A report on Roger Federer and Ivan Lendl
He won eight major singles titles and was runner-up a joint record 11 times (tied with Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic), making him the first man to contest 19 major finals.
- Ivan LendlHis 11 singles titles were the most of any player in two decades, and his record of 74–6 was the best since Ivan Lendl in 1986.
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Novak Djokovic
5 linksSerbian professional tennis player.
Serbian professional tennis player.
At age 20, he disrupted Roger Federer's and Rafael Nadal's streak of 11 consecutive majors to win his first major title at the 2008 Australian Open.
He moved into equal eighth on the all-time list of men with the most Major titles, tying Agassi, Ivan Lendl, Jimmy Connors, Ken Rosewall and Fred Perry.
Tennis
5 linksRacket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent or between two teams of two players each (doubles).
Racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent or between two teams of two players each (doubles).
Top-ranked singles players that are usually rivals on the professional circuit, such as Boris Becker and Michael Stich, and Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka have formed a rare doubles partnership for the Olympics.
Earlier in Sampras' career, the most Grand Slams won up to that point by other active players was eight (jointly held by Jimmy Connors and Ivan Lendl).
Jimmy Connors
3 linksAmerican former world No. 1 tennis player.
American former world No. 1 tennis player.
Connors reached the ATP world No. 1 ranking on July 29, 1974, and held it for 160 consecutive weeks, a record until it was surpassed by Roger Federer on February 26, 2007.
His prominent younger opponents included Björn Borg, Vitas Gerulaitis, Ivan Lendl, and John McEnroe.
List of ATP number 1 ranked singles tennis players
3 linksThe Pepperstone ATP rankings are the Association of Tennis Professionals' (ATP) merit-based system for determining the rankings in men's tennis.
The Pepperstone ATP rankings are the Association of Tennis Professionals' (ATP) merit-based system for determining the rankings in men's tennis.
Roger Federer has the record of 237 consecutive weeks at No. 1. Novak Djokovic also holds the record for the most year-end No. 1 rankings, achieving the feat in seven years (including the pandemic-shortened season ).
Two players, Ivan Lendl and Marcelo Ríos, have reached No. 1 without previously having won a major title.
Björn Borg
3 linksSwedish former world No. 1 tennis player.
Swedish former world No. 1 tennis player.
He was the first man since 1886 to contest six consecutive Wimbledon finals, a record surpassed by Roger Federer's seven consecutive finals (2003–09).
Borg then defeated Ivan Lendl for his second Masters title.
Andy Murray
2 linksBritish professional tennis player from Scotland.
British professional tennis player from Scotland.
He began his professional career around the time Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal established themselves as the two dominant players in men's tennis.
With Ivan Lendl as his new full-time coach, Murray began the season by playing in the 2012 Brisbane International.
Mats Wilander
2 linksSwedish former world No. 1 tennis player.
Swedish former world No. 1 tennis player.
This makes Wilander one of only six men (along with Jimmy Connors, Andre Agassi, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic) to have won Grand Slam singles titles on grass courts, hard courts, and clay courts.
As an unseeded player, he upset second seed Ivan Lendl in the fourth round, fifth seed Vitas Gerulaitis in the quarterfinals, fourth seed José Luis Clerc in the semifinals, and third seed Guillermo Vilas in a four-set final that lasted 4 hours and 42 minutes.
Alexander Zverev
2 linksGerman professional tennis player.
German professional tennis player.
As a teenager, Zverev won two ATP titles and upset then-world No. 3 Roger Federer on grass.
Ivan Lendl, another former world No. 1, joined Zverev's team in August 2018.
Stefan Edberg
1 linksSwedish former professional tennis player.
Swedish former professional tennis player.
After retirement, Edberg began coaching Roger Federer in January 2014, with this partnership ending in December 2015.
In 1990, an abdominal muscle injury forced Edberg to retire from the Australian Open final while trailing Ivan Lendl 5–2 (including two breaks of serve) in the third set.