The ATP rankings are the Association of Tennis Professionals' (ATP) merit-based method for determining the rankings in men's tennis. The top-ranked player is the player who, over the previous 52 weeks, has garnered the most ATP-ranking points. Points are awarded based on how far a player advances in tournaments and the category of those tournaments. The ATP has used a computerized system for determining the rankings since August 23, 1973.[1] Starting in 1979, an updated rankings list is released at the beginning of each week.[2]
Since 1973, 26 men have been ranked No. 1 by the ATP,[3][4] of which 17 have been year-end No. 1. The current world number one is Roger Federer.[5]
Since the introduction rankings the method used to calculate a player's ranking points has changed several times. As of 2011, the rankings are calculated by totaling the points a player wins in his best eighteen tournaments, subject to certain restrictions. For top players the counting tournaments are the four Grand Slam tournaments, the eight mandatory ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments, the player's best four eligible ATP World Tour 500 series tournaments (the non-mandatory ATP Masters 1000 event in Monte Carlo may be substituted for one of these), and his best two results from ATP World Tour 250 series. Lower-ranked players who are not eligible for some or all of the top tournaments may include additional ATP 500 and ATP 250 events, and also ATP Challenger Series, and Futures Series tournaments. Players who qualify for the year-end ATP World Tour Finals also include any points gained at that tournament in their total, increasing the number of tournaments they may count to 19.[6]
Roger Federer holds the records for both the most total weeks at No. 1 (303 as of February 19, 2018) and most consecutive weeks at No. 1 (237).[7] Pete Sampras holds the record for the most year-end No. 1 rankings (six, all consecutive).[8][9] Patrick Rafter spent the least time at No. 1 (one week).
Lleyton Hewitt is both the youngest world No. 1 (20 years, 268 days) and youngest year-end No. 1,[10][11] while Rafael Nadal is the oldest year-end No. 1 (31 years, 211 days). Roger Federer is the oldest No. 1 (36 years, 195 days, as of February 19, 2018).[12]
Only four players have regained the year-end No. 1 ranking after having lost it: Lendl (1989), Federer (2009), Nadal (2010, 2013, & 2017), and Djokovic (2014). Nadal is the only player to have done this more than once.
Roger Federer is the ATP player with the longest time span between first and most recent dates at world No. 1 in the history of the ATP Tour. He regained the top ranking on February 19, 2018, more than fourteen years after first becoming No. 1 on February 2, 2004.[13]
Two players, Ivan Lendl and Marcelo Ríos, have reached No. 1 without previously having won a Grand Slam tournament.[14] Lendl reached No. 1 on February 21, 1983, but did not win his first Grand Slam title until the 1984 French Open.[15] Ríos reached No. 1 on March 30, 1998, but retired without ever having won a Grand Slam singles title, making him the only No. 1 player with that distinction.[16][17]
Since 1973 when the ATP rankings started, there have been twelve years in which one player held the top spot for the entire year: Jimmy Connors in 1975, 1976, and 1978; Ivan Lendl in 1986 and 1987; Pete Sampras in 1994 and 1997; Lleyton Hewitt in 2002; Roger Federer in 2005, 2006, and 2007; and Novak Djokovic in 2015. In contrast to this, 1999 saw five different players hold the No. 1 ranking (the most in any single year): Pete Sampras, Carlos Moya, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Andre Agassi, and Patrick Rafter.
John McEnroe held the No. 1 ranking on a record 14 different occasions, and Pete Sampras is the only other player to have held it on 10 or more occasions with 11 different stints.
No. | Country | Player | Start date | End date | Weeks | Total |
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1 | ROU | Ilie Năstase | August 23, 1973 | June 2, 1974 | 40 | 40 |
2 | AUS | John Newcombe | June 3, 1974 | July 28, 1974 | 8 | 8 |
3 | USA | Jimmy Connors | July 29, 1974 | August 22, 1977 | 160 | 160 |
4 | SWE | Björn Borg | August 23, 1977 | August 29, 1977 | 1 | 1 |
USA | Jimmy Connors (2/9) | August 30, 1977 | April 8, 1979 | 84 | 244 | |
SWE | Björn Borg (2/6) | April 9, 1979 | May 20, 1979 | 6 | 7 | |
USA | Jimmy Connors (3/9) | May 21, 1979 | July 8, 1979 | 7 | 251 | |
SWE | Björn Borg (3/6) | July 9, 1979 | March 2, 1980 | 34 | 41 | |
5 | USA | John McEnroe | March 3, 1980 | March 23, 1980 | 3 | 3 |
SWE | Björn Borg (4/6) | March 24, 1980 | August 10, 1980 | 20 | 61 | |
USA | John McEnroe (2/14) | August 11, 1980 | August 17, 1980 | 1 | 4 | |
SWE | Björn Borg (5/6) | August 18, 1980 | July 5, 1981 | 46 | 107 | |
USA | John McEnroe (3/14) | July 6, 1981 | July 19, 1981 | 2 | 6 | |
SWE | Björn Borg (6/6) | July 20, 1981 | August 2, 1981 | 2 | 109 | |
USA | John McEnroe (4/14) | August 3, 1981 | September 12, 1982 | 58 | 64 | |
USA | Jimmy Connors (4/9) | September 13, 1982 | October 31, 1982 | 7 | 258 | |
USA | John McEnroe (5/14) | November 1, 1982 | November 7, 1982 | 1 | 65 | |
USA | Jimmy Connors (5/9) | November 8, 1982 | November 14, 1982 | 1 | 259 | |
USA | John McEnroe (6/14) | November 15, 1982 | January 30, 1983 | 11 | 76 | |
USA | Jimmy Connors (6/9) | January 31, 1983 | February 6, 1983 | 1 | 260 | |
USA | John McEnroe (7/14) | February 7, 1983 | February 13, 1983 | 1 | 77 | |
USA | Jimmy Connors (7/9) | February 14, 1983 | February 27, 1983 | 2 | 262 | |
6 | TCH | Ivan Lendl | February 28, 1983 | May 15, 1983 | 11 | 11 |
USA | Jimmy Connors (8/9) | May 16, 1983 | June 5, 1983 | 3 | 265 | |
USA | John McEnroe (8/14) | June 6, 1983 | June 12, 1983 | 1 | 78 | |
USA | Jimmy Connors (9/9) | June 13, 1983 | July 3, 1983 | 3 | 268 | |
USA | John McEnroe (9/14) | July 4, 1983 | October 30, 1983 | 17 | 95 | |
TCH | Ivan Lendl (2/8) | October 31, 1983 | December 11, 1983 | 6 | 17 | |
USA | John McEnroe (10/14) | December 12, 1983 | January 8, 1984 | 4 | 99 | |
TCH | Ivan Lendl (3/8) | January 9, 1984 | March 11, 1984 | 9 | 26 | |
USA | John McEnroe (11/14) | March 12, 1984 | June 10, 1984 | 13 | 112 | |
TCH | Ivan Lendl (4/8) | June 11, 1984 | June 17, 1984 | 1 | 27 | |
USA | John McEnroe (12/14) | June 18, 1984 | July 8, 1984 | 3 | 115 | |
TCH | Ivan Lendl (5/8) | July 9, 1984 | August 12, 1984 | 5 | 32 | |
USA | John McEnroe (13/14) | August 13, 1984 | August 18, 1985 | 53 | 168 | |
TCH | Ivan Lendl (6/8) | August 19, 1985 | August 25, 1985 | 1 | 33 | |
USA | John McEnroe (14/14) | August 26, 1985 | September 8, 1985 | 2 | 170 | |
TCH | Ivan Lendl (7/8) | September 9, 1985 | September 11, 1988 | 157 | 190 | |
7 | SWE | Mats Wilander | September 12, 1988 | January 29, 1989 | 20 | 20 |
TCH | Ivan Lendl (8/8) | January 30, 1989 | August 12, 1990 | 80 | 270 | |
8 | SWE | Stefan Edberg | August 13, 1990 | January 27, 1991 | 24 | 24 |
9 | GER | Boris Becker | January 28, 1991 | February 17, 1991 | 3 | 3 |
SWE | Stefan Edberg (2/5) | February 18, 1991 | July 7, 1991 | 20 | 44 | |
GER | Boris Becker (2/2) | July 8, 1991 | September 8, 1991 | 9 | 12 | |
SWE | Stefan Edberg (3/5) | September 9, 1991 | February 9, 1992 | 22 | 66 | |
10 | USA | Jim Courier | February 10, 1992 | March 22, 1992 | 6 | 6 |
SWE | Stefan Edberg (4/5) | March 23, 1992 | April 12, 1992 | 3 | 69 | |
USA | Jim Courier (2/4) | April 13, 1992 | September 13, 1992 | 22 | 28 | |
SWE | Stefan Edberg (5/5) | September 14, 1992 | October 4, 1992 | 3 | 72 | |
USA | Jim Courier (3/4) | October 5, 1992 | April 11, 1993 | 27 | 55 | |
11 | USA | Pete Sampras | April 12, 1993 | August 22, 1993 | 19 | 19 |
USA | Jim Courier (4/4) | August 23, 1993 | September 12, 1993 | 3 | 58 | |
USA | Pete Sampras (2/11) | September 13, 1993 | April 9, 1995 | 82 | 101 | |
12 | USA | Andre Agassi | April 10, 1995 | November 5, 1995 | 30 | 30 |
USA | Pete Sampras (3/11) | November 6, 1995 | January 28, 1996 | 12 | 113 | |
USA | Andre Agassi (2/6) | January 29, 1996 | February 11, 1996 | 2 | 32 | |
13 | AUT | Thomas Muster | February 12, 1996 | February 18, 1996 | 1 | 1 |
USA | Pete Sampras (4/11) | February 19, 1996 | March 10, 1996 | 3 | 116 | |
AUT | Thomas Muster (2/2) | March 11, 1996 | April 14, 1996 | 5 | 6 | |
USA | Pete Sampras (5/11) | April 15, 1996 | March 29, 1998 | 102 | 218 | |
14 | CHI | Marcelo Ríos | March 30, 1998 | April 26, 1998 | 4 | 4 |
USA | Pete Sampras (6/11) | April 27, 1998 | August 9, 1998 | 15 | 233 | |
CHI | Marcelo Ríos (2/2) | August 10, 1998 | August 23, 1998 | 2 | 6 | |
USA | Pete Sampras (7/11) | August 24, 1998 | March 14, 1999 | 29 | 262 | |
15 | ESP | Carlos Moyá | March 15, 1999 | March 28, 1999 | 2 | 2 |
USA | Pete Sampras (8/11) | March 29, 1999 | May 2, 1999 | 5 | 267 | |
16 | RUS | Yevgeny Kafelnikov | May 3, 1999 | June 13, 1999 | 6 | 6 |
USA | Pete Sampras (9/11) | June 14, 1999 | July 4, 1999 | 3 | 270 | |
USA | Andre Agassi (3/6) | July 5, 1999 | July 25, 1999 | 3 | 35 | |
17 | AUS | Patrick Rafter | July 26, 1999 | August 1, 1999 | 1 | 1 |
USA | Pete Sampras (10/11) | August 2, 1999 | September 12, 1999 | 6 | 276 | |
USA | Andre Agassi (4/6) | September 13, 1999 | September 10, 2000 | 52 | 87 | |
USA | Pete Sampras (11/11) | September 11, 2000 | November 19, 2000 | 10 | 286 | |
18 | RUS | Marat Safin | November 20, 2000 | December 3, 2000 | 2 | 2 |
19 | BRA | Gustavo Kuerten | December 4, 2000 | January 28, 2001 | 8 | 8 |
RUS | Marat Safin (2/3) | January 29, 2001 | February 25, 2001 | 4 | 6 | |
BRA | Gustavo Kuerten (2/3) | February 26, 2001 | April 1, 2001 | 5 | 13 | |
RUS | Marat Safin (3/3) | April 2, 2001 | April 22, 2001 | 3 | 9 | |
BRA | Gustavo Kuerten (3/3) | April 23, 2001 | November 18, 2001 | 30 | 43 | |
20 | AUS | Lleyton Hewitt | November 19, 2001 | April 27, 2003 | 75 | 75 |
USA | Andre Agassi (5/6) | April 28, 2003 | May 11, 2003 | 2 | 89 | |
AUS | Lleyton Hewitt (2/2) | May 12, 2003 | June 15, 2003 | 5 | 80 | |
USA | Andre Agassi (6/6) | June 16, 2003 | September 7, 2003 | 12 | 101 | |
21 | ESP | Juan Carlos Ferrero | September 8, 2003 | November 2, 2003 | 8 | 8 |
22 | USA | Andy Roddick | November 3, 2003 | February 1, 2004 | 13 | 13 |
23 | SUI | Roger Federer | February 2, 2004 | August 17, 2008 | 237 ‡ | 237 |
24 | ESP | Rafael Nadal | August 18, 2008 | July 5, 2009 | 46 | 46 |
SUI | Roger Federer (2/4) | July 6, 2009 | June 6, 2010 | 48 | 285 | |
ESP | Rafael Nadal (2/4) | June 7, 2010 | July 3, 2011 | 56 | 102 | |
25 | SRB | Novak Djokovic | July 4, 2011 | July 8, 2012 | 53 | 53 |
SUI | Roger Federer (3/4) | July 9, 2012 | November 4, 2012 | 17 | 302 | |
SRB | Novak Djokovic (2/3) | November 5, 2012 | October 6, 2013 | 48 | 101 | |
ESP | Rafael Nadal (3/4) | October 7, 2013 | July 6, 2014 | 39 | 141 | |
SRB | Novak Djokovic (3/3) | July 7, 2014 | November 6, 2016 | 122 | 223 | |
26 | GBR | Andy Murray | November 7, 2016 | August 20, 2017 | 41 | 41 |
ESP | Rafael Nadal (4/4) | August 21, 2017 | February 18, 2018 | 26 | 167 | |
SUI | Roger Federer (4/4) | February 19, 2018 | Present | 1 | 303 ‡ |
Current No. 1 player as of February 19, 2018[update][18][19] | |
‡ | ATP Ranking record |
The table on the left shows the total number of weeks that each player has been ranked No. 1 in their career by the ATP.[7]
The table on the right shows the number of consecutive weeks that each indicated player has been ranked No. 1 by the ATP. [7]
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Country | No. of players |
No. of weeks |
Players | Ref | |
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1. | United States | 6 | 896 | Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Jim Courier, Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick | [20] |
2. | Switzerland | 1 | 303 | Roger Federer ‡ | [20] |
3. | Czechoslovakia | 1 | 270 | Ivan Lendl | [20] |
4. | Serbia | 1 | 223 | Novak Djokovic | [20] |
5. | Sweden | 3 | 201 | Björn Borg, Mats Wilander, Stefan Edberg | [20] |
6. | Spain | 3 | 177 | Carlos Moyá, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Rafael Nadal | [20] |
7. | Australia | 3 | 89 | John Newcombe, Patrick Rafter, Lleyton Hewitt | [20] |
8. | Brazil | 1 | 43 | Gustavo Kuerten | [20] |
9. | United Kingdom | 1 | 41 | Andy Murray | [20] |
10. | Romania | 1 | 40 | Ilie Năstase | [20] |
11. | Russia | 2 | 15 | Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Marat Safin | [20] |
12. | Germany | 1 | 12 | Boris Becker | [20] |
13. | Austria | 1 | 6 | Thomas Muster | [20] |
Chile | 1 | 6 | Marcelo Ríos | [20] |
The ATP year-end No. 1 ranked player is determined as the player at the head of the ATP rankings following the completion of the final tournament of the calendar year, usually in November or December. Pete Sampras holds the record of six year-end No. 1 rankings, which were in consecutive years from 1993 through 1998.
Six players have stayed at ATP No. 1 in the rankings every week of a calendar year. Roger Federer is the only player to have been ranked No. 1 every week for three consecutive calendar years.
Only four players (Ivan Lendl, Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal) have achieved multiple year-end No. 1 rankings in non-consecutive years.
(1) | Time as year-end number 1/Total times as year-end number 1 |
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§ | Ranked number 1 during every week of the calendar year |
‡ | Active players [21][22] |
No. | Player | Time span | Date first held No. 1 ranking | Date last held No. 1 ranking | |
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1. | Roger Federer | 20 years, 195 days | February 2, 2004 | present | |
2. | Rafael Nadal | 9 years, 184 days | August 18, 2008 | February 18, 2018 | |
3. | Jimmy Connors | 8 years, 339 days | July 29, 1974 | July 3, 1983 | |
4. | Andre Agassi | 8 years, 150 days | April 10, 1995 | September 7, 2003 | |
5. | Pete Sampras | 7 years, 221 days | April 12, 1993 | November 19, 2000 | |
6. | Ivan Lendl | 7 years, 165 days | February 28, 1983 | August 12, 1990 | |
7. | John McEnroe | 5 years, 189 days | March 3, 1980 | September 8, 1985 | |
8. | Novak Djokovic | 5 years, 125 days | July 4, 2011 | November 6, 2016 | |
9. | Björn Borg | 3 years, 344 days | August 23, 1977 | August 2, 1981 | |
10. | Stefan Edberg | 2 years, 52 days | August 13, 1990 | October 4, 1992 | |
11. | Jim Courier | 1 year, 214 days | February 10, 1992 | September 12, 1993 | |
12. | Lleyton Hewitt | 1 year, 208 days | November 19, 2001 | June 15, 2003 | |
13. | Gustavo Kuerten | 349 days | December 4, 2000 | November 18, 2001 | |
14. | Andy Murray | 286 days | November 7, 2016 | August 20, 2017 | |
15. | Ilie Năstase | 283 days | August 23, 1973 | June 2, 1974 | |
16. | Boris Becker | 223 days | January 28, 1991 | September 8, 1991 | |
17. | Marat Safin | 153 days | November 20, 2000 | April 22, 2001 | |
18. | Marcelo Ríos | 146 days | March 30, 1998 | August 23, 1998 | |
19. | Mats Wilander | 139 days | September 12, 1988 | January 29, 1989 | |
20. | Andy Roddick | 90 days | November 3, 2003 | February 1, 2004 | |
21. | Thomas Muster | 62 days | February 12, 1996 | April 14, 1996 | |
22. | John Newcombe | 55 days | June 3, 1974 | July 28, 1974 | |
Juan Carlos Ferrero | 55 days | September 8, 2003 | November 2, 2003 | ||
24. | Yevgeny Kafelnikov | 41 days | May 3, 1999 | June 13, 1999 | |
25. | Carlos Moyá | 13 days | March 15, 1999 | March 28, 1999 | |
26. | Patrick Rafter | 6 days | July 26, 1999 | August 1, 1999 | |
Current No. 1 player as of February 19, 2018[update] |
No. | Player | Time span | Date of first becoming No. 1 | Date of last becoming No. 1 |
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1. | Roger Federer | 14 years, 17 days | February 2, 2004 | February 19, 2018 |
2. | Rafael Nadal | 9 years, 3 days | August 18, 2008 | August 21, 2017 |
3. | Jimmy Connors | 8 years, 319 days | July 29, 1974 | June 13, 1983 |
4. | Andre Agassi | 8 years, 67 days | April 10, 1995 | June 16, 2003 |
5. | Pete Sampras | 7 years, 152 days | April 12, 1993 | September 11, 2000 |
6. | Ivan Lendl | 5 years, 337 days | February 28, 1983 | January 30, 1989 |
7. | John McEnroe | 5 years, 176 days | March 3, 1980 | August 26, 1985 |
8. | Björn Borg | 3 years, 331 days | August 23, 1977 | July 20, 1981 |
9. | Novak Djokovic | 3 years, 3 days | July 4, 2011 | July 7, 2014 |
10. | Stefan Edberg | 2 years, 32 days | August 13, 1990 | September 14, 1992 |
11. | Jim Courier | 1 year, 194 days | February 10, 1992 | August 23, 1993 |
12. | Lleyton Hewitt | 1 year, 174 days | November 19, 2001 | May 12, 2003 |
13. | Boris Becker | 161 days | January 28, 1991 | July 8, 1991 |
14. | Gustavo Kuerten | 140 days | December 4, 2000 | April 23, 2001 |
15. | Marcelo Ríos | 133 days | March 30, 1998 | August 10, 1998 |
Marat Safin | 133 days | November 20, 2000 | April 2, 2001 | |
17. | Thomas Muster | 28 days | February 12, 1996 | March 11, 1996 |
Player | Date of first No. 1 position | First Grand Slam final reached | First Grand Slam title | Ref |
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Ivan Lendl | February 28, 1983 | 1981 French Open (June 1981) (1st of 19) | 1984 French Open (1st of 8) | |
Marcelo Ríos | March 30, 1998 | 1998 Australian Open (January 1998) | None (retired in 2004) | [14] |
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Became first player in ATP Rankings history to finish No. 1 for six consecutive years.
[Y]oungest player (20 yrs., 8 mos.)...to finish No. 1 in history of ATP Rankings.
Rios...is the first man to earn the ranking without winning a Grand Slam tournament since Ivan Lendl in 1983.
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Nastase...finished the 1973 season No. 1 in the world.
He was clearly No. 1, a status he enjoyed from July 1974, for 159 straight weeks...
Jimmy Connors was No. 1 for 160 straight weeks, from July 1974 to August 1977.
Only five other players – Stefan Edberg (1990–91), Ivan Lendl (1985–87), John McEnroe (1981–84), Bjorn Borg (1979–80) and Jimmy Connors (1974–78) – have achieved the mighty feat.
In 1988, [Wilander] won a five-set endurance contest, breaking a six-match losing streak to Lendl. The win interrupted Lendl's three-year reign as world No. 1...
Edberg, the No. 1 player at the end of 1990 and 1991.
[Kuerten] is the first non-American to finish on top since the Swede Stefan Edberg in 1991.
Jim Courier became the first American since John McEnroe in 1984 to finish the year as the No. 1 tennis player in the world...(subscription required)
1997 — Ranked No. 1 every week throughout year for second time (1994)
[I]n 1999 he won the French Open title, the only Major that had eluded him. He finished the year ranked No. 1 in the world for the first and only time in his career.
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