Performance Timeline For Major Tournaments
As an amateur player, Pancho Gonzales won at least 17 singles titles, including 2 Grand Slam tournaments. As a professional player, he won at least 85 singles titles, including 15 Pro Slam tournaments; at the same time he was banned from competing in the Grand Slam events from 1950 to 1967 due to being a professional player. During this professional period, he won 7 times the World Pro Tour'. The Open Era arrived very late for Gonzales, by which time he was in his forties. Even at this advanced age he was able to win at least 11 singles titles. Overall Gonzales won at least 113 titles in his successful career in a span of 25 years.
Performance Timeline:
| Titles / Played | Career W-L | Career Win % | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Slam Tournaments | Amateur | Professional | Open Era | 2 / 17 | 44–15 | 74.58 | |||||||||||||||
| Australian | A | A | A | Unable to compete | 3R | A | A | A | A | 0 / 1 | 2–1 | 66.67 | |||||||||
| French | A | A | SF | Unable to compete | SF | A | A | A | A | A | 0 / 2 | 9–2 | 81.82 | ||||||||
| Wimbledon | A | A | 4R | Unable to compete | 3R | 4R | A | 2R | 2R | A | 0 / 5 | 10–5 | 66.67 | ||||||||
| U.S. | 2R | W | W | Unable to compete | QF | 4R | 3R | 3R | 1R | 1R | 2 / 9 | 23–7 | 76.67 | ||||||||
| Pro Slam Tournaments | Professional | 15 / 31 | 78–16 | 82.98 | |||||||||||||||||
| French Pro | NH | F | NH | SF | A | A | F | A | A | SF | A | A | A | 0 / 4 | 7–4 | 63.64 | |||||
| Wembley Pro | W | W | W | F | NH | W | SF | SF | A | A | SF | A | A | SF | A | A | A | 4 / 9 | 22–5 | 81.48 | |
| U.S. Pro | A | 2nd | F | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | A | W | A | QF | F | SF | A | A | 8 / 13 | 31–5 | 86.11 |
| Tournament of Champions | NH | W | W | W | F | NH | 3 / 4 | 18–1 | 94.74 | ||||||||||||
| Wimbledon Pro | NH | QF | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| Total: | 17 / 48 | 122–31 | 79.74 | ||||||||||||||||||
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