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Ranking Explanation

 

The Top Ranked Tennis Players of All-Time from Great Britain

 

Rnk Athlete Rookie Year Overall Rank
1 Fred Perry 1929 12
2 Andy Murray 2005 22
3 Dinny Pails 1937 93
4 Colin Gregory 1929 119
5 William Renshaw 1879 123
6 Laurence Doherty 1896 124
7 Reginald Doherty 1894 129
8 Arthur Gore 1888 133
9 Bunny Austin 1926 134
10 Wilfred Baddeley 1887 137
11 Gordon Lowe 1911 162
12 John Hartley 1879 163
13 Herbert Lawford 1878 180
14 Ernest Renshaw 1879 187
15 Harold Mahony 1890 226
16 Spencer Gore 1877 229
17 John Lloyd 1973 241
18 Randolph Lycett 1905 252
19 Frank Hadow 1878 260
20 Tim Henman 1992 264
21 Roger Taylor 1960 270
22 Mike Sangster 1956 280
23 Frank Riseley 1902 285
24 Wally Masur 1982 295
25 Brian Gilbert 1922 315
26 Herbert Roper Barrett 1908 318
27 Alfred Beamish 1903 319
28 Harry Barlow 1883 320
29 Paul McNamee 1973 350
30 Jack Draper 2018 374
31 Christophe Roger-Vasselin 1976 379
32 Patrick Hughes 1926 394
33 Harry Lee 1927 398
34 Major Ritchie 1902 414
35 Walter Crawley 1922 417
36 Ernest Lewis 1881 420
37 Sydney Smith 1891 424
38 William Glyn 1881 442
39 Vere St. Leger Goold 1879 443
40 William Marshall 1877 444
41 Mike Davies 1953 459
42 Arthur Lowe 1910 465
43 Charles Dixon 1901 471
44 Harold Nisbet 1896 506
45 Herbert Baddeley 1887 507
46 Ernest Meers 1885 508
47 Charles Lacy Sweet 1882 511
48 Donald Stewart 1882 512
49 Charles Grinstead 1881 515
50 Harry Grove 1881 516
51 Richard Richardson 1880 517
52 Cecil Parr 1879 518
53 Otway Woodhouse 1879 519
54 Robert Erskine 1878 520
55 Charles Heathcote 1877 521
56 Mark Cox 1962 592
57 Bobby Wilson 1952 654
58 Billy Knight 1952 661
59 Tony Mottram 1946 683
60 Robin Drysdale 1973 702
61 Henry Billington 1934 726
62 Charles Hare 1934 743
63 Donald MacPhail 1932 773
64 Theodore Mavrogordato 1903 774
65 Stanley Clark 1937 796
66 Harry Lewis-Barclay 1922 805
67 D.M. Evans 1923 807
68 Max Woosnam 1920 813
69 Daniel Evans 2006 885
70 Jeremy Bates 1982 896
71 Gerald Battrick 1964 951
72 Frank Wilde 1932 1015
73 Alan Mills 1955 1017
74 Peter Cawthorn 1950 1064
75 Dan Maskell 1930 1075
76 William Moss 1951 1088
77 T. Jeffery 1937 1108
78 Buster Mottram 1972 1123
79 Colin Dowdeswell 1973 1167
80 Andrew Sznajder 1987 1262
81 Andrew Castle 1986 1275
82 Martin Lee 1997 1280
83 Nick Brown 1982 1317
84 Richard Lewis 1973 1359
85 Mark Petchey 1988 1405
86 John Paish 1970 1470
87 James Ward 2009 1471
88 Steve Shaw 1984 1505
89 Chris Bailey 1987 1509
90 Andrew Jarrett 1977 1519
91 Billy Harris 2023 1580
92 Richard Bloomfield 2002 1599
93 Paul Jubb 2019 1612
94 John Paish 1970 1631
95 Graham Stilwell 1963 1657
96 John Feaver 1971 1659
97 Roger Becker 1951 1669
98 Edward Avory 1927 1675
99 John Olliff 1928 1678
100 Keith Carpenter 1960 1681
101 Ian Collins 1927 1684
102 Nigel Sharpe 1926 1698
103 Peter Curtis 1967 1704
104 Don Butler 1935 1711
105 Herman David 1928 1714
106 Keats Lester 1923 1722
107 Keith Wooldridge 1963 1727
108 Jimmy Jones 1932 1735
109 Liam Broady 2014 1737
110 Bobby Meredith 1933 1747
111 Leighton Crawford 1922 1751
112 Raymond Tuckey 1931 1775
113 Donald Greig 1922 1788
114 Ronald Shayes 1936 1804
115 Norman Dicks 1923 1806
116 Henry Mayes 1913 1815
117 Cecil Tindell-Green 1919 1860
118 Lawrence Shaffi 1934 1868
119 Robert Mulliken 1935 1870
120 Andrew Foster 1992 1895
121 Arthur Berger 1923 1898
122 C.L. Philcox 1926 1899
123 Alexander Drew 1922 1919
124 H.R. Fussell 1922 1920
125 John Cecil Masterman 1922 1924
126 Jonathan Smith 1976 2007
127 Jamie Delgado 1997 2030
128 Chris Wilkinson 1991 2034
129 Arvind Parmar 1999 2049
130 Danny Sapsford 1990 2066
131 Stephen Warboys 1970 2084
132 Jacob Fearnley 2024 2106
133 Ryan Peniston 2018 2160
134 John De Mendoza 1971 2183
135 Michael Grant 1980 2199
136 James Auckland 1999 2303
137 Joe Salisbury 2014 2377
138 Henry Patten 2023 2383
139 Jamie Murray 2004 2388
140 Neal Skupski 2012 2392
141 John Barrett 1951 2406
142 Tony Pickard 1953 2409
143 Gerald Oakley 1947 2410
144 George Godsell 1930 2417
145 David Lloyd 1968 2424
146 Mike Hann 1956 2431
147 Noel Turnbull 1922 2434
148 Claude Lister 1936 2441
149 Eric Peters 1926 2444
150 David Williams 1926 2445
151 Jack Lysaght 1929 2457
152 Guy Cooper 1929 2462
153 Robert Tinkler 1930 2466
154 Edward Higgs 1923 2485
155 Leslie Godfree 1922 2490
156 Headley Baxter 1946 2501
157 Murray Deloford 1936 2502
158 Jack Hillyard 1922 2509
159 John Horn 1950 2517
160 Gordon Crole-Rees 1924 2523
161 Kenneth Gandar-Dower 1929 2529
162 Derek Bull 1937 2531
163 William Powell 1926 2532
164 John Ward 1954 2535
165 Paul Hutchins 1967 2538
166 Mark Farrell 1973 2539
167 Peter Molloy 1946 2541
168 Reg Bennett 1955 2550
169 Paddy Roberts 1947 2552
170 Brame Hillyard 1925 2554
171 Nick Fulwood 1984 2556
172 Derrick Barton 1946 2570
173 Cyril Eames 1924 2574
174 Ivor Warwick 1953 2578
175 John Pennycuick 1925 2581
176 Arthur MacPherson 1923 2585
177 Ambrose Dudley 1922 2589
178 William Radcliffe 1922 2598
179 Martin Robinson 1975 2602
180 John Comery 1936 2608
181 Alan Belgrave 1922 2609
182 Dennis Slack 1946 2654
183 Frederick Kipping 1953 2670
184 Henry Brunie 1928 2709
185 Josiah Ritchie 1922 2713
186 Harvey Mackintosh 1926 2730
187 Henry Standring 1923 2732
188 R.G. Bernard 1923 2733
189 Jack Weakley 1922 2735
190 Luke Milligan 1995 2737
191 J.H. Frowen 1928 2742
192 Gerald Crowther 1940 2761
193 Brian Finnigan 1932 2820
194 Andrew Richardson 1992 2827
195 A.W. Davson 1922 2841
196 Leonard Lyle 1922 2920
197 Timothy Phillips 1966 2974
198 Gary Cruth 1964 2977
199 Jack Olmsted 1928 3090
200 R.D. England 1927 3101
201 Bertie Meyer 1926 3104
202 Y. Das De Karputhala 1925 3129
203 C.P. Luck 1923 3131
204 H.A. Carless 1923 3132
205 J.T. Baines 1923 3133
206 Geoffrey Paish 1946 3138
207 Stanley Matthews 1962 3140
208 Howard Walton 1946 3142
209 Arnold England 1932 3156
210 Geoff Ward 1950 3158
211 Edmund David 1936 3161
212 John Clifton 1967 3164
213 Eric Filby 1935 3170
214 Barry Cowan 1994 3178
215 Anthony Starte 1947 3179
216 Norman Kitovitz 1947 3180
217 Richard Ritchie 1930 3181
218 Norman Latchford 1923 3182
219 Henry Burrows 1929 3185
220 Colin Ritchie 1931 3192
221 Peter Hare 1946 3203
222 Gwyn Tuckett 1930 3204
223 Ronald Poland 1923 3207
224 Royden Dash 1922 3208
225 Thomas Anderson 1938 3221
226 Henry Weatherall 1932 3222
227 Pat Sherwood 1932 3223
228 Alan Brown 1929 3224
229 Erik Bulmer 1952 3228
230 Norman Lewis 1946 3229
231 Clifford Hovell 1938 3230
232 Irving Wheatcroft 1930 3231
233 Frank Jarvis 1922 3232
234 Clive Bernstein 1948 3234
235 Douglas Snart 1947 3235
236 Brian Helmore 1923 3237
237 Victor Cazalet 1922 3238
238 Charles Roupell 1922 3242
239 Roland Carter 1946 3245
240 Philip Glover 1922 3248
241 Arthur Vinall 1929 3256
242 Stuart Bale 1983 3267
243 Norman Taylor 1932 3275
244 Monty Temple 1922 3276
245 Geoff Owen 1955 3286
246 Colin Hannam 1953 3288
247 Ronald Reeve 1947 3295
248 Cecil Betts 1932 3296
249 Paul Partridge 1931 3297
250 Oswald Jameson 1927 3298
251 F. Crosbie 1923 3299
252 Chris Bovett 1964 3305
253 Hew Stoker 1922 3306
254 Clay Iles 1973 3311
255 Stanley Harris 1929 3316
256 Alfred Ingram 1901 3317
257 Colin Baxter 1957 3327
258 George Stoddart 1922 3332
259 Jay Clarke 2016 3334
260 Ralph Oliver 1953 3347
261 Leslie Cater 1935 3355
262 Oliver Prenn 1956 3368
263 Bill Swinden 1947 3380
264 Lord Cholmondley 1925 3381
265 Stephen Botfield 1986 3383
266 Geoff Bluett 1963 3386
267 Bernard Crouch 1950 3392
268 Lawrence Dundas 1948 3394
269 Gordon Fitt 1938 3396
270 Jack Moore 1938 3397
271 Roland Morton 1936 3398
272 Alfred Della Porta 1930 3400
273 Neville Willford 1923 3405
274 Scotter Owen 1922 3406
275 Lee Childs 2000 3413
276 Darrell Shaw 1951 3435
277 Laurie Proctor 1948 3438
278 Brian Sturgeon 1934 3441
279 Douglas Freshwater 1932 3442
280 Wilfred Freeman 1931 3443
281 Arthur Smith 1929 3444
282 Anthony Crossley 1926 3445
283 Maurice Summerson 1925 3446
284 Eliot Crawshay-Williams 1923 3447
285 Lionel Alderson 1923 3448
286 Alexander Blair 1922 3449
287 Vincent Burr 1923 3467
288 Roger Worthington 1927 3504
289 C.H. Campbell 1926 3505
290 L.F. Davin 1922 3506
291 Fassett Burnett 1925 3519
292 Mark Hilton 2000 3529
293 Michael Wayman 1976 3540
294 Julian Coni 1961 3555
295 Martin Hime 1952 3574
296 Finn Rune Karlsen 1946 3584
297 Derrick Leyland 1938 3587
298 Maurice Lucking 1937 3590
299 Dennis Cook 1935 3591
300 Richard Turnbull 1935 3592
301 Gerald France 1933 3596
302 Eric Attewell 1931 3598
303 James Cummins 1931 3599
304 Douglas Hodges 1926 3606
305 W.D. Stott 1925 3607
306 Henry Hunter 1924 3608
307 Tim Horn 1922 3610
308 Jeffrey Michelmore 1947 3646
309 Jack Darkins 1938 3650
310 Colin Higgins 1929 3665
311 Jack Chamberlain 1929 3666
312 J.M. Bell 1923 3675
313 Thomas Burke 1945 3686
314 D.L. Craig 1922 3705
315 Harry Matheson 1965 3752
316 Dennis Hughes 1956 3768
317 Gordon Mudge 1955 3772
318 John Wilkinson 1946 3796
319 Jack Piercy 1938 3802
320 Buzzer Hadingham 1936 3805
321 Desmond Morris 1933 3811
322 Hugh Mackinnon 1932 3815
323 Walter Michelmore 1932 3817
324 Edward Flury 1930 3821
325 H.S. Lewis-Barclay 1930 3822
326 Orson Wright 1930 3823
327 W. Legg 1927 3831
328 Basil Lawrence 1926 3833
329 George Greville 1926 3834
330 Douglas Watson 1923 3839
331 E.B.N. Taylor 1923 3840
332 George Golding 1922 3847
333 H.S. Milford 1922 3848
334 P.C. Chase 1922 3849
335 Thomas Bevan 1922 3850
336 Oliver Tarvet 2025 3866
337 Jack Pinnington-Jones 2021 3869
338 Alastair Gray 2016 3871
339 Chris Eaton 2007 3881
340 Marcus Willis 2007 3882
341 David Sherwood 1998 3894
342 Colin Beecher 1993 3906
343 Mark Holland 1966 3991
344 Peter Breed 1964 4001
345 Michael Hann 1961 4012
346 Michael Woolven 1960 4018
347 Roger Ambrose 1960 4019
348 Tommy Anderson 1954 4048
349 Harry Marriner 1946 4096
350 Reginald Bessemer-Clark 1938 4141
351 Robert Higgin 1938 4142
352 Peter Witt 1936 4162
353 D.B. Jarvis 1934 4180
354 E.M.D. Van Der Spar 1933 4193
355 Arthur Hill 1932 4197
356 Henry Moore 1931 4216
357 Bertram Hammell 1930 4220
358 George Perkins 1930 4222
359 D.R. Fussell 1929 4232
360 I.W. Bobb 1928 4246
361 Llewellyn Owen 1927 4263
362 Wallis Myers 1926 4282
363 Eric Hollins 1925 4285
364 Phillip Glover 1925 4294
365 W.E.N. Kelly 1925 4298
366 Leslie Hill 1924 4305
367 Paul Martin 1924 4308
368 Francis Stowe 1923 4311
369 M. Fox 1923 4312
370 Victor Penman 1923 4313
371 Cyril Eltringham 1922 4318
372 Jamie Baker 2006 4334
373 James Reddall 1930 4337
374 Joshua Goodall 2005 4339
375 Anthony Clayton 1955 4341
376 Jack Harrison 1935 4342
377 Alan Mackin 1997 4348
378 James Tattersall 1957 4351
379 F.P. Wallis 1946 4353
380 Mark Hick 1922 4360
381 Neville Deed 1922 4361
382 Roy Dixon 1959 4371
383 Bob Lee 1952 4373
384 Eddie Ford 1949 4377
385 Dick Guise 1947 4379
386 Roy Mansell 1947 4380
387 Charles Fawcus 1937 4382
388 John Shales 1929 4387
389 Douglas Powell 1925 4404
390 G.R. Ashton 1925 4405
391 Ulysses Williams 1922 4406
392 Jonathan Marray 2000 4413
393 Charles Applewhaite 1965 4428
394 Geoff Cass 1954 4451
395 Peter Moys 1954 4453
396 Peter Wooller 1954 4454
397 Andre Kalman 1949 4461
398 David Mockridge 1947 4463
399 Harold Hare 1936 4466
400 James Hunt 1935 4468
401 Leslie Newman 1935 4469
402 Malcolm Young 1932 4470
403 Wilfred Smith 1931 4471
404 Geoffrey De St. Croix 1930 4472
405 Ralph Wackett 1927 4474
406 E.G. Bisseker 1922 4477
407 E.N.W. Oliver 1925 4493
408 P.R.R. Hurditch 1925 4494
409 Henry Searie 2024 4496
410 George Loffhagen 2017 4499
411 Conor Niland 2011 4507
412 Daniel Cox 2011 4508
413 Alexander Ward 2008 4510
414 Nick Gould 1994 4534
415 Ross Matheson 1992 4537
416 James Turner 1989 4542
417 David Felgate 1988 4546
418 Jason Goodall 1985 4557
419 Chris Bradnam 1978 4565
420 Edward Beards 1968 4579
421 Humphrey Truman 1968 4580
422 John Crump 1964 4587
423 Trevor Adamson 1959 4601
424 Wilbur Jenkins 1958 4607
425 David Gunson 1957 4608
426 Derek Collins 1956 4615
427 Jeffrey Robinson 1955 4622
428 Lord Maxborough 1954 4628
429 Brian Royds 1947 4660
430 John Drinkall 1946 4667
431 Tony Clark 1946 4669
432 Herbert Whitney 1937 4671
433 John Collins 1937 4672
434 George Gibbs 1933 4680
435 Peter Graves 1932 4681
436 Edward Buzzard 1931 4682
437 Max Callendar 1931 4684
438 J.E. Pogson-Smith 1926 4691
439 R.D.N. Pryce-Jones 1926 4692
440 Gerald Millard 1923 4698
441 John Legg 1923 4699
442 C.S. Grace 1922 4700
443 Sydney Watts 1922 4704
444 Johannus Monday 2023 4708
445 Charles Broom 2022 4711
446 Daniel Smethurst 2011 4737
447 Oliver Golding 2011 4738
448 Tom Spinks 1999 4792
449 Nick Weal 1997 4802
450 Gary Henderson 1995 4807
451 Sean Cole 1993 4820
452 Richard Whichello 1988 4854
453 Michael Walker 1986 4865
454 Leighton Alfred 1985 4871
455 Rohun Beven 1979 4903
456 Tony Lloyd 1977 4907
457 Colin McHugo 1973 4922
458 Mike Collins 1973 4932
459 Phil Siviter 1973 4934
460 Ken Weatherley 1972 4940
461 Michael Walters 1964 5017
462 Malcolm Booth 1960 5057
463 Richard Mellersh 1960 5061
464 Dickie Dillon 1959 5068
465 Bob Dabbs 1958 5083
466 Robert Hull 1958 5093
467 Derrick Lester 1956 5111
468 Graham Daniels 1956 5112
469 Michael Sangster 1956 5122
470 Ralph White 1956 5124
471 Basil Bucknell 1954 5150
472 Philip Wooldridge 1954 5158
473 D. Rivkind 1953 5168
474 John Hirsch 1952 5201
475 Bill Hough 1951 5214
476 Tadeusz Slawek 1951 5224
477 Guy Pettigrew 1950 5227
478 John Rutherglen 1950 5228
479 Reg Kaley 1950 5233
480 G.B. Leyton 1949 5240
481 Mirek Kizlink 1949 5243
482 Charles Dobbs 1948 5249
483 Michael Clarke 1948 5256
484 Tim Miles 1948 5258
485 Geoffrey Emmett 1947 5262
486 John Archer 1947 5264
487 John Griffith 1947 5265
488 Warwick Shute 1947 5268
489 Brian Burnett 1946 5269
490 Derek Bocquet 1946 5271
491 Derek Hardwick 1946 5272
492 Harold Marsland 1946 5278
493 R.C. Smith 1946 5283
494 Robert Nicoll 1946 5284
495 Alistair Dewar-Brown 1938 5292
496 Keith Lavarack 1938 5301
497 P.D. Eeman 1938 5303
498 W. Davidson 1938 5308
499 Edward Hansom 1937 5317
500 Edwin Barlow 1937 5318
501 H.F.C. Horne 1937 5320
502 Harold Rothwell 1937 5321
503 Raymond Fontes 1937 5324
504 William Earle 1937 5329
505 Stanley Stewart 1936 5337
506 Richard Williams 1934 5352
507 Ian Bailey 1933 5362
508 Afzat Hyat 1932 5369
509 John Leader 1932 5382
510 Martin Wedd 1932 5385
511 Errol Whitehouse 1931 5390
512 Claude Metcalf 1930 5401
513 Llewellyn Williams 1930 5406
514 W.G. Curtis-Morgan 1930 5411
515 D.H. Balfour 1929 5414
516 F.R. Price 1929 5415
517 Nigel Jones 1928 5429
518 Richard Pickersgill 1928 5430
519 Anthony Buzzard 1927 5432
520 Cyril Banks 1927 5433
521 E.C. Penny 1927 5434
522 Edward Dearman 1927 5435
523 G.A. Pratt 1927 5436
524 J.D.F. Fisher 1927 5438
525 J.C.F. Simpson 1926 5448
526 Jack W. Olmsted 1926 5449
527 G.M. Thomas 1925 5455
528 H.A. Lake 1925 5458
529 J.G. Hogan 1925 5459
530 Richard Powell 1925 5463
531 S.C. Cargill 1925 5464
532 Turner Cole 1925 5465
533 A.K. Evans 1924 5468
534 G.H. Todd 1924 5471
535 George Fletcher 1924 5472
536 Lewis Mitchell 1924 5475
537 N.C. Abrams 1924 5477
538 Robert Stone 1924 5479
539 St. John Evers 1924 5481
540 T.A. Digby 1924 5482
541 V. Rudolf 1924 5483
542 W.D.K. Thellusson 1924 5484
543 A.H. McCormick 1923 5485
544 C.J. Brierley 1923 5488
545 Eric Portlock 1923 5490
546 F.R. Scovell 1923 5491
547 G.W. Grounsell 1923 5493
548 J.A. Dean 1923 5494
549 J.F. Philpotts 1923 5495
550 N. Field 1923 5498
551 P. Marsden 1923 5500
552 R.F. Scovell 1923 5501
553 Royden Wilkinson 1923 5502
554 S. Simons 1923 5503
555 T. Moss 1923 5505
556 A.W. Asthalter 1922 5506
557 F. Rattigan 1922 5521
558 G.M. Elliott 1922 5526
559 H.O. Dixon 1922 5528
560 H.P. Greenwood 1922 5529
561 O.G. Miller 1922 5549
562 Percy Pinckney 1922 5552
563 S.F. Thol 1922 5559
564 W.L. Hollick 1922 5560

 


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