Before last week the Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic and ATP ranking leader for 55 uninterrupted weeks, was just one week away from matching the Spanish Rafael Nadal, who came to accumulate 56 weeks, although the mark is far from the Roger Federer record an absolute leader with 237 weeks on number one.
The world number one tennis player beat the Spanish already in total weeks as the top of ranking, and currently totals 156, against Nadal’s 141. With a wide 4000 points difference from Roger Federer in the rankings, Djokovic will surpass the Nadal mark, and later the American John McEnroe, who scored 170 weeks as the best racket in the circuit 58 of those consecutively.
ATP ranking did not change for the past week, for the exception of the Spanish Roberto Bautista, climbing a position to be placed 21st. Within the ‘top-20’, no change in the past week, after the Davis Cup last weekend, where Britain, Australia, Argentina and Belgium qualified for the semifinals of the World Group, and Spain lost to Russia, and permanence will be played in Group I against Denmark.
Now Novak Djokovic has more than four thousand points ahead of Roger Federer in
an unchanged ranking for the first 15 places as ranking of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) stands, Novak Djokovic with 56 consecutive weeks at the top to match the brand of Spanish Rafael Nadal this week with 13,845 units, more than four thousand ahead of Roger Federer (9,665) the third position goes to Andy Murray (7,840 points), ahead of the Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka (5,790), while the Spaniard closes the “top ten” with a cumulative three thousand units.
ATP World Ranking to July 27, 2015:
- Novak Djokovic 13,845
- Roger Federer 9,665
- Andy Murray 7,840
- Stanislas Wawrinka 5,790
- Kei Nishikori 5,525
- Tomas Berdych 5,140
- David Ferrer 4,325
- Milos Raonic 3810
- Marin Cilic 3,495
- Rafael Nadal 3,000
