What would be your all time top 20 rankings for both men and women. Mine would be:
Men:
1. Laver
2. Gonzalez
3. Sampras
4. Federer
5. Borg
6. Tilden
7. Budge
8. Rosewall
9. Connors
10. Lendl
11. Kramer
12. Perry
13. McEnroe
14. Cochet
15. LaCoste
16. Agassi
17. Newcombe
18. Hoad
19. Becker
20. Edberg
Women:
1. Graf
2. Navratilova
3. Evert
4. Court
5. Lenglen
6. Wills Moody
7. Jean King
8. Connoly
9. Seles
10. Goolagong
11. Bueno
12. Serena Williams
13. Henin
14. Venus Williams
15. Marble
16. Brough
17. DuPont
18. Hart
19. Gibson
20. Mallorey
The following are the peak ELO ratings for players in the open era. ELO ratings measure dominanace with an adjustment for standard of opposition.
Men:
1. Roger Federer 2796
2. Ivan Lendl 2789
3. Rod Laver 2783
4. Pete Sampras 2769
5. Björn Borg 2768
6. Mats Wilander 2759
7. John McEnroe 2756
8. Stefan Edberg 2751
9. Boris Becker 2745
10. Jim Courier 2739
11. Ken Rosewall 2726
12. Jimmy Connors 2723
13. Arthur Ashe 2711
14. Andre Agassi 2707
15. Tony Roche 2701
16. John Newcombe 2693
17. Rafael Nadal 2690
18. Guillermo Vilas 2685
19. Stan Smith 2682
20. Jan Kodeš 2680
Women:
1. Martina Navratilova 2836
2. Steffi Graf 2816
3. Chris Evert 2794
4. Margaret Smith Court 2769
5. Monica Seles 2766
6. Evonne Goolagong 2745
7. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 2744
8. Serena Williams 2733
9. Billie Jean King 2730
10. Martina Hingis 2729
11. Hana Mandlíková 2723
12. Venus Williams 2720
13. Justine Henin 2716
14. Gabriela Sabatini 2710
15. Lindsay Davenport 2701
16. Ann Jones 2693
17. Maria Sharapova 2684
18. Jennifer Capriati 2681
19. Conchita Martínez 2677
20. Amélie Mauresmo 2673
Men's and Women's ratings are not intercahngable.
For a fuller explanation of how Elo ratings are calculated see the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating
For further discussion on Tennis Elo ratings see the following:
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=162345
Many evalutae tennis players by the number of majors won, but Elo adjusts for dominance and quality of opposition therefore the list will not be purely representative of achievements in majors but we would expect to see some correlation between the two.
In the men's game :
the top 5 have won 50 majors in the open era
6-10 won 30
11-15 won 23
16-20 won17
In the womens game:
the top 5 have won 78 majors in the open era
6-10 won 32
11-15 won 21
16-20 won 9
Just thought people might be interested in these statistics which are generated from my own Elo database and are purely evidentially based without interference of human opinion.
I am not recommending ELO as a substitute to the official ranking methodology, but am posting the results purely for information purposes and to provide a different but independent perspective on the evaluation of players.
Take care
Tim