Tennis-X Stat Freak: 2005 WTA Championships, Masters Cup

WTA CHAMPIONSHIPS MULTIPLE WINNERS
This week Maria Sharapova attempts to join Kim Clijsters as the only other active player with multiple titles at the WTA Championships, where Martina Navratilova is head and shoulders above the crowd with a seemingly-untouchable 10 doubles and eight singles titles. Navratilova and her namesake Martina Hingis are the only players to win multiple singles and doubles titles at the year-end championships:

10--Martina Navratilova/Pam Shriver, USA (1991,'89-81) *
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8--Martina Navratilova, USA (1986-83,'81,'79-78)
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5--Steffi Graf, GER (1996-95,'93,'89,'87)
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4--Chris Evert, USA (1977,'75,'73-72)
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3--Monica Seles, USA (1992-90)
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2--Kim Clijsters, BEL (2003-02)
2--Gigi Fernandez/Natasha Zvereva, USA/BLR (1994-93)
2--Martina Hingis, SUI (2000,'98)
2--Martina Hingis/Anna Kournikova, SUI/USA (2000-99) *
2--Evonne Goolagong, AUS (1976,'74)
2--Gabriela Sabatini, ARG (1994,'88)

* Martina Navratilova (five times) and Martina Hingis (once) are the only players to win the singles and doubles titles in the same year.


ATP MASTERS CUP MULTIPLE TITLE WINNERS
Roger Federer looks to become only the fifth player to win more than two Masters Cup titles, while the Bryan Brothers look to join doubles legends Fleming/McEnroe as the only teams to win more than two season-ending titles:

7--Peter Fleming/John McEnroe, USA (1984-78) *
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5--Ivan Lendl, USA (1987-85,'82-81)
5--Pete Sampras, USA (1999,'97'96,'94,'91)
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4--Ilie Nastase, ROM (1975,'73-71)
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3--Boris Becker, GER (1995,'92,'88)
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2--Bjorn Borg, SWE (1980-79)
2--Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan, USA (2004-03)
2--Stefan Edberg/Anders Jarryd, SWE (1986-85)
2--Jacco Eltingh/Paul Haarhuis, NED (1998,'93)
2--Roger Federer, SUI (2004-03)
2--Lleyton Hewitt, AUS (2002-01)
2--John McEnroe, USA (1984-83)
2--Todd Woodbridge/Mark Woodforde, AUS (1996,'92)

* John McEnroe (1984-83) is the only player to win the singles and doubles titles in the same year.

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