Tournament wins/ entries percentage in open era

[urban]

Following Ultimate Tennis Statistics i found this interesting list of open era performance for the win percentage ot tournament entries:

1. Rod Laver 33. 96 (72 out of 212)
2. Björn Borg 32. 67
3. Novak Djokovic 31. 95
4. Rafael Nadal 30. 14
5. Ivan Lendl 29. 28
6. John McEnroe 29. 17
7. Roger Federer 28. 07
8. Jimmy Connors 26. 85
9. Pete Sampras 24. 15
10. Andre Agassi 18. 75
11. Boris Becker 18. 56
12. Andy Murray 18. 33
13. Guillermo Vilas 18. 24
14. Ken Rosewall 17. 86
15. Ilie Nastase 17. 38

 

[DMP]

Can you calculate the percentage for Federer when he was the same age as Nadal and Djokovic? I am curious how it might have changed in the past 5/6 years.

 

[urban]

Sorry, You have to ask the UTS editor. But it could be that the percentage would be roughly the same, because in the last 5-6 years, Fed played a pretty limited schedule, which could be good for the percentage.

 

[R. Schweikart]

Following Ultimate Tennis Statistics i found this interesting list of open era performance for the win percentage ot tournament entries:

1. Rod Laver 33. 96 (72 out of 212)
2. Björn Borg 32. 67
3. Novak Djokovic 31. 95
4. Rafael Nadal 30. 14
5. Ivan Lendl 29. 28
6. John McEnroe 29. 17
7. Roger Federer 28. 07
8. Jimmy Connors 26. 85
9. Pete Sampras 24. 15
10. Andre Agassi 18. 75
11. Boris Becker 18. 56
12. Andy Murray 18. 33
13. Guillermo Vilas 18. 24
14. Ken Rosewall 17. 86
15. Ilie Nastase 17. 38

Graf has a 49.77 percentage (107 out of 215) even though she played (and lost) in a lot of tournaments as a 13/15-year-old (27 tournaments).
Rod, you don't have a prayer...

 

[topher]

Can you calculate the percentage for Federer when he was the same age as Nadal and Djokovic? I am curious how it might have changed in the past 5/6 years.

I’d wager its gone up since 2015. Roger is a special case where his win% goes up even in old age because he was such a late bloomer (for a GOAT).

 

[tudwell]

I’d wager its gone up since 2015. Roger is a special case where his win% goes up even in old age because he was such a late bloomer (for a GOAT).

Yeah, it's probably mostly sunk by his early years. He played 28 tournaments in 2000 and didn't win a single one. Overall before 2003 (according to his performance timeline on Wikipedia), he played 91 tournaments and won just 4. That's about a quarter of all the tournaments he's played in his career and he won basically none of them.

Edit: And using the magic of subtraction to calculate the rest of his career from 2003 on, he won 99 of 276 tournaments, or 35.9%.

 

[urban]

We had a discussion about the tournament win percentage on this board a couple of years ago with stats people like PC 1 and Krosero, i remember that NatF took part in this discussion. I think, we had Laver in his overall career at ca. 38% or close to 40% tournament wins, but i have to check it. Also some new findings in the meantime brought his total to 210 tournament wins, i don't know at the moment, how many he played, maybe round about 440 or 450.

 

[NatF]

We had a discussion about the tournament win percentage on this board a couple of years ago with stats people like PC 1 and Krosero, i remember that NatF took part in this discussion. I think, we had Laver in his overall career at ca. 38% or close to 40% tournament wins, but i have to check it. Also some new findings in the meantime brought his total to 210 tournament wins, i don't know at the moment, how many he played, maybe round about 440 or 450.

Those were the good old days.