#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
7	Rod Laver	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1956–1979	93.1
9	Margaret Court	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1960–1977	92.5
10	Bill Tilden	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1912–1946	91.8
11	Chris Evert	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1972–1989	91.5
12	Pete Sampras	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1988–2002	91
13	Björn Borg	Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1972–1983	90.9
17	Billie Jean King	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1959–1983	89.8
20	Ken Rosewall	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1951–1980	88.7
22	Ivan Lendl	Tennis	🇨🇿 Czechia	1978–1994	88.5
23	Jimmy Connors	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1972–1996	88.5
26	Fred Perry	Tennis	🇬🇧 Great Britain	1929–1956	88.2
27	Andre Agassi	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1986–2006	88.1
31	John McEnroe	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1976–1994	87.3
32	John Newcombe	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1960–1981	87.2
35	Venus Williams	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1994–2024	86.7
36	Roy Emerson	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1953–1983	86.7
40	Lleyton Hewitt	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1998–2020	85.9
49	Andy Murray	Tennis	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	2005–2024	85.4
56	Monica Seles	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1988–2003	84.7
59	René Lacoste	Tennis	🇫🇷 France	1922–1932	84.6
63	Frank Sedgman	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1946–1962	84.5
68	William Larned	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1891–1911	84.2
74	Iga Świątek	Tennis	🇵🇱 Poland	2016–—	83.8
75	Martina Hingis	Tennis	🇨🇭 Switzerland	1994–2017	83.8
78	Jim Courier	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1988–2000	83.6
79	Stefan Edberg	Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1983–1996	83.4
83	Justine Henin	Tennis	🇧🇪 Belgium	1999–2011	83.3
84	Boris Becker	Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	1984–1999	83.2
86	Carlos Alcaraz	Tennis	🇪🇸 Spain	2018–—	83.1
87	Evonne Goolagong Cawley	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1968–1983	83.1
88	Thomas Muster	Tennis	🇦🇹 Austria	1985–1999	83.1
90	Jannik Sinner	Tennis	🇮🇹 Italy	2018–—	83
92	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Tennis	🇷🇺 Russia	1992–2003	83
94	Jack Kramer	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1940–1954	82.9
99	Guillermo Vilas	Tennis	🇦🇷 Argentina	1969–1992	82.7
100	Thomas Enqvist	Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1991–2005	82.7
101	Jaroslav Drobný	Tennis	🇨🇿 Czechia	1938–1965	82.7
103	Lew Hoad	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1951–1968	82.5
106	Mats Wilander	Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1980–1996	82.4
107	Maureen Connolly	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1949–1954	82.4
110	William Renshaw	Tennis	🇬🇧 Great Britain	1880–1889	82.4
113	Maria Sharapova	Tennis	🇷🇺 Russia	2001–2020	82.2
115	Anthony Wilding	Tennis	🇳🇿 New Zealand	1906–1914	82.2
116	Goran Ivanišević	Tennis	🇭🇷 Croatia	1988–2004	82.2
117	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	Tennis	🇷🇺 Russia	2006–—	82.1
118	Horace Rice	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1895–1930	82.1
119	Norman Brookes	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1905–1924	82.1
120	Tony Trabert	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1950–1963	82.1
124	Pat O'Hara Wood	Tennis	🇦🇺 Australia	1912–1926	81.9
126	Ellsworth Vines	Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	1930–1940	81.7

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