TENNISGOAT

🇺🇸 USA · Right-handed · 173 cm · b. 1956-12-05

Ferdi Taygan

Active 1973–1983 · best rank seen: 59

74–120
0
0
0
1
2,425
Hard
23–41 (35.9%)
Clay
17–36 (32.1%)
Grass
9–14 (39.1%)
Carpet
25–29 (46.3%)

Grand Slam record

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Australian Open 3R 1R
Roland Garros 1R 4R 1R
Wimbledon 1R 1R 1R 2R
US Open 1R 1R 1R 2R 1R 1R

Season by season

Peak window 1979–1981 453 907 1973: 5 pts 1974: 100 pts 1975: 230 pts 1976: 75 pts 1977: 20 pts 1978: 150 pts 1979: 620 pts 1980: 840 pts 1981: 300 pts 1982: 75 pts 1983: 10 pts 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983

Gold band: best three-year window (1979–1981).

Elo over time

1500 1600 1700 1800 1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983

Pre-match Elo, sampled across the career. Peak: 1867.

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.