Guillermo Vilas

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Guillermo Vilas
Vilas-1975.jpg
Guillermo Vilas during the Munich Open in May 1975
Country (sports)Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina
Residence Buenos Aires
Born (1952-08-17) 17 August 1952 (age 71)
Mar del Plata, Argentina
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro1969 [1] (amateur tour from 1968)
Retired1992
PlaysLeft-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money$4,923,882
Int. Tennis HoF 1991 (member page)
Singles
Career record951–297 (76.2%)
Career titles78, [2] (62 ATP) (10th in the Open Era)
Highest rankingNo. 2 (30 April 1975)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open W (1978, 1979)
French Open W (1977) [3]
Wimbledon QF (1975, 1976)
US Open W (1977) [3]
Other tournaments
Tour Finals W (1974)
WCT Finals F (1976)
Doubles
Career record217–150
Career titles16
Highest rankingNo. 13 (21 May 1979)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open 2R (1977Jan) [3]
French Open SF (1975)
Wimbledon 3R (1976)
US Open QF (1975)
Guillermo Vilas at the 1974 Dutch Open Guillermo Vilas.jpg
Guillermo Vilas at the 1974 Dutch Open

Guillermo Vilas (born 17 August 1952) is an Argentine former professional tennis player. Vilas was the world No. 1 of the Grand Prix seasons in 1974, 1975 and 1977. [4] He won four major titles, the year-end championships, and 78 career singles titles overall, [5] 62 of which were ATP titles. World Tennis, Agence France-Presse and Livre d'or du tennis 1977 (Christian Collin-Bernard Ficot), among other rankings and publications, rated him as world No. 1 in 1977. [6] [7] [8] In the computerized ATP rankings, he peaked at No. 2 in April 1975, a position he held for a total of 83 weeks, although some have argued that Vilas should have been ranked No. 1 [9] for at least 10 weeks, particularly in 1977 when he won 2 majors. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1991, two years after his first retirement. [10]

Contents

Vilas is known for his prowess on clay courts. He won over 650 matches on clay, which is an all-time record. His peak was the 1977 season during which he won 21 ATP and ILTF singles titles, [11] including two majors (both on clay) and had a 53 winning streak on clay, which was the longest in the Open Era at his time. In 2016, The Daily Telegraph ranked him as the 3rd best male clay-court player of all time, behind Rafael Nadal and Björn Borg. [12] In 2018, Steve Tignor for Tennis Magazine ranked him as the 16th greatest tennis player of the Open Era. [13]

Historical and statistical studies presented in 2015 by Argentinian journalist Eduardo Puppo and Romanian mathematician Marian Ciulpan concluded that Vilas should have been No. 1 in the old ATP ranking system for seven weeks between 1975 and 1976. The ATP and its chief executive at that time, Chris Kermode, although not refuting the data, decided not to officially recognize Vilas as No. 1. The controversy is still in the legal stage. [14] In October 2020, Netflix released a documentary film about Vilas' case titled Guillermo Vilas: Settling the Score. [15]

Career

Raised in the seaside resort of Mar del Plata, Vilas was a left-hander and played his first tour event in 1968. He was in the year-ending top ten from 1974 through 1982. He was a clay-court specialist and played well on hard-court, grass, and carpet surfaces.

He won four Grand Slam titles: the 1977 French Open [3] and the 1977 US Open [3] (both played on clay) and the 1978 and 1979 Australian Open (both played on grass). He was also the runner-up at the French Open three times (1975, 1978, and 1982) and at the Australian Open once (January 1977). [3]

In 1974, he won the year-end Masters Grand Prix title. In addition, he won seven Grand Prix Super Series titles (1975–80), the precursors to the current Masters 1000.

Best year

A left-handed baseliner, Vilas's best year on tour was 1977 when he won 21 singles titles, [16] including two of the four major Grand Slam singles tournaments and 16 of the 31 Association of Tennis Professionals tournaments he entered. [17] His playing record for 1977 was 130 wins against 15 losses (89.65%). Not including the Masters year-end championship, he won 72 of his last 73 ATP matches in 1977. The highest point during this run was winning the last US Open played at Forest Hills against Jimmy Connors 2–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–4), 6–0 in a match where Vilas surprised his American rival by attacking the net. [18] [19]

Winning streak

In 1977 he won seven consecutive titles after Wimbledon—Kitzbühel (clay), Washington (clay), Louisville (clay), South Orange (clay), Columbus (clay), US Open (clay) and Paris (clay)—and set up a 46-match all-surface winning streak. He also had a record 53-match winning streak on clay courts, which stood until surpassed by Rafael Nadal in 2006. Both his winning streaks were terminated in October 1977 by Ilie Năstase in the final of the Raquette d'Or tournament. In that best-of-five-set final, Vilas dropped the first two sets by 6–1, 7–5 and then retired in protest of Năstase's use of a spaghetti racquet. (The ITF had voted to ban the racquet, but the ban did not take effect until the day after the match). [20] After that he won a further 28 matches in a row with titles at Tehran, Bogotá, Santiago, Buenos Aires (all on clay), and Johannesburg (hard). That run was ended in the Masters semi-finals by Björn Borg.

ATP ranking No. 1 controversy

Even though he won 21 singles titles including 16 ATP titles that season, including the French Open and the US Open and was the runner-up at the January edition of the Australian Open in 1977, Vilas was never ranked by the ATP as world No. 1 during 1977 which was due to the fact that the rankings at the time were based on the average of a player's results. [21] He was instead ranked year-end world No. 2, behind Jimmy Connors who won 8 singles titles only (including the Masters Grand Prix and did not win any of the 4 Grand Slam titles, but was the runner-up at Wimbledon and the US Open in 1977). [22] Nevertheless, Vilas was rated number one by World Tennis, [23] France Presse, [24] Tennis de France,[ citation needed ]Le Livre d'or du Tennis, [25] Gene Scott, [26] Peter Bodo, [27] Christian Quidet, [28] and Michael Sutter. [29] The International Tennis Hall of Fame inscription for Vilas stated "it was generally considered Vilas was the real No. 1 for 1977". [30] Vilas was also rated number one by Bud Collins and John Barrett by the 2010s. [31] [32] [33]

Argentine journalist Eduardo Puppo and Romanian mathematician Marian Ciulpan investigated the 1973–78 period records, and delivered a detailed report with more than 1,200 pages in which they came to the conclusion that Vilas should have been ranked No. 1 for five weeks in 1975 as well as during the first two weeks of 1976 [34] and handed over their research to the ATP at the end of 2014. Although the study was not refuted, in May 2015 the ATP announced it had decided not to make official the No. 1 position for Vilas because it happened in the interval between the publications of the official rankings. [21] [35]

In October 2020, Netflix released a documentary about the controversy titled Guillermo Vilas: Settling the Score. [36] It also covered (briefly) Evonne Goolagong's recognition as world no. 1 (for two weeks in 1976) retroactively by the WTA in 2007. [37]

Retirement

Vilas retired from the ATP Tour in 1989 but still played on the ATP Challenger Series until 1992. [38] He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1991. [18] Vilas was in the stands at Flushing Meadows to cheer on his countryman, Juan Martín del Potro, who beat Roger Federer in an upset in the 2009 US Open final. [39]

Family

Vilas married Phiangphathu Khumueang from Thailand in 2005. They have three daughters and one son. They reside in Monaco. He is reportedly suffering from a form of dementia. [40]

Distinctions

Vilas after winning the Buenos Aires Open and securing the first place in the 1977 Grand Prix Circuit. Vilas abierto ba 1977.jpg
Vilas after winning the Buenos Aires Open and securing the first place in the 1977 Grand Prix Circuit.

Career statistics

Singles performance timeline

Key
W F SFQF#RRRQ#DNQANH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
Tournament 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 SR W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open [lower-alpha 1] AAAAAAA F A W W SF 3R AAAANHAAA2 / 523–3
French Open AA 3R [lower-alpha 2] 3R 3R F QF W F QF QF 4R F QF 1R 2R QF 2R 2R 1R 1 / 1856–17
Wimbledon 1R A 1R A 3R QF QF 3R 3R 2R A 1R A 1R AA 1R AAA0 / 1115–11
US Open AA 2R 1R 4R SF SF W 4R 4R 4R 4R SF 3R 3R 2R 1R AAA1 / 1543–14
Win–loss0–10–03–32–27–315–313–321–217–314–310–38–411–26–32–22–24–31–11–10–14 / 49137–45
Year-end ranking–––315262365641128392271126408
Year-end championship
Masters AAAAWSFSFSF [lower-alpha 3] ARR [lower-alpha 3] RR [lower-alpha 3] RR [lower-alpha 3] SF [lower-alpha 3] AAAAAAA1 / 816–11

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner-ups)

Vilas celebrating his win at the 1977 French Open. Vila rolandgarros 1977.jpg
Vilas celebrating his win at the 1977 French Open.
ResultYearChampionshipSurfaceOpponentScore
Loss1975French OpenClay Flag of Sweden.svg Björn Borg 2–6, 3–6, 4–6
Loss 1977 Australian Open (Jan.)Grass Flag of the United States.svg Roscoe Tanner 3–6, 3–6, 3–6
Win1977French OpenClay Flag of the United States.svg Brian Gottfried 6–0, 6–3, 6–0
Win1977 US Open Clay Flag of the United States.svg Jimmy Connors 2–6, 6–3, 7–6(7–4), 6–0
Loss1978French Open (2)Clay Flag of Sweden.svg Björn Borg1–6, 1–6, 3–6
Win 1978 Australian OpenGrass Flag of Australia (converted).svg John Marks 6–4, 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Win 1979 Australian Open (2)Grass Flag of the United States.svg John Sadri 7–6(7–4), 6–3, 6–2
Loss1982French Open (3)Clay Flag of Sweden.svg Mats Wilander 6–1, 6–7(6–8), 0–6, 4–6

Records

EventYearsRecord accomplishedPlayer tied
US Open 197772.1% (106–41) games winning % in 1 tournamentStands alone
Grand Prix Tour 197716 titles in 1 seasonStands alone
Grand Prix Tour22 finals reached in 1 seasonStands alone
Grand Prix Tour14 clay-court titles in 1 seasonStands alone
Grand Prix Tour120 outdoor match-wins in 1 seasonStands alone
Grand Prix Tour15 outdoor titles in 1 seasonStands alone
Grand Prix Tour145 match-wins in 1 seasonStands alone
Grand Prix Tour1973–88632 clay-court match-winsStands alone
ATP Buenos Aires 1973–828 singles titlesStands alone
1973–776 consecutive titles [lower-alpha 4] Stands alone

Notes

  1. ↑ The Australian Open was played twice in 1977, in January and December. Vilas played only in the January event.
  2. ↑ The 1972 French Open had two preliminary rounds. [41] After qualifying, Vilas won in both to enter the main draw. These wins do not count as main draw wins.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 The year-ending Masters tournament was played in January of the following year.
  4. ↑ Tournament was played twice in 1977.

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