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Manoj BhagavatulaESPN
Less than a month after joining Roger Federer as the second man with 20 Grand Slam singles titles, Rafael Nadal now joins the Swiss at another exclusive club. Nadal’s victory in the opening match of the Paris Masters over compatriot Feliciano López makes him the fourth man in the Open Era (since 1968) with at least 1,000 victories on the ATP circuit, after Jimmy Connors (1,274), Federer (1,242) and Ivan Lendl (1,068). ).
Take a look at some of the key stats from Nadal’s 1,000 wins.
1
Nadal’s first victory on the circuit came in May 2002 when the 15-year-old, ranked among the bottom 580 that month, beat Paraguayan Ramón Delgado, then ranked 81st, in the first round of the tournament in his city. native, the Mallorca Open.
1000-201
Nadal’s win-loss record at the tour level is now 1000-201, which translates to an 83.3% win percentage.
100
100 of those 1,000 wins, a solid 10%, came at the French Open alone, where Nadal won a record 13th title last month. His win-loss record at Roland Garros is currently 100-2.
86
Nadal’s career singles title count, who is fourth on the all-time men’s list, behind Connors (109), Federer (103) and Lendl (94), and ahead of Novak Djokovic (81) and John McEnroe (77).
Let’s take a look at Nadal’s track record on different types of events and surfaces.
282-39
Nadal’s win-loss record at the Grand Slams, which translates to a winning percentage of nearly 88%. What this also means is that more than a third – about 35.5%, to be exact – of Nadal’s wins in the majors have come at Roland Garros.
387-80
The Spaniard’s record for wins and losses at the Masters 1000, a win percentage of nearly 83%. Nadal has won 35 Masters 1000 titles, second only to Djokovic (36) since such events were introduced in 1990. Federer is third on the list with 28 Masters 1000 titles.
By surface
445-40
Nadal’s win-loss record so far on clay. With a win rate of nearly 92% and 60 titles, clay is obviously his best surface by far.
482-135
The Spaniard’s record for wins and losses so far on hard courts, counting Wednesday’s win on indoor hard courts in Paris. With a winning percentage just over 78 and 22 titles, hard courts are Nadal’s second-best surface.
71-20
Nadal’s record on grass. With a 78% win rate and four titles, grass is generally considered Nadal’s weakest surface.
2-6
Nadal’s record on carpet, a type of very fast removable track whose use has been discontinued by the ATP since 2009.
The biggest bite yet
1000 ATP wins and counting @Rafael Nadal!!# Rafa1000 pic.twitter.com/09FuO5XvYK
– Tennis TV (@TennisTV) November 4, 2020
Milestone wins
# 100
American Hugo Armando in the second round, en route to winning the 2005 Stuttgart Open.
# 200
Argentine Juan Martín del Potro in the fourth round of the 2007 Miami Open
# 300
Ivo Karlovic of Croatia in the 2008 Queen’s Club quarter-finals, where he won his first grass-court title
# 400
Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic in the 2009 Davis Cup, Spain’s fourth Davis Cup title
# 500
Croatian Ivan Dodig in the semifinal of the Barcelona Open 2011, Nadal’s sixth title in Barcelona
# 600
Del Potro in the 2013 Indian Wells Masters final. The title was Nadal’s third of the year, already after his return to the tour after a seven-month hiatus due to a knee injury.
# 700
Martin Klizan of Slovakia in the 2014 Wimbledon first round
# 800
Brazil’s Thomaz Bellucci in the quarterfinals of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Nadal lost the individual bronze medal match to Japan’s Kei Nishikori
# 900
France’s Richard Gasquet in the third round at Roland Garros 2018, which was his 11th French Open
172-92
Nadal’s win-loss record against the top 10 players, a win rate of over 65%
164-73
The Spanish record in deciding sets, both in third and fifth sets. That’s a winning percentage of around 69.2%. In just the fifth set, he stands at 22-12, almost 65%.
(Statistics courtesy of ESPN’s Statistics and Information Group and atptour.com)
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