Ranking by countries: Top 10 in years 1976-2012 (doubles)

Three weeks ago I posted an entry considering all Top 20 singles players in the Open era in regard of their countries. Today the second part of this theme – doubles specialists, but restricted to the Top 10. Just like in singles, the United States of America produced the most doubles specialists – thirty-six Top 10 players, twenty-one more than the second in this ranking Australia. It’s interesting that South Africa specializes in possessing excellent doubles players, also big countries with white-red flags – Canada and Poland, who suffer a lack of outstanding singles players, introduced four guys each to the Top 10 in doubles. Spanish speaking countries, so good in singles have had very few doubles specialists, Argentina hasn’t even had a Top 10 doubles player. Needless to say the highest ranked Argentinian in doubles was a legendary Guillermo Vilas (No. 13), Eduardo Schwank and Javier Frana reached at best No. 14. The doubles ranking has been kept since 1976 (three years shorter than the singles one), players to reach Top 20 in singles and Top 10 in doubles are distinguished on the list by underlined…

In the picture two out of 18 Americans who reached the top of the doubles ranking, Robert Seguso and Ken Flach after clinching the Wimbledon title in 1987

AUSTRALIA: 1 – Paul McNamee, John Fitzgerald, Todd Woodbridge, Mark Woodforde; 2 – Sandon Stolle; 3 – Peter McNamara, Mark Edmondson; 5 – Mark Kratzmann, Paul Hanley; 6 – Pat Cash, Patrick Rafter; 8 – Wally Masur; 9 – Phil Dent; 10 – Kim Warwick, Darren Cahill
AUSTRIA: 6 – Julian Knowle, Jurgen Melzer; 8 – Oliver Marach
BAHAMAS: 1 – Mark Knowles
BELARUS: 1 – Max Mirnyi
BELGIUM: 10 – Dick Norman
BRAZIL: 4 – Cassio Motta; 6 – Carlos Kirmayr
CANADA: 1 – Grant Connell, Daniel Nestor; 4 – Sebastian Lareau; 5 – Glenn Michibata
CHILE: 5 – Hans Gildemeister
CZECH REPUBLIK: 1 – Tomas Smid; 3 – Daniel Vacek; 4 – Pavel Slozil, David Rikl; 5 – Martin Damm, Pavel Vizner, Lukas Dlouhy; 6 – Jiri Novak; 7 – Cyril Suk; 10 – Petr Korda, Petr Pala
ECUADOR: 1 – Andres Gomez
FRANCE: 1 – Yannick Noah; 3 – Guy Forget, Olivier Delaitre, Michael Llodra; 6 – Henri Leconte, Fabrice Santoro; 8 – Arnaud Clement
GERMANY: 6 – Boris Becker, Udo Riglewski; 9 – Michael Stich, Philipp Petzschner
GREAT BRITAIN: 9 – Neil Broad
HUNGARY: 3 – Balazs Taroczy
INDIA: 1 – Mahesh Bhupathi, Leander Paes; 8 – Rohan Bopanna
ISRAEL: 5 – Jonathan Erlich, Andy Ram
MEXICO: 1 – Raul Ramirez; 4 – Jorge Lozano
NETHERLANDS: 1 – Tom Okker, Paul Haarhuis, Jacco Eltingh; 10 – Tom Nijssen
PAKISTAN: 8 – Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi
POLAND: 3 – Wojtek Fibak; 7 – Lukasz Kubot; 9 – Marcin Matkowski; 10 – Mariusz Fyrstenberg
ROMANIA: 8 – Horia Tecau; 10 – Ilie Nastase
RUSSIA: 4 – Yevgeny Kafelnikov; 6 – Andrei Olhovskiy
SERBIA: 1 – Slobodan Zivojinovic, Nenad Zimonjic
SLOVAKIA: 4 – Miloslav Mecir
SOUTH AFRICA: 1 – Bob Hewitt, Frew McMillan, Pieter Aldrich, Danie Visser; 2 – Ellis Ferreira; 3 – Kevin Curren; 5 – Christo van Rensburg; 7 – Gary Muller; 8 – Wesley Moodie; 9 – David Adams, Wayne Ferreira
SPAIN: 1 – Emilio Sanchez; 3 – Sergio Casal; 5 – Marcel Granollers; 9 – Javier Sanchez
SWEDEN: 1 – Anders Jarryd, Stefan Edberg, Jonas Bjorkman; 3 – Mats Wilander; 4 – Joakim Nystrom; 7 – Simon Aspelin; 8 – Hans Simonsson; 9 – Robert Lindstedt; 10 – Henrik Holm, Jan Apell
SWITZERLAND: 3 – Heinz Gunthardt; 4 – Jakob Hlasek; 8 – Marc Rosset
USA: 1 – John McEnroe, Stan Smith, Peter Fleming, Robert Seguso, Ken Flach, Jim Grabb, Jim Pugh, Rick Leach, David Pate, Kelly Jones, Richey Reneberg, Patrick Galbraith, Jonathan Stark, Jared Palmer, Alex O’Brien, Donald Johnson, Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan; 2 – Brian Gottfried, Steve Denton, Scott Davis; 3 – Marty Riessen, Sandy Mayer, Tim Gullikson, Paul Annacone, Patrick McEnroe; 4 – Sherwood Stewart, Fritz Buehning, Todd Witsken, Tom Gullikson; 5 – Gene Mayer; 6 – Robert Lutz, Luke Jensen; 7 – Van Winitsky; 8 – Ferdi Taygan; 10 – Jeff Tarango
ZIMBABWE: 1 – Byron Black; 4 – Wayne Black & Kevin Ullyett