Most Weeks Number One Tennis. Below the list of the players with the most weeks as number one in the ATP World Rankings in tennis. Here is the list of the 26 players that have reached the number one rankings at the mens ATP World Tour. The list shows most weeks number one tennis, the max consecutive weeks each players had as number one and how many times they have been year end number one on the ATP World Tour Rankings.
Roger Federer is the player with the most weeks at the top (308) and also the player with most consecutive weeks at the top of the rankings (237). In total there has been 17 players ending the year as number one. Here American Pete Sampras holds the record with 6 years as year end number one, followed by Federer and Connors with 5 times and Ivan Lendl, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and John McEnroe at 4.
In 2017 Rafael Nadal finished the year as the oldest year end number one ever. It was for the 4th time in his career and Nadal also became the first player to reclaim the year end number one 3 times. At the end of 2018 it is a race between Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer for the top spot in the world rankings.
Most Weeks Number One Tennis ATP Rankings
TOTAL WEEKS AT NO. 1 – MAX CONSECUTIVE WEEKS AT NO. 1 – YEAR-END NO. 1
1 Roger Federer 310 – 237 – 5
2 Pete Sampras 286 – 102 – 6
3 Ivan Lendl 270 – 157 – 4
4 Novak Djokovic 275 – 122 – 5
5 Jimmy Connors 268 – 160 – 5
6 Rafael Nadal 203 – 56 – 5
7 John McEnroe 170 – 58 – 4
8 Bjorn Borg 109 – 46 – 2
9 Andre Agassi 101 – 52 – 1
10 Lleyton Hewitt 80 – 75 – 2
11 Stefan Edberg 72 – 24 – 2
12 Jim Courier 58 – 27 – 1
13 Gustavo Kuerten 43 – 30 – 1
14 Andy Murray 41 – 41 – 1
15 Ilie Nastase 40 – 40 – 1
16 Mats Wilander 20 – 20 – 1
17 Andy Roddick 13 – 13 – 1
18 Boris Becker 12 – 9 – 0
19 Marat Safin 9 – 4 – 0
20 Juan Carlos Ferrero 8 – 8 – 0
21 John Newcombe 8 – 8 – 0
22 Yevgeny Kafelnikov 6 – 6 – 0
23 Thomas Muster 6 – 5 – 0
24 Marcelo Rios 6 – 4 – 0
25 Carlos Moya 2 – 2 – 0
26 Patrick Rafter 1 – 1 – 0
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