Active Players' Davis Cup Singles Records

The criteria is that every player on this list must have played at least one World Group singles rubber. Updated after the quarters:


DAVIS CUP WINNERS

Leander Paes: 48-22 (OK, so he hasn't played a World Group match since 1997, but he's still very much active)
In live rubbers: 38-16
In live WG rubbers: 5-7

Hyung-Taik Lee: 41-9
In live rubbers: 37-9
In live WG rubbers: 1-1

Lleyton Hewitt: 33-9
In live rubbers: 30-7
In live WG rubbers: 25-6

Andy Roddick: 31-11
In live rubbers: 27-11
In live WG rubbers: 22-10

Roger Federer: 27-6
In live rubbers: 27-5
In live WG rubbers: 16-5

Younes El Aynaoui: 26-11
In live rubbers: 25-8
In live WG rubbers: 2-0

Dominik Hrbaty: 26-14
In live rubbers: 25-11
In live WG rubbers: 12-6

Max Mirnyi: 24-18
In live rubbers: 21-17
In live WG rubbers: 5-5

Ivan Ljubicic: 23-12 (technically no longer active in DC, but he is still on tour)
In live rubbers: 22-11
In live WG rubbers: 15-6

Marat Safin: 21-15
In live rubbers: 21-11
In live WG rubbers: 19-11

Carlos Moya: 20-7
In live rubbers: 15-6
In live WG rubbers: 14-6

Stefan Koubek: 20-16
In live rubbers: 14-13
In live WG rubbers: 1-5

Tommy Haas: 19-7
Nicolas Massu: 19-9
Fernando Gonzalez: 18-6
Jonas Bjorkman:* 18-11
James Blake: 18-11
David Nalbandian: 17-4
Juan Carlos Ferrero: 17-6
Sebastien Grosjean: 16-9
Gaston Gaudio: 13-3
Tomas Berdych: 13-7
Nikolay Davydenko: 13-8
Mark Philippoussis: 13-10
Mario Ancic: 13-11
Rafael Nadal: 12-1
Xavier Malisse: 12-5
Novak Djokovic: 12-6
Olivier Rochus: 12-11
Arnaud Clement: 11-9
Igor Andreev: 10-7
Stanislas Wawrinka: 10-7
Mikhail Youzhny: 10-10
Nicolas Kiefer: 10-11
Jurgen Melzer: 9-18
David Ferrer: 8-3
Robin Soderling: 8-3
Agustin Calleri: 8-4
Philipp Kohlschreiber: 7-3
Radek Stepanek: 7-6
Juan Martin del Potro: 6-2
Dmitry Tursunov:* 6-3
Juan Ignacio Chela: 6-5
Ivo Karlovic: 6-6
Fabrice Santoro:* 6-6
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga: 5-0
Guillermo Canas: 5-2
Mariano Puerta: 5-2
Jose Acasuso: 5-3
Guillermo Coria: 5-3
Fernando Verdasco: 5-4
Marin Cilic: 5-5
Richard Gasquet: 5-5
Tommy Robredo:* 5-7
Mardy Fish: 4-5
Paul-Henri Mathieu: 4-8
Christophe Rochus: 3-10
Feliciano Lopez: 3-4
Juan Monaco: 2-3
Mariano Zabaleta: 1-4

*as doubles players only in the final

Thanks for posting all that information, it was fascinating to read. Do you know if the wins are all live rubbers, or do they include wins in dead rubbers, too? Thank you.

Hey Socket, it's maybe a stupid question, but who is the player in your avatar?? *embarressed* lol

Hey Socket, it's maybe a stupid question, but who is the player in your avatar?? *embarressed* lol

It's Lleyton Hewitt, but I can understand why you can't recognize him. I didn't at first, either. :cool:

Yep, it includes wins in dead rubbers as well. If I included doubles alongside singles wins, Kafelnikov would be ahead of the rest by some margin with 44 DC victories.

Thanks, Sjengster!

I guess you cannot include somebody who plays singles only in Davis Cup, and still can beat anybody below top-50 in Davis Cup .. I am of course talking about Leander Paes (IND) who has 69-29 Davis Cup records and is 11th alltime in Davis Cup history, and is the "winningest" active player in Davis Cup in the world.

And he still keeps on winning 3 matches in every zonal tie and keeps on putting India into the WG playoffs, in which India keeps on not getting seeded because ITF doesn't care for their own Davis Cup ranks, and keeps on going away drawing normally against the toughest teams (SWE, USA, AUS and NED away in four consecutive years) .. But for Leander, there would be no India anywhere to be seen.

Paes has played 98 matches in 34 ties, which is the highest number of matches per Davis Cup, of anybody who played more than 10 ties or so ..

Just something to add to the dicussion. There are some guys out there like Paes and Nestor of Canada who seem to live for just Davis Cup ..

Jay

Leander's record is quite an accomplishment! But I can see the point in keeping the zonal statistics separate from the rest.

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David Nalbandian 18-3 (8-1 in doubles, 10-2 in singles, losing against beck-mertinak away, safin and ljubicic aaway)

One of Ancic's loss was when he was 15 years old, on a dead rubber against João Cunha e Silva, POR v CRO. :lol:

Pavel - 30 wins impressive. Are all his wins in the World Group stage? Probably not.

with more than 10 matches played, Nalbandian has the best winning percentage

with more than 10 matches played, Nalbandian has the best winning percentage

If he keeps winning 3 poinst in each DC match he can quickly surpass hewitt..

Nalbandian is so dangerous playing for Argentina. Gets so pumped up.

Thanks for the list.

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Weekend of the chokers.

Max, Ljuba Truba and Pavel. :worship:

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Where are Dudi Sela and Harel Levy on the list?

Where are Dudi Sela and Harel Levy on the list?

OMG Levy is a great player to watch when he is playing well. Love his BH slice so much! :worship: