Category profile
- Dominance
- 84
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 82
- Honours
- 84
- Statistics
- 80
Career timeline · Titles per season
| Season | Titles per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 40 | |
| 1892 | 44 | |
| 1893 | 47 | |
| 1894 | 51 | |
| 1895 | 55 | |
| 1896 | 58 | |
| 1897 | 62 | |
| 1898 | 66 | |
| 1899 | 69 | |
| 1900 | 73 | |
| 1901 | 77 | |
| 1902 | 80 | |
| 1903 | 84 | |
| 1904 | 88 | |
| 1905 | 91 | |
| 1906 | 95 | |
| 1907 | 86 | |
| 1908 | 77 | |
| 1909 | 68 | |
| 1910 | 59 | |
| 1911 | 50 |
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 William Larned ranks #68 in Tennis
William Larned ranks 68th among Tennis athletes on GOAT Rank and 1584th of 4013 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 84.2 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 84, Peak 90, Longevity 82, Honours 84, Statistics 80. 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 1891–1911 with 21 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1906, 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 us championships titles 7, consecutive us titles 5, us finals 8, davis cup titles 5.
Immediately ahead sits Gerald Patterson on 84.2, a gap of 0.0 points. Directly behind is Holcombe Ward on 84.2. 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.
William Larned GOAT Score explained
- Dominance84/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Larned stood above the field while competing. Scored 84/100 against the full Tennis cohort.
- Peak90/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1906. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity82/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 20 years of competition and 21 recorded seasons. Scored 82/100.
- Honours84/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 84/100.
- Statistics80/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 80/100.
Top Larned comparisons
William Larned — frequently asked
- Is William Larned the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. William Larned ranks 68th in Tennis with a GOAT Score of 84.2, behind Novak Djokovic on 97.6.
- What is William Larned's GOAT Score?
- 84.2 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 84 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 82 (20%), Honours 84 (20%), Statistics 80 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does William Larned rank all time?
- 1584th of 4013 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 68th within Tennis.
- William Larned vs Gerald Patterson: who ranks higher?
- William Larned, on 84.2 against Gerald Patterson's 84.2 — a margin of 0.0 points.