Last Updated: February 20, 2023, 18:24 IST
Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates after defeating Tommy Paul of the U.S. of their semifinal on the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
The 35-year-old Serbian stays high of the most recent ATP rankings launched on Monday bringing him on par with Graf’s report of 377 weeks as world primary
Tennis legend Novak Djokovic is per week away from one other milestone after equalling Steffi Graf’s all-time report for most weeks spent at quantity one in all 377.
The 35-year-old Serbian stays high of the most recent ATP rankings launched on Monday bringing him stage with the variety of weeks that Graf spent as girls’s world primary.
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Djokovic returned to the primary spot for a seventh time after his victory within the Australian Open on the finish of January which was a record-equalling twenty second Grand Slam singles title.
Two former world quantity ones loved success on the weekend — Daniil Medvedev claiming the Rotterdam title and Carlos Alcaraz making a successful return to the circuit in Argentina.
Medvedev’s three set victory — his sixteenth profession title — over Italian Jannik Sinner sees him return to the highest 10 — he rises three spots to eighth.
The shedding finalist’s comfort is a climb of two locations to twelfth within the rankings.
Alcaraz’s profitable return to the tour, after nearly 4 months out, in touchdown the Argentina Open on Sunday sees him solidify his second place within the rankings.
Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas — whom Djokovic beat within the Australian Open ultimate — rounds off the highest three.
Germany’s former world quantity two Alexander Zverev arrested a decline in his rating since his comeback after tearing ankle ligaments throughout final yr’s French Open which stored him out of motion for the rest of the yr.
The 25-year-old, who additionally revealed after exiting the Australian Open within the second spherical he had sort 1 diabetes because the age of three, rose one place to sixteenth after reaching the second spherical in Rotterdam.
Rankings
1. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 7070 pts
2. Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) 6480
3. Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 5940
4. Casper Ruud (NOR) 5515
5. Andrey Rublev 3860
6. Rafael Nadal (ESP) 3815
7. Taylor Fritz (USA) 3660
8. Daniil Medvedev 3250
9. Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) 3200
10. Holger Rune (DEN) 3161
11. Hubert Hurkacz (POL) 2995
12. Jannik Sinner (ITA) 2745
13. Cameron Norrie (GBR) 2615
14. Karen Khachanov 2470
15. Frances Tiafoe (USA) 2350
16. Alexander Zverev (GER) 2320
17. Pablo Carreno (ESP) 2285
18. Lorenzo Musetti (ITA) 1855
19. Nick Kyrgios (AUS) 1825
20. Borna Coric (CRO) 1815
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