Rafael Nadal career statistics


This is a list of the main career statistics of former professional tennis player Rafael Nadal. All statistics are according to the ATP Tour website. To date, Nadal has won 92 ATP singles titles, including 22 Grand Slam men's singles titles and 36 ATP Tour Masters 1000 titles. He is one of three men to achieve the Career Golden Slam in men's singles, with titles at all four majors and the Olympic singles gold. He is the first man in history to win Grand Slam singles titles on three different surfaces in a calendar year and is the youngest in the Open Era to achieve the Career Grand Slam and the Career Golden Slam. He is the fourth man in history to complete the double Career Grand Slam in singles, after Roy Emerson, Rod Laver, and Novak Djokovic. He is the first man to win multiple majors and rank world No. 1 in three different decades.
Representing Spain, Nadal has won two Olympic gold medals including a singles gold at the [Tennis at the 2008 Davis Cup|2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Beijing Olympics] and a doubles gold at the [Tennis at the 2016 ATP World Tour|2016 Summer Olympics|2016 Rio Olympics]. In the process, he became the first male player in history to complete the Career Grand Slam and win Olympic gold medals in both singles and doubles. He has led Spain to five Davis Cup titles in 2004, 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2019. He has won the 2017 and 2019 editions of the Laver Cup with Team Europe.

Significant achievements

Nadal has been the most successful player in history on clay courts. He has a 63–9 record in clay court tournament finals and has lost only four times in best-of-five-set matches on clay. He has won 14 French Open titles, 12 Barcelona Open titles, 11 Monte-Carlo Masters titles, and 10 Rome Masters titles. In those four tournaments, Nadal made a total of 50 finals, winning 47 of them. The 3 losses were 2013 Monte Carlo, and 2011/2014 Rome finals, all to Djokovic. His 9th French Open crown in 2014 made him the first man in the Open Era to win a single tournament more than 8 times, breaking a 32-year record held by Guillermo Vilas, who won 8 Buenos Aires titles between 1973 and 1982. He subsequently won a ninth title at three more tournaments; 2016 Monte Carlo, 2016 Barcelona, and the 2019 Italian Open. On 23 April 2017, Nadal became the first man in the Open Era to win 10 titles at the same tournament, the 2017 Monte Carlos Masters, a feat he would repeat two more times that year at [2017 Barcelona Open (tennis)|Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell – Singles|Barcelona] and the French Open. By the end of the 2022 season, Nadal would be the sole record-holder for most titles at a single tournament at the Grand Slam, Masters 1000, and ATP 500 levels.
He also holds the longest single-surface win streak in the Open Era, having won 81 consecutive matches on clay between April 2005 and May 2007. Nadal has never been taken to five sets in 14 French Open finals, and only lost consecutive matches on clay once since the start of his professional career, at the 2024 French Open. He is regarded universally by tennis critics and top players as the greatest clay-court player of all time. Nadal's 14 French Open titles are a record for one player at a single major, surpassing the old record of 11 Australian Open titles won by Margaret Court. Nadal is the only player to defeat Roger Federer in the finals of three different Grand Slam tournaments as well as on three different surfaces. Nadal is also the only player to beat Djokovic in multiple finals at two different grand slams, defeating him 3 times at the French Open and 2 times at the US Open, accounting for 5 of Djokovic’s 13 losses in grand slam finals. He has won six hard-court majors, tied with Andre Agassi for the fourth-most in the Open Era, behind Pete Sampras, Federer and Novak Djokovic.
Nadal is the only player to win four Grand Slam titles without dropping a set surpassing the prior record of three held by Björn Borg. He is also the first player, male or female, to win 100 matches at the French Open and holds the all-time record for the most match wins at a single major, with 112 at the French Open. He is the only player, male or female, to record three streaks of four or more consecutive titles at a single major in their career. He has won the most ATP titles without dropping a set, with 26 of these titles won on clay courts and 4 on hard courts.
Nadal is the sixth player to be ranked ATP world No. 1 for more than 200 weeks. Nadal qualified for the ATP Finals for a record 16 consecutive years.
Nadal is the third male player to win over US$100 million in prize money after Djokovic and Federer.
Nadal won five straight French Open singles titles from 2010 to 2014 to become the only player in the tournament's history to win 5 consecutive singles titles, breaking the previous record of 4 titles held by Paul Aymé and Borg. In 2017, by winning his 10th French Open title, Nadal became the first man to win a milestone 10 titles at the same major. He has played 32 matches against his primary rivals — Federer and Djokovic — in majors and leads 21–11. He is 14–2 on clay and 7–9 off clay against them.
In 2018, Nadal became the first player, male or female, to amass 450+ match wins on both hard and clay courts, with 518 and 484 wins respectively. His 518 hard court wins and 1080 total match wins ranks him No. 4 on both lists in the Open Era. His 1000+ total match wins have only been achieved by four other players in the Open Era. He holds the record for winning at least one Grand Slam title in 10 consecutive years breaking the previous record of 8 consecutive years held by Borg, Sampras and Federer. He also holds the record for most years winning at least one Grand Slam title.
In 2008, Nadal became the second Spanish man to win Wimbledon. Nadal is one of only two male players in history to have won the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year at least twice, after Rod Laver and Borg. In 2009, Nadal became the first Spaniard to win the Australian Open.
He is also the first of two male players to win three consecutive Grand Slam tournaments on three different surfaces in the same year, a feat later achieved by Djokovic. By winning the 2010 US Open, Nadal completed a men's singles Career Grand Slam at the age of, making him the youngest in the Open Era to do so. He is the 7th male player in history to achieve this feat.
He is the only male player to win the French Open and the US Open in the same year four times.
Nadal has won 36 ATP Masters 1000 titles, the second-most since the start of the category in 1990, and reached 53 finals, and a record 99 quarter-finals.

Performance timelines

''Davis Cup, Laver Cup, ATP Cup, United Cup and World Team Cup matches are included in the statistics. Walkovers are neither official wins nor official losses.''

Singles

* Nadal withdrew before the third round of the 2016 French Open due to a wrist injury, and before the semi-finals of 2022 Wimbledon due to an abdominal tear which do not officially count as losses.

+ Did not participate in the 2008 Davis Cup Final.

1 Held as Hamburg Masters until 2008, Madrid Masters since 2009.

2 Held as Stuttgart Masters in 2001, Madrid Masters from 2002 to 2008, Shanghai Masters since 2009.

3 Including appearances in Grand Slam and ATP World Tour main draw matches and in Summer Olympics.

4 Including matches in Grand Slam, in ATP Tour, in Summer Olympics, in Davis Cup, Laver Cup, ATP Cup and the United Cup.

5 Postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Doubles

1 Held as Madrid Masters from 2002 to 2008, Shanghai Masters since 2009.

Grand Slam tournament finals


Nadal's 22 Grand Slam singles titles place him second in the men's all-time rankings, behind Djokovic's 24 titles. His 30 Grand Slam singles finals place him 3rd in the men's all-time rankings, behind Djokovic's 37 and Federer's 31 finals, respectively. He has won 14 French Open titles, an all-time record at any tournament. He is the youngest player in the Open Era to win all four majors.

Singles: 30 (22 titles, 8 runner-ups)


Other significant finals

Year-end championships finals


Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups)


Masters 1000 finals

Singles: 53 (36 titles, 17 runner-ups)

Nadal has won 36 Masters 1000 titles, four behind Novak Djokovic. He has had the longest run of consecutive years with at least one Masters 1000 title. He and Djokovic are the only players in history to win at least five Masters 1000 titles at four separate events. He has reached the final of each tournament, including Hamburg, which is no longer a Masters level event. Nadal is the only man to win a Masters 1000 tournament more than seven times, with his eleven Monte Carlo and ten Rome titles.
ResultYearTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss2005Miami OpenHard

ATP career finals

Singles: 131 (92 titles, 39 runner-ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1[2004 Heineken Open – Singles|]Auckland Open, New ZealandInternationalHarddts|Aug 2004

Doubles: 15 (11 titles, 4 runner-ups)

signifies tournaments where Nadal and his partner won the title without dropping a set.

signifies tournaments where Nadal and his partner won the title after saving at least one match point.
ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScore
Win1–0[2003 Croatia Open – Doubles|]Croatia Open,
Croatia		InternationalClay

Other professional tournaments

ATP Challengers & ITF Futures finals: 12 (8 titles, 4 runner-ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss0–1Feb 2003Hamburg Challenger, GermanyChallengerCarpet

ATP world No. 1

  • Note: The ATP Tour was suspended from 16 March to 21 August 2020. The ATP ranking was frozen from 23 March to 23 August 2020.

ATP world No. 1 ranking

Weeks at No. 1 by decade

2000s
2010s
2020s
Nadal is the only male player in history to rank world No. 1 in three decades.

ATP ranking

Rafael Nadal made his ATP Rankings Top-10 debut on April 25, 2005 when he moved up from №11 to №7. Nadal would spend a record 912 consecutive weeks inside the ATP Rankings' Top-10, before finally dropping to №13 in March 20, 2023 (nearly 18 years since his top-10 debut. The previous record was 788 consecutive weeks in the Top-10, from August 23, 1973, the week the ATP first started their ranking system and Connors was №10 at the time, and never dropped out until October 3, 1988. Connors record stood for 32 years, until Rafa broke it on October 25, 2020.
Nadal spent 596 weeks in the Top-2 since the rankings began in 1973. He surpassed Federer's previous record of 528 weeks on 9 November 2019. He was eventually surpassed by Novak Djokovic, who has spent 599 total weeks at the ATP Tour’s №1 and №2 rankings.
  • No. 1 – 209 weeks
  • No. 2 – 387 weeks†
  • No. 3 – 90 weeks
  • No. 4 – 70 weeks
  • No. 5 – 81 weeks
  • No. 6 – 30 weeks
  • No. 7 – 15 weeks
  • No. 8 – 8 weeks
  • No. 9 – 14 weeks
  • No. 10 – 8 weeks
† - Includes a record 160 consecutive weeks at №2 during Federer’s record 237 consecutive weeks at №1.
Weeks in topTotal weeks
No. 1209
Top-2596
Top-5837
Top-10912‡
Top-20938
Top-501007
Top-1001040

‡ - Consecutive weeks

Rankings milestones

* Number of weeks spent prior to reaching milestone.

Top 10 wins

Nadal has the third most wins over Top-10 ranked players in the Open Era. He has a record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the Top-10.
Nadal has a record 23 wins over №1-ranked players, beating Federer 13 times and Djokovic 10 times. Nadal has a record against players who were, at the time the match was played, the top-ranked player.
Season200120022003200420052006200720082009201020112012201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024Total
Wins0022510111714111611246741210934800186

List of all losses on clay

Nadal has these win–loss records on clay.

Head to head on clay

Active players are in boldface.Novak Djokovic 20–9
Only players who have defeated Nadal on clay are listed.

Winning streaks

32 match win streak across 3 different surfaces

This is the longest match win streak across 3 different surfaces with at least 8 wins on each surface in tennis history. The streak included five titles: two Grand Slam titles, two Masters titles, and the Queen's Club title.
No.TournamentSurfaceStart date
RdOpponentRankScore
–Rome Masters, ItalyClay5 May 20082R

50 consecutive set win streak on clay

This is the longest single-surface and clay-court set win streak in the Open Era. Nadal broke John McEnroe's Open Era record of 49 consecutive sets won in 1984 with his 50th set win against Diego Schwartzman. He lost the next day in the quarterfinals to Dominic Thiem. Nadal also broke a 15-year-old record of Guillermo Coria achieved in 2003, where he won 35 consecutive sets on clay. This is followed by Ilie Năstase's 34 consecutive clay sets won in 1973. Nadal also had streaks of 32, 31, and two streaks of 30 consecutive clay sets won.
Breakdown: 6–0, 6–1, 6–2, 6–3, 6–4, 7–5, RET.
No.TournamentStart date
RdOpponentRankScore
–Rome Masters, Italy15 May 2017QF

81 match win streak on clay

Nadal's 81 clay-court match win streak from 04 April 2005 to 22 May 2007 is the longest on a single surface in the Open Era in men's singles, surpassing the record held by John McEnroe’s 65-consecutive match wins on carpet, as well as Guillermo Vilas’s 53-consecutive match wins on clay in 1977. Nadal would defeat world No.1 Roger Federer 5 times during this streak, before Federer would end it in the 2007 Hamburg Masters final on 22 May 2007, more than 25 months since it first began. During this streak, Nadal would win 13 consecutive clay court titles, which included 3-titles-in-a-row at the Monte-Carlo Masters, Barcelona Open, and the Rome Masters, and back-to-backups. However, during those 25 months, Nadal also won hard court titles at the 2005 Canada Masters, 2005 China Open, [2005 Mutua Madrileña Masters Madrid Open (tennis)|Madrid – Singles|2005 Madrid Masters (indoor hard)], 2006 Dubai, and 2007 Indian Wells Masters. Additionally, Nadal had 15 wins over top-10 opponents, 9 wins over top-5 opponents.
No. TournamentTierStart
Date		RoundOpponentRankResultScore
–Valencia Open2502005/4/4QF

46 match win streak at the Monte-Carlo Masters

Between 2005 and 2013 inclusive, Nadal won 46 consecutive matches at the Monte Carlo Masters, which is a record for most consecutive wins at a single tournament by any man or woman in the Open Era. The streak began in the first round of the 2005 edition with a victory over Gaël Monfils, and ended in the final of the 2013 edition with a straight sets loss to Novak Djokovic.
During this streak, Nadal accumulated 15 Top 10 wins, nine Top 5 wins, and four wins against a top-ranked player. He also won 31 consecutive sets in matches, starting with the final two sets of the 2006 final and ending with the loss of the second set in the 2009 final; this included all ten sets in 2007 and 2008. He then won the next 18 sets in succession, including winning all ten sets in 2010. During the 2010 event, Nadal lost only 14 games in five matches, while losing only one game in three of those matches, including in the final against Fernando Verdasco.

52 consecutive wins in semifinal matches on clay

From 2004 to 2014, Nadal went 52–0 in semifinals on clay. This is the all-time record for most consecutive semifinal wins on a single surface. He went 45–7 in the finals during this time. The streak was ended by Fabio Fognini at the 2015 Rio Open.
Memorable matches in this streak include the 2005 French Open semifinal against Roger Federer, the 2009 Madrid Open semifinal and 2013 French Open semifinal against Novak Djokovic, the 2007 Italian Open semifinal against Nikolay Davydenko, the 2007 German Open semifinal against Lleyton Hewitt, and the 2005 Italian Open semifinal against David Ferrer. Nadal won 20 consecutive semifinals against Top 10 players and 12 consecutive against Top 5 players on clay.

25 consecutive wins in Grand Slam matches

From the 2010 French Open to the fourth round of the 2011 Australian Open, Nadal went 25–0 at the majors. He became the first man to win 21 consecutive Grand Slam matches in a single calendar year since Rod Laver in 1969. The streak was ended by compatriot David Ferrer in the 2011 Australian Open. Prior to 2010, Roger Federer achieved two streaks of three consecutive major titles but never within the same calendar year, as Federer's streaks always ended at the French Open to Nadal in the middle of the calendar year.
No.TournamentSurfaceStart dateRdOpponentRankResScore
–2010 Australian OpenHard18 January 2010QF

14 French Open and 12 Barcelona Open final win streaks

Since 2005, Nadal has remained undefeated in each of the 14 French Open and 12 Barcelona Open finals he has contested in his career – both tournaments in which he is the all-time title leader. He has beaten a No. 1 ranked player five times in French Open finals and has never been taken to five sets in his 14 finals. Nadal's run at both tournaments constitute the two highest undefeated streaks in finals in the Open Era.

Career Grand Slam tournament seedings

The tournaments won by Nadal are in boldface.
  • Nadal has been seeded 1st in 16 Grand Slam tournaments, with 4 of those being consecutive.
  • He had been seeded 1st or 2nd for 14 consecutive grand slams.
  • He was seeded 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th in 29 consecutive tournaments in which he played, this streak ran from his first grand slam title, the 2005 French Open, to his when he won his 12th grand slam title, the 2013 French Open, a span of 8 consecutive years. It would have stretched further except that after he won the 2013 French Open title, he dropped from No. 4 to No. 5 in the world.
  • In the first 20 of his 22 grand slam titles, he was seeded 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th.
  • Of his 8 runner-up finishes, he was seeded either 1st and 2nd in 7 of them; the only one in which he wasn't a top-2 seed was the 2017 Australian Open, where he was seeded 9th.
  • Prior 2009 Wimbledon Championships Nadal seeded 1st, but withdrew from the tournament due to knee tendinitis.

YearAustralian OpenFrench OpenWimbledonUS Open
2003did not playdid not playnot seedednot seeded
2004not seededdid not playdid not playnot seeded
2005not seeded4th4th2nd
2006did not play2nd2nd2nd
20072nd2nd2nd2nd
20082nd2nd2nd1st
20091st1st1st 3rd
20102nd2nd2nd1st
20111st1st1st2nd
20122nd2nd2nddid not play
2013did not play3rd5th2nd
20141st1st2nddid not play
20153rd6th10th8th
20165th4thdid not play4th
20179th4th4th1st
20181st1st2nd1st
20192nd2nd3rd2nd
20201st2ndtournament cancelled*did not play
20212nd3rddid not playdid not play
20226th5th2nd2nd
20231stdid not playdid not playdid not play
2024did not playprotected rankingdid not playdid not play

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National and international representation

Davis Cup

Nadal played with La Armada in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2011 winning the trophy in 2004, 2008 and 2009, as well as in 2011 and 2019 and fighting to remain in the World Group in 2005 and 2006. He was not able to play the final of the 2008 Davis Cup due to an injury of his left knee but he later received a replica of the cup given to the members of the Spanish team which played in Argentina, being David Ferrer, Marcel Granollers, Feliciano López and Fernando Verdasco.

Finals (4–0)

Edition

Davis Cup (37–6)

Laver Cup

Laver Cup matches (3–4)

  • indicates the result of the Laver Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event and the court surface.

Wins: 2

Edition Team EuropeRounds/Opponents
2017 Laver Cup

Career milestone wins

Centennial match wins

  • Bold indicates that he went on to win the tournament.

Milestone Grand Slam wins

  • Bold indicates that he went on to win the tournament.

Milestone hard court match wins

  • Bold indicates that he went on to win the tournament.

Milestone grass court match wins

#DateAgePlayerEventSurfaceRdScore
1.June 200317 years, 20 days

Milestone clay court match wins

#DateAgePlayerEventSurfaceRdScore
1.April 200215 years, 10 months

Exhibition matches

Singles

ResultDateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScore
WinSep 2001Santa Ponça, SpainClay

Doubles

ResultDateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentScore
LossMay 2006III Trofeu Illes Balears, Calvià, SpainClay