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Surpassing Gorritepe
Kaspar's Coronation
The title of this section is not an accident. All debate is now over as to who is the GOAT. It's already been cataloged that he has the two best seasons in history, the longest string of Slam success, etc. Here are the relevant shortlists:
Slam Titles
1. Mateo Kaspar - 26
2. Eric Gorritepe - 23
3. Nicholas Sullivan - 17
4. Martin Prieto - 16
5. Antonin Iglar - 14
6. Oliver Haresign - 11
WTF Titles
1. Mateo Kaspar - 9
2. Eric Gorritepe - 6
3. Martin Prieto - 5
4(t). Antonin Iglar - 4
4(t). Marcelo Rios - 4
This one in particular is just ridiculous. Half-again better than anyone else. Nobody but Mateo has won the year-end event in almost a full decade. This last year he was just a few weeks younger than Gorritepe's record for the oldest to win the title there. I'm not betting against him setting that mark with a 10th crown this season.
Masters Titles
1. Mateo Kaspar - 55
2. Eric Gorritepe - 52
3(t). Antonin Iglar - 32
3(t). Nicholas Sullivan - 32
5. Martin Prieto - 30
6. Oliver Haresign - 23
This is where his legacy was dented the most this year. Of course it's still just a matter of how high his record goes. And we might just mention here that he's the first ... ever ... to win multiple Olympic singles golds. Just for some icing on the cake.
Weeks at #1
1. Eric Gorritepe - 393
2. Mateo Kaspar - 391
3. Martin Prieto - 340
4. Nicholas Sullivan - 304
5. Antonin Iglar - 247
6. Oliver Haresign - 228
This might be the best record of them all, and it's guaranteed to fall. There's no way he loses the top spot until at least after the Australian Open, at which point he'll have added a minimum of four to his mark.
Prize Money
1. Martin Prieto - $122.9M
2. Eric Gorritepe - $105M
3. Mateo Kaspar - $96.6M
4. Oliver Haresign - $82.5M
5. Marcelo Rios - $80.0M
6. Nicholas Sullivan - $78.4M
7. Antonin Iglar -- $78.3M
Soon he will become the sport's third $100 million-dollar man, long held as a cross-world standard of greatness.
What more is there to be said? Mateo stands alone at the pinnacle, the standard by which all future legends will be judged. I expect it will be decades anyone sees the like of him again.
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