Best Winning Percentage

At the top of the Open Era list for Best Winning Percentage stands Novak Djokovic, who owns the highest career men’s singles win rate among players with a substantial tour-level sample, at 83.18% based on a record of 1172-237 in the Open Era. He sits ahead of the other Open Era benchmarks: Rafael Nadal at 1080-228 and 82.57%, Roger Federer at 1251-275 and 81.98%, and Bjorn Borg at 654-140 and 82.37%.

Djokovic’s record is especially powerful because it combines peak dominance with extreme longevity: unlike Borg, whose percentage is built on a shorter career sample, Djokovic has maintained the highest win rate while also playing well over 1,400 tour-level matches. Nadal remains the closest challenger, driven by his extraordinary clay-court dominance and his 22 Grand Slam titles, while Federer’s figure reflects one of the most consistent long careers in tennis history, with more than 1,500 recorded tour-level matches.

Behind the Big Three and Borg come other all-time greats such as John McEnroe at 883-198 and 81.68%, Ivan Lendl at 1068-242 and 81.53%, and Jimmy Connors at 1274-283 and 81.82%. Connors is the opposite type of benchmark: his percentage is lower than Djokovic, Nadal and Federer, but he still owns one of the most remarkable volume records in the sport, with more than 1,270 career wins.

In this record, the milestone is not simply winning many matches, but winning them at an elite rate over an entire career: Djokovic set the modern ceiling for career winning percentage, Nadal represents the clay-driven version of dominance, Federer the consistency-and-longevity model, and Borg the pure peak-percentage outlier from the earlier Open Era.