Tennis/Catalogs/World No. 1 male players

This is a supplement to the articles about Tennis and Famous tennis players, and to the articles about the individual players.

Under construction: this will be a chronological list of all male players who have ever been considered to be the World No. 1 player or Co-No. 1 for an entire year. There were no official rankings of players worldwide until approximately 1972, so all of these rankings are both unofficial and entirely subjective. For each year, however, at least one, and sometimes more, authoritative source for that ranking is given:

(A = Amateur, P = Professional)

The No. 1 player in the world for the full calendar year:

Year	Name	World No. 2	Source of Ranking
1913	Tony Wilding (NZ) A.	Norman Brookes (AUS) A. and Maurice McLoughlin (USA) A.	A. Wallis Myers of the London Daily Telegraph; his top 10 players, all amateur, were Wilding, Brookes and McLoughlin tied for 2nd, Jim Cecil Parke, R. Norris Williams, Percy Dixon, Otto Froitzheim, Stanley Doust, André Gobert, and Max Décugis.
1914	Maurice McLoughlin (USA) A.	Norman Brookes (AUS) A. and Tony Wilding (NZ) A.	A. Wallis Myers of the London Daily Telegraph; his top 10 players, all amateur, were McLoughlin, Brookes and Wilding tied for 2nd, Froitzheim, Williams, Parke, Arthur Lowe, F. Gordon Lowe, Heinrich Kleinschroth, and Décugis.
	1915-1918	World War I, no world rankings
1919	Gerald Patterson(AUS) A. and Little Bill Johnston (USA) A.		A. Wallis Myers of the London The Daily Telegraph; his top 10 players, all amateurs, were Patterson and Johnston tied for 1st, Gobert, Bill Tilden, Brookes, Algernon Kingscote, Williams, Percival Davson, Willis Davis, and William Laurentz.
1920	Big Bill Tilden (USA) A.	Little Bill Johnston (USA) A.	A. Wallis Myers of the London The Daily Telegraph; his top 10 players, all amateurs, were Tilden, Johnston, Kingscote, Parke, Gobert, Brookes, Williams, Laurentz, Zenzo Shimidzu, and Patterson.
1921	Big Bill Tilden (USA) A.	Little Bill Johnston (USA) A.	A. Wallis Myers of the London The Daily Telegraph; his top 10 players, all amateurs, were Tilden, Johnston, Vinnie Richards, Shimidzu, Patterson, James Anderson, Brian Norton, Manual Alonso, Williams, and Gobert.
1925	Big Bill Tilden (USA) A.	Little Bill Johnston (USA) A.	A. Wallis Myers of the London Daily Telegraph; his top 10 players, all amateur, were Tilden, Johnston, Richards, Lacoste, Williams, Borotra, Patterson, Alonso, Norton, and Takeichi Harada.

References

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Sources

• The Official Encyclopedia of Tennis of the United States Tennis Association, edited by Bill Shannon, Harper & Row, New York, 1981, has annual rankings for the top 10 amateur players as compiled every year from 1914 through 1980, pages 496-501. These rankings were made annually by various tennis experts at a London newspaper, The Daily Telegraph: A. Wallis Myers (1913-1938), Sir F. Gordon Lowe (1939), Pierre Gillow (1946 and 1951), John Dliff (1947-1950), and Lance Tingay (1952-1980). Beginning with the late 1920s, first many, then most, of the best players in the world were professionals; once turning professional, as Bill Tilden did in 1931, they were not longer included in these annual lists.

See also

• Famous tennis players

External links

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