Rafael Nadal’s remarkable career in numbers and achievements.
Rafael Nadal ended his remarkable career with a Davis Cup loss and the sports world lost an icon.
Rafael Nadal will be remembered far and wide not only for his professional successes, but even looking at his records alone you can see why the he is among the most popular and beloved athletes in history.
Rafael Nadal is the youngest tennis player in history with a “Career Grand Slam”, achieving it in 2010 with the triumph of the US Open. He is also the youngest with a “Career Gold Slam”, having won a gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
Rafael Nadal has the longest streak of weeks in the world’s Top 10 at 912 weeks, stretching from April 2005 to March 2023. Of those 912 weeks, Nadal has been No 1 in 209 weeks.
Rafael Nadal is the only tennis player with more than one Slam title in three different decades – six in the first decade of the century, 13 in the second and three in the third.
Naturally, at Roland Garros and in general on clay, his achievements seem eternal, especially for the 14 ATP Masters 1000 championships. There are 63 clay titles in total, and he won Roland Garros four times without losing a set – 2008, 2010, 2017 and 2020.
Only three people have beaten Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros – Robin Soderling in 2009, Novak Djokovic in 2015 and 2021 and Alexander Zverev this year, when the King of Clay was already far from his best form. Between 2005 and 2007, the great Spaniard went on a mind-boggling 81-match unbeaten streak on clay before Roger Federer finally snapped it.
Here is Rafael Nadal in numbers:
22 – Grand Slam titles
14 – French Open titles, most by any player at any tournament
112 – wins at “Roland Garros”
4 – Losses at “Roland Garros”
4 – US Open titles
2 – Wimbledon titles
2 – Australian Open titles
13 – Years between Nadal’s two Melbourne titles, in 2009 and 2022
30 – Grand Slam Finals
92 – Career titles
2 – Olympic gold medals, one in singles and one in doubles
36 – ATP Masters 1000 itles
4 – Davis Cup titles with the Spanish team
12 – ATP Masters 1000 Barcelona titles
11 – ATP Masters 1000 Monte Carlo titles
81 – Clay wins in a row from April 2005 to May 2007
209 – Weeks as world\’s number one
5 – Years finishing as world’s number one
912 – Consecutive weeks spent in the ATP top 10 between April 2005 and March 2023, more than any other tennis player
24 – Wins over Roger Federer in 40 matches
29 – Wins over Novak Djokovic in 60 matches
