Category profile
- Dominance
- 80
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 90
- Honours
- 88
- Statistics
- 86
Career timeline · Titles per season
| Season | Titles per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 1 | |
| 1951 | 2 | |
| 1952 | 3 | |
| 1953 | 4 | |
| 1954 | 5 | |
| 1955 | 3 | |
| 1956 | 2 | |
| 1957 | 2 | |
| 1958 | 1 | |
| 1959 | 1 |
Data sources
- ATP
- WTA
- ITF
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Vic Seixas ranks #27 in Tennis
Vic Seixas ranks 27th among Tennis athletes on GOAT Rank and 715th of 2289 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 86.5 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 80, Peak 90, Longevity 90, Honours 88, Statistics 86. Those categories are normalised against the full Tennis reference universe of 251 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 1940–1969 with 10 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1954, which sets the Peak component at 90. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 90 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes grand slam singles titles 2, grand slam doubles titles 5, grand slam mixed titles 8, davis cup titles 1.
Immediately ahead sits Roy Emerson on 86.7, a gap of 0.2 points. Directly behind is Sara Errani on 85.9. 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.
Vic Seixas GOAT Score explained
- Dominance80/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Seixas stood above the field while competing. Scored 80/100 against the full Tennis cohort.
- Peak90/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1954. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity90/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 29 years of competition and 10 recorded seasons. Scored 90/100.
- Honours88/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 88/100.
- Statistics86/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 86/100.
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Vic Seixas — frequently asked
- Is Vic Seixas the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Vic Seixas ranks 27th in Tennis with a GOAT Score of 86.5, behind Novak Djokovic on 97.6.
- What is Vic Seixas's GOAT Score?
- 86.5 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 80 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 90 (20%), Honours 88 (20%), Statistics 86 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Vic Seixas rank all time?
- 715th of 2289 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 27th within Tennis.
- Vic Seixas vs Roy Emerson: who ranks higher?
- Roy Emerson, on 86.7 against Vic Seixas's 86.5 — a margin of 0.2 points.