Category profile
- Dominance
- 88
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 88
- Honours
- 86
- Statistics
- 91
Career timeline · Titles per season
| Season | Titles per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 7 | |
| 1981 | 10 | |
| 1982 | 15 | |
| 1983 | 11 | |
| 1984 | 7 | |
| 1985 | 11 | |
| 1986 | 9 | |
| 1987 | 8 | |
| 1988 | 4 | |
| 1989 | 10 | |
| 1990 | 5 | |
| 1991 | 3 | |
| 1992 | 2 | |
| 1993 | 1 | |
| 1994 | 0 |
Data sources
- ATP
- ITF
- Olympedia
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Ivan Lendl ranks #17 in Tennis
Ivan Lendl ranks 17th among Tennis athletes on GOAT Rank and 193rd of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 88.5 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 88, Peak 90, Longevity 88, Honours 86, Statistics 91. 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 1978–1994 with 15 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1982, which sets the Peak component at 90. Statistics is the defining strength of the profile at 91 out of 100, and it carries 15% of the final score. The underlying career record includes grand slam titles 8, grand slam finals 19, career titles 94, weeks at no. 1 270.
Immediately ahead sits Helen Wills Moody on 90.5, a gap of 2.0 points. Directly behind is Venus Williams on 86.7. 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.
Ivan Lendl GOAT Score explained
- Dominance88/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Lendl stood above the field while competing. Scored 88/100 against the full Tennis cohort.
- Peak90/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1982. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity88/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 16 years of competition and 15 recorded seasons. Scored 88/100.
- Honours86/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 86/100.
- Statistics91/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 91/100.
Top Lendl comparisons
Ivan Lendl — frequently asked
- Is Ivan Lendl the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Ivan Lendl ranks 17th in Tennis with a GOAT Score of 88.5, behind Novak Djokovic on 97.6.
- What is Ivan Lendl's GOAT Score?
- 88.5 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 88 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 88 (20%), Honours 86 (20%), Statistics 91 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Ivan Lendl rank all time?
- 193rd of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 17th within Tennis.
- Ivan Lendl vs Helen Wills Moody: who ranks higher?
- Helen Wills Moody, on 90.5 against Ivan Lendl's 88.5 — a margin of 2.0 points.