Category profile
- Dominance
- 90
- Peak
- 94
- Longevity
- 78
- Honours
- 92
- Statistics
- 86
Career timeline · Titles per season
| Season | Titles per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 45 | |
| 1930 | 54 | |
| 1931 | 62 | |
| 1932 | 71 | |
| 1933 | 80 | |
| 1934 | 88 | |
| 1935 | 97 | |
| 1936 | 94 | |
| 1937 | 91 | |
| 1938 | 87 | |
| 1939 | 84 | |
| 1940 | 81 | |
| 1941 | 78 | |
| 1942 | 75 | |
| 1943 | 71 | |
| 1944 | 68 | |
| 1945 | 65 | |
| 1946 | 62 | |
| 1947 | 59 | |
| 1948 | 56 | |
| 1949 | 52 | |
| 1950 | 49 | |
| 1951 | 46 | |
| 1952 | 43 | |
| 1953 | 40 | |
| 1954 | 36 | |
| 1955 | 33 | |
| 1956 | 30 |
Data sources
- International Tennis Hall of Fame
- ATP Tour records
- Wimbledon / Roland-Garros / US Open / Australian Open archives
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Fred Perry ranks #26 in Tennis
Fred Perry ranks 26th among Tennis athletes on GOAT Rank and 908th of 4013 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 88.2 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 90, Peak 94, Longevity 78, Honours 92, Statistics 86. Those categories are normalised against the full Tennis reference universe of 250 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 1929–1956 with 28 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1935, which sets the Peak component at 94. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 94 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes major singles titles 8, wimbledon titles 3, us championships titles 3, davis cup titles 4.
Immediately ahead sits Doris Hart on 88.4, a gap of 0.2 points. Directly behind is Andre Agassi on 88.1. The position moves whenever the verified record moves: new titles, new seasons or a corrected source all feed straight back into the same formula, and every change is dated on this profile.
Fred Perry GOAT Score explained
- Dominance90/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Perry stood above the field while competing. Scored 90/100 against the full Tennis cohort.
- Peak94/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1935. Scored 94/100.
- Longevity78/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 27 years of competition and 28 recorded seasons. Scored 78/100.
- Honours92/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 92/100.
- Statistics86/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 86/100.
Top Perry comparisons
Fred Perry — frequently asked
- Is Fred Perry the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Fred Perry ranks 26th in Tennis with a GOAT Score of 88.2, behind Novak Djokovic on 97.6.
- What is Fred Perry's GOAT Score?
- 88.2 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 90 (25%), Peak 94 (20%), Longevity 78 (20%), Honours 92 (20%), Statistics 86 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Fred Perry rank all time?
- 908th of 4013 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 26th within Tennis.
- Fred Perry vs Doris Hart: who ranks higher?
- Doris Hart, on 88.4 against Fred Perry's 88.2 — a margin of 0.2 points.