List of career achievements by Rafael Nadal

This article lists various career, tournament, and seasonal achievements by the Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal.

Contents

• All time tournament records
• Grand Slam tournament records
• Records at each Grand Slam Tournament
• ATP Masters 1000 records
• Records at each ATP 500 Series Masters 1000 tournaments
• Other significant Records
• Miscellaneous records
• Winning streaks
• References

Rafael Nadal has won 14 Grand Slam titles which ranks him second on the all-time list tied with Pete Sampras second to Roger Federer’s record of 18 majors. Nadal has also won 28 Masters 1000 titles, also second but to Novak Djokovic's record of 30 Masters 1000 titles.

Rafael Nadal is widely viewed as one of the greatest tennis players of all time and is viewed by some sports analysts, tennis writers, fans and media pundits as the greatest tennis player of the Open Era. Nadal has appeared in 21 Grand Slam finals which is second to Federer’s record of 28 finals and tied with Novak Djokovic. He has appeared in at least three finals per major and has won multiple majors on hard courts, clay and grass. Nadal has won the Career Grand Slam and is the youngest player to achieve this feat having won all four majors by the age of 24. Known as the “King of Clay”, from 2005 to 2014, Nadal won the French Open 9 times in his first 10 attempts (90% win rate), with a match record of 66-1 (98.5% win rate), is viewed by many analysts as one of the greatest feats in the Open Era. Nadal won the French Open on his first attempt as a 19-year-old in 2005 and went on to make three consecutive title defences from 2005 to 2008; he defeated Roger Federer in three consecutive finals from 2006 to 2008 (he also defeated Federer in the 2005 semi-finals) and again in 2011 (Nadal is the only player to defeat Federer in four finals at the same major. Rafa is also the only player to beat Federer in the finals of 3 different grand slams, Roland Garros, Australian Open, and Wimbledon). His sole loss during this period came to Robin Söderling in 2009 in the round of 16. Nadal then went on to win the French Open in 2010 and another four consecutive title defences from 2010 to 2014 (an Open Era record). He holds a match record of 72–2 in best-of-five matches (never actually taken to five sets in the final) from 2005 to 2016 achieving a win percentage of 97.3%, and is the only player to achieve this type of dominance at any single Grand Slam tournament. Nadal won the French Open an all-time record of 9 times and is the first and only male player to win 9 grand slams at a single major in the Open era (no other player has won more than 7 titles at a single major). Nadal is also undefeated in French Open finals holding a perfect 9–0 record when reaching the finals.

Nadal has won 28 masters 1000 titles of which are 20 Masters 1000 titles on clay and an all-time record 9 Grand Slam titles on clay as well as 49 titles overall on clay. He won at least one Masters 1000 title every year for ten years from 2005 to 2014 and is the only player to achieve this type of consistency in the Open Era. He owns the longest single surface win streak on any single surface having won 81 consecutive matches on clay courts from 2005 to 2007. Nadal also won a record of 8 consecutive Monte Carlo Masters 1000 titles from 2005 to 2012, and a record nine titles including his 2016 win. Nadal has also won an Open era record 7 titles in Rome and 9 titles at the Barcelona Open, an ATP500 event. Nadal is the only player to have won all three clay court Masters 1000 events in the same calendar year along with the French Open in 2010 thus giving him the "Clay Slam".

Nadal won at least one Grand Slam tournament for 10 years (2005 – 2014) having broken the previous men's record of 8. Nadal has achieved a record 9 titles at three different tournaments: French Open (9), Monte Carlo (9), and Barcelona (9). He has accrued 27 titles from these three clay court tournaments alone. No other player in the Open Era has won more than 8 titles at any one tournament with Federer winning 8 titles in Halle and Vilas also winning 8 titles in Buendia Aires.

Nadal’s success does not hold strictly to the clay courts. He has achieved considerable success on hard courts and grass courts obtaining multiple Grand Slams outside of the French Open having won 1 Australian Open (hard), 2 Wimbledon (grass), and 2 US Open (hard) titles. Furthermore, Nadal is the second Spaniard to win Wimbledon, and in 2008 he became only the third player in the Open Era, after Rod Laver in 1969 & Bjorn Biorg in 1980, to win the French Open and Wimbledon crowns in the same year, also known as the "Channel Slam" which he would repeat again in 2010 (Federer would join the club in 2009). § Nadal is the first Spaniard to win the Australian Open and the first male player in the Open Era to simultaneously hold Grand Slams on clay, grass and hard courts which he has achieved twice. Nadal won the Olympic gold medal in singles in Beijing (2008) on hard courts (defeating Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals), the Olympic gold medal in men's doubles in Rio De Janeiro (2016), and has won 8 Masters 1000 titles [spread out over four different tournaments. He won 3 Indian Wells, 3 Canada, 1 Cincinnati, 1 Madrid] on hard courts. Nadal dominated the North American hard court season in 2013, having won the Canadian Open and Cincinnati Masters as well as the US Open, thus joining Patrick Rafter (1998) and Andy Roddick (2003) in completing the "Summer Slam". Additionally, earlier in the year, Nadal also won his third Indian Wells title, also played on hard courts. He would finish 2013 with a 36-4 record on hard courts, and coupled with his 39-2 record on clay courts, he became the first player in the Open Era to win 35 or more matches on both hard courts and clay courts.