Tsitsipas hits 400 career wins: Meet the ten active players with the most ATP victories

Sunday, 11 October 2026 at 01:00

Nine years ago in Shanghai, a 19-year-old Stefanos Tsitsipas won the first tour-level match of his career, beating Karen Khachanov in the first round. On Saturday, in the same city, he beat Luciano Darderi 6-3, 6-4 in the second round of the Shanghai Masters without facing a single break point. It was his 400th tour-level win, and it came at the very tournament where the count started.

The number puts the 28-year-old in company that is thinner than it looks. His career record now stands at 400-204, and he is the fifth man born since 1990 to reach the mark, after Alexander Zverev, Grigor Dimitrov, Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev. Rublev, in fact, got there first, in Hangzhou less than two weeks earlier, so the two are level on 400.

But the list Tsitsipas just joined is about to change. Of the ten active players with the most career wins, Kei Nishikori played his final match in Tokyo last week, and both Stan Wawrinka and Gaël Monfils have said that 2026 will be their last season. Here is who is on the list, what each of them has built, and who is left.

Rank	Player	Wins	Win %	Titles	Career-high	Age
1	Novak Djokovic	1,182	83,1%	102	No. 1	39
2	Marin Cilic	610	62.6%	21	No. 3	38
3	Stan Wawrinka	589	60.0%	16	No. 3	41
4	Gaël Monfils	588	62.1%	13	No. 6	40
5	Alexander Zverev	576	70.8%	26	No. 2	29
6	Grigor Dimitrov	486	60.6%	9	No. 3	35
7	Daniil Medvedev	458	70,1%	24	No. 1	30
8	Kei Nishikori	452	66.1%	12	No. 4	36
9	Stefanos Tsitsipas	400	66.2%	13	No. 3	28
9	Andrey Rublev	400	63.9%	18	No. 5	28

Novak Djokovic: a total nobody else can see

Djokovic's 1,182 wins are almost double those of the next man on the list, and only 17 fewer than Cilic (610) and Wawrinka (589) combined. He is third in the Open Era behind Jimmy Connors (1,274) and Roger Federer (1,251), and the only man still playing who has passed 1,000. His career win rate of about 83% is the best of the Open Era among players with at least 500 wins.

At 39, he is still adding to it. This year he reached the Australian Open final, won the China Open in Beijing for the seventh time, and picked up the 102nd title of his career. He is 69 wins from Federer and 92 from Connors, numbers that look daunting at his age but not impossible.

The gap behind him tells the same story. Between Djokovic and Cilic there are 572 wins, more than the entire career total of either Tsitsipas or Rublev. The nine players behind him have 4,559 wins combined, and Djokovic's 1,182 equals roughly a quarter of that.

Novak Djokovic smiling while holding trophy

Novak Djokovic of Serbia poses with his champion trophy during the awarding ceremony for the men's singles final at the 2026 China Open

The farewell class: Nishikori, Wawrinka and Monfils

Nishikori finished on 452 wins and a 66% win rate, with 12 titles and 15 more finals, four of them at Masters 1000 level. He was the first Japanese man in the top 10, the first Asian man to reach a Grand Slam final (the 2014 US Open), and an Olympic bronze medalist in Rio. His 72.5% record in deciding sets (158-60) is the third best in history. He played his last match at home in Tokyo, a first-round loss to Frances Tiafoe.

Wawrinka (589-392) is a case of quality over rate: his 60% win percentage is the lowest of the ten, yet his 16 titles include three Grand Slams, each won by beating the world No. 1 in the final: Nadal in Australia in 2014, Djokovic in Paris in 2015 and in New York in 2016. He also won Olympic doubles gold with Federer in 2008. His last title came in Geneva in 2017, and he has said he expects to finish at the Swiss Indoors in Basel, hoping to end the year in the top 100.

Monfils (588-359, 62.1%) never won a Grand Slam or a Masters 1000, losing three Masters finals and reaching two major semifinals (Roland Garros 2008, US Open 2016). But he won 13 of his 35 tour finals, peaked at No. 6, and in January 2025 became the oldest man to win an ATP title, taking Auckland at 38 years and four months. He was ranked outside the top 300 at the end of August and will retire at the end of the season.

Stan Wawrinka during practice at US Open 2026.

Two former top-3 players still grinding: Cilic and Dimitrov

Cilic and Dimitrov share a career-high ranking of No. 3 and a similar problem: both are well outside the top 50 and winning less each year. Cilic (610-365) won the 2014 US Open, beating Federer in the semifinals and Nishikori in the final, and added Cincinnati in 2016 and 21 titles in total, including at least one every year from 2008 to 2018. After a long layoff he won Hangzhou in 2024, a title that lifted him more than 500 places in the rankings.

This year has been quiet for the 38-year-old. He opened the Australian Open with a 6-0, 6-0, 7-6(3) win over Daniel Altmaier and was one win shy of 600 after reaching the third round, but he has added only 11 more wins since. He is ranked No. 81 and withdrew from the US Open before facing Rublev.

Dimitrov (486-316) has lived through the injuries instead. After winning the 2017 ATP Finals and Cincinnati that year, he reached No. 3, but he now holds the Open Era record for Grand Slam retirements, with 10, including five in a row from Wimbledon 2024 to Wimbledon 2025. He fell to No. 44 before 2026, started this year with the goal of staying healthy for a full season and made the fourth round at Wimbledon, but has a losing record this year. He is 14 wins from 500.

Grigor Dimtrov at Wimbledon Centre Court.

The two still contending: Zverev and Medvedev

Zverev (576-237, 71%) is the youngest of the top five and the one still rising. His 26 titles include two Grand Slams, both won in 2026 at Roland Garros and the US Open, plus seven Masters 1000s, two ATP Finals and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic gold. He has won 56 matches this season and is about to become world No. 1 after Sinner's withdrawal, and he is 24 wins from 600.

Medvedev (458 wins, about 70%) is the other player on the list still contending for the biggest prizes. A former world No. 1 and 2021 US Open champion, he took Hangzhou this month for the 24th trophy of his career, his third of 2026 after Brisbane and Dubai, beating Rublev 7-5, 6-4 with 23 aces. That was his 22nd hard-court title, level with McEnroe, Edberg and Chang. He is 38-16 this season and ranked No. 5.

The two have a history in big finals. Medvedev beat Zverev at the 2019 Shanghai Masters (6-4, 6-1) and the 2020 Paris Masters, while Zverev took the 2021 ATP Finals final 6-4, 6-4. Zverev now needs 24 wins to reach 600, and Medvedev 42 to reach 500.

Daniil Medvedev and Alexander Zverev at Australian Open.

The newest members: Tsitsipas and Rublev

Tsitsipas and Rublev crossed 400 within two weeks of each other, and the two careers are close in age (both 28) but different in shape. Tsitsipas (400-204, 66.2%) has fewer titles, 13, but three Masters 1000s, the 2019 ATP Finals and a career-high No. 3. His 400 wins in nine seasons average out to around 44 a year.

Rublev (400-226, 63.9%) has more trophies, 18, including two Masters 1000s (Monte-Carlo 2023, Madrid 2024) including Båstad this summer. He reached 400 in Hangzhou on Sept. 28, then lost the final to his close friend Medvedev, who leads their head-to-head 8-2.

Both have spent the past year trying to get back to their best: Tsitsipas ended a 17-month title drought at Gstaad in July and changed coach after parting ways with his father, while Rublev was ranked No. 24 at the end of August. At 28, both are young by the standards of this list. The next target for each is 500, a hundred wins away.

Cristhián AvilaTennis Journalist

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