#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
7	Rod Laver	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1956–1979	93.1
9	Margaret Court	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1960–1977	92.5
20	Ken Rosewall	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1951–1980	88.7
32	John Newcombe	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1960–1981	87.2
33	John Bromwich	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1937–1954	86.8
34	Adrian Quist	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1933–1950	86.8
36	Roy Emerson	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1953–1983	86.7
40	Lleyton Hewitt	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1998–2020	85.9
44	Ken McGregor	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1946–1956	85.8
52	Mervyn Rose	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1949–1959	85.3
63	Frank Sedgman	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1946–1962	84.5
67	Gerald Patterson	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1914–1932	84.2
87	Evonne Goolagong Cawley	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1968–1983	83.1
102	Pat Rafter	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1991–2001	82.5
103	Lew Hoad	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1951–1968	82.5
118	Horace Rice	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1895–1930	82.1
119	Norman Brookes	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1905–1924	82.1
124	Pat O'Hara Wood	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1912–1926	81.9
135	Mal Anderson	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1952–1972	81.3
149	Tony Roche	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1963–1979	80.7
153	Pat Cash	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1982–1997	80.6
163	Vivian McGrath	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1932–1948	80.2
164	Dinny Pails	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1938–1957	80.2
166	John Hawkes	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1921–1932	80.1
177	Fred Stolle	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1960–1976	79.4
180	Bill Bowrey	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1962–1975	79.3
181	Neale Fraser	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1954–1963	79.2
187	Daria Kasatkina	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	2014–—	79
199	Edgar Moon	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1925–1936	78.4
205	Ashley Cooper	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1953–1959	78.1
211	Patrick Rafter	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1991–2002	77.4
217	Rodney Heath	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1905–1919	77.2
221	Ashleigh Barty	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	2010–2022	76.7
230	Geoff Hughes	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1922–1932	75.9
232	Mark Edmondson	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1974–1988	75.8
237	Ernie Parker	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1908–1916	75.3
241	Arthur O'Hara Wood	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1912–1918	74.9

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