ATP Rankings - Number One Ranked Players

Number One Ranked Players

The following is a list of players who have achieved the number one position in singles since the inception of the rankings in 1973 (active players in green):

# Player Date reached Total weeks
0 !a !a January 1, 1967 -9999
1 Ilie Năstase August 23, 1973 40
2 John Newcombe June 3, 1974 8
3 Jimmy Connors July 29, 1974 268
4 Björn Borg August 23, 1977 109
5 John McEnroe March 3, 1980 170
6 Ivan Lendl February 28, 1983 270
7 Mats Wilander September 12, 1988 20
8 Stefan Edberg August 13, 1990 72
9 Boris Becker January 28, 1991 12
10 Jim Courier February 10, 1992 58
11 Pete Sampras April 12, 1993 286
12 Andre Agassi April 10, 1995 101
13 Thomas Muster February 12, 1996 6
14 Marcelo Ríos March 30, 1998 6
15 Carlos Moyá March 15, 1999 2
16 Yevgeny Kafelnikov May 3, 1999 6
17 Patrick Rafter July 26, 1999 1
18 Marat Safin November 20, 2000 9
19 Gustavo Kuerten December 4, 2000 43
20 Lleyton Hewitt November 19, 2001 80
21 Juan Carlos Ferrero September 8, 2003 8
22 Andy Roddick November 3, 2003 13
23 Roger Federer February 2, 2004 302
24 Rafael Nadal August 18, 2008 102
25 Novak Djokovic July 4, 2011 69

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