How many victories Rafael Nadal by Guillermo Vilas was for the absolute record of brick dust

Rafael Nadal’s career is already history. And it is impossible not to remember it in the “high season” of clay.

Is that the Spanish reached, neither more nor less, than 484 victories on its favorite surface: brick dust.

This amount of successes (with only 51 losses throughout his career) They transform it into the third with more matches won on that surface.

In this context, Rafael Nadal It was less than 100 victories of the second position, which occupies its compatriot Manuel Orantes. The tennis player who was active between 1968 and 1984 has a record of 571-171, leaving the Manacorí less than 90 wins.

Finally, as far as this list is concerned, the first place is occupied by the Argentine Guillermo Vilas. The best Latin American tennis player of all time and one of the best in the history of this sport reaped a total of 681 successes with 173 losses. In this way, Nadal was 197 meetings on brick dust to entail what was done by Marplatense.

If we talk about the percentage of effectiveness between victories and defeats about clay, Rafael Nadal is No. 1 with 90.5% of hits. Behind him is Bjorn Borg (86%). Among the best in history there are also two South Americans as the aforementioned Vilas (80%) and José Luis Clerc (77%).