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: 3 – Bruno Soares, 4 – Cassio Motta; 6 – Carlos Kirmayr, Marcelo Melo CANADA: 1 – Grant Connell, Daniel Nestor; 4 – Sebastian Lareau; 5 – Glenn Michibata CROATIA: 6 – Ivan Dodig 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; 6 – Jean-Julien Rojer; 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, Marc Lopez; 4 – Marcel Granollers; 5 – David Marrero; 8 – Fernando Verdasco, 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
Thanks you.
It’s “Mike” not “Mark” Bryan.
It’s “Pieter” not “Peter” Aldrich.
It’s “Danie” not “Dannie” Visser.
I just checking for the n°1.
Thx, corrected 🙂
Strange, on the ATP :
Raul Ramirez 3 (but 1 on the bio)
Bob Hewitt 4
Someones than I found, I don’t have any stat of doubles but something is something
Miloslav Mecir Sr. [4]
Todd Witsken [4]
Marcel Granollers [5]
Carlos Kirmayr [6]
Udo Riglewski [6]
Tom Nijssen [10]