# ATP 1979 Season Leaders & Rankings

Source: https://tennis-db.com/seasons-and-rankings?year=1979
Tour: ATP
Season: 1979
View: rankings
Rankings as of: 1979-12-26

## Season leaders
| Rank | Player | Ranking | Points | W-L | Win % | Titles | Elo |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Bjorn Borg | 1 | 0 | 80-7 | 92.0% | 12 | 2427.76 |
| 2 | Jimmy Connors | 2 | 0 | 78-12 | 86.7% | 8 | 2272.28 |
| 3 | John McEnroe | 3 | 0 | 88-13 | 87.1% | 10 | 2284.64 |
| 4 | Vitas Gerulaitis | 4 | 0 | 71-22 | 76.3% | 4 | 2168.12 |
| 5 | Roscoe Tanner | 5 | 0 | 61-19 | 76.2% | 2 | 2025.85 |
| 6 | Guillermo Vilas | 6 | 0 | 70-21 | 76.9% | 4 | 2087.11 |
| 7 | Arthur Ashe | 7 | 0 | 30-13 | 69.8% | 0 | 1911.18 |
| 8 | Harold Solomon | 8 | 0 | 65-23 | 73.9% | 3 | 1999.05 |
| 9 | Jose Higueras | 9 | 0 | 61-22 | 73.5% | 3 | 1959.38 |
| 10 | Eddie Dibbs | 10 | 0 | 64-23 | 73.6% | 1 | 2033.73 |
| 11 | Victor Pecci | 11 | 0 | 56-19 | 74.7% | 3 | 1991.50 |
| 12 | Gene Mayer | 12 | 0 | 54-25 | 68.4% | 1 | 1979.21 |
| 13 | Peter Fleming | 13 | 0 | 45-26 | 63.4% | 2 | 1916.66 |
| 14 | Wojtek Fibak | 15 | 0 | 59-22 | 72.8% | 2 | 1976.63 |
| 15 | Brian Gottfried | 16 | 0 | 54-23 | 70.1% | 2 | 1978.45 |
| 16 | Jose Luis Clerc | 17 | 0 | 56-23 | 70.9% | 1 | 1916.52 |
| 17 | Pat Dupre | 18 | 0 | 47-30 | 61.0% | 0 | 1889.30 |
| 18 | Manuel Orantes | 19 | 0 | 34-23 | 59.6% | 1 | 1895.68 |
| 19 | John Alexander | 20 | 0 | 43-28 | 60.6% | 2 | 1815.74 |
| 20 | Ivan Lendl | 21 | 0 | 35-17 | 67.3% | 0 | 1882.53 |
| 21 | Ulrich Pinner | 23 | 0 | 27-12 | 69.2% | 1 | 1832.34 |
| 22 | Eliot Teltscher | 25 | 0 | 42-25 | 62.7% | 1 | 1850.72 |
| 23 | Yannick Noah | 26 | 0 | 34-14 | 70.8% | 3 | 1931.55 |
| 24 | Tomas Smid | 27 | 0 | 50-25 | 66.7% | 1 | 1870.77 |
| 25 | Adriano Panatta | 28 | 0 | 28-19 | 59.6% | 1 | 1867.18 |

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Canonical URL: https://tennis-db.com/seasons-and-rankings?year=1979
Data source: TennisDB (tennis-db.com)