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Smith vs Murray

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SmithWinner
81.5

Smith wins: Longevity

Murray
81.5

Murray wins: Dominance, Peak, Honours, Statistics

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Time range

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇺🇸 Stan Smith
81.5

Smith leads in 1 of 5 weighted categories. US Open and Wimbledon champion who anchored seven Davis Cup wins.

1. Stan Smith
81.5
2. Robert Lindley Murray
81.5

Category breakdown

Season form · Titles per season

Career timeline · Titles per season

Cumulative output season by season — the shape of each career against the other.

GOAT pace tracker

Career stage · GOAT pace

Through season 5 · Titles per season
1. 🇺🇸 Robert Lindley Murray5 seasons played · career day 1,825378 titles
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇺🇸 Stan Smith5 seasons played · career day 1,826358 titles
-5.3% vs Murray at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇺🇸 Smith0048108263688
🇺🇸 Murray0055120378494

Careers are aligned at debut, so a rookie's first 5 seasons are measured against the same window in a legend's career — Yamal against Messi at the same age-stage, a tour rookie against Tiger Woods in 1996.

MetricSmithRetiredMurrayRetired
Major singles titles2
Major doubles titles5
Davis Cup titles7
Career singles titles39
Year-end world number one1
US singles titles2
US finals2
Seasons played7
World number one rankings1
Consecutive titles2
Dominance w25%7882
Peak w20%9092
Longevity w20%7866
Honours w20%8284
Statistics w15%8084

Fan vote — data vs the people

GOAT Rank · the data
Smith81.5
Murray81.5
The people
Smith
Murray

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