The 7 men with the most Olympic match wins: Novak Djokovic No 1, Andy Murray with a near perfect record

Shahida Jacobs
Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray with their Olympic medals
Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray have won Olympic gold medals

Novak Djokovic leads the way for most matches played and won at the Olympic Games, but he doesn’t have the best winning percentage as three players have 100% records.

24-time Grand Slam winner Djokovic claimed his first-ever gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics on his fifth appearance at the Games, so unsurprisingly he leads the way for most matches played as he sits on 25.

Djokovic’s tally increased by six matches after this year’s Olympics at Roland Garros as he moved further ahead of Roger Federer, who is second with 18, while Kei Nishikori is third with 16. Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal are next best with 14 each, followed by Fernando Gonzalez and Juan Martin del Potro.

Of the seven players with the most matches played at the Olympics, only Djokovic and Nishikori featured in the singles at Paris 2024.

As for match wins, Djokovic now leads the way, having been tied with Federer prior to Paris 2024, 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:

=6. Fernando Gonzalez, Juan Martin del Potro – 10 matches

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.

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=4. Kei Nishikori, Rafael Nadal – 11 matches

The 2024 Paris Games was Kei Nishikori’s fourth Olympics after 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 to claim the bronze, while he reached the quarters in London and Tokyo, and exited in the first round in Paris.

Rafael Nadal went all the way for Spain as he won gold at the 2008 Beijing Games with victory over Gonzalez, while he was beaten in the semi-final of the 2016 Rio Olympics by Del Potro.

The Spaniard was a gold medalist in doubles in Rio, before making what was likely his last appearance at the Games in Paris in 2024, where he lost in the second round in singles and the quarter-finals in doubles.

3. Andy Murray – 12 matches

Andy Murray has played 13 singles 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.

2. Roger Federer – 13 matches

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.

1. Novak Djokovic – 19 matches

Novak Djokovic’s record 19 match wins at the Olympics are spread across Games appearances in 2008, 2012, 2021 and 2024.

After winning bronze in Beijing, Djokovic finished fourth at the London Games, exited in the first round at the 2016 Rio Games, finished fourth again at the Tokyo Games, before winning gold at the Paris Games.