Gustavo Kuerten - Distinctions

Distinctions

• Kuerten won his first slam in his third attempt—tied with Mats Wilander as the fastest of any player in the Open era.
• He, Andy Murray, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic are the only non-North American tennis players who have appeared in the finals of all four ATP Masters Series events played on the continent (Indian Wells, Miami, Montreal/Toronto and Cincinnati).
• His fastest serve was measured at 212 km/h (131 mph) at the Gstaad Open in 1999.
• Kuerten has won ATP Tour singles titles in 13 different countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Monaco, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal, Russia, and the United States.
• His highest rank in the ATP Champions Race was #1 December 4, 2000.
• When Kuerten won the 1997 French Open ranked 66th in the world (Entry system, prior to the creation of the Champions' Race), he became the second lowest ranked player to win a Grand Slam event (second to Mark Edmondson, who won the 1976 Australian Open ranked 212th in the world). Since then, Kuerten has been bumped down to third place, when Goran Ivanišević won the 2001 Wimbledon ranked 125th in the world.
• In 2005, Tennis Magazine put him in 37th place in its list of "The 40 Greatest Players of the Tennis Era".