2019 ATP Tour By The Numbers: Nadal's Streaks; Felix's ATP Rankings Rise
13 September 2019 09:25
With less than two months to go until the Nitto ATP Finals, to be held at The O2 in London from 10-17 November, ATPTour.com looks at the numbers behind the 2019 ATP Tour season.
SINGLES TITLES LEADERS
Spain's Rafael Nadal has won the most tour-level titles so far this year, with two Grand Slam championship crowns at Roland Garros (12) and the US Open (4), plus two ATP Masters 1000s at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome (9) and the Coupe Rogers (5) in Montreal. Twenty unseeded players have won titles this season.
Player
Titles
Clay
Grass
Hard
1) Rafael Nadal (ESP)
4
2
-
2
T2) Novak Djokovic (SRB)
3
1
1
1
T2) Roger Federer (SUI)
3
-
1
2
T2) Dominic Thiem (AUT)
3
2
-
1
Seven players have won two titles this season.
SINGLES FINAL APPEARANCES
Russia's Daniil Medvedev has contested six hard-court and one clay-court final this year, with wins at the ATP 250-level Sofia Open in February and his first Masters 1000 trophy at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati in August. Italy's Matteo Berrettini, a winner of two titles in 2019, won the MercedesCup trophy in Stuttgart without being broken all week (50 games). Overall, the player winning the first set of a final in 2019 has become the eventual champion 47 of 52 times (.904).
Player
No. (W-L)
1) Daniil Medvedev (RUS)
7 (2-5)
T2) Rafael Nadal (ESP)
5 (4-1)
T2) Roger Federer (SUI)
5 (3-2)
T4) Novak Djokovic (SRB)
4 (3-1)
T4) Dominic Thiem (AUT)
4 (3-1)
T4) Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE)
4 (2-2)
7) Matteo Berrettini (ITA)
3 (2-1)
T7) Cristian Garin (CHI)
3 (2-1)
T7) Benoit Paire (FRA)
3 (2-1)
T7) Taylor Fritz (USA)
3 (1-2)
T7) Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN)
3 (0-3)
DOUBLES TITLES LEADERS
Colombians Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah have a 5-2 record in tour-level doubles final in 2019, including major championship successes at Wimbledon and the US Open. They also successfully retained the Masters 1000-level Rome crown in May.
Player
Titles
T1) Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)
5
T1) Robert Farah (COL)
5
T3) Jeremy Chardy (FRA)
3
T3) Ivan Dodig (CRO)
3
T3) Maximo Gonzalez (ARG)
3
T3) Nikola Mektic (CRO)
3
T3) Jurgen Melzer (AUT)
3
T3) Horacio Zeballos (ARG)
3
YOUNGEST FINALS
The youngest (combined age) ATP Tour final of the year featured 23-year-old Serbian Laslo Djere beating 18-year-old Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-3, 7-5 on 24 February at the Rio Open presented by Claro.
Tournament
Final
Rio de Janeiro
Laslo Djere (23) d. Felix Auger-Aliassime (18)
Atlanta
Alex de Minaur (20) d. Taylor Fritz (21)
Houston
Cristian Garin (22) d. Casper Ruud (20)
New York
Reilly Opelka (21) d. Brayden Schnur (23)
Acapulco
Nick Kyrgios (23) d. Alexander Zverev (21)
OLDEST FINALS
With a combined age of 71, 37-year-old Spaniard Feliciano Lopez beat 34-year-old Gilles Simon of France 6-2, 6-7(4), 7-6(2) for his second Fever-Tree Championships singles title on 23 June. Later in the day, he also partnered British favourite Andy Murray to the doubles title at The Queen’s Club.
Tournament
Final
London/Queen's Club
Feliciano Lopez (37) d. Gilles Simon (34)
Pune
Kevin Anderson (32) d. Ivo Karlovic (39)
Miami
Roger Federer (37) d. John Isner (33)
ALL TOP 10 FINALS (9)
There have been nine occasions in 2019 when two Top 10 stars have met in a tour-level final. Incredibly, the Mutua Madrid Open and Roland Garros mark the only two times this year that all four semi-finalists have been ranked inside the Top 10.
Tournament
Final
Australian Open
Novak Djokovic (1) d. Rafael Nadal (2)
Indian Wells
Dominic Thiem (8) d. Roger Federer (5)
Miami
Roger Federer (5) d. John Isner (9)
Madrid
Novak Djokovic (1) d. Stefanos Tsitsipas (9)
Rome
Rafael Nadal (2) d. Novak Djokovic (1)
Roland Garros
Rafael Nadal (2) d. Dominic Thiem (4)
Wimbledon
Novak Djokovic (1) d. Roger Federer (3)
Montreal
Rafael Nadal (2) d. Daniil Medvedev (9)
US Open
Rafael Nadal (2) d. Daniil Medvedev (5)
FIRST-TIME ATP TITLISTS (14)
Players trying to win their first ATP Tour title are 14-17 this season, which is the most first-time winners in a season since 1999, when there were 16 (13-11 in 2018 finals)
Player
Age
Tournament
Alex de Minaur (AUS)
19
Sydney
Tennys Sandgren (USA)
27
Auckland
Juan Ignacio Londero (ARG)
25
Cordoba
Laslo Djere (SRB)
23
Rio de Janeiro
Reilly Opelka (USA)
21
New York
Radu Albot (MDA)
28
Delray Beach
Guido Pella (ARG)
28
Sao Paulo
Cristian Garin (CHI)
22
Houston
Adrian Mannarino (FRA)
30
‘s-Hertogenbosch
Taylor Fritz (USA)
21
Eastbourne
Lorenzo Sonego (ITA)
24
Antalya
Nicolas Jarry (CHI)
23
Bastad
Dusan Lajovic (SRB)
29
Umag
Hubert Hurkacz (POL)
22
Winston-Salem
MATCH POINTS SAVED TITLISTS (10)
Player
Tournament/Opponent
Round
M.P. Saved
Reilly Opelka (USA)
New York - d. John Isner
SF
Saved 6 M.P.
Nick Kyrgios (AUS)
Acapulco - d. Rafael Nadal
2R
Saved 3 M.P.
Radu Albot (MDA)
Delray Beach - Daniel Evans
Final
Saved 3 M.P.
Cristian Garin (CHI)
Houston - d. Jeremy Chardy
2R
Saved 5 M.P.
Cristian Garin (CHI)
Munich - d. Alexander Zverev
QF
Saved 2 M.P.
Alexander Zverev (GER)
Geneva - d. Nicolas Jarry
Final
Saved 2 M.P.
Lorenzo Sonego (ITA)
Antalya - d. Miomir Kecmanovic
Final
Saved 1 M.P.
Novak Djokovic (SRB)
Wimbledon - d. Roger Federer
Final
Saved 2 M.P.
Nikoloz Basilashvili (GEO)
Hamburg - d. Alexander Zverev
SF
Saved 2 M.P.
Nick Kyrgios (AUS)
Washington - d. Stefanos Tsitsipas
SF
Saved 1 M.P.
LONGEST WINNING STREAKS
Nadal built up an ATP Tour-best 17-match winning streak from 15 July in Rome to losing to Roger Federer on 12 July in the Wimbledon semi-finals. The Spaniard's current 10-match streak began on 7 August in Montreal. Medvedev went 20-3 on North American hard-courts this summer, including a 12-match winning run.
Player
Matches
Rafael Nadal (ESP)
17
Daniil Medvedev (RUS)
12
Rafael Nadal (ESP)
10-current
Matteo Berrettini (ITA)
9
Novak Djokovic (SRB)
9
Roger Federer (SUI)
9
Novak Djokovic (SRB)
8 (twice)
Gael Monfils (FRA)
8
Kei Nishikori (JPN)
8
Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE)
8 (twice)
LONGEST BEST OF THREE SETS MATCHES (TIME) – 24 Matches over 3 hours
There have been 16 instances of all tie-break scores in three-or-four-set matches in 2019, with the longest singles tie-break coming in the Australian Open second round when Thomas Fabbiano beat Reilly Opelka 7-6(15) in the first set. The longest doubles Match Tie-break was in the Tata Open Maharashtra quarter-finals when Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan beat Leander Paes and Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela 6-7(4), 6-4 17-15.
Match
Tournament
Round
Time
Federico Delbonis d. Lorenzo Sonego
76 67 76
Kitzbuehl
1R
3:36
Borna Coric d. Jaume Munar 67 76 64
Monte-Carlo
2R
3:29
Stan Wawrinka d. Marton Fucsovics 64 67 75
Indian Wells
2R
3:24
Jordan Thompson d. Federico Delbonis 64 67 76
Indian Wells
1R
3:23
Gilles Simon d. Nicolas Mahut 76 57 76
London/Queen’s Club
QF
3:21
Jaume Munar d. Cameron Norrie 76 57 76
, Rio de Janeiro
2R
3:20
OVERALL MATCH WINS LEADERS
Medvedev, the 2019 match wins leader, also has the most hard-court wins with a 37-9 record - 15 victories more than second-placed Roger Federer or Gael Monfils (both 23). The Russian is 8-1 on indoor courts, tied with Gael Monfils (8-1) and also Mikhail Kukushkin (8-3).
Player
W-L
Titles
1) Daniil Medvedev (RUS)
50-17
2
2) Rafael Nadal (ESP)
47-6
4
3) Roger Federer (SUI)
43-7
3
4) Novak Djokovic (SRB)
41-8
3
5) Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE)
37-19
2
ATP RANKINGS IMPROVEMENTS (From year-end 2018 to 9 September 2019)
Two #NextGenATP players, Canada's Auger-Aliassime, who has reached three ATP Tour finals in 2019, and Antalya runner-up Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia, have both made significant jumps into the Top 50 of the ATP Rankings this season. View Latest ATP Rankings
In Top 50
Rankings Jump
2018-9 September 2019
1) Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN)
+88
109-21
2) Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB)
+85
132-47
3) Radu Albot (MDA)
+57
99-42
4) Laslo Djere (SRB)
+54
94-40
T4) Reilly Opelka (USA)
+54
100-46
T6) Cristian Garin (CHI)
+51
85-34
T6) Hubert Hurkacz (POL)
+51
87-36
8) Stan Wawrinka (SUI)
+47
66-19
9) Pablo Cuevas (URU)
+45
89-44
Statistics courtesy of Joshua Rey and Greg Sharko.readfullarticle
