Ranking Reaction: Novak Djokovic kicks off milestone 370th career week at No. 1

As if winning a record-extending 38th career Masters 1000 title in Rome on Sunday weren’t sweet enough, Novak Djokovic will wake up on Monday with another record-extending number next to his name, as he kicks off his 370th career week at No. 1.

Djokovic secured his stay at No. 1 by reaching the semifinals in Rome, and by going all the way to the title he builds a 680-point cushion ahead of No. 2-ranked Daniil Medvedev—the Serb now has 8,660 points on his ranking, while the Russian has 7,980.

Medvedev is returning from a six-week lay-off in Geneva this week after dealing with a small hernia after Miami. If he wins the ATP 250 event he can close the gap between him and Djokovic but he can’t catch him, meaning the Serb is guaranteed at least a 371st and 372nd career week at the top spot during Roland Garros.

MOST CAREER WEEKS AT NO. 1 IN ATP RANKINGS HISTORY (100+):
370: Novak Djokovic
310: Roger Federer
286: Pete Sampras
270: Ivan Lendl
268: Jimmy Connors
209: Rafael Nadal
170: John McEnroe
109: Bjorn Borg
101: Andre Agassi

Djokovic now has 60 more weeks than the next-highest player on the list (Federer).

And since he first rose to No. 1 on July 4th, 2011, after winning the first of his six career Wimbledon titles, Djokovic has spent more than two thirds of the time at the top spot—this is the 546th week of ATP rankings since then, not including the 22 weeks the ATP rankings were frozen in 2020 due to COVID-19, and 370 out of 546 is 67.77%.

The most notable ranking move on the WTA rankings is Ons Jabeur continuing her ascent towards the top of the game, rising from No. 7 to a new career-high of No. 6 after reaching her second straight WTA 1000 final in Rome. An 11-match clay-court winning streak took her to the biggest title of her career in Madrid the week before an equally-big final in the Italian capital, where she fell to Iga Swiatek.

There’s a trio of Top 50 debuts across the ATP and WTA rankings, too: American Marcos Giron cracks the Top 50 on the ATP rankings for the first time, rising from No. 60 to No. 49 after reaching the round of 16 in Rome, where he fell to Felix Auger-Aliassime; Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia cracks the Top 50 of the WTA rankings, moving from No. 52 to No. 49 after reaching the final of a WTA 125K event in Paris; and Egypt’s Mayar Sherif breaks into the Top 50 as well after her run to the title at another WTA 125K event in Karlsruhe, Germany, jumping from No. 62 to No. 50.

Sherif was already the first Egyptian woman ever to reach the Top 100 on the WTA rankings, and now she’s one-upped her own record with her Top 50 debut.