List of career achievements by Rafael Nadal

This article lists various career, tournament, and seasonal achievements by the Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal.

Rafael Nadal has won 15 Grand Slam singles titles which ranks him second on the all-time list only to Roger Federer’s record of 19 majors. Nadal has also won a record 30 Masters 1000 titles, tied with Novak Djokovic.

Rafael Nadal is widely viewed as one of the greatest tennis players of all time and is viewed by some sports analysts, tennis writers, fans and media pundits as the greatest tennis player of the Open Era. Nadal has appeared in 22 Grand Slam finals which is second to Federer’s record of 29 finals. He has appeared in at least three finals per major and has won multiple majors on hard courts, clay and grass, the latter of which distinguishes him from his contemporaries as Federer and Djokovic have both managed only 1 clay slam each. Nadal completed the Career Grand Slam, and is the youngest player to achieve this feat, having won all four majors by the age of 24, three years younger than second youngest, Roger Federer, who completed it at the age of 27.

Known as the “King of Clay”, from 2005 to 2014, Nadal won the French Open 9 times in his first 10 attempts (90% win rate), with a match record of 66-1 (98.5% win rate), is viewed by many analysts as one of the greatest feats in the Open Era. Nadal won the French Open on his first attempt as a 19-year-old in 2005 and went on to make three consecutive title defences from 2005 to 2008; he defeated Roger Federer in three consecutive finals from 2006 to 2008 (he also defeated Federer in the 2005 semi-finals) and again in the 2011 final (Nadal is the only player to defeat Federer in four finals at the same major. Nadal is also the only player to beat Federer in the finals of 3 different grand slams, Roland Garros, Australian Open, and Wimbledon). His sole loss at Roland Garros during this period came to Robin Söderling in 2009 in the round of 16. Nadal then went on to win the French Open in 2010 and another four consecutive title defences from 2010 to 2014 (an Open Era record), and won a tenth title in 2017. He holds a match record of 79–2 in best-of-five matches (never taken to five sets in the final) from 2005 to 2016 achieving a win percentage of 97.5%, and is the only player to achieve this type of dominance at any single Grand Slam tournament. Nadal won the French Open an all-time record of 10 times and is the first, and only, player in the Open Era, male or female, to win 10 grand slams at a single major (no other male player has won more than 8 titles at a single major in the Open Era).

Nadal has won all-time records of 30 Masters 1000 titles, 22 clay Masters 1000 titles, 10 Grand Slam singles titles on clay, as well as an Open Era record 53 titles on clay. He won at least 1 Masters 1000 title for ten consecutive years from 2005 to 2014 and is the only player to achieve this type of consistency in the Open Era. He owns the longest single surface win streak on any single surface by a male having won 81 consecutive matches on clay courts from 2005 to 2007. Nadal also won a record 8 consecutive Monte Carlo Masters 1000 titles from 2005 to 2012, and a record overall 10 titles including his 2016 and 2017 wins. Nadal has also won an Open Era record 7 Masters 1000 titles in Rome, and 10 titles at the ATP 500 Barcelona Open. In 2010, Nadal won the French Open plus all three clay court Masters 1000 events (Monte Carlo, Rome, Madrid) in the same calendar year, thus becoming the first, and only, player to complete the "Clay Slam".

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