Williams v Clijsters

Kim Clijsters takes it, 12–3 on categories

Clijsters wins on titles. Williams’s case rests on grand slam titles, but it isn’t enough to swing it. WTA Tour career: Williams 1,096 matches, Clijsters 611 matches.

• Williams has 7 grand slam titles (one every 33.3 matches) to Clijsters’ 4 grand slam titles (one every 50 matches).
• Clijsters has 41 titles (one every 14.3 matches) to Williams’ 48 titles (one every 16.7 matches).
• Williams averages 3.1 aces a match to Clijsters’ 1.2 — 2.5 times as many.
• Winners’ edge: Clijsters’s team won 79%, Williams’s teams won 73% of the matches they played.
• Longevity: Williams has 1,096 matches across 33 seasons, Clijsters 611 in 15 — the averages matter more than the totals here.
• Not every stat was recorded for every match (grand slam titles): those averages use only the games that logged them.

Built only from games in our stats database. A read of the numbers, not a tip.