Monday Hawkeye takes a look back at the numerical and statistical week on the ATP Tour. The debut addition compares tennis players’ earnings with those of Floyd Mayweather.
1) Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather earned $32 million in his victory over Robert Guerrero on Saturday night. That’s more than the career earnings of every player in the history of men’s professional tennis other than Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Pete Sampras, and Novak Djokovic.
2) Mayweather earned $888,888.89 per minute during his win over Guerrero. In his 2010 Wimbledon loss to John Isner, Nicolas Mahut earned $25.26 per minute.
3) Mayweather earned $14,814.81 per second during his win over Guerrero. That’s more than any player on the Challenger Tour–including the champions of Johannesburg, Ostrava, An-Ning, Tallahassee, and Napoli–earned during the entire week except for Tunis Challenger champion Adrian Ungur.
4) Tim Smyczek won fewer points (5) than Cedrik-Marcel Stebe won games (6) in the second set of their Tallahassee Challenger quarterfinal match.
5) Philipp Kohlschreiber improved to 15-8 lifetime in final-set tiebreakers when he beat Daniel Brands 6-7(4), 6-3, 7-6(5) in Munich. He is 4-0 in final-set tiebreakers in the last three weeks alone (d. Pablo Andujar in Monte-Carlo, d. Andrey Kuznetsov in Barcelona, d. Martin Klizan in Barcelona, d. Brands in Munich).
6) Tommy Haas, 35, won the Munich title on Sunday. The last player at least 35 years old to win an ATP title was Fabrice Santoro, who was 35 when he triumphed at the 2008 Newport event. The oldest ATP title winner in tennis history is Pancho Gonzales, who was 43 years, 273 days old when he captured the Kingston title in 1972.
7) Haas vs. Kohlschreiber was the fourth ATP final between two compatriots this season. The previous occasions featured Frenchmen Richard Gasquet vs. Benoit Paire (Montpellier), Spaniards Nadal vs. David Ferrer (Acapulco), and Nadal vs. Nicolas Almagro (Barcelona). At this time last season there had been five such finals; four between Spaniards and one between Argentines (Juan Monaco vs. Carlos Berlocq in Vina del Mar). This was also the first all-German title match in Munich since 1965.
8) The last ATP tournament with three German semifinalists was the 1999 Hong Kong event. Boris Becker, Hendrik Dreekmann, and Bernd Karbacher all advanced to the final four. Becker reached the title match and lost to Andre Agassi.
9) Stanislas Wawrinka improved to 4-7 lifetime against Ferrer and 4-7 lifetime in ATP finals with his victory in Oeiras. All four of Wawrinka’s titles have come at 250-point events, including three on clay. This was the Swiss’ first final triumph over a higher-ranked opponent not counting retirements (Djokovic retired from their 2006 Umag final during a first-set tiebreaker, handing Wawrinka his first career ATP winner’s trophy).
10) During first-round action in Madrid on Sunday, Fernando Verdasco and David Goffin recorded the exact same service statistics in Verdasco’s 7-6(2), 6-2 victory: three aces, two double-faults, and 71 percent of their first serves in play.
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