To achieve that mark, “Nole” added resounding triumphs in recent months, which he crowned with the first grand slams of the year, when he won the australian open last January after defeating in the final Stefanos Tsitsipas.
In his extensive list of hits on the circuit, Djokovic equaled last January to Spanish Rafael Nadal with 22 individual titles of grand slams after celebrating the tournament won in Melbourne -for the tenth time- and add weeks at the top of world tennis more than any other male player in history.
In addition, “Nole” is one of the two tennis players who have won the four major singles at least twice, the only one who has won nine Masters 1000 and the only one who also ended the year as world number one for the seventh time.
His closest male rival in the historical ranking, which was introduced in 1973, is the Swiss Roger Federercurrently retired and who spent a total of 310 weeks as world number one.
The podium, to this day, is closed by the American pete sampras (286).
On the women’s circuit, graph came to command 377 weeks the ranking WTAwhich started in 1975.
The German tennis player was the female number one 45 weeks more than the second ranked, the Czech Martina Navratilova (332), with the American Serena Williams in third position (319).
Source: Ambito
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