961 weeks among the top 50 players in the world – Roger Federer is thus also at the top of the eternal list of best players in this balance sheet.
Roger Federer is record holder in two of the most important categories in world tennis: firstly, the Swiss has won 20 Grand Slam titles, three more than Rafael Nadal. And Federer is the only player to have spent more than 300 weeks at the top of the ATP world rankings. Now a new record is to be announced – even if it will not have enticed the 37-year-old rather to tear open a bottle of champagne.
As of this week, Roger Federer is the man who has spent the most weeks among the top 50 players on the planet since the introduction of the ATP World Ranking. 961 are, as resourceful statisticians of tennis have found out. And a week longer than Andre Agassi.
Four more of the still active players are among the ten best with a strong Spanish touch: Rafael Nadal (772), Feliciano Lopez (737) and the retiree David Ferrer (730). And then there is Tomas Berdych, who is working on a comeback after a long injury break.
Federer, in any case, will remain in the top 50 for a while, despite the disappointing knockout at the US Open against John Millman. This year alone, the Basel bidder scored 4,800 points. Number 51, Ryan Harrison, is 980.