1998_ATP_Tour
1998 ATP Tour
Men's tennis circuit
The ATP Tour is the elite tour for professional men's tennis organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The ATP Tour includes the four Grand Slam tournaments, the ATP World Tour Finals, the ATP Super 9, the Championship Series and the World Series tournaments.
Pete Sampras finished the year ranked world No. 1 for the record-breaking sixth time in his career. He won four titles during the season, including a major at the Wimbledon Championships. | |
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| Duration | 5 January 1998 – 18 November 1998 |
| Categories | Grand Slam (4) ATP Super 9 (9) ATP Championship Series (12) ATP World Series (52) |
| Achievements (singles) | |
| Most tournament titles |  Marcelo Ríos (7) |
| Most tournament finals |  Andre Agassi (9) |
| Prize money leader | Pete Sampras ($3,926,347) |
| Points leader | Pete Sampras (3915) |
| Awards | |
| Player of the year | Pete Sampras |
| Doubles team of the year | |
| Most improved player of the year | Andre Agassi |
| Newcomer of the year |  Marat Safin |
| Comeback player of the year |  Younes El Aynaoui |
← 1997 1999 → | |
This is the complete schedule of events on the 1998 ATP Tour, with player progression documented from the quarter-final stage.[1]
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- Key
| Grand Slam events |
| ATP Tour World Championships |
| ATP Super 9 |
| ATP International Series Gold |
| ATP International Series |
| Team events |
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January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
These are the rankings of the top twenty players of the ATP Tour, at the end of the 1997 ATP Tour, and of the 1998 season, with number of rankings points, highest and lowest position during the year, and number of spots gained or lost from 1997 to 1998.[2][3]
Singles
These tables present the number of singles (S), doubles (D), and mixed doubles (X) titles won by each player and each nation during the season, within all the tournament categories of the 1998 ATP Tour: the Grand Slam tournaments, the ATP Tour World Championships, the ATP Super 9, the ATP Championship Series, and the ATP World Series.
Titles won by player
| Total titles | Player | Grand Slam tournaments |
ATP Tour Finals |
ATP Tour Super 9 |
ATP Tour Championship Series |
ATP Tour World Series |
All titles | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | D | X | S | D | S | D | S | D | S | D | S | D | X | ||
| 9 |  Jacco Eltingh | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |||||||
 Patrick Rafter | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | |||||||
| 8 | Paul Haarhuis | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||||||
| 7 | Marcelo Ríos | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7^ | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 5 |  Leander Paes | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||
| 4 | Pete Sampras | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Andre Agassi | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Mahesh Bhupathi | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Todd Woodbridge | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Mark Woodforde | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||||
 Kevin Ullyett | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 3 |  Jonas Björkman | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||
 Àlex Corretja | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 5 | |||||||||
 Martin Damm | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
 Ellis Ferreira | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Justin Gimelstob | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Jim Grabb | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Magnus Gustafsson | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Paul Haarhuis | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Donald Johnson | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Yevgeny Kafelnikov | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| Francisco Montana | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Jiří Novák | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Grant Stafford | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Sandon Stolle | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 2 | Julian Alonso | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| Wayne Arthurs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
 Neil Broad | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Albert Costa | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Thomas Enqvist | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
 Andrea Gaudenzi | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Tom Kempers | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Petr Korda | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
 Karol Kučera | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
 Gustavo Kuerten | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Rick Leach | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Fernando Meligeni | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
 Max Mirnyi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Carlos Moyá | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
 Daniel Nestor | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
 Andrei Pavel | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| David Rikl | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Jan Siemerink | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Cyril Suk | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 1 | Alberto Berasategui | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Byron Black | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
 Kenneth Carlsen | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Michael Chang | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Francisco Clavet | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Brandon Coupe | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Jim Courier | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
 Olivier Delaître | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Scott Draper | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Joshua Eagle | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Wayne Ferreira | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Doug Flach | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Andrew Florent | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Patrick Galbraith | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Brent Haygarth | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Mark Philippoussis | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Lleyton Hewitt | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Dominik Hrbatý | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Andrew Ilie | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
 Goran Ivanišević | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
 Mark Knowles | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Richard Krajicek | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Andrew Kratzmann | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Nicklas Kulti | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Sébastien Lareau | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Magnus Larsson | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| David Macpherson | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Félix Mantilla | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Todd Martin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Diego Nargiso | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Magnus Norman | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Piet Norval | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Menno Oosting | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Alex O'Brien | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
 Daniel Orsanic | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Stefano Pescosolido | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Mark Philippoussis | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Guillaume Raoux | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Paul Rosner | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Greg Rusedski | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Javier Sánchez | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Fabrice Santoro | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
 Brett Steven | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Byron Talbot | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Michael Tebbutt | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Laurence Tieleman | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Mikael Tillström | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Peter Tramacchi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Gabriel Trifu | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Bohdan Ulihrach | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
^ Rios also won the Grand Slam Cup, which on December 9, 1999, merged with the ATP Tour World Championship, the ATP's year-end tournament also held annually in Germany. This gave birth to the present ATP World Tour Finals.
Titles won by nation (singles):
United States 13 (San Jose, Philadelphia, Scottsdale, Barcelona, Orlando, Atlanta, Wimbledon, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Boston, Shanghai, Vienna, Ostrava, Stockholm)
Spain 12 (Dubai, Estoril, Monte Carlo Masters, Hamburg Masters, French Open, Bologna, Gstaad, Kitzbühel, Indianapolis, Bournemouth, Bucharest, Lyon, Santiago, ATP Finals)
Australia 10 (Adelaide, Memphis, Chennai, Coral Springs, London, 's-Hertogenbosch, Canada Masters, Cincinnati Masters, Long Island, US Open)
Chile 7 (Auckland, Indian Wells Masters, Miami Masters, Rome Masters, St. Poelten, Grand Slam Cup, Singapore)
Sweden 6 (Marseille, Copenhagen, Munich, Nottingham, Båstad, Amsterdam)
Czech Republic 4 (Doha, Australian Open, Umag, Mexico City)
United Kingdom 4 (Antwerp, Tashkent, Basel, Paris Masters)
Netherlands 4 (St. Petersburg, Rotterdam, Toulouse, Stuttgart Masters)
Brazil 3 (Prague, Stuttgart, Mallorca)
Russia 3 (London, Halle, Moscow)
Slovakia 3 (Sydney, San Marino, New Haven)
Argentina 2 (Palermo, Bogotá)- Russia 2 (London, Halle)
Croatia 1 (Split)
Denmark 1 (Hong Kong)
India 1 (Newport)
Italy 1 (Casablanca)
Romania 1 (Tokyo)
The following players won their first career title:
- Kenneth Carlsen – Hong Kong
- Scott Draper – London
- Andrea Gaudenzi – Casablanca
- Lleyton Hewitt – Adelaide
- Dominik Hrbatý – San Marino
- Andrew Ilie – Coral Springs
- Leander Paes – Newport
- Andrei Pavel – Tokyo
- Mariano Puerta – Palermo
- Mariano Zabaleta – Bogotá
- "ATP Rankings (singles) as of December 15, 1997". atptour.com. 1997-12-15.
- "ATP Rankings (singles) as of December 14, 1998". atptour.com. 1998-12-14.
- "ATP Year-end top 20". ATP. Retrieved 15 September 2023.