Number of ATP Players with at least 10 top 10 wins in the Year, what does this Data Suggest ?

[Marco Rotim]

Number of people with at least 10 top 10 wins in the year

( Among these the People with win% above 80% vs Top 10 that year colored BOLD BLACK)

1992 - 4 (Ivanisevic 11, Courier 10, Sampras 10, Krajicek 10)
1993 - 2 (Stitch 14, Sampras 13)
1994 - 4 (Agassi 14, Sampras 13, Becker 11, Kafelnikov 11)
1995 - 3 (Sampras 14, Muster 12, Enquvist 10)
1996 - 1 (Sampras 13)
1997 - 1 (Sampras 13)
1998 - 0 (No one had 10 wins that year)
1999 - 4 (Agassi 12, Sampras 10, Keifer 10, Enquvist 10)
2000 - 2 (Hewitt 11, Kuerten 10)
2001 - 1 (Hewitt 13)
2002 - 2 (Moya 11, Federer 10)
2003 - 0 (Nobody had 10 wins that year)
2004 - 1 (Federer 18)
2005 - 1 (Federer 15)
2006 - 2 (Federer 19, Nadal 10)
2007 - 2 (Federer 17, Nadal 11)
2008 - 3 (Nadal 17, Murray 12, Djokovic 11)
2009 - 5 (Federer 15, Djokovic 15, Murray 14, Nadal 14, Del Potro 11)
2010 - 3 (Federer 16, Nadal 11)
2011 - 4 (Djokovic 21, Nadal 16, Federer 10, Tsonga 10)
2012 - 4 (Djokovic 24, Federer 16, Murray 12, Nadal 11)
2013 - 2 (Nadal 24, Djokovic 24)
2014 - 3 (Djokovic 19, Federer 17, Nishikori 11)
2015 - 3 (Djokovic 31, Federer 15, Murray 12)
2016 - 2 (Djokovic 21, Murray 16)
2017 - 2 (Federer 14, Nadal 12)
2018 - 2 (Djokovic 15, Nadal 10)
2019 - 0 (Nobody had 10 wins that year)
2020 - 1 (Djokovic 10)
2021 - 3 (Djokovic 14, Zverev 12, Medvedev 11)


Additional Grand Slam Stats per year.

Number of people with at least 3 WINS vs top 10 players in a GRAND SLAM Per Year

1992 - 5 (Courier 4, Agassi 4, Edberg 4, Goran 3, Mcenroe 3)
1993 - 3 (Courier 3, Sampras 3, Pioline 3)
1994 - 2 (Sampras 4, Agassi 3)
1995 - 1 (Sampras 4)
1996 - 1 (Sampras 3)
1997 - 0
1998 - 0
1999 - 2 (Agassi 5, Pioline 3)
2000 - 1 (Gambill 3)
2001 - 1 (Sampras 3)
2002 - 1 (Safin 3)
2003 - 2 (Ferrero 3, Al Aynaoui 3)
2004 - 1 (Federer 7)
2005 - 1 (Federer 5)
2006 - 2 (Federer 7, Baghthatis 4 )
2007 - 3 (Federer 9, Nadal 3, Haas 3)
2008 - 4 (Tsonga 3, Nadal 3, Murray 3, Djkokovic 3)
2009 - 3 (Federer 6, Ferrero 3, Del Potro 3)
2010 - 3 (Nadal 5, Federer 4, Berdych 3)
2011 - 3 (Djokovic 6, Nadal 6, Tsonga 3)
2012 - 5 (Djokovic 7, Nadal 4, Murray 4, Federer 3, Ferrer 3)
2013 - 3 (Djokovic 6, Nadal 5, Wawrinka 3)
2014 - 6 (Nadal 4, Federer 4, Wawrinka 3, Nishikori 3, Djokovic 3, Cilic 3)
2015 - 2 (Djokovic 9, Wawrinka 3)
2016 - 2 (Djkovic 5, Murray 4)
2017 - 2 (Federer 6, Nadal 4)
2018 - 3 (Nadal 4, Djokovic 3, Del Potro 3)
2019 - 2 (Djokovic 4, Nadal 4)
2020 - 2 (Thiem 5, Djokovic 3)
2021 - 3 (Djokovic 8, Medvedev 3, Tsitsipas 3)

 

[Aabye5]

The top 10 is full of hard court specialists, and even fewer know what the heck to do on grass.

 

[Marco Rotim]

The top 10 is full of hard court specialists, and even fewer know what the heck to do on grass.

Updated the OP.

We can now see the Grand Slam wins vs Top 10s too per year, Quality of competition has been really poor from 1997 onwards till 2006 or till first half of 2007

As @Thriller often points out, Ljubicic was ranked 3 in between without winning any title of significance, Baghthatis put up the toughest competition in 2006 outside of baby Nadal, commendable efforts from him, in the case of Nadal he was quite a baby on HCs and this shows in the competition for Federer till 2007

Djokovic has had the toughest competition as @Herald would point to. It is worth noting how hard Nadal and Djokovic fought in 2013, that would make @Spencer Gore and @MichaelNadal proud.

Overall the 2011 to 2016 period being super tough, seems like the weak era (which is known as career inflation era here) started around 2017 with the absence of Djokovic, @RS, @NonP @Sport @socallefty @Kralingen might be interested in these numbers.

 

[accidental]

The top 10 in the last 3/4 years have been so bad they can’t even beat each other