Before the Open Era of tennis arrived in 1968, opinion-based rankings for amateur players were generally compiled either for a full year of play or in September following the U.S. Championships.
The end-of-year amateur rankings issued by official organizations such as the United States Lawn Tennis Association were based on judgments and opinions and not on mathematical formulae assigning points for wins and losses.
Thomas Burke, tutor of the Tennis Club de Paris and former teacher of two-time Wimbledon champion Joshua Pim, was reportedly as good a player as the leading amateurs.
In 1913, Haggett settled in the United States, having been invited by the West Side Tennis Club of Forest Hills, New York and became the coach of the American Davis Cup team.
The Bristol Cup, held at Beaulieu or at Cannes on the French Riviera and won seven consecutive times by Koželuh, was "the world's only significant pro tennis tournament.
Rankings Year summary William Renshaw won the only singles match he played at Wimbledon against Irish champion Lawford.
Rankings Year summary William Renshaw won the only singles match he played at Wimbledon against Irish champion Lawford.
Rankings Year summary Doherty was beaten by Irish champion Eaves in Dublin, by Baddeley at the M Championships and by Mahony at an international match, however he beat all of them at Wimbledon.
Rankings Year summary Brookes was undefeated in Great Britain, he won Wimbledon, the Northern Championships and the Davis Cup preliminary and challenge rounds.
Kramer won 8 of 9 amateur tournaments and 48 of 49 matches (among them his two singles in the Challenge Round of the Davis Cup);[265] Riggs beat Don Budge both in U.S.
In December 1947, in the first few matches of their world pro championship tour, Riggs held a 2–1 edge in play against Kramer and continued to lead into January 3–1 and 8–5.
Rankings Year summary Laver probably was at the peak of his whole career, at least on fast courts, winning 19 tournaments including all the most important events: the Madison Square Garden Pro, the U.S.
The US Open was won by Smith defeating Kodeš, who beat Newcombe in the 1st round (event had 7 of the top 10; Laver and Rosewall of WCT absent).
Connors also made the finals of the Australian Open losing to John Newcombe (they were the only top 10 players competing) and won 9 tournaments, none of them AA Grand Prix events (he only entered 2 of those beating Borg a second time in the SFs of one) with an 82–8 record.
McEnroe also won the depleted WCT Finals, with none of the year's other top 5, plus 2 of the 5 Super Series tournaments he entered for 10 titles with a 76–10 record, including 7–1 in the Davis Cup.
Rankings Year summary John McEnroe lost only 3 matches (82 wins) and won 3 of the 4 most important tournaments losing in 5 sets in the finals of the 4th, the French Open.
McEnroe missed the Australian Open with a wrist injury (Lendl lost 4th round; Connors absent; 3 of the top 10 players played).
Edberg won the last grass-court Australian Open, with 6 of the top 10 players present, over Cash, who defeated Lendl in the SFs (Wilander absent).
Becker was also undefeated in 7 Davis Cup matches beating Andre Agassi, Mats Wilander and Edberg as West Germany won for the second straight year.
Lendl also won 4 Super Series of 4, including the Lipton International, Stockholm and the German Open (all had 6 of top 10), and 5 other titles for a 79–7 match record, but was 0–2 vs. Becker.
Sergi Bruguera won the French Open, defeated Courier in the final and Sampras in the QFs (Stich lost 4th round), and five titles including one ATP Championship Series.
Sampras won two more ATP Championship Series out of five played (the Italian Open and Indian Wells both with 8 of the top 10) for ten titles in total and a 77–12 record (3–1 vs Agassi and 1–2 vs Becker).
Sampras also won two of nine ATP Championship Series tournaments played and a total of 5 titles from 9 finals (out of 21 events) for a 72–16 record (2–3 vs Agassi, 3–0 vs Becker and 0–1 vs Muster).
Rios won three Super Nines, including the Lipton International and Indian Wells, and four other titles but withdrew from the ATP Tour Championship after one match with an injury.
Rankings Year summary Andy Roddick won the US Open (defeated Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final), two ATP Masters and three other titles.
Rafael Nadal won the French Open (defeated Mariano Puerta in the final) but lost before the 4th round in the other three Grand Slam events.
Murray won the US Open (defeated Djokovic in the final; Federer lost in QFs and Nadal was absent due to injury) and also the Olympic Gold.
[642] The top three players split the major tournaments which were played in the season: Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open (defeated Dominic Thiem in the final).
Dominic Thiem won the US Open (defeated Alexander Zverev) to win his first major title while first-seed Djokovic was disqualified from the tournament in the 4th round.
Daniil Medvedev won the third Masters event and ended the year by beating the top three players to clinch the ATP Finals title.