Number of tournaments by players
I would say that a notable player participates in at least 200 tournaments on the main level throughout his career. It is a simple calculation because an average career on the main level lasts around twelve years, during that time a player 
participates in more or less twenty tournaments a year. Below you can look at a list which depicts number of tournaments played by particular players in the Open era (included guys who began their careers in this era), there are included all ATP and Grand Slam events except World Team Cup. The choice of players is random, I focused on the last two decades but included also some very good players born in the 60’s and 50’s. Fabrice “Magicien” Santoro is a solitary leader of the list, and very tough to overcome in the future. The unorthodox Frenchman debuted in 1989 (as sixteen year-old) to play his last tournament in 2010, he participated in a solid number of Challengers (74) and Davis Cup ties (10) as a singles player too. He leads in two other rankings: the most Grand Slam appearances (71) and the most defeats (444)… 158 players when I created the list, another have been adding in responses to the entry, the active ones in blue:
Updated in the end of 2012
438 – Fabrice Santoro (1972)
381 – Jimmy Connors (1952)
369 – John Alexander (1951)
361 – Vincent Spadea (1974)
349 – Jonas Bjorkman (1972)
348 – Francisco Clavet (1968), Marc Rosset (1970)
342 – Brian Gottfried (1952)
334 – Vijay Amrtitraj (1953), Goran Ivanisevic (1971)
333 – Javier Sanchez (1968)
332 – Guillermo Vilas (1952), Wayne Ferreira (1971)
327 – Rainer Schuettler (1976)
326 – Michael Chang (1972)
325 – Harold Solomon (1952), Tomas Smid (1956)
324 – Carlos Moya (1976)
321 – Ivan Lendl (1960), Andre Agassi (1970)
320 – Arnaud Clement (1977)
319 – Wojtek Fibak (1952)
312 – Nikolay Davydenko (1981)
310 – Thomas Enqvist (1974)
308 – Phil Dent (1950), Jakob Hlasek (1964), Thomas Muster (1967)
305 – Cedric Pioline (1969)
304 – Tim Wilkison (1959)
302 – Dominik Hrbaty (1978)
297 – Yevgeny Kafelnikov (1974)
296 – Jeff Tarango (1968)
295 – Roscoe Tanner (1951)
293 – Greg Rusedski (1973), Alex Corretja (1974)
292 – Mark Woodforde (1965), Guy Forget (1966)
291 – Ivan Ljubicic (1979)
288 – Emilio Sanchez (1965)
287 – Thomas Johansson (1975)
286 – Richard Fromberg (1970), Nicolas Lapentti (1976), Tommy Haas (1978), Mikhail Youzhny (1982)
282 – Stefan Edberg (1966)
281 – Andres Gomez (1960)
279 – Ramesh Krishnan (1961), Feliciano Lopez (1981)
278 – Kenneth Carlsen (1973)
277 – Brad Gilbert (1961)
276 – Tommy Robredo (1982)
275 – Juan Ignacio Chela (1979)
274 – Albert Costa (1975)
273 – Tim Henman (1974)
272 – Wally Masur (1963)
268 – Eddie Dibbs (1951), Magnus Gustafsson (1967), Pete Sampras (1971), Jarkko Nieminen (1981)
267 – Sergi Bruguera (1971), Alberto Martin (1978)
266 – Jan Siemerink (1970), Richey Reneberg (1965)
265 – Juan Carlos Ferrero (1980)
264 – Raul Ramirez (1953), Bill Scanlon (1956), Roger Federer (1981)
263 – Sjeng Schalken (1976)
261 – Boris Becker (1967)
260 – Anders Jarryd (1961), Nicolas Kiefer (1977), Marat Safin (1980)
259 – Aaron Krickstein (1967), Jason Stoltenberg (1970), Jiri Novak (1975)
258 – Olivier Rochus (1981)
257 – John McEnroe (1959)
256 – Gianluca Pozzi (1965)
255 – Kim Warwick (1955), Andrei Pavel (1974), David Ferrer (1982)
254 – Ross Case (1951)
253 – Dick Stockton (1951)
251 – Jurgen Melzer (1981)
250 – Henri Leconte (1963), Paul Haarhuis (1966)
249 – John Lloyd (1954)
248 – Xavier Malisse (1980)
246 – Brian Teacher (1954), Victor Pecci (1955)
245 – Vitas Gerulaitis (1954), Kevin Curren (1958), Petr Korda (1968)
244 – Balazs Taroczy (1954), Andrei Chesnokov (1966)
241 – Karel Novacek (1965), Sebastien Grosjean (1978)
240 – Alexander Volkov (1967), Jim Courier (1970), Albert Montanes (1980)
237 – Karol Kucera (1974)
236 – Stefan Koubek (1977), Fernando Verdasco (1983)
235 – Geoff Masters (1950), Mark Edmondson (1954), Johan Kriek (1958), Marcelo Filippini (1967), Renzo Furlan (1970), Davide Sanguinetti (1972)
233 – Todd Woodbridge (1971)
232 – Jose Higueras (1953), Mats Wilander (1964), Radek Stepanek (1978)
231 – Byron Black (1969), James Blake (1979)
230 – Ronald Agenor (1964), Todd Martin (1970)
229 – Terry Moor (1952), John Fitzgerald (1960)
228 – Brad Drewett (1958)
226 – Tim Gullikson (1951), Younes El Aynaoui (1971), Bohdan Ulihrach (1975)
225 – Tom Gullikson (1951), Magnus Larsson (1970), Felix Mantilla (1974), Max Mirnyi (1977) *
224 – Jimmy Arias (1964), Tomas Carbonell (1968), Guillaume Raoux (1970), Andrea Gaudenzi (1973), Lleyton Hewitt (1981), Paul-Henri Mathieu (1982), Andy Roddick (1982)
223 – Nicolas Massu (1979)
222 – Amos Mansdorf (1965)
221 – Bernard Mitton (1954), Richard Krajicek (1971), Andrei Medvedev (1974)
220 – Daniel Vacek (1971)
219 – Adriano Panatta (1950)
217 – Igor Andreev (1983)
216 – Hicham Arazi (1973), Fernando Vicente (1977)
215 – Erik Van Dillen (1951), Jaime Yzaga (1967)
214 – Hank Pfister (1953), Eliot Teltscher (1959), Yannick Noah (1960), Jordi Arrese (1964), Andreas Seppi (1984)
213 – Paul McNamee (1954), Diego Perez (1962), David Prinosil (1973), Mariano Zabaleta (1978)
211 – Sandy Mayer (1952), Thierry Tulasne (1963)
209 – Martin Damm (1970), Albert Portas (1973), Sargis Sargsian (1973), Christophe Rochus (1978)
208 – Carlos Costa (1966)
207 – Peter Fleming (1955), Mardy Fish (1981)
206 – Alberto Berasategui (1973)
205 – Tim Mayotte (1960), Jonas Svensson (1966)
204 – Corrado Barazzutti (1953), Jan Gunnarsson (1962), Mark Philippoussis (1976), Fernando Gonzalez (1980)
202 – Chris Lewis (1957), Andrei Cherkasov (1970), Fernando Meligeni (1971), Julien Benneteau (1981)
201 – Philipp Kohlschreiber (1983), Tomas Berdych (1985)
200 – Scott Davis (1962), Arnaud Boetsch (1969), Michael Llodra (1980)
199 – Gustavo Kuerten (1976)
198 – Marcelo Rios (1975), Nicolas Almagro (1985)
197 – Pat DuPre (1954)
196 – Russell Simpson (1954)
195 – Carl-Uwe Steeb (1967), Guillermo Canas (1977)
194 – Heintz Gunthardt (1959), Horst Skoff (1968), Gaston Gaudio (1978)
193 – David Wheaton (1969)
191 – John Sadri (1951), Mark-Kevin Goellner (1970), Juan Monaco (1984)
190 – Jan-Michael Gambill (1977), Ivo Karlovic (1979)
189 – Paradorn Srichaphan (1979)
188 – Slava Dosedel (1970), Richard Gasquet (1986), Filippo Volandri (1981), Robby Ginepri (1982)
186 – MaliVai Washington (1969), Patrick Rafter (1972), Agustin Calleri (1976)
183 – Bjorn Borg (1956), Gilles Simon (1984)
182 – Derrick Rostagno (1965)
180 – Karim Alami (1973), Janko Tipsarevic (1984)
179 – David Pate (1962), Michael Stich (1968), Jose Acasuso (1982)
177 – Victor Amaya (1954), Horacio de la Pena (1966)
176 – Colin Dowdeswell (1955)
175 – Buster Mottram (1955), Jeremy Bates (1962)
174 – Dmitry Tursunov (1982)
173 – Billy Martin (1956), Robin Soderling (1984)
172 – David Nalbandian (1982)
171 – Magnus Norman (1976)
170 – Gene Mayer (1956), Luiz Mattar (1963), Martin Jaite (1964)
168 – Florian Mayer (1983), Rafael Nadal (1986)
169 – Adrian Voinea (1974)
166 – Marcos Baghdatis (1985)
165 – Patrick McEnroe (1966), Stanislas Wawrinka (1985)
163 – Franco Squillari (1975)
162 – Christo van Rensburg (1962)
160 – Jose-Luis Clerc (1958)
159 – Bernd Karbacher (1967)
157 – Hyung Taik Lee (1976)
155 – Franco Davin (1970),
154 – Javier Frana (1966), Wayne Arthurs (1971)
150 – Omar Camporese (1968), Gael Monfils (1986)
148 – Paolo Bertolucci (1951), Shlomo Glickstein (1958), Joakim Nystrom (1963)
147 – Andy Murray (1987)
146 – Antonio Zugarelli (1950)
145 – Jacco Eltingh (1970), Novak Djokovic (1987)
144 – Sam Querrey (1987)
143 – Taylor Dent (1981)
141 – Pat Cash (1965)
139 – Butch Walts (1955), Juan Aguilera (1962)
138 – Hans Gildemeister (1956), Guillermo Perez-Roldan (1969)
134 – Paul Annacone (1963), Marin Cilic (1988)
129 – Nicolas Escude (1976), Viktor Troicki (1986)
128 – Rolf Gehring (1955), Peter McNamara (1955), Mario Ancic (1984)
127 – Slobodan Zivojinovic (1963), Gilbert Schaller (1967)
124 – Gianni Ocleppo (1957)
121 – Alberto Mancini (1969)
120 – Ernests Gulbis (1988)
119 – Chip Hooper (1958), Marcel Granollers (1986)
118 – Vincent van Patten (1957)
117 – Miloslav Mecir (1964), Mariano Puerta (1978)
116 – Steve Denton (1956)
115 – Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (1985), Juan Martin del Potro (1988)
114 – Mikael Pernfors (1963), Guillermo Coria (1982)
111 – Henrik Sundstrom (1964)
110 – Mikael Tillstrom (1972)
108 – Henrik Holm (1968)
107 – Goran Prpic (1964)
106 – John Isner (1985)
89 – Kevin Anderson (1986), Robin Haase (1987)
84 – Jay Berger (1966)
82 – Alexandr Dolgopolov (1988)
73 – Kei Nishikori (1989)
66 – Kent Carlsson (1968), Martin Verkerk (1978)
55 – Joachim Johansson (1982)
49 – Bernard Tomic (1992)
47 – Milos Raonic (1990)
* He hasn’t played a tournament in singles since 2008.
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Thanks for this man
Of course possible small mistakes 😉
Jonas Björkman, with a “K”, that’s all !
Thanks for this page.
Why didn’t you count Smid, J. Sanchez and Clavet?
This is SOOOO boring to count 🙂 🙂 Clavet is on 348, tied 5th on the list
1988 – 4
1989 – 6
1990 – 16
1991 – 26
1992 – 29
1993 – 26
1994 – 19
1995 – 28
1996 – 29
1997 – 26
1998 – 28
1999 – 27
2000 – 30
2001 – 28
2002 – 22
2003 – 4
Hehe, thanks Joca 🙂
V.H. – because I haven’t adapted any particular criteria whom I should count :p
You think there are more with 300+? Just wondering…
I guess it would be easier to count if taking total number of career losses, minus no. of walkover losses and tournament wins. Round-robin messes up a little bit though
John Alexander, Javier Sanchez, Tomas Smid, Jaime Fillol Sr., Raymond Moore, Gottfried, Harold Solomon, Wojtek Fibak, Phil Dent, Vijay Amritraj, Tim Wilkison, Onny Parun, Emilio Sanchez, Jeff Borowiak, Ilie Nastase, Brad Gilbert, Ramesh Krishnan, Roscoe Tanner, Andres Gomez, Stan Smith are all above or around 300
We can add them one by one together
V.H. also Davis Cup and World Team Cup mess up…
Very good idea Joca 🙂 Tanner – 295
1969: 1
1970: 6
1971: 9
1972: 14
1973: 28
1974: 30
1975: 25
1976: 31
1977: 27
1978: 23
1979: 20
1980: 17
1981: 22
1982: 17
1983: 13
1984: 11
1985: 1
Wojtek Fibak – 319
1974: 9
1975: 33
1976: 34
1977: 32
1978: 32
1979: 23
1980: 26
1981: 31
1982: 28
1983: 23
1984: 23
1985: 17
1986: 12
1987: 5
1988: 1
Jaime Fillol buddy?
I don’t know Juan, I wanted to count only players who began their careers in the Open era, Fillil had begun before it.
Its true Voo.Jaime started before the open era maybe in 66.
Thanks for the feedback,
Today added my first favorite player, Jonas Svensson – 205 tourneys:
1983: 2
1984: 2
1985: 10
1986: 20
1987: 19
1988: 22
1989: 19
1990: 20
1991: 22
1992: 23
1993: 28
1994: 17
1995: 1
Benneteau added today, he played 179 tournaments before this year:
2001: 1
2002: 2
2003: 7
2004: 15
2005: 17
2006: 22
2007: 27
2008: 20
2009: 28
2010: 19
2011: 21
Nishikori today – 54 tournaments after first five years at the main level:
2007: 5
2008: 12
2009: 6
2010: 9
2011: 22
I can’t believe that I never be grateful with this post is awesome
I count the tournaments of something players more.
Brian Gottfried – 342
Ilie Nastase – 338
Harold Solomon – 325
Stan Smith – 298
Andres Gomez – 281
Manuel Orantes – 278
Brad Gilbert -277
Eddie Dibbs – 268
Raul Ramirez – 264
Tom Okker – 246
Vitas Gerulaitis – 245
Arthur Ashe – 236
Ken Rosewall – 177
John Newcombe – 170
Jose-Luis Clerc – 160
Rod Laver – 148
Tomorrow I will count some more.
Thanks bry17may for your valuable contribution 🙂 I’ve added these numbers except players who began their careers before the Open era, also Richey Reneberg with his 266 tournaments:
1986: 3
1987: 13
1988: 19
1989: 21
1990: 25
1991: 19
1992: 20
1993: 27
1994: 24
1995: 23
1996: 26
1997: 20
1998: 15
1999: 10
2000: 1
Filippo Volandri added today who had played 167 tournaments prior to 2012:
01: 2
02: 2
03: 16
04: 22
05: 27
06: 25
07: 25
08: 20
09: 3
10: 6
11: 19
…and Jose Acasuso who announces retirement this week with 179 tournaments played:
01: 12
02: 18
03: 18
04: 16
05: 27
06: 21
07: 18
08: 24
09: 21
10: 3
11: 1
Here is some numbers more 🙂
John Alexander – 369
Vijay Amritraj – 334
Tomas Smid – 325
Emilio Sanchez – 288
Robert Lutz – 276
Anders Jarryd – 260
Henri Leconte – 250
Brian Teacher – 246
Victor Pecci Sr. – 246
Kevin Curren – 245
Jan Kodes – 241
Balazs Taroczy – 240
Johan Kriek -235
Jose Higueras – 232
Adriano Panatta – 219
Jimmy Arias – 217
Eliot Teltscher – 214
Sandy Mayer – 211
Alberto Berasategui – 207
Tim Mayotte – 205
Cliff Richey – 193
Gene Mayer – 170
Martin Jaite – 170
Joakim Nystrom – 148
Guillermo Perez-Roldan – 138
Tony Roche – 132
Great work bry17may! 🙂
As previously – I’ve added these numbers except players who began their careers before the Open era, so excluded Lutz, Kodes, Richey and Roche.
We have to add Javier Sanchez to the list, how many tournaments he played?
He have 333 tournaments!
Jaime Fillol – 334
Bill Scanlon – 264
Tom Gorman – 256
Dick Stockton -253
Marty Riessen – 252
Andrei Chesnokov – 244
Mark Cox – 232
Roger Taylor – 215
Thierry Tulasne – 211
Carlos Costa – 208
Peter Fleming – 207
Corrado Barazzutti – 204
Andrei Cherkasov – 202
Scott Davis – 200
Cliff Drysdale -197
MaliVai Washington – 186
Derrick Rostagno – 182
Nikola Pilic – 174
Paolo Bertolucci – 148
Juan Aguilera – 139
Hans Gildemeister – 138
Paul Annacone – 134
Peter McNamara – 128
Alberto Mancini – 121
Mariano Puerta – 117
Steve Denton – 116
Roy Emerson – 116
Mikael Pernfors – 114
Henrik Sundstrom – 111
Alex Metreveli – 98
Jay Berger – 84
Kent Carlsson – 66
Also there are some players than began their careers before Open Era, sorry by that :s
PD: The ATP said than Alexander Volkov played his first tournament at six years old!, the ATP is worse than I was thinking
Very good that you mention older players, I just don’t add them to the list but it’s good to know how many tournaments they played in the OE.
The error with Volkov is probably connected to Anatoli Volkov (b. 1948). I don’t know whether he is related to Alexander, maybe his father or uncle???
Maybe some Russian visiting the blog knows it and will say…
Phil Dent – 308
Tim Wilkison – 304
Onny Parun – 298
Jeff Borowiak – 297
Ramesh Krishnan – 279
Wally Masur – 272
Zeljko Franulovic – 265
Kim Warwick – 255
Ross Case – 254
Andrew Pattison – 253
Alexander Volkov – 240
Mark Edmondson – 235
Renzo Furlan – 235
Marcelo Filippini – 235
John Fitzgerald – 229
Tim Gullikson – 226
Amos Mansdorf – 222
Jaime Yzaga – 215
Hank Pfister – 214
Jordi Arrese – 214
Chris Lewis – 202
Pat DuPre – 197
Carl-Uwe Steeb – 195
Horst Skoff – 194
John Sadri – 191
Agustin Calleri – 186
Karl Meiler – 180
David Pate – 179
Victo Amaya – 177
Buster Mottram – 175
Luiz Mattar – 170
Christo van Rensburg – 162
Omar Camporese – 150
Jacco Eltingh – 145
Slobodan Zivojinovic – 128
Gilbert Schaller – 127
Chip Hooper – 119
Sam Querrey – 119* Without 2012
Francois Jauffret – 118
Henrik Holm – 108
Goran Prpic – 107
Clark Graebner – 105
Andres Gimeno – 92
*With this all the Top 20’s and tennis players with more than 10 final are here 🙂
Interesting that Gullikson twins are separated only by one tournament 🙂
Raymond Moore – 319
Colin Dibley – 292
Dick Crealy – 285
Ismail El Shafei – 254
John Lloyd – 249
Geoff Masters – 235
Olivier Rochus – 233
Terry Moor – 229
Brad Drewett – 228
Charlie Pasarell – 227
Bob Carmichael – 225
Tomas Carbonell – 224
Guillaume Raoux – 224
Frew McMillan – 223
Bernard Mitton – 221
Sherwood Stewart – 220
Georges Goven – 217
Fernando Vicente – 216
Erik Van Dillen – 215
Paul McNamee – 213
Diego Perez – 213
Martin Damm – 209
Sargis Sargsian – 209
Christophe Rochus – 209
Hans Kary – 206
Allan Stone – 206
Barry Phillips-Moore – 205
Jan Gunnarsson – 204
Russell Simpson – 196
Here all the players with at least 200 losses so I believe than there aren’t more players with +200 tournaments 🙂
Wonderful job bry17may 😀 In the meantime I checked out Olivier Rochus, and I’ve got 239 not 233 :/
00: 5
01: 19
02: 22
03: 28
04: 22
05: 25
06: 21
07: 22
08: 25
09: 9
10: 22
11: 14
:O, I check again that and I count 234 I have a mistake in 2008, I do not why.
And I plus your numbers and give me 234 not 239.
I’ve got a solid database for some players, others are counted just once, so possible mistakes are probable, in Rochus’s case it might be just 1 mistake in 5 seasons out of 11 he played, and suddenly there are more tournaments than should have been.
Do you count on ATP website?
Yes my source in all the players was the ATP
Are you sure you count also main level tournaments which appear as Challengers because aren’t linked?
http://voodemar.com/?attachment_id=6475
Yes I counted this
Mi way of do it is: see year by year and all the appearances less the DC; , CH; , FU; and WT;
Kevin Anderson – 62.
07: 1
08: 9
09: 6
10: 18
11: 28
I would like to add numbers of these players: Alami, Davin, De La Pena, Dosedel, Dowdeswell, Frana, Gehring, Glickstein, Gunthardt, Kulti, Billy Martin, Matsuoka, Patrick McEnroe, Ocleppo, Tillstrom, Van Patten, Voinea, Walts & Zugarelli.
These are the numbers:
Gunthardt → 194
Dosedel → 188
Kulti → 182
Alami → 180
De la Pena → 177
Dowdeswell → 176
B. Martin → 173
Voinea → 169
P McEnroe → 165
Matsuoka → 156
Davin → 155
Frana → 154
Glickstein → 148
Zugarelli → 146
Walts → 139
Gehring → 128
Ocleppo → 124
Van Patten → 118
Tillstrom → 110
😉
That’s fantastic! Thank you very much 🙂
If you want to add another players only tell me!
I’m checking all the players and I have one question, Do you count the tournaments with a W/O in first round.
In some cases, probably yes.
bry17may
I attach here your stats, may be helpful… http://www.mediafire.com/view/?uckr4nkikq74d9a
(Update: Miami 2013)