By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Wednesday November 27, 2019
The 2019 ATP season is officially done and dusted, time to rest and recharge the batteries for what promises to be an exciting 2020—but first a run through the numbers and amazing achievements of the year that was.
15 There were 15 first-time title winners on the ATP side this year and that numbers is the highest since 1999.
Here are all 15, with age and tournament…
Alex de Minaur 19 Sydney
Tennys Sandgren 27 Auckland
Juan Ignacio Londero 25 Cordoba
Reilly Opelka 21 New York
Laslo Djere 23 Rio de Janeiro
Radu Albot 29 Delray Beach
Guido Pella 28 Sao Paulo
Cristian Garin 22 Houston
Adrian Mannarino 30 ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Taylor Fritz 21 Eastbourne
Lorenzo Sonego 24 Antalya
Nicolas Jarry 23 Bastad
Dusan Lajovic 29 Umag
Hubert Hurkacz 22 Winston-Salem
Denis Shapovalov 20 Stockholm
29 Number of players that won titles aged 25 or younger, but only one teenager—Alex de Minaur—won an ATP title in 2019.
38 At 38 years and two months old, Roger Federer was the oldest ATP title winner when he won Basel in October. Earlier in the season, Federer became the oldest player to win a title since 1979 when he claimed the trophy in Dubai.
243 The lowest-ranked ATP title winner was Andy Murray at Antwerp. The Brit was joined by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga as the only two players to claim titles with sub-200 ATP rankings. Tsonga won Montpellier at 210 in the rankings.
10 Number of ATP players that saved match points or championship points en route to a title in 2019. Here is a list of all ten, for of which saved match points in the final:
Reilly Opelka New York - d. John Isner SF Saved 6 M.P.
Radu Albot Delray Beach - d. Daniel Evans Final Saved 3 M.P.
Nick Kyrgios Acapulco - d. Rafael Nadal 2R Saved 3 M.P.
Cristian Garin Houston - d. Jeremy Chardy 2R Saved 5 M.P.
Cristian Garin Munich - d. Alexander Zverev QF Saved 2 M.P.
Alexander Zverev Geneva - d. Nicolas Jarry Final Saved 2 M.P.
Lorenzo Sonego Antalya - d. Miomir Kecmanovic Final Saved 1 M.P.
Novak Djokovic Wimbledon - d. Roger Federer Final Saved 2 M.P.
Nikoloz Basilashvili Hamburg - d. Alexander Zverev SF Saved 2 M.P.
Nick Kyrgios Washington - d. Stefanos Tsitsipas SF Saved 1 M.P.
17 The longest ATP winning streak in 2019. Rafael Nadal won 17 straight from the first round of Rome until falling to Roger Federer in the Wimbledon semifinals.
9 Number of ATP finals reached by Daniil Medvedev. The Russian lead all players in this category. He finished with four titles.
5 Novak Djokovic and Dominic Thiem tied for the ATP lead in titles with five apiece.
33 Stefanos Tsitsipas lead all ATP players with 33 tiebreak victories (33-13).
12 Number of Roland Garros titles that Nadal has won after 2019. The Spaniard is now 93-2 lifetime on the terre battue in Paris. Just. Utterly. Ridiculous.
12 Number of major singles titles the Big Three have won in succession. Since Roland Garros 2005, Federer, Nadal and Djokovic have combined to earn 51 of the last 59 major singles titles.
The Grand Slam major men's singles titles sits as follows heading into 2020:
Federer, 20
Nadal, 19
Djokovic, 16
Sampras, 14
Emerson, 12
Laver/Borg, 11
Tilden, 10
46-4 Rafael Nadal (24-2, 2 titles) and Novak Djokovic (22-2, 2 titles) dominated the majors this year to win 46 of their 50 singles matches and sweep all four of the titles on offer.
685 Italy’s Jannik Sinner owns the biggest rankings jump of all the players inside the Top 100 at the end of the season. The 18-year-old rose 685 spots to finish the season at No.78. Here are the Top 5 rankings risers inside the Top 100:
1) Jannik Sinner # + 685 763 - 78 (C-H)
2) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga + 230 259 - 29
3) Mikael Ymer # + 207 281 – 74
4) Soonwoo Kwon + 165 253 - 88
5) Daniel Evans + 157 199 - 42
5-0 Kei Nishikori and Alexander Zverev each went undefeated in five-setters and led the tour in that category. No other players won more than three five-setters.
54-1 Rafael Nadal’s record after winning the opening set in 2019. Only Nick Kyrgios (Acapulco, round of 16) could break through and defeat Nadal after the Spaniard had taken the first set.
3 Novak Djokovic became 1st player in history to win 3+ straight Grand Slam titles on 3 occasions (also 2011-12, 2015-16) when he won Wimbledon this summer.
32 On 10 June, Fabio Fognini became oldest player to break into Top 10 for 1st time at age 32. The Italian hit career-high No. 9 on 15 July. He was also the first Italian to crack the Top 10 since 1979.
9 Nine players have won their first ATP Masters 1000 title over the last 23 series events. In the 92 series events prior to 2017 Rome, only eight players became a first-time ATP Masters 1000 champion.
1999 Felix Auger-Aliassime became the youngest player to reach the semi-finals or better on three different surfaces in a season since Lleyton Hewitt in 1999. FAA also became the youngest ATP 500 finalist in history when he reached the title match at Rio.
20 Stefanos Tsitsipas, at 20, became youngest player to beat Rafael Nadal on clay. The Greek also became the youngest to earn wins over Nadal, Djokovic & Federer.
1948 By saving a pair of championship points in the Wimbledon final, Novak Djokovic became the first player to save match points in a victorious Wimbledon final since 1948 (Falkenberg).
118 Bob and Mike Bryan saved four match points in the semis and went on to claim the Miami title for their record 118th as a team. The duo will retire next year at the US Open.
50 Number of games that Matteo Berrettini held serve without surrendering a single break at Stuttgart. The Italian did not drop serve en route to the title and is now one of just six players – also Federer, Karlovic, Raonic, Roddick, Ljubicic – to have won a tournament without dropping serve twice.