Honorable Mentions
There are seven more active men’s players who have two of the three above criteria, including three current Top 10 players.
Case in point Casper Ruud, who’s currently ranked No. 6. The Norwegian hasn’t won a “big” title, his biggest title to date coming at the ATP 500 event in Barcelona this year, but he’s reached three Grand Slam finals—Roland Garros and the US Open in 2022 and Roland Garros again in 2023—and has made it as high as No. 2 on the ATP rankings. He also reached the ATP Finals final in 2022.
There’s also world No. 8 Andrey Rublev, who’s been ranked as high as No. 5 and has two Masters 1000 titles, at Monte Carlo in 2023 and Madrid in 2024, but has yet to reach a major final—he’s been to 10 major quarterfinals, though (including at least one at each major).
And Grigor Dimitrov, the current world No. 10, is only missing a Grand Slam final—he’s been to three Grand Slam semifinals, though. He also has two big titles, both in 2017—he won his first Masters 1000 event in Cincinnati that year, as well as the ATP Finals. He’s also been ranked as high as No. 3 in the world.
A little further down, No. 13-ranked Holger Rune has a big title (the Masters 1000 event in Paris in 2022) and has been up to No. 4, but his best Grand Slam results so far are three quarterfinals.
And finally, three former top players who’ve been in and out of action over the last few years due to injury, all of whom are just missing a big title. Milos Raonic, a former No. 3 and 2016 Wimbledon finalist, hasn’t played since the summer due to a shoulder injury. Kevin Anderson, a former No. 5 and two-time major finalist at the 2017 US Open and 2018 Wimbledon, came out of retirement in 2023, but hasn’t played in over a year at this point. And Kei Nishikori, a former No. 4 and 2014 US Open finalist, who’s had quite the comeback season—he returned from injury in March ranked No. 351 and climbed almost 250 spots in his first eight months back, finishing the year just outside the Top 100 at No. 106.
