ATP Ranking: Novak Djokovic reached the top of the rankings after winning the French Open

Paris. Serbia’s legendary player Novak Djokovic has got his name registered in golden letters in tennis history. Novak Djokovic has become the first player to win the most Grand Slams in men’s tennis. Novak Djokovic has won the Grand Slam title for the 23rd time on Sunday, breaking Rafael Nadal’s record of winning the Grand Slam 22 times. Novak defeated Casper Rude in the final match of the French Open.

 

Novak Djokovic has climbed to the top of the ATP rankings with a historic win in the men’s singles of this French Open. He has overtaken Carlos Alcarez in the rankings. Djokovic, who holds the record for the most time at the top of the tennis rankings, male or female, since the introduction of computerized rankings more than fifty years ago, will further improve on this record.

 

“Obviously when you talk about history, people mostly talk about how many Grand Slams you’ve won or how long you’ve been ranked number one,” Djokovic said. I have been successful, which is fantastic.” Inga Swiatek, who won the women’s singles title at Roland Garros, remains at the top of the WTA rankings. Based on the result in Paris, number two player Arina Sabalenka had a chance to overtake her.

 

Djokovic went into Roland Garros as the world number three but went on to win the title by defeating Casper Ruud 7–6(1), 6–3, 7–5 in the final. In the ATP rankings, Alcarez is now ranked second and Daniil Medvedev is third, while Rude remains at fourth. Rafael Nadal, who has been out of action since January due to a hip injury, slipped out of the top 100 to be ranked 136th. Swiatek defeated Karolina Muchova 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 to win her third French Open title in four years. She has held onto the position since becoming number one in April 2022 when Ash Barty retired. Muchova has moved up from 43rd to a career-best 16th ranking. Defending Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina remained at the third spot while Caroline Garcia remained at the fourth spot. Jessica Pegula has slipped from third to fifth.

 

As Novak Djokovic won the French Open final on Sunday, he also broke Spain’s tennis star Rafael Nadal’s record of winning the Grand Slam title 22 times. Djokovic has become the player to win the most 23 Grand Slam titles. At the same time, Roger Federer of Switzerland has won a total of 20 Grand Slam titles.

 

Significantly, Novak Djokovic has won the French Open title for the third time. He had to face defeat in the finals of this tournament in 2012, 2014 and 2015. Captured the title for the first time in the year 2016. He finished runner-up once again in 2020, but won the championship in 2021. Novak Djokovic has equaled Mats Wilander, Ivan Lendl and Gustavo Kuerten by winning three times. Please tell that Novak has played a total of 34 Grand Slams.