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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 91
4 Colin Gregory 1929 117
5 William Renshaw 1879 122
6 Laurence Doherty 1896 123
7 Reginald Doherty 1894 128
8 Arthur Gore 1888 132
9 Bunny Austin 1926 133
10 Wilfred Baddeley 1887 136
11 Gordon Lowe 1911 158
12 John Hartley 1879 160
13 Herbert Lawford 1878 179
14 Ernest Renshaw 1879 186
15 Harold Mahony 1890 224
16 Spencer Gore 1877 227
17 John Lloyd 1973 232
18 Randolph Lycett 1905 250
19 Frank Hadow 1878 257
20 Tim Henman 1992 262
21 Roger Taylor 1960 267
22 Mike Sangster 1956 277
23 Frank Riseley 1902 282
24 Wally Masur 1982 289
25 Brian Gilbert 1922 309
26 Herbert Roper Barrett 1908 312
27 Alfred Beamish 1903 313
28 Harry Barlow 1883 314
29 Paul McNamee 1973 340
30 Patrick Hughes 1926 377
31 Christophe Roger-Vasselin 1976 381
32 Harry Lee 1927 387
33 Major Ritchie 1902 408
34 Walter Crawley 1922 411
35 Ernest Lewis 1881 414
36 Sydney Smith 1891 418
37 Vere St. Leger Goold 1879 436
38 William Glyn 1881 437
39 William Marshall 1877 438
40 Mike Davies 1953 453
41 Arthur Lowe 1910 459
42 Charles Dixon 1901 465
43 Cecil Parr 1879 480
44 Charles Grinstead 1881 481
45 Charles Heathcote 1877 482
46 Charles Lacy Sweet 1882 483
47 Donald Stewart 1882 487
48 Ernest Meers 1885 489
49 Harold Nisbet 1896 495
50 Harry Grove 1881 496
51 Herbert Baddeley 1887 497
52 Otway Woodhouse 1879 501
53 Richard Richardson 1880 505
54 Robert Erskine 1878 507
55 Mark Cox 1962 559
56 Bobby Wilson 1952 588
57 Billy Knight 1952 595
58 Tony Mottram 1946 644
59 Henry Billington 1934 700
60 Robin Drysdale 1973 705
61 Charles Hare 1934 725
62 Donald MacPhail 1932 760
63 Theodore Mavrogordato 1903 762
64 Stanley Clark 1937 784
65 Harry Lewis-Barclay 1922 794
66 D.M. Evans 1923 796
67 Max Woosnam 1920 802
68 Jeremy Bates 1982 857
69 Gerald Battrick 1964 885
70 Frank Wilde 1932 932
71 Alan Mills 1955 934
72 Peter Cawthorn 1950 1021
73 Dan Maskell 1930 1042
74 William Moss 1951 1060
75 T. Jeffery 1937 1086
76 Colin Dowdeswell 1973 1097
77 Buster Mottram 1972 1101
78 Andrew Castle 1986 1142
79 Andrew Sznajder 1987 1168
80 Nick Brown 1982 1196
81 Graham Stilwell 1963 1224
82 John Feaver 1971 1228
83 Daniel Evans 2006 1234
84 Richard Lewis 1973 1242
85 Roger Becker 1951 1252
86 Edward Avory 1927 1259
87 John Olliff 1928 1266
88 Keith Carpenter 1960 1269
89 Ian Collins 1927 1273
90 Nigel Sharpe 1926 1294
91 Peter Curtis 1967 1303
92 Don Butler 1935 1312
93 Herman David 1928 1316
94 Keats Lester 1923 1326
95 Keith Wooldridge 1963 1333
96 Jimmy Jones 1932 1344
97 Bobby Meredith 1933 1357
98 Leighton Crawford 1922 1359
99 Raymond Tuckey 1931 1390
100 Donald Greig 1922 1409
101 Liam Broady 2014 1421
102 Ronald Shayes 1936 1426
103 Norman Dicks 1923 1428
104 Henry Mayes 1913 1442
105 Cecil Tindell-Green 1919 1485
106 Lawrence Shaffi 1934 1498
107 Robert Mulliken 1935 1500
108 Andrew Foster 1992 1523
109 Arthur Berger 1923 1524
110 C.L. Philcox 1926 1528
111 Alexander Drew 1922 1546
112 H.R. Fussell 1922 1547
113 John Cecil Masterman 1922 1551
114 John Barrett 1951 1629
115 Tony Pickard 1953 1656
116 Gerald Oakley 1947 1660
117 George Godsell 1930 1675
118 David Lloyd 1968 1695
119 Jonathan Smith 1976 1704
120 Mike Hann 1956 1713
121 Mark Petchey 1988 1717
122 John Paish 1970 1722
123 Noel Turnbull 1922 1728
124 James Ward 2009 1737
125 Claude Lister 1936 1742
126 Eric Peters 1926 1744
127 David Williams 1926 1749
128 Chris Wilkinson 1991 1762
129 Jack Lysaght 1929 1768
130 Guy Cooper 1929 1775
131 Robert Tinkler 1930 1779
132 Edward Higgs 1923 1807
133 Leslie Godfree 1922 1820
134 Headley Baxter 1946 1842
135 Murray Deloford 1936 1843
136 Jack Hillyard 1922 1852
137 John Horn 1950 1868
138 Gordon Crole-Rees 1924 1873
139 Kenneth Gandar-Dower 1929 1881
140 Danny Sapsford 1990 1884
141 Derek Bull 1937 1885
142 William Powell 1926 1887
143 John Ward 1954 1893
144 Paul Hutchins 1967 1895
145 Mark Farrell 1973 1898
146 Peter Molloy 1946 1902
147 Brame Hillyard 1925 1912
148 Paddy Roberts 1947 1917
149 Reg Bennett 1955 1918
150 Nick Fulwood 1984 1927
151 Derrick Barton 1946 1942
152 Cyril Eames 1924 1943
153 Ivor Warwick 1953 1951
154 John Pennycuick 1925 1953
155 Arthur MacPherson 1923 1958
156 Ambrose Dudley 1922 1965
157 William Radcliffe 1922 1975
158 Alan Belgrave 1922 1980
159 John Comery 1936 1983
160 Martin Robinson 1975 1986
161 Dennis Slack 1946 2039
162 Frederick Kipping 1953 2062
163 Henry Brunie 1928 2104
164 Josiah Ritchie 1922 2110
165 Harvey Mackintosh 1926 2124
166 Henry Standring 1923 2126
167 R.G. Bernard 1923 2133
168 Jack Weakley 1922 2138
169 J.H. Frowen 1928 2141
170 Luke Milligan 1995 2145
171 Gerald Crowther 1940 2166
172 Brian Finnigan 1932 2213
173 Jack Draper 2018 2221
174 A.W. Davson 1922 2236
175 Andrew Richardson 1992 2238
176 Leonard Lyle 1922 2336
177 Bertie Meyer 1926 2391
178 C.P. Luck 1923 2397
179 Gary Cruth 1964 2430
180 H.A. Carless 1923 2444
181 J.T. Baines 1923 2457
182 Jack Olmsted 1928 2460
183 Maritn Buxby 1940 2494
184 R.D. England 1927 2526
185 Timothy Phillips 1966 2545
186 Y. Das De Karputhala 1925 2554
187 Geoffrey Paish 1946 2556
188 Stanley Matthews 1962 2559
189 Howard Walton 1946 2573
190 Martin Lee 1997 2610
191 Arnold England 1932 2612
192 Jamie Delgado 1997 2613
193 Geoff Ward 1950 2616
194 Edmund David 1936 2621
195 Chris Bailey 1987 2629
196 John Clifton 1967 2632
197 Eric Filby 1935 2640
198 Andrew Jarrett 1977 2649
199 Steve Shaw 1984 2652
200 Anthony Starte 1947 2655
201 Barry Cowan 1994 2656
202 Norman Kitovitz 1947 2657
203 Richard Ritchie 1930 2658
204 Norman Latchford 1923 2659
205 Henry Burrows 1929 2661
206 Colin Ritchie 1931 2670
207 Gwyn Tuckett 1930 2692
208 Peter Hare 1946 2693
209 Ronald Poland 1923 2696
210 Royden Dash 1922 2697
211 Alan Brown 1929 2706
212 Arvind Parmar 1999 2709
213 Henry Weatherall 1932 2714
214 Pat Sherwood 1932 2717
215 Thomas Anderson 1938 2719
216 Clifford Hovell 1938 2728
217 Erik Bulmer 1952 2729
218 Frank Jarvis 1922 2730
219 Irving Wheatcroft 1930 2732
220 Norman Lewis 1946 2736
221 Brian Helmore 1923 2744
222 Clive Bernstein 1948 2746
223 Douglas Snart 1947 2747
224 Victor Cazalet 1922 2752
225 Charles Roupell 1922 2757
226 Philip Glover 1922 2763
227 Roland Carter 1946 2764
228 Arthur Vinall 1929 2771
229 Monty Temple 1922 2791
230 Norman Taylor 1932 2793
231 Stuart Bale 1983 2799
232 Cecil Betts 1932 2803
233 Colin Hannam 1953 2805
234 F. Crosbie 1923 2809
235 Geoff Owen 1955 2810
236 Oswald Jameson 1927 2819
237 Paul Partridge 1931 2821
238 Ronald Reeve 1947 2826
239 Stephen Warboys 1970 2829
240 Chris Bovett 1964 2838
241 Hew Stoker 1922 2839
242 Alfred Ingram 1901 2840
243 Clay Iles 1973 2842
244 Stanley Harris 1929 2847
245 Colin Baxter 1957 2859
246 George Stoddart 1922 2870
247 Leslie Cater 1935 2897
248 Ralph Oliver 1953 2905
249 Oliver Prenn 1956 2932
250 Bill Swinden 1947 2941
251 Lord Cholmondley 1925 2942
252 Alfred Della Porta 1930 2943
253 Bernard Crouch 1950 2947
254 Geoff Bluett 1963 2950
255 Gordon Fitt 1938 2952
256 Jack Moore 1938 2954
257 Lawrence Dundas 1948 2958
258 Roland Morton 1936 2963
259 Stephen Botfield 1986 2966
260 Neville Willford 1923 2972
261 Scotter Owen 1922 2973
262 Alexander Blair 1922 2975
263 Anthony Crossley 1926 2977
264 Arthur Smith 1929 2978
265 Brian Sturgeon 1934 2980
266 Darrell Shaw 1951 2983
267 Douglas Freshwater 1932 2987
268 Eliot Crawshay-Williams 1923 2988
269 Jay Clarke 2016 2998
270 Laurie Proctor 1948 3008
271 Lee Childs 2000 3009
272 Lionel Alderson 1923 3011
273 Maurice Summerson 1925 3014
274 Richard Bloomfield 2002 3019
275 Wilfred Freeman 1931 3026
276 Vincent Burr 1923 3041
277 C.H. Campbell 1926 3057
278 L.F. Davin 1922 3067
279 Roger Worthington 1927 3081
280 Fassett Burnett 1925 3095
281 Dennis Cook 1935 3120
282 Derrick Leyland 1938 3121
283 Douglas Hodges 1926 3128
284 Eric Attewell 1931 3132
285 Finn Rune Karlsen 1946 3134
286 Gerald France 1933 3145
287 Henry Hunter 1924 3149
288 James Cummins 1931 3152
289 John De Mendoza 1971 3160
290 Julian Coni 1961 3166
291 Mark Hilton 2000 3176
292 Martin Hime 1952 3179
293 Maurice Lucking 1937 3181
294 Michael Wayman 1976 3184
295 Richard Turnbull 1935 3200
296 Tim Horn 1922 3213
297 W.D. Stott 1925 3215
298 Colin Higgins 1929 3236
299 J.M. Bell 1923 3261
300 Jack Chamberlain 1929 3262
301 Jack Darkins 1938 3263
302 Jeffrey Michelmore 1947 3268
303 Michael Grant 1980 3283
304 Thomas Burke 1945 3308
305 D.L. Craig 1922 3313
306 Basil Lawrence 1926 3340
307 Buzzer Hadingham 1936 3347
308 Dennis Hughes 1956 3364
309 Desmond Morris 1933 3365
310 Douglas Watson 1923 3367
311 E.B.N. Taylor 1923 3369
312 Edward Flury 1930 3370
313 George Golding 1922 3378
314 George Greville 1926 3379
315 Gordon Mudge 1955 3381
316 H.S. Lewis-Barclay 1930 3386
317 H.S. Milford 1922 3387
318 Harry Matheson 1965 3388
319 Hugh Mackinnon 1932 3397
320 Jack Piercy 1938 3398
321 John Wilkinson 1946 3411
322 Orson Wright 1930 3437
323 P.C. Chase 1922 3439
324 Thomas Bevan 1922 3468
325 W. Legg 1927 3477
326 Walter Michelmore 1932 3478
327 Alastair Gray 2016 3513
328 Arthur Hill 1932 3527
329 Bertram Hammell 1930 3538
330 Chris Eaton 2007 3569
331 Colin Beecher 1993 3576
332 Cyril Eltringham 1922 3580
333 D.B. Jarvis 1934 3582
334 D.R. Fussell 1929 3584
335 David Sherwood 1998 3588
336 E.M.D. Van Der Spar 1933 3607
337 Eric Hollins 1925 3621
338 Francis Stowe 1923 3633
339 George Perkins 1930 3652
340 Harry Marriner 1946 3684
341 Henry Moore 1931 3691
342 I.W. Bobb 1928 3699
343 Leslie Hill 1924 3783
344 Llewellyn Owen 1927 3785
345 M. Fox 1923 3791
346 Marcus Willis 2007 3801
347 Mark Holland 1966 3806
348 Michael Hann 1961 3814
349 Michael Woolven 1960 3816
350 Paul Martin 1924 3848
351 Peter Breed 1964 3854
352 Peter Witt 1936 3860
353 Phillip Glover 1925 3867
354 Reginald Bessemer-Clark 1938 3882
355 Robert Higgin 1938 3894
356 Roger Ambrose 1960 3905
357 Ryan Peniston 2018 3912
358 Tommy Anderson 1954 3945
359 Victor Penman 1923 3950
360 W.E.N. Kelly 1925 3954
361 Wallis Myers 1926 3957
362 James Reddall 1930 3983
363 Jamie Baker 2006 3984
364 Anthony Clayton 1955 3989
365 Jack Harrison 1935 3992
366 Joshua Goodall 2005 3994
367 Alan Mackin 1997 4000
368 F.P. Wallis 1946 4003
369 James Tattersall 1957 4005
370 Mark Hick 1922 4016
371 Neville Deed 1922 4018
372 Bob Lee 1952 4022
373 Charles Fawcus 1937 4024
374 Dick Guise 1947 4028
375 Eddie Ford 1949 4029
376 John Shales 1929 4042
377 Roy Dixon 1959 4054
378 Roy Mansell 1947 4055
379 Douglas Powell 1925 4073
380 G.R. Ashton 1925 4075
381 Ulysses Williams 1922 4077
382 Andre Kalman 1949 4081
383 Charles Applewhaite 1965 4091
384 David Mockridge 1947 4097
385 E.G. Bisseker 1922 4101
386 Geoff Cass 1954 4106
387 Geoffrey De St. Croix 1930 4107
388 Harold Hare 1936 4115
389 James Hunt 1935 4121
390 Jonathan Marray 2000 4131
391 Leslie Newman 1935 4135
392 Malcolm Young 1932 4138
393 Peter Moys 1954 4149
394 Peter Wooller 1954 4151
395 Ralph Wackett 1927 4154
396 Wilfred Smith 1931 4168
397 E.N.W. Oliver 1925 4184
398 P.R.R. Hurditch 1925 4188
399 Alexander Ward 2008 4196
400 Brian Royds 1947 4216
401 C.S. Grace 1922 4217
402 Chris Bradnam 1978 4225
403 Conor Niland 2011 4231
404 Daniel Cox 2011 4236
405 David Felgate 1988 4237
406 David Gunson 1957 4238
407 Derek Collins 1956 4242
408 Edward Beards 1968 4251
409 Edward Buzzard 1931 4252
410 George Gibbs 1933 4275
411 Gerald Millard 1923 4279
412 Herbert Whitney 1937 4290
413 Humphrey Truman 1968 4292
414 J.E. Pogson-Smith 1926 4298
415 James Turner 1989 4303
416 Jason Goodall 1985 4304
417 Jeffrey Robinson 1955 4305
418 John Collins 1937 4309
419 John Crump 1964 4310
420 John Drinkall 1946 4311
421 John Legg 1923 4312
422 Lord Maxborough 1954 4330
423 Max Callendar 1931 4338
424 Nick Gould 1994 4347
425 Paul Jubb 2019 4353
426 Peter Graves 1932 4358
427 R.D.N. Pryce-Jones 1926 4365
428 Ross Matheson 1992 4382
429 Sydney Watts 1922 4398
430 Tony Clark 1946 4405
431 Trevor Adamson 1959 4407
432 Wilbur Jenkins 1958 4412
433 A.H. McCormick 1923 4430
434 A.K. Evans 1924 4432
435 A.W. Asthalter 1922 4433
436 Afzat Hyat 1932 4437
437 Alistair Dewar-Brown 1938 4455
438 Anthony Buzzard 1927 4472
439 Basil Bucknell 1954 4493
440 Bill Hough 1951 4509
441 Bob Dabbs 1958 4515
442 Brian Burnett 1946 4518
443 C.J. Brierley 1923 4538
444 Charles Dobbs 1948 4552
445 Claude Metcalf 1930 4564
446 Colin McHugo 1973 4571
447 Cyril Banks 1927 4575
448 D. Rivkind 1953 4579
449 D.H. Balfour 1929 4580
450 Daniel Smethurst 2011 4589
451 Derek Bocquet 1946 4609
452 Derek Hardwick 1946 4610
453 Derrick Lester 1956 4613
454 Dickie Dillon 1959 4615
455 E.C. Penny 1927 4632
456 Edward Dearman 1927 4644
457 Edward Hansom 1937 4646
458 Edwin Barlow 1937 4649
459 Eric Portlock 1923 4657
460 Errol Whitehouse 1931 4663
461 F. Rattigan 1922 4669
462 F.R. Price 1929 4672
463 F.R. Scovell 1923 4673
464 G.A. Pratt 1927 4704
465 G.B. Leyton 1949 4706
466 G.H. Todd 1924 4708
467 G.M. Elliott 1922 4710
468 G.M. Thomas 1925 4711
469 G.W. Grounsell 1923 4713
470 Gary Henderson 1995 4714
471 Geoffrey Emmett 1947 4721
472 George Fletcher 1924 4726
473 Graham Daniels 1956 4744
474 Guy Pettigrew 1950 4755
475 H.A. Lake 1925 4762
476 H.F.C. Horne 1937 4763
477 H.O. Dixon 1922 4764
478 H.P. Greenwood 1922 4765
479 Harold Marsland 1946 4775
480 Harold Rothwell 1937 4777
481 Ian Bailey 1933 4809
482 J.A. Dean 1923 4821
483 J.C.F. Simpson 1926 4823
484 J.D.F. Fisher 1927 4824
485 J.F. Philpotts 1923 4826
486 J.G. Hogan 1925 4828
487 Jack W. Olmsted 1926 4839
488 John Archer 1947 4884
489 John Griffith 1947 4889
490 John Hirsch 1952 4890
491 John Leader 1932 4894
492 John Rutherglen 1950 4903
493 Keith Lavarack 1938 4940
494 Ken Weatherley 1972 4944
495 Leighton Alfred 1985 4967
496 Lewis Mitchell 1924 4976
497 Llewellyn Williams 1930 4982
498 Malcolm Booth 1960 5000
499 Martin Wedd 1932 5021
500 Michael Clarke 1948 5034
501 Michael Sangster 1956 5040
502 Michael Walker 1986 5041
503 Michael Walters 1964 5042
504 Mike Collins 1973 5052
505 Mirek Kizlink 1949 5058
506 N. Field 1923 5059
507 N.C. Abrams 1924 5060
508 Nick Weal 1997 5067
509 Nigel Jones 1928 5070
510 O.G. Miller 1922 5079
511 Oliver Golding 2011 5082
512 P. Marsden 1923 5085
513 P.D. Eeman 1938 5087
514 Percy Pinckney 1922 5111
515 Phil Siviter 1973 5121
516 Philip Wooldridge 1954 5124
517 R.C. Smith 1946 5134
518 R.F. Scovell 1923 5135
519 Ralph White 1956 5144
520 Raymond Fontes 1937 5148
521 Reg Kaley 1950 5149
522 Richard Mellersh 1960 5159
523 Richard Pickersgill 1928 5160
524 Richard Powell 1925 5161
525 Richard Whichello 1988 5164
526 Richard Williams 1934 5165
527 Robert Hull 1958 5181
528 Robert Nicoll 1946 5184
529 Robert Stone 1924 5190
530 Rohun Beven 1979 5202
531 Royden Wilkinson 1923 5208
532 S. Simons 1923 5215
533 S.C. Cargill 1925 5217
534 S.F. Thol 1922 5218
535 Sean Cole 1993 5232
536 St. John Evers 1924 5241
537 Stanley Stewart 1936 5244
538 T. Moss 1923 5254
539 T.A. Digby 1924 5255
540 Tadeusz Slawek 1951 5256
541 Tim Miles 1948 5267
542 Tom Spinks 1999 5273
543 Tony Lloyd 1977 5275
544 Turner Cole 1925 5278
545 V. Rudolf 1924 5282
546 W. Davidson 1938 5290
547 W.D.K. Thellusson 1924 5293
548 W.G. Curtis-Morgan 1930 5294
549 W.L. Hollick 1922 5296
550 Warwick Shute 1947 5301
551 William Earle 1937 5309

 


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