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AS OF: Feb 10, 2003 Singles Clay Court Career - Top 100
With 25 or more tournaments
Current Top 10ers in Bold

% Name Losses Country Wins #OfClayEventsPlayed

.919 1 STEFFI GRAF 23 GER 261 199
.916 2 CHRIS EVERT 8 USA 87 75
.863 3 MONICA SELES 22 USA 139 179
.850 4 NA LI 3 CHN 17 44
.833 5 JULIE DITTY 3 USA 15 35
.817 6 MARTINA HINGIS 21 SUI 94 148
.811 7 GISELA DULKO 10 ARG 43 34
.807 8 MARTINA NAVRATILOVA 23 USA 96 147
.806 9 MAL-SIM PARK 6 KOR 25 28
.805 10 JU-YEON CHOI 8 KOR 33 51
.800 11 JUSTINE HENIN-HARDENNE 19 BEL 76 89
.800 12 MYRIAM CASANOVA 12 SUI 48 29
.800 13 ASHLEY HARKLEROAD 5 USA 20 34
.796 14 GABRIELA SABATINI 51 ARG 199 208
.795 15 CONCHITA MARTINEZ 74 ESP 287 281
.792 16 JIN-YOUNG CHOI 5 KOR 19 27
.786 17 SERENA WILLIAMS 9 USA 33 66
.781 18 VENUS WILLIAMS 14 USA 50 98
.773 19 MA. EMILIA SALERNI 20 ARG 68 60
.769 20 VERA ZVONAREVA 12 RUS 40 31
.769 21 TIAN TIAN SUN 6 CHN 20 40
.765 22 ARANTXA SANCHEZ-VICARIO 105 ESP 342 329
.759 23 HESTER WITVOET 7 NED 22 41
.755 24 EDINA GALLOVITS 23 ROM 71 34
.752 25 LINDSAY DAVENPORT 27 USA 82 200
.750 26 BONNIE GADUSEK 4 USA 12 31
.750 27 KEIRSTEN ALLEY 3 USA 9 33
.750 27 DIANA SREBROVIC 3 CAN 9 27
.750 29 KRISTINA KRASZEWSKI 1 USA 3 40
.746 30 KIM CLIJSTERS 17 BEL 50 82
.733 31 CLAUDIA HERNANDEZ 12 MEX 33 43
.732 32 MA. LUCIANA REYNARES 15 ARG 41 29
.730 33 SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA 17 RUS 46 30
.727 34 DUYGU AKSIT 3 TUR 8 31
.726 35 MIRJANA LUCIC 17 CRO 45 75
.723 36 JENNIFER CAPRIATI 38 USA 99 165
.721 37 LUCILA BECERRA 17 MEX 44 65
.719 38 MANUELA MALEEVA-FRAGNIERE 43 SUI 110 160
.717 39 BARBARA MULEJ 58 SLO 147 91
.715 40 PAOLA SUAREZ 88 ARG 221 195
.714 41 MA. JOSE SANCHEZ ALAYETO 18 ESP 45 31
.714 42 ELENA BOVINA 12 RUS 30 77
.714 43 MARICRIS FERNANDEZ 4 PHI 10 41
.714 44 HIROMI YOSHIHARA 2 JPN 5 30
.710 45 MARY PIERCE 62 FRA 152 204

[Sam L]

What was Monica's record on clay pre-1993?

It's a bit of a surprise to see Steffi at the top.

[Venus Forever]

Now who said Venus and Serena can't play on clay??

[LeonHart]

Vera at #20!!!

[Jordan.]

Vera #20

Vamos

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Originally posted by Sam L
What was Monica's record on clay pre-1993?

70-4

1988: 0-0
1989: 10-1 (Steffi Graf)
1990: 22-0
1991: 19-2 (Steffi Graf, Gabriela Sabatini)
1992: 19-1 (Gabriela Sabatini)

[Sam L]

94% OMG!

Let me see, she lost to Graf (2 times) and Sabatini (2 times).

That's all?

[ßcoene]

Justine Henin at 11.

[CJ07]

thats frightning

[Leena]

I didn't expect Martina N. at #8... well #5 when you take out the schlubs who shouldn't be there.

[tennisfan1972]

Ashley harkleroad is higher than Conchita martinez? something must be really wrong with this stat? do we have a list of clay tournaments won by each player to see a comparison of how players actually did in terms of titles

[Leena]

The stats are screwed because 1) There's players with far too little matches to be considered and 2) Some of these players' results are only in challengers.

[Crazy Canuck]

The stats aren't screwed; misleading perhaps. All they did was list the players in order of winning percentage on clay over their careers.

Wether or not one wants to use this as the sole criteria for their judgement as to who the "all time career clay couters" is a different discussion altogether.

I'm confused though - did Evert not win something like 125 straight matches on clay? Why are they not all counted?

[irma]

I say nothing

[tennisIlove09]

I don't think the headline "Top 45 All-Time Career Clay Court Players" is a good headline.

You have Martina Hingis ahead of Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams and Jennifer Capriati. Now, techincally those three will be considered *better* clay players because they won the French, something that Hingis failed to do.

one could post the Grass court records, and have Player Z who has never won Wimbledon, but got to numerous semis, and won a bunch of warm ups. Vs. a Player like Venus who has won 2 Wimbledons, be ranked LOWER. Clearly, Venus is the better grass courter.

Just my two cents.