TENNISGOAT

🇺🇸 USA · Right-handed · b. 1951-04-25

Joel Bailey

Active 1976–1988 · best rank seen: 184

7–34
0
0
0
0
375
Hard
3–10 (23.1%)
Clay
3–7 (30.0%)
Grass
0–4 (0.0%)
Carpet
1–13 (7.1%)

Grand Slam record

'78'79'80'81
Australian Open
Roland Garros
Wimbledon 1R 1R
US Open 2R

Season by season

Peak window 1978–1980 59 118 1976: 5 pts 1977: 20 pts 1978: 50 pts 1979: 110 pts 1980: 110 pts 1981: 40 pts 1982: 5 pts 1983: 5 pts 1984: 5 pts 1985: 5 pts 1986: 5 pts 1987: 5 pts 1988: 10 pts 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988

Gold band: best three-year window (1978–1980).

Elo over time

1300 1400 1500 1600 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988

Pre-match Elo, sampled across the career. Peak: 1576.

Match results

Methodology

Titles include Slams, Masters, Tour Finals, 500s, 250s, legacy tour events and Olympic gold; Davis Cup is excluded, and walkovers are excluded from all win–loss records. GOAT points value every round reached, scaled per tier (Slam title 2000 anchor; ranking includes Slam champions only, but every player's points are shown here). Elo is a chess-style rating over the full match history (K = 250/(n+5)^0.4); the timeline shows pre-match ratings, sampled. The gold band on the season chart marks the best three-consecutive-year window.