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steven


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insomniacfolder wrote:
Etienne wrote:

Do these figures include doubles?

I think it must, because doubles specialists, such as Lisa Raymond (37) & Liezel Huber (57), are represented with earnings, and rankings, that would be unreflective of their achievements in singles alone.

christ wrote:

Supplementary question: Where would they be in the men's league table?

I'm sorry, I don't know much at all about where to get analogous stats for the ATP. Perhaps someone else will now.
I suspect they'd fare quite well somewhere in behind Andy, Greg & Tim.

It's nearly always easier to find full info for ATP than it is for WTA - the list at http://www.protennislive.com/posting/ramr/career_prize.pdf covers the 21402 players who have won more than $20! I don't think it covers every player in the Open era though - prominent players from the 1980s are there but while Nastase from the 1970s is shown, Brits from the 1970s like Roger Taylor and Mark Cox are not and Buster Mottram's total is shown as just $14,500!

It doesn't show country codes so you have to know which Brits you are looking for or look down the list carefully. 

Andy is 4th with $43.601m (he overtook Sampras, the only player outside the current 'big 4' who is in the top 5, at the Aus Open) and the other Brits above $1m as at 22 Feb that I could find are:

Tim Henman 40th with $11.636m
Greg Rusedski 63rd with $8.944m
Jamie Murray 316th with $2.044m
Jeremy Bates 453rd with $1.340m
Aljaz (487th with $1.235m, though only a fraction of that was made as a Brit)
Neil Broad 500th with $1.206m (not all as GB but most of it was)
Jonny Marray 534th with $1.113m
James Ward 548th with $1.056m

So, unless I've missed someone thanks to the lack of searchable country codes, there are 9 British ATP 'millionaires' (7 or 8 if you only count winnings when playing as a Brit), but there will be 10 the next time Colin Fleming plays, even if he loses - 566th with $993.572m on 22 Feb, his half of the Acapulco QF prize money will have taken him up to $999,192!

However, all of these players' winnings added together don't quite add up to Rafa (3rd with $76.121m), so they'd displace Andy himself!

Fed ($97.856m) and Nole ($96.583m) are racing to be the first to $100m, a race I assume Nole will win.

 

 



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insomniacfolder


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Thank you so much for the help

So, if we accept the stipulation that for any given Brit, all monies from your career count, irrespective of whether the entirety of those monies were accumulated whilst actively a Brit, then the full intermingled list looks like this:

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RankPlayer$ Million
1Andy Murray43.601
2Tim Henman11.636
3Greg Rusedski8.944
4Jamie Murray2.044
5Heather Watson1.766
6Virginia Wade1.542
7Johanna Konta1.420
8Jeremy Bates1.340
9Anne Keothavong1.303
10Laura Robson1.284
11Aljaz Bedene1.235
12Jo Durie1.224
13Neil Broad1.206
14Elena Baltacha1.190
15Jonny Marray1.113
16James Ward1.056
*Colin Fleming0.999


A combined total (excluding for now Colin) of $81.904 million. Good Enough for 1st on the WTA, and 3rd on the ATP.
Were Andy not so exceptional, and, say, 'only' as good as Tim, it would be ~$49.939 million. Still good enough for 2nd WTA & 4th ATP.



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The combined total for our 'Magnificent Seven' is: $9,732,059

That would place them at... 39th, displacing... Chris Evert!

So, the lesson here is that, for having got that last one right, Steven is confirmed as the paramount 'Tennis Nerd', as if there was every any doubt
I really didn't think, even with the top 100 all time list, anyone would deduce that position and name; hence I gave it so many points.


The extent to which Steven "guessed" correctly is indeed confirmation of what we all knewabout his statistical abilities and knowledge.

The whole exercise - for men and women - is fascinating. Thank you, IF (and others), for undertaking it!



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Intersting stuff. Would be interesting to see how that would change if Wimbledon WCs were factored out!

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Interesting to see that if it weren't for his little brother, Jamie would be our third highest money winner, and he would be fêted throughout the land.

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Yep, great stuff Guys; really interesting :D

Incredible to think Ginny Wade is still riding so high in our all time lists given the comparatively meagre sums on offer back then

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