Players with the Most Finals Lost in the Sydney International in Men's Singles
Stats of the players that participated in final matches in the Sydney International, including the full list of finalists ordered from those who lost the most to those who didn't lost any finals of men's singles in this tennis tournament.
Which player has lost the most men's singles finals?
Horace Rice is the player with the most finals lost in the history of the Sydney International, having been the losser 6 times in this kind of matches. That means that he has been the player that lost in the 4.7% of a total of 128 finals.
On the bright side, other than its 6 finals lost, Horace Rice has 2 finals won.
Men's Singles
Most Finals Lost
6 finals
Horace Rice
A total of 147 players were part, at least once, in one of the 128 men's singles finals disputed in the Sydney International. Most of them (98), lost at least once, 16 of them lost 2 or more times and only one of them lost 5 finals or more. Here you can see the full list of these players ordered by finals lost.
Full List - Players with the Most Finals Lost
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| Player | Finals Lost | Years | % of Total Finals | Finals Played | Finals Won | % of Finals Won | |
| 1. | Horace Rice | 6 | 1896, 1901, 1904, 1908, 1910, 1911 | 4.7% | 8 | 2 | 25.0% |
| 2. | Roy Emerson | 4 | 1959, 1961, 1964, 1967 | 3.1% | 4 | - | 0.0% |
| Ken Rosewall | 4 | 1953, 1955, 1970, 1973 | 3.1% | 5 | 1 | 20.0% | |
| Adrian Quist | 4 | 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940 | 3.1% | 6 | 2 | 33.3% | |
| 5. | Ben Green | 3 | 1892, 1893, 1894 | 2.3% | 3 | - | 0.0% |
| Harry Hopman | 3 | 1931, 1933, 1935 | 2.3% | 3 | - | 0.0% | |
| Carlos Moyá | 3 | 1997, 2004, 2007 | 2.3% | 3 | - | 0.0% | |
| Dudley Webb | 3 | 1889, 1891, 1895 | 2.3% | 8 | 5 | 62.5% |
| Player | Finals Lost | Years | % of Total Finals | Finals Played | Finals Won | % of Finals Won | |
| 9. | Mervyn Rose | 2 | 1951, 1954 | 1.6% | 2 | - | 0.0% |
| Brian Teacher | 2 | 1977, 1980 | 1.6% | 2 | - | 0.0% | |
| James Willard | 2 | 1924, 1928 | 1.6% | 2 | - | 0.0% | |
| Alfred Jones | 2 | 1914, 1915 | 1.6% | 3 | 1 | 33.3% | |
| Norman Peach | 2 | 1922, 1923 | 1.6% | 3 | 1 | 33.3% | |
| Frank Sedgman | 2 | 1948, 1950 | 1.6% | 3 | 1 | 33.3% | |
| Neale Fraser | 2 | 1956, 1957 | 1.6% | 5 | 3 | 60.0% | |
| John Bromwich | 2 | 1936, 1945 | 1.6% | 9 | 7 | 77.8% |
| Player | Finals Lost | Years | % of Total Finals | Finals Played | Finals Won | % of Finals Won | |
| 17. | Wilmer Allison | 1 | 1932 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% |
| Kevin Anderson | 1 | 2013 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Igor Andreev | 1 | 2006 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Eskell Andrews | 1 | 1926 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Arthur Ashe | 1 | 1965 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Mike Bauer | 1 | 1983 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Julien Benneteau | 1 | 2012 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| James Brink | 1 | 1947 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Earl Butch Buchholz | 1 | 1958 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Juan Ignacio Chela | 1 | 2002 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Andrei Cherkasov | 1 | 1989 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Andrei Chesnokov | 1 | 1988 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Àlex Corretja | 1 | 1999 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Colin Dibley | 1 | 1974 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Grigor Dimitrov | 1 | 2016 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Patrice Dominguez | 1 | 1972 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Peter Doohan | 1 | 1987 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Stanley Doust | 1 | 1906 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Alfred Dunlop | 1 | 1898 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Dan Evans | 1 | 2017 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Kelly Evernden | 1 | 1985 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Juan Carlos Ferrero | 1 | 2003 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Robert D. Fitzgerald | 1 | 1887 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Ken Fletcher | 1 | 1962 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Richard Fromberg | 1 | 1995 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| David L. Gaden | 1 | 1899 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Richard Gasquet | 1 | 2010 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Sammy Giammalva Jr. | 1 | 1984 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Chris Guccione | 1 | 2008 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| John Hawks | 1 | 1921 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Goran Ivanišević | 1 | 1996 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Mikhail Kukushkin | 1 | 2015 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Ivan Lendl | 1 | 1994 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Chris Lewis | 1 | 1981 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Barry MacKay | 1 | 1960 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| John Marks | 1 | 1975 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Ken McGregor | 1 | 1952 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Ivo Minář | 1 | 2005 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Edgar Moon | 1 | 1930 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Barney Murphy | 1 | 1903 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Andy Murray | 1 | 2022 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Thomas Muster | 1 | 1993 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Magnus Norman | 1 | 2001 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Fred Perry | 1 | 1934 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Hank Pfister | 1 | 1979 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Eric Pockley | 1 | 1920 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Leslie Poidevin | 1 | 1900 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Walter John C. Riddell | 1 | 1885 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Mike Sangster | 1 | 1963 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Richard Schlesinger | 1 | 1927 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| A. Seiler | 1 | 1925 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Andreas Seppi | 1 | 2019 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Bill Sidwell | 1 | 1949 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Clifford Sproule | 1 | 1929 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Carl-Uwe Steeb | 1 | 1990 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Michael Stich | 1 | 1991 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Dick Stockton | 1 | 1976 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Jason Stoltenberg | 1 | 2000 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| W. B. Walker | 1 | 1932 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Kim Warwick | 1 | 1978 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Herbert E. Webb | 1 | 1890 | 0.8% | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| John Alexander | 1 | 1971 | 0.8% | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | |
| William J. Bush Salmon | 1 | 1886 | 0.8% | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | |
| Ashley Campbell | 1 | 1912 | 0.8% | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | |
| Guy Forget | 1 | 1992 | 0.8% | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | |
| Tim Henman | 1 | 1998 | 0.8% | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | |
| R. Neill | 1 | 1919 | 0.8% | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | |
| John Newcombe | 1 | 1966 | 0.8% | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | |
| Jarkko Nieminen | 1 | 2009 | 0.8% | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | |
| Dinny Pails | 1 | 1946 | 0.8% | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | |
| Harry Parker | 1 | 1907 | 0.8% | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | |
| Bernard Tomic | 1 | 2014 | 0.8% | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | |
| Alex de Minaur | 1 | 2018 | 0.8% | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | |
| Charles W. Cropper | 1 | 1888 | 0.8% | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | |
| Phil Dent | 1 | 1974 | 0.8% | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | |
| John Fitzgerald | 1 | 1982 | 0.8% | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | |
| Gus Kearney | 1 | 1902 | 0.8% | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | |
| Rod Laver | 1 | 1969 | 0.8% | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | |
| Viktor Troicki | 1 | 2011 | 0.8% | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | |
| James Anderson | 1 | 1913 | 0.8% | 4 | 3 | 75.0% | |
| Henry R. Crossman | 1 | 1897 | 0.8% | 4 | 3 | 75.0% | |
| Granville G. Sharp | 1 | 1909 | 0.8% | 4 | 3 | 75.0% |
| Player | Finals Lost | Years | % of Total Finals | Finals Played | Finals Won | % of Finals Won | |
| 99. | Malcolm Anderson | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Marcos Baghdatis | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| James Blake | 0 | - | 0.0% | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | |
| Fritz Buehning | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Ross Case | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Arthur Gideon Hugh Colquhoun | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Ashley Cooper | 0 | - | 0.0% | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | |
| Jack Crawford | 0 | - | 0.0% | 7 | 7 | 100.0% | |
| Jack Cummings | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Albert Curtis | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Wilberforce Eaves | 0 | - | 0.0% | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | |
| Roger Federer | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Rex Hartwig | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Rodney Heath | 0 | - | 0.0% | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | |
| Lleyton Hewitt | 0 | - | 0.0% | 4 | 4 | 100.0% | |
| Lew Hoad | 0 | - | 0.0% | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | |
| Fred Kalms | 0 | - | 0.0% | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | |
| Aslan Karatsev | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Aaron Krickstein | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Karol Kučera | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Arthur Larsen | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Henri Leconte | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Hyung-taik Lee | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Henry Marsh | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Todd Martin | 0 | - | 0.0% | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | |
| Geoff Masters | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Patrick McEnroe | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Miloslav Mecir | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Daniil Medvedev | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Alex Metreveli | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Gilles Müller | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| David Nalbandian | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Yannick Noah | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Joakim Nyström | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Arthur O'Hara Wood | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Gerald Patterson | 0 | - | 0.0% | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | |
| Dennis Ralston | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Tony Roche | 0 | - | 0.0% | 4 | 4 | 100.0% | |
| Pete Sampras | 0 | - | 0.0% | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | |
| Vic Seixas | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Gilles Simon | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Fred Stolle | 0 | - | 0.0% | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | |
| Emilio Sánchez Vicario | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Roscoe Tanner | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Ronald Thomas | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Dmitry Tursunov | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Ellsworth Vines | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | |
| Tim Wilkison | 0 | - | 0.0% | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | |
| Juan Martín del Potro | 0 | - | 0.0% | 1 | 1 | 100.0% |