List of Career Achievements By Roger Federer - Ranking and Points

Ranking and Points

1. As of Monday, 26 November 2012 Federer has been ranked world no. 1 for a record total of 302 weeks (three separate periods), surpassing Pete Sampras record (286 weeks, eleven separate periods). The only other players to rank no. 1 for more than 200 weeks in total are Ivan Lendl (270 weeks, eight separate periods) and Jimmy Connors (268 weeks, 9 separate periods). Only Martina Navratilova (331 weeks) and Steffi Graf (377 weeks) have spent more weeks as no. 1 than Federer.
2. Federer is the first player, male or female, to be ranked world no. 1 for at least four consecutive (non-calendar) years (February 2, 2004 – August 17, 2008).
3. Federer is the first male player to be ranked no. 1 for 300 weeks.
4. Federer is the first player, male or female, to rank no. 1 for more than 200 consecutive weeks.
5. Federer is the first player, male or female, to be ranked and seeded no. 1 at three Olympics (consecutive as well as overall), at Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012, breaking the previous record of one.
6. Federer is second of three men to regain the year-end no. 1 ranking (2009) along with Ivan Lendl (1989) and Rafael Nadal (2010).
7. Federer is the third man to hold the year-end no. 1 ranking for at least five years (2004–07, 2009) after Jimmy Connors (1974–78) and Pete Sampras (1993–98).
8. Federer is the fourth man to hold the year-end no. 1 ranking for at least four consecutive years (2004–07) after Connors (1974–78), John McEnroe (1981–84), and Sampras (1993–98)
9. Federer is the fifth man to be ranked world no. 1 every week during a calendar year (2005–07). The others are Connors, Lendl, Sampras, and Lleyton Hewitt. Federer is the only man to do so for three consecutive years (2005–07).
10. Until losing the world no. 1 ranking to Rafael Nadal on August 18, 2008, Federer was the top ranked player for a record 237 consecutive weeks, surpassing the previous record of 160 consecutive weeks held by Connors. 237 consecutive weeks is the record for both males and females surpassing the previous record of 186 consecutive weeks held by Steffi Graf.
11. Federer was no. 1 for 237 weeks during the first period (February 2, 2004 – August 17, 2008), 48 weeks during the second period (6 July 2009 – 6 June 2010) and was no.1 for 16 weeks during the third period (July 9, 2012 - November 4, 2012).
12. Federer is the first player, male or female, to rank no. 1 for 285 weeks in total in only two periods.
13. Federer is the first and only player to finish the year as a top two player in the world for eight consecutive years (2003–10) and total nine years (2003–10, 2012).
14. Federer was ranked in the top two in the world for a record 346 consecutive weeks (November 17, 2003 – July 4, 2011).
15. Federer has been ranked in the top two for 398 total weeks, as of Monday 26 November 2012, surpassing Sampras's 376 weeks, which is the record since the ATP rankings have been updated every week from the 25th of June 1984 (Ivan Lendl spent 303 weeks in the top-2 after the 25th of June 1984 and might have spent just over 100 weeks, maybe 2 years in total, there before as well).
16. Federer is the only man to reach all four Grand Slam finals as both the no. 1 ranked player (AO '06, FO '06, W '04, USO '04) and the no. 2 ranked player (AO '04, FO '09, W '09, USO '08). He has won each of the four Grand Slams while ranked no. 2, and three of the four Grand Slams while ranked no. 1 (with the French Open being the exception).
17. Federer is the fourth male player to be no. 1 for more than 5 years (260 weeks) in total. The first male player to pass the 5 year mark was Connors, followed by Lendl and Sampras. These four players combined have ruled the ATP Top ranking for almost 22 years out of 39 years. (Ilie Năstase was the first player to rank no. 1 on Aug 23, 1973).
18. Federer is the only active player to be ranked in the year end top 10 for eleven consecutive years.
19. Either Federer or Rafael Nadal was ranked no. 1 for a record 387 consecutive weeks from February 2, 2004 (7 years and 23 weeks). This consecutive streak was broken when Nadal lost the no. 1 ranking to Novak Djokovic on July 4, 2011.
20. Federer held the record for the largest ATP point lead in 2006 prior to the doubling of point values and would hold the lead today with an adjusted point lead of 6,030 points versus Nadal's 5,245 point lead under the new system in 2011.