{"id":17031,"date":"2021-03-01T17:54:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=96634"},"modified":"2021-03-01T17:54:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:24:21","slug":"novak-djokovic-ties-roger-federers-record-of-310-weeks-as-atp-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/novak-djokovic-ties-roger-federers-record-of-310-weeks-as-atp-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic ties Roger Federer\u2019s record of 310 weeks as ATP No.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Novak Djokovic equalled Roger Federer\u2019s record for the most weeks as ATP world number one on Monday, holding the spot for the 310th week. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Serb\u2019s ninth Australian Open title win last month ensured the 18-time Grand Slam champion will surpass Federer\u2019s record next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Djokovic reclaimed the top ranking from Rafael Nadal in February 2020 and finished as year-end number one for the sixth time, equalling the mark set by Pete Sampras.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This is Djokovic\u2019s fifth different time ranking number one. He spent 122 consecutive weeks as number one between July 2014 and November 2016. The record is currently held by Federer which is 237 consecutive weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The only major change in the top 20 saw David Goffin who won his first title in over three years at Montpellier on Sunday rise one spot to 14th place as Milos Raonic was pushed one step down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">ATP rankings as of March 1:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">1. Novak Djokovic (SRB)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">2. Rafael Nadal (ESP)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">3. Daniil Medvedev (RUS)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">4. Dominic Thiem (AUT)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">5. Roger Federer (SUI)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">6. Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">7. Alexander Zverev (GER)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">8. Andrey Rublev (RUS)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">9. Diego Schwartzman (ARG)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">10. Matteo Berrettini (ITA)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">11. Denis Shapovalov (CAN)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">12. Gael Monfils (FRA)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">13. Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">14. David Goffin (BEL)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">15. Milos Raonic (CAN)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">16. Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">17. Grigor Dimitrov (BUL)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">18. Fabio Fognini (ITA)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic equalled Roger Federer\u2019s record for the most weeks as ATP world number one on Monday, holding the spot\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":37778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[689,203,336,331,202],"class_list":["post-17031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-roger-federer","tag-tennis"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}