TENNISGOAT

🇺🇸 USA · Right-handed · 193 cm · b. 1955-06-04

Butch Walts

Active 1975–1984 · best rank seen: 29

140–134
4
0
0
6
4,570
Hard
51–48 (51.5%)
Clay
19–21 (47.5%)
Grass
9–11 (45.0%)
Carpet
61–54 (53.0%)

Grand Slam record

'76'77'78'79'80'81'82
Australian Open
Roland Garros 1R
Wimbledon 2R 1R 1R
US Open 1R 4R QF 3R 2R 2R 1R

Season by season

Peak window 1977–1979 683 1,366 1975: 15 pts 1976: 495 pts 1977: 755 pts 1978: 690 pts 1979: 1,265 pts 1980: 560 pts 1981: 400 pts 1982: 90 pts 1983: 260 pts 1984: 40 pts 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984

Gold band: best three-year window (1977–1979).

Elo over time

1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983

Pre-match Elo, sampled across the career. Peak: 2057.

Career titles (4)

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.