List of ATP number 1 ranked singles players

Novak Djokovic, current world No.1

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 23 August 1973.^[1] Since 1979 an updated rankings list is released at the beginning of each week.^[2]

Since 1973, 25 men have been ranked number 1 by the ATP.^[3][4] Pete Sampras holds the record for the most year-end number 1 (six, all consecutive).^[5][6] Roger Federer holds the records for the most total weeks at number 1 (302) and most consecutive weeks at number 1 (237).^[7] Two players, Ivan Lendl and Marcelo Ríos, have reached number 1 without previously having won a Grand Slam tournament.^[8] Lendl reached number 1 on February 21, 1983, but did not win his first Grand Slam title until the 1984 French Open.^[9] Rios reached number 1 on March 30, 1998 and is the only number 1 player who never won a Grand Slam singles title.^[10][11] Patrick Rafter spent the fewest weeks at number 1 (one week). Lleyton Hewitt is both the youngest world number 1 (20 years, 268 days) and youngest year-end number 1,^[12][13] while Ivan Lendl is the oldest year-end number 1 (29 years, 299 days). Andre Agassi is the oldest number 1 (33 years, 131 days).^[14][15][16]

Since 1973 when the ATP ranking started, there have been twelve years when one player held the top spot for the entire year. In contrast, 1999 had the most number 1 players of any year since the rankings started. There were five players who were number 1 sometime during that year - Sampras, Moya, Kafelnikov, Agassi and Rafter.

Ranking method

Since the introduction of the ATP 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. The ranking points of players who qualify for the year-end ATP World Tour Finals also include any points gained at that tournament, increasing their counting tournament total to nineteen.^[17]

Number 1 ranked players

The statistics are updated only when the ATP website revises its rankings (usually every Monday morning except when tournament finals are postponed).

Key

*	Current number 1 player as of May 2, 2016[18][19]
^↑	ATP Ranking record

Ilie Năstase became the first ATP No. 1 ranked player on 23 August 1973.

Roger Federer has spent a total of 302 weeks and 237 consecutive weeks at the top of the ATP rankings, the most of any player.

Pete Sampras spent a total of 286 weeks at the top of the ATP rankings and holds the record of 6 consecutive year end as No. 1

No.	Country	Player	Start date	End date	Weeks	Total
1	ROM	Năstase, IlieIlie Năstase	August 23, 1973	June 2, 1974	40	40
2	AUS	Newcombe, JohnJohn Newcombe	June 3, 1974	July 28, 1974	8	8
3	USA	Connors, JimmyJimmy Connors	July 29, 1974	August 22, 1977	160	160
4	SWE	Borg, BjörnBjörn Borg	August 23, 1977	August 29, 1977	1	1
	USA	Jimmy Connors (2)	August 30, 1977	April 8, 1979	84	244
	SWE	Björn Borg (2)	April 9, 1979	May 20, 1979	6	7
	USA	Jimmy Connors (3)	May 21, 1979	July 8, 1979	7	251
	SWE	Björn Borg (3)	July 9, 1979	March 2, 1980	34	41
5	USA	McEnroe, JohnJohn McEnroe	March 3, 1980	March 23, 1980	3	3
	SWE	Björn Borg (4)	March 24, 1980	August 10, 1980	20	61
	USA	John McEnroe (2)	August 11, 1980	August 17, 1980	1	4
	SWE	Björn Borg (5)	August 18, 1980	July 5, 1981	46	107
	USA	John McEnroe (3)	July 6, 1981	July 19, 1981	2	6
	SWE	Björn Borg (6)	July 20, 1981	August 2, 1981	2	109
	USA	John McEnroe (4)	August 3, 1981	September 12, 1982	58	64
	USA	Jimmy Connors (4)	September 13, 1982	October 31, 1982	7	258
	USA	John McEnroe (5)	November 1, 1982	November 7, 1982	1	65
	USA	Jimmy Connors (5)	November 8, 1982	November 14, 1982	1	259
	USA	John McEnroe (6)	November 15, 1982	January 30, 1983	11	76
	USA	Jimmy Connors (6)	January 31, 1983	February 6, 1983	1	260
	USA	John McEnroe (7)	February 7, 1983	February 13, 1983	1	77
	USA	Jimmy Connors (7)	February 14, 1983	February 27, 1983	2	262
6	TCH	Lendl, IvanIvan Lendl	February 28, 1983	May 15, 1983	11	11
	USA	Jimmy Connors (8)	May 16, 1983	June 5, 1983	3	265
	USA	John McEnroe (8)	June 6, 1983	June 12, 1983	1	78
	USA	Jimmy Connors (9)	June 13, 1983	July 3, 1983	3	268
	USA	John McEnroe (9)	July 4, 1983	October 30, 1983	17	95
	TCH	Ivan Lendl (2)	October 31, 1983	December 11, 1983	6	17
	USA	John McEnroe (10)	December 12, 1983	January 8, 1984	4	99
	TCH	Ivan Lendl (3)	January 9, 1984	March 11, 1984	9	26
	USA	John McEnroe (11)	March 12, 1984	June 10, 1984	13	112
	TCH	Ivan Lendl (4)	June 11, 1984	June 17, 1984	1	27
	USA	John McEnroe (12)	June 18, 1984	July 8, 1984	3	115
	TCH	Ivan Lendl (5)	July 9, 1984	August 12, 1984	5	32
	USA	John McEnroe (13)	August 13, 1984	August 18, 1985	53	168
	TCH	Ivan Lendl (6)	August 19, 1985	August 25, 1985	1	33
	USA	John McEnroe (14)	August 26, 1985	September 8, 1985	2	170
	TCH	Ivan Lendl (7)	September 9, 1985	September 11, 1988	157	190
7	SWE	Wilander, MatsMats Wilander	September 12, 1988	January 29, 1989	20	20
	TCH	Ivan Lendl (8)	January 30, 1989	August 12, 1990	80	270
8	SWE	Edberg, StefanStefan Edberg	August 13, 1990	January 27, 1991	24	24
9	GER	Becker, BorisBoris Becker	January 28, 1991	February 17, 1991	3	3
	SWE	Stefan Edberg (2)	February 18, 1991	July 7, 1991	20	44
	GER	Boris Becker (2)	July 8, 1991	September 8, 1991	9	12
	SWE	Stefan Edberg (3)	September 9, 1991	February 9, 1992	22	66
10	USA	Courier, JimJim Courier	February 10, 1992	March 22, 1992	6	6
	SWE	Stefan Edberg (4)	March 23, 1992	April 12, 1992	3	69
	USA	Jim Courier (2)	April 13, 1992	September 13, 1992	22	28
	SWE	Stefan Edberg (5)	September 14, 1992	October 4, 1992	3	72
	USA	Jim Courier (3)	October 5, 1992	April 11, 1993	27	55
11	USA	Sampras, PetePete Sampras	April 12, 1993	August 22, 1993	19	19
	USA	Jim Courier (4)	August 23, 1993	September 12, 1993	3	58
	USA	Pete Sampras (2)	September 13, 1993	April 9, 1995	82	101
12	USA	Agassi, AndreAndre Agassi	April 10, 1995	November 5, 1995	30	30
	USA	Pete Sampras (3)	November 6, 1995	January 28, 1996	12	113
	USA	Andre Agassi (2)	January 29, 1996	February 11, 1996	2	32
13	AUT	Muster, ThomasThomas Muster	February 12, 1996	February 18, 1996	1	1
	USA	Pete Sampras (4)	February 19, 1996	March 10, 1996	3	116
	AUT	Thomas Muster (2)	March 11, 1996	April 14, 1996	5	6
	USA	Pete Sampras (5)	April 15, 1996	March 29, 1998	102	218
14	CHI	Ríos, MarceloMarcelo Ríos	March 30, 1998	April 26, 1998	4	4
	USA	Pete Sampras (6)	April 27, 1998	August 9, 1998	15	233
	CHI	Marcelo Ríos (2)	August 10, 1998	August 23, 1998	2	6
	USA	Pete Sampras (7)	August 24, 1998	March 14, 1999	29	262
15	ESP	Moyà, CarlosCarlos Moyà	March 15, 1999	March 28, 1999	2	2
	USA	Pete Sampras (8)	March 29, 1999	May 2, 1999	5	267
16	RUS	Kafelnikov, YevgenyYevgeny Kafelnikov	May 3, 1999	June 13, 1999	6	6
	USA	Pete Sampras (9)	June 14, 1999	July 4, 1999	3	270
	USA	Andre Agassi (3)	July 5, 1999	July 25, 1999	3	35
17	AUS	Rafter, PatrickPatrick Rafter	July 26, 1999	August 1, 1999	1	1
	USA	Pete Sampras (10)	August 2, 1999	September 12, 1999	6	276
	USA	Andre Agassi (4)	September 13, 1999	September 10, 2000	52	87
	USA	Pete Sampras (11)	September 11, 2000	November 19, 2000	10	286
18	RUS	Safin, MaratMarat Safin	November 20, 2000	December 3, 2000	2	2
19	BRA	Kuerten, GustavoGustavo Kuerten	December 4, 2000	January 28, 2001	8	8
	RUS	Marat Safin (2)	January 29, 2001	February 25, 2001	4	6
	BRA	Gustavo Kuerten (2)	February 26, 2001	April 1, 2001	5	13
	RUS	Marat Safin (3)	April 2, 2001	April 22, 2001	3	9
	BRA	Gustavo Kuerten (3)	April 23, 2001	November 18, 2001	30	43
20	AUS	Hewitt, LleytonLleyton Hewitt	November 19, 2001	April 27, 2003	75	75
	USA	Andre Agassi (5)	April 28, 2003	May 11, 2003	2	89
	AUS	Lleyton Hewitt (2)	May 12, 2003	June 15, 2003	5	80
	USA	Andre Agassi (6)	June 16, 2003	September 7, 2003	12	101
21	ESP	Ferrero, Juan CarlosJuan Carlos Ferrero	September 8, 2003	November 2, 2003	8	8
22	USA	Roddick, AndyAndy Roddick	November 3, 2003	February 1, 2004	13	13
23	SUI	Federer, RogerRoger Federer	February 2, 2004	August 17, 2008	237 ^↑	237
24	ESP	Nadal, RafaelRafael Nadal	August 18, 2008	July 5, 2009	46	46
	SUI	Roger Federer (2)	July 6, 2009	June 6, 2010	48	285
	ESP	Rafael Nadal (2)	June 7, 2010	July 3, 2011	56	102
25	SRB	Novak Djokovic	July 4, 2011	July 8, 2012	53	53
	SUI	Roger Federer (3)	July 9, 2012	November 4, 2012	17	302 ^↑
	SRB	Novak Djokovic (2)	November 5, 2012	October 6, 2013	48	101
	ESP	Rafael Nadal (3)	October 7, 2013	July 6, 2014	39	141
	SRB	Novak Djokovic (3) *	July 7, 2014	Present	96	197
No.	Country	Player	Start date	End date	Weeks	Total

Weeks at No. 1

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 each player has been ranked No. 1 by the ATP.^[7]

Key

Bold	The current world No. 1 player
(1)	Rank by length of this streak compared to this player's other turns as ATP number 1
*	Active streak as of May 2, 2016
	Active players

Jimmy Connors spent a total of 268 weeks at number 1, including 160 consecutive weeks (a record he held for 30 years before being overtaken by Roger Federer in 2007).

Rank Player Total 1. Federer, RogerRoger Federer 302 2. Sampras, PetePete Sampras 286 3. Lendl, IvanIvan Lendl 270 4. Connors, JimmyJimmy Connors 268 5. Djokovic, NovakNovak Djokovic 197 * 6. McEnroe, JohnJohn McEnroe 170 7. Nadal, RafaelRafael Nadal 141 8. Borg, BjörnBjörn Borg 109 9. Agassi, AndreAndre Agassi 101 10. Hewitt, LleytonLleyton Hewitt 80 11. Edberg, StefanStefan Edberg 72 12. Courier, JimJim Courier 58 13. Kuerten, GustavoGustavo Kuerten 43 14. Năstase, IlieIlie Năstase 40 15. Wilander, MatsMats Wilander 20 16. Roddick, AndyAndy Roddick 13 17. Becker, BorisBoris Becker 12 18. Safin, MaratMarat Safin 9 19. Newcombe, JohnJohn Newcombe 8 Ferrero, Juan CarlosJuan Carlos Ferrero 21. Muster, ThomasThomas Muster 6 Ríos, MarceloMarcelo Ríos Kafelnikov, YevgenyYevgeny Kafelnikov 24. Moyá, CarlosCarlos Moyá 2 25. Rafter, PatrickPatrick Rafter 1

Rank Player Consecutive 1. Federer, RogerRoger Federer (1) 237 2. Connors, JimmyJimmy Connors (1) 160 3. Lendl, IvanIvan Lendl (1) 157 4. Sampras, PetePete Sampras (1) 102 5. Djokovic, NovakNovak Djokovic (1) 96 * 6. Jimmy Connors (2) 84 7. Pete Sampras (2) 82 8. Ivan Lendl (2) 80 9. Hewitt, LleytonLleyton Hewitt (1) 75 10. McEnroe, JohnJohn McEnroe (1) 58 11. Nadal, RafaelRafael Nadal (1) 56 12. John McEnroe (2) 53 Novak Djokovic (2) 14. Agassi, AndreAndre Agassi (1) 52 15. Roger Federer (2) 48 Novak Djokovic (3) 17. Borg, BjörnBjörn Borg (1) 46 Rafael Nadal (2) 19. Năstase, IlieIlie Năstase (1) 40 20. Rafael Nadal (3) 39

Weeks at No. 1 by country

	Country	No. of players	No. of weeks	Players	Ref
1.	United States	6	896	Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Jim Courier, Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick	[20]
2.	Switzerland	1	302	Roger Federer	[20]
3.	Czechoslovakia	1	270	Ivan Lendl	[20]
4.	Sweden	3	201	Björn Borg, Mats Wilander, Stefan Edberg	[20]
5.	Serbia	1	197 *	Novak Djokovic	[20]
6.	Spain	3	151	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.	Romania	1	40	Ilie Năstase	[20]
10.	Russia	2	15	Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Marat Safin	[20]
11.	Germany	1	12	Boris Becker	[20]
12.	Austria	1	6	Thomas Muster	[20]
12.	Chile	1	6	Marcelo Ríos	[20]

Active players are in bold. As of April 25, 2016.

Year-end No. 1

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.

Only six players have stayed at ATP No. 1 in the rankings every week of a calendar year. Federer is the only player to have been ranked No. 1 every week for three consecutive calendar years.

Key

(1)	Time as year-end number 1/Total times as year-end number 1
^§	Ranked number 1 during every week of the calendar year
*	Current number 1 player as of April 25, 2016[21][22]
	Active players as of April 25, 2016[23][24]

John McEnroe finished the year as the No. 1-ranked player for four consecutive years from 1981 to 1984.

Lleyton Hewitt at age 20 became the youngest male player to hold the world No. 1 ranking. He obtained this in November 2001.

Year Player Ref(s) 1973 Năstase, IlieIlie Năstase [25] 1974 Connors, JimmyJimmy Connors (1/5) [26][27] 1975 Jimmy Connors ^§ (2/5) [26][27] 1976 Jimmy Connors ^§ (3/5) [26][27] 1977 Jimmy Connors (4/5) [28] 1978 Jimmy Connors ^§ (5/5) [28] 1979 Borg, BjörnBjörn Borg (1/2) [28] 1980 Björn Borg (2/2) [28] 1981 McEnroe, JohnJohn McEnroe (1/1) [28][29] 1982 John McEnroe (2/2) [28][29] 1983 John McEnroe (3/3) [28][29] 1984 John McEnroe (4/4) [28][29] 1985 Lendl, IvanIvan Lendl (1/4) [28][30] 1986 Ivan Lendl ^§ (2/4) [30] 1987 Ivan Lendl ^§ (3/4) [30] 1988 Wilander, MatsMats Wilander [29] 1989 Ivan Lendl (4/4) [29] 1990 Edberg, StefanStefan Edberg (1/2) [31] 1991 Stefan Edberg (2/2) [31][32] 1992 Courier, JimJim Courier [33] 1993 Sampras, PetePete Sampras (1/6) [6] 1994 Pete Sampras ^§ (2/6) [34] 1995 Pete Sampras (3/6) [6] 1996 Pete Sampras (4/6) [6] 1997 Pete Sampras ^§ (5/6) [34] 1998 Pete Sampras (6/6) [6] 1999 Agassi, AndreAndre Agassi [35]

Year Player Ref(s) 2000 Kuerten, GustavoGustavo Kuerten [32][36] 2001 Hewitt, LleytonLleyton Hewitt (1/2) [37] 2002 Lleyton Hewitt ^§ (2/2) [12][38] 2003 Roddick, AndyAndy Roddick [39] 2004 Federer, RogerRoger Federer (1/5) [40] 2005 Roger Federer ^§ (2/5) [41] 2006 Roger Federer ^§ (3/5) [42] 2007 Roger Federer ^§ (4/5) [43][44] 2008 Nadal, RafaelRafael Nadal (1/3) [45] 2009 Roger Federer (5/5) [46] 2010 Rafael Nadal (2/3) [47][48] 2011 Djokovic, NovakNovak Djokovic (1/4) [49] 2012 Novak Djokovic (2/4) [50] 2013 Rafael Nadal (3/3) [51][52] 2014 Novak Djokovic (3/4) [53] 2015 Novak Djokovic ^§ (4/4) [54][55]

Year Number of Year-end No. 1 Player 6 Sampras, PetePete Sampras 5 Connors, JimmyJimmy Connors Federer, RogerRoger Federer 4 McEnroe, JohnJohn McEnroe Lendl, IvanIvan Lendl Djokovic, NovakNovak Djokovic* 3 Nadal, RafaelRafael Nadal 2 Borg, BjörnBjörn Borg Edberg, StefanStefan Edberg Hewitt, LleytonLleyton Hewitt 1 Năstase, IlieIlie Năstase Wilander, MatsMats Wilander Courier, JimJim Courier Agassi, AndreAndre Agassi Kuerten, GustavoGustavo Kuerten Roddick, AndyAndy Roddick

No. 1 ranked players without a Grand Slam tournament title

Player	Date of first No. 1 position	First Grand Slam final reached	First Grand Slam title	Ref
Ivan Lendl	February 28, 1983	1981 French Open (June 1981) (1st of 2)	1984 French Open (first of 8)
Marcelo Ríos	March 30, 1998	1998 Australian Open (January 1998)	None	[8]

See also

• ATP Rankings
• ATP players with highest rank of 2 to 5
• ATP Rankings achievements – men's singles
• List of ATP number 1 ranked doubles players
• ITF World Champions
• World number 1 male tennis player rankings (includes rankings before 1973)
• List of WTA number 1 ranked players

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