Ivan Lendl

Born: March 07, 1960

Hometown: Ostrava, Czech Republic

Citizenship: United States

Handed: Right

Inducted: 2001

Grand Slam Record

Australian Open Singles winner 1989, 1990
  Singles finalist 1983, 1991
 
 French Open Singles winner 1984, 1986, 1987
   Singles finalist 1981, 1985
 
 US Open Singles winner 1985,1986, 1987
   Singles finalist 1982, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1989
 
 Wimbledon Singles finalist 1986, 1987

Career Results

Career Record 94 Singles Titles and 52 Finals
 
   6 Doubles Titles and 10 Finals
 
  Garnered the second-longest match-winning streak in the Open Era, 44 set between October 1981 and February 1982.
Had a 66 match winning streak indoors between October 1981 and January 1983.
Shares Grand Prix record with Jimmy Connors (1974) and Guillermo Vilas (1977) for most tournaments won (15) in a single year: 1982.
Won 94 Singles Championships; this record is second only to Jimmy Connors' 109 singles titles.
The only player in the Open Era to win three tournaments in successive weeks on three different surfaces
 
  Special Honors and Awards Received:
 ATP Player of the Year 1985, 1986, 1987
 
 
 ATP Most Improved Player 1981
 

 

Highest Ranking

 Ranking History First Highest Singles     No. 1 on February 8, 1983     Highest Doubles No. 20 on May 12, 1986
157 straight weeks at No. 1 in singles (1985-1988), 3 short of Jimmy Connors' Open Era record. Finished four years (1985, 1986, 1987, 1989) as No. 1 in the world.
 

Born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia in 1960, Ivan Lendl became an American citizen in 1992. He was ranked No. 1 in the world for 270 weeks, including 157 straight from September 9, 1985 through September 12, 1988, just three weeks short of Jimmy Connors' all-time record. Lendl is the holder of 94 career singles titles, including his 1980 feat, winning three tournaments in successive weeks on three different surfaces.

Lendl captured 8 career singles titles in Grand Slam events and reached an astounding 19 Slam singles finals. He relied on strength and heavy topspin from the baseline to reach 8 consecutive US Open finals (1982-89), winning three, 1985, '86, '87. Lendl also won twice at the Australian Open, 1989 and 1990, and three times at the French Open, 1984, 1986, and 1987. Arguably his most memorable victory occurred in the 1984 French Open Final. Down two sets to love, and trailing 4-2 in the fourth, Lendl won the title over John McEnroe in an epic battle.

During the 1980's, Lendl was one of the game's most dominant players. In 1982, he won 15 of 23 singles tournaments entered, compiling a record of 107-9, which included a 44-match streak. In 1985 Lendl captured 11 singles crowns in 17 tournament appearances, and in 1989 Lendl won 10 titles out of 17. He finished 4 years (1985, '86, '87, '89) as the top ranked player in the world. He was named the Most Improved Player on the men's tour in 1981 and its Player of the Year in 1985, '86, and '87.

Lendl was the driving force for the Czechoslovakian Davis Cup team, compiling a 7-0 record in singles and 3-0 in doubles, leading Czechoslovakia to its lone Davis Cup triumph in 1980.

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