As of 1 January 1981 |
Rk |
Name |
Nation |
1 |
Björn Borg |
|
2 |
John McEnroe |
|
3 |
Jimmy Connors |
|
4 |
Gene Mayer |
|
5 |
Guillermo Vilas |
|
6 |
Ivan Lendl |
|
7 |
Harold Solomon |
|
8 |
José Luis Clerc |
|
9 |
Vitas Gerulaitis |
|
10 |
Eliot Teltscher |
|
11 |
Brian Gottfried |
|
12 |
Brian Teacher |
|
13 |
Eddie Dibbs |
|
14 |
Roscoe Tanner |
|
15 |
Wojtek Fibak |
|
16 |
John Sadri |
|
17 |
Victor Amaya |
|
18 |
Johan Kriek |
|
19 |
Balázs Taróczy |
|
20 |
Vijay Amritraj |
|
|
Year-end rankings (December 1981) |
Rk |
Name |
Nation |
Points |
High |
Low |
Change |
1 |
John McEnroe |
|
|
|
|
+1 |
2 |
Ivan Lendl |
|
|
|
|
+4 |
3 |
Jimmy Connors |
|
|
|
|
= |
4 |
Björn Borg |
|
|
|
|
–3 |
5 |
José Luis Clerc |
|
|
|
|
+3 |
6 |
Guillermo Vilas |
|
|
|
|
–1 |
7 |
Gene Mayer |
|
|
|
|
–3 |
8 |
Eliot Teltscher |
|
|
|
|
+2 |
9 |
Vitas Gerulaitis |
|
|
|
|
= |
10 |
Peter McNamara |
|
|
|
|
+10 |
11 |
Roscoe Tanner |
|
|
|
|
+3 |
12 |
Yannick Noah |
|
|
|
|
+11 |
13 |
Johan Kriek |
|
|
|
|
+5 |
14 |
Sandy Mayer |
|
|
|
|
+38 |
15 |
Balázs Taróczy |
|
|
|
|
+4 |
16 |
Brian Teacher |
|
|
|
|
-4 |
17 |
Víctor Pecci |
|
|
|
|
+18 |
18 |
Wojtek Fibak |
|
|
|
|
–3 |
19 |
Brian Gottfried |
|
|
|
|
–8 |
20 |
Mark Edmondson |
|
|
|
|
+82 |
|