Masters-Sin

Masters champions by decades:
80s: Borg – Lendl – Lendl – McEnroe – McEnroe – Lendl – Lendl – Lendl – Becker – Edberg
90s: Agassi – Sampras – Becker – Stich – Sampras – Becker – Sampras – Sampras – Corretja – Sampras
00s: Kuerten – Hewitt – Hewitt – Federer – Federer – Nalbandian – Federer – Federer – Đoković – Davydenko
10s: Federer – Federer – Đoković – Đoković – Đoković – Đoković – Murray – Dimitrov – Zverev – Tsitsipas
20s: Medvedev – Zverev – Đoković – Đoković –

Masters finals etc.
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“Year End Championships” or “Masters” it’s a tournament, in which usually participated the eight best players of a season, every year since 1970. The tournament has changed its official name four times: 1970-89: Masters Grand Prix, 1990-99: ATP Tour World Championships, 2000-08: Tennis Masters Cup,  2009-15: ATP World Tour Finals. In the years 1977-1985 the tournament was held at the beginning of the season, this led to funny situation of two “Masters” tournaments played in 1986, both finals that year were won by Ivan Lendl, who ousted in straight sets Boris Becker on both occasions (in January and December)! There were five changes of the tournament formula: 1970: 6 participants, each plays against each other (tie-breaks at 5:5!) 1971: 7 participants, each plays against each other 1982-84: 12 participants, top 4 seeded guys with a first round “bye” 1985: 16 players 1972-81 & 1986-14: the “round robin” system with 8 players

.RECORDS.

Most titles: 6 – Roger Federer, 5 – Ivan Lendl, Pete Sampras, Novak Djokovic
Most wins: 52 – Roger Federer (2002-2015), 39 – Ivan Lendl (1980-1991)
Most consecutive wins: 14 – Ivan Lendl (1985-88), Roger Federer (2003-2005)
Best win/loss record: 88% – Ilie Nastase [22 wins – 3 defeats]
Longest match in time: (1988, final)
4 hours, 42 min. Boris Becker d. Ivan Lendl 5-7, 7-6(5), 3-6, 6-2, 7-6(5)
Longest tie-break: (2004, semifinal) Roger Federer d. Marat Safin 6-3, 7-6(18)
Match point saved champions: John McEnroe (1978), Ivan Lendl (1981), Alex Corretja (1998) *
Youngest champion: John McEnroe – 19 years 11 months (1978)
Lowest ranked player to participate: No. 27 – Radek Stepanek (2008)
Most aces: 35 – Goran Ivanisevic (1996, SF… 3 sets)

* Federer won the tournament twice saving match points (2003 & 06) but those wins come from matches which didn’t decide his “be or not to be” in the event