CAMELOT FANTASIES

Looks like Rafa will keep the career clay winning percentage for a long time.  93%, if that's not domination over his competition, nothing is.  Borg is next just under 86%, and Lendl drops down to just over 81%. 

I don't think there is much doubt that Rafa will pass Vilas in the Career Clay Title count.  He trails him by 4, 46-42.  It's only a question of when.  It could possibly happen this year.   But Vilas has one Clay record that I think is safe, 634 career clay match wins.  Nadal has about 293 or so.

Roger is just over 87% on grass, also very high and leads in titles won, but will not catch the great Jimmy Connors in matches won on the turf. McEnroe next at a little under 86%.  There are a group of 4 stalwarts in the 83rd percentile headed by Murray, Borg, Sampras, and Connors.  Heady company indeed.

The interesting one for me though is hard court winning percentage for the career.

There are 5 players with 82 and a fraction percent all separated by less the 3 tenths of a percent.
82.61 Connors
82.60 Lendl
82.50 Laver
82.35 Djokovic
82.34 Federer

I would expect Federer's percentage to dip somewhat as he ages.  Of course the same would apply to any active player that continues to play after their prime years.  But he probably still has a good couple of years before his percentage will get much worse. 

But just to show how close it is, if current 5th place Federer were to win Dubai and Indian Wells back to back, as he did year before last, that would be 11-0 and he would be 575-121 and at 82.615 %, which would put him just ahead of current 1st place Connors who is at 82.609 %.  By the same token, he has played so many matches it is difficult for him to move the percentage a lot.  Even if he finished his career at a 75% clip for a 100 matches or so, equivalent to averaging losing in the 4th round of every tournament, he would still end up higher than McEnroe who is in 6th place.

Respectfully,
masterclass