr=C344 for example.

So, if everything else is missing, but it shows 0 aces for player 1 and player 2, then these numbers were not counted in a stats like "fewest aces against"

However, I did not spend too much time on it yet and I might have missed some other patterns which occur frequently.

Also it goes without saying that the stats might be skewed if there are wrong numbers given. This means if every other category looks fine, but 0/0 break points means they had no clue what the right number was or if it is wrong itself, there is no way to confirm the true number and it entered the count.


If anybody count manually some numbers I gave in this thread (maybe because they can't believe it or because they are interested to confirm because it is about a favorite player of them) and finds some errors or missing match stats for a player on his way to a title, then let me know about it and it helps me to define other frequent missing value patterns :yeah:

Thank, good stats Neely!

Is that impressive :eek: Tommy win a tournament without break point against him!! :eek: :worship: :worship: That's all-time big!!!!!! :worship:


And today in TV interview Federer think he is special going only unbroken (but break points against) into the final! :secret: ;)