Novak Djokovic leads the way for most matches played at the Olympics while he also jointly holds the record for most matches won at the Games, but he doesn’t have the best winning percentage as quite a few players have 100% records.
24-time Grand Slam winner Djokovic is part of Serbia’s squad at Paris 2024 and he will be gunning for his first-ever gold medal at the Olympics with his best performance to date a bronze medal, which he won in the singles at the 2008 Beijing Games.
Djokovic will be making his fifth appearance at the Olympics so unsurprisingly he leads the way for most matches played as he sits on 19.
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That tally will increase at Roland Garros this year as he will move further away from Roger Federer, who is second with 18 while Kei Nishikori is third with 15. Andy Murray is next best with 14 followed by Fernando Gonzalez, Juan Martin del Potro and Rafael Nadal.
Of the seven players with the most matches played at the Olympics, only Djokovic and Nishikori will feature in the singles at Paris 2024.
As for match wins, Djokovic tops the list alongside Federer while two-time singles gold medalist Murray has a near-perfect perfect record at the Olympics.
The 7 men with the most Olympic match wins:
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=5. Fernando Gonzalez, Juan Martin del Potro, Rafael Nadal – 10
Fernando Gonzalez represented Chile at two Olympic Games and he won three medals (two in the singles and one in the men’s doubles). At the 2004 Athens Games he won bronze in the singles and four years later he finished runner-up to Nadal in the final at the 2008 Beijing Games.
Argentine Juan Martin del Potro also competed at two Olympics and he medalled on both occasions as at the 2012 London Games he beat Djokovic in the bronze medal match and then finished runner-up to Murray at the 2016 Rio Games.
Rafael Nadal went all the way for Spain as he won gold at the 2004 Athens Games with victory over Gonzalez while he was beaten in the semi-final of the 2016 Rio Olympics by Del Potro.
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4. Kei Nishikori – 11 matches
The 2024 Paris Games will be Kei Nishikori’s fourth Olympics as he also featured at London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. His only medal came in Brazil where he beat Nadal in the third-place play-off while he reached the quarters at the two other Games.
3. Andy Murray – 12 matches
Andy Murray has played 13 matches at the Olympics and he has won 12 of them. His only defeat came at his first-ever match at the Games as he was stunned by Lu Yen-hsun in the first round of the 2008 Beijing Games.
He followed that up with gold at the 2012 London Games and gold at the 2016 Rio Games while he missed the 2020 Tokyo Games due to injury. Murray won’t add to his tally as he will only play in the doubles at the Paris Games.
Murray’s winning percentage of 92.31% is not the best though as Alexander Zverev, Andre Agassi, Miloslav Mecir and Yevgeny Kafelnikov have 100% records, but they all only played at one Olympic Games.
=1. Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer – 13 matches
Novak Djokovic’s 13 match wins to date came from three Olympic Games while Roger Federer’s came from four.
After winning bronze in Beijing, Djokovic finished fourth at the London Games, exited in the first round at the Rio Games and finished fourth again at the Tokyo Games.
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Federer does have an Olympic gold medal to his name, but he won the men’s doubles alongside Stan Wawrinka at the Beijing Games in 2008.
The 20-time Grand Slam winner finished fourth at the Sydney Games, exited in the second round at the Athens 2004, lost in the quarter-final at Beijing 2008 and then finished runner-up to Murray at London 2012.