Top five active tennis players to win most ATP Masters 1000 titles

Published at :April 2, 2024 at 5:19 PM

Modified at :April 2, 2024 at 5:19 PM

Daniil Medvedev won the Miami Open 2023 to enter the list.

Daniil Medvedev clinched his fifth ATP Masters 1000 title after beating Jannik Sinner in straight sets to win the Miami Open 2023 on April 2 (Sunday). The 7-5, 6-3 victory at the Hard Rock Stadiums was the Russian’s first-ever Miami Masters title. It also makes him only the 16th tennis player to win five or more ATP Masters 1000 titles and only the fifth active player to get to that number.

The ATP Masters 1000 is an annual series of nine tennis tournaments featuring the top-ranked players on the ATP Tour since its inception in 1990. It offers 1000 ranking points and is the second most prestigious event (after the Olympic Games and the Grand Slam) in terms of ranking points. Novak Djokovic currently holds the record for winning the most number of ATP Masters titles (38) and is closely followed by clay king Rafael Nadal (36).

In this article let us discuss the active players with the most ATP Masters 1000 titles.

5. Carlos Alcaraz (5)

20 year old Mexican prodigy Carlos Alcaraz has won five ATP Masters 1000 titles and is currently ranked fifth in the list of active players to have won the most Masters titles, along Alexander Zverev. Carlos is the current world No. 3, and has won thirteen ATP Tour-level singles titles, including two major titles (at the 2022 US Open and 2023 Wimbledon Championships) and five Masters 1000 titles.

Following his win at the 2022 US Open, Alcaraz became the youngest man and the first teenager in the Open Era to top the singles rankings, at 19 years, 4 months, and 6 days old.

Tournaments – Miami Open, Madrid Open (2), Indian Wells Open (2)

5. Alexander Zverev (5)

The 25-year-old German has won five ATP Masters 1000 titles and is currently ranked joint fifth in the list of active players to have won the most Masters titles. Zverev is a former junior world number one and won a junior major singles title at the 2014 Australian Open. He had an early breakthrough on the professional tour as well, becoming one of the youngest Challenger Tour title winners in history at the age of 17.

Zverev won his first ATP Masters 1000 title at the 2017 Italian Open defeating Novak Djokovic in straight sets. The German has made ten ATP Masters 1000 final appearances winning and losing five each. He won his last title at the 2021 Cincinnati Open defeating Andrey Rublev. Zverev last made it to the final at the 2022 Madrid Open but lost to upcoming star Carloz Alacarez.

Tournaments – Italian Open, Canadian Open, Madrid Open (2), and Cincinnati Masters.

4. Daniil Medvedev (6)

Daniil Medvedev won his first ATP 1000 Masters at the 2019 Cincinnati Masters defeating David Goffin in straight sets. He made it to the finals of three ATP Masters tournaments in 2019 (won two and lost one). The Russian international recently won the ATP Masters 1000 Miami Open and Italian Open titles by defeating Italian Jannik Sinner in straight sets and thus made it to the top five active players list.

Tournaments – Cincinnati Masters, Shanghai Masters, Paris Masters, Canadian Open, Miami Open, Italian Open

3. Andy Murray (14)

Andy Murray won his first Masters title at the Cincinnati Open in 2008 and followed it up by winning the Madrid Open defeating Novak Djokovic and Gilles Simon respectively. The former world number one has won three Shanghai Masters titles followed by three Canadian Open and two Miami Open titles. His best ATP season at the ATP Masters 1000 level came in 2016 when he reached five finals and won three titles. These came in a row in Madrid, Rome, Cincinnati, Shanghai, and Paris, with victories in Rome, Shanghai, and Paris.

Andy Murray has overall won 14 ATP Masters 1000 titles and is currently placed in the third spot in the active list. He is making a good comeback post the career-threatening injury.

2. Rafael Nadal (36)

Rafael Nadal often called the “King of Clay” has won 36 titles out of the 53 times he has reached the finals of the ATP Masters 1000 event. Out of the 36 ATP Masters 1000 titles, Rafael Nadal has won 26 of them on clay. Nadal won his maiden ATP Masters title at the 2005 Monte Carlo Masters.

The former world number one had a successful 2013 season reaching the finals of six Masters events (winning five). Miami Open and Paris Masters are the only two Masters tournaments the Spaniard has not won. Monte Carlo Masters and Italian Open are the two most successful Masters events for Nadal (winning 21 titles together).

1. Novak Djokovic (40)

The current World No. 1 has won 39 ATP Masters 1000 titles the most in Open Era (since its inception in 1990). The Serbian star is the only player to have won all the ATP Masters 1000 titles in stake. Novak Djokovic is the only male player to win each Grand Slam, all nine Masters tournaments, and the ATP Finals at least twice. Novak Djokovic won his first ATP Masters title at the 2007 Miami Open and since has added 37 titles (finishing runner-up 18 times).

On February 27, 2023, Djokovic achieved his 378th week as men’s singles world number one, breaking the record for weeks spent at the top of the rankings for both men and women. By completing the set of all nine Masters singles titles in 2018, Djokovic became the first and only player to achieve the Career Golden Masters. The ace tennis player clinched his 40th title in 2023 at Paris Masters, after defeating Grigor Dimitrov

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