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List of ATP number 1 ranked players See also: World No. 1 Tennis Player Pre-ATP Rankings for the top 2 players at the end of the calendar year for 1973 through 2002 This is a list of all the male
tennis player who have been or are ranked
World No. 1 with the dates of first reaching and losing that spot again. Since the
Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) began with computer rankings (
1973 ) 23 men have reached the highest singles ranking.
Only five players have been No. 1 every week of a calendar year:#
Jimmy Connors in 1975, 1976 and 1978#
Ivan Lendl in 1986 and 1987#
Pete Sampras in 1994 and 1997#
Lleyton Hewitt in 2002#
Roger Federer in 2005
Only four players have held the No. 1 spot for more than 100 consecutive weeks:#
Jimmy Connors (160) between 1974 and 1977#
Ivan Lendl (157) between 1985 and 1988#
Roger Federer (132) since 2004#
Pete Sampras (102) between 1996 and 1998
Note: only Connors and Federer achieved this on their first time as #1.Country Name Start Date - End Date # of weeks Ilie Năstase (1)Aug 23, 1973 - Jun 02, 1974 40 John Newcombe (2)Jun 03, 1974 - Jul 28, 1974 8 Jimmy Connors (3)Jul 29, 1974 - Aug 22, 1977 160 Björn Borg (4)Aug 23, 1977 - Aug 29, 1977 1 Jimmy Connors Aug 30, 1977 - Apr 08, 1979 84 Björn Borg Apr 09, 1979 - May 20, 1979 6 Jimmy Connors May 21, 1979 - Jul 08, 1979 7 Björn Borg Jul 09, 1979 - Mar 02, 1980 34 John McEnroe (5)Mar 03, 1980 - Mar 23, 1980 3 Björn Borg Mar 24, 1980 - Aug 10, 1980 20 John McEnroe Aug 11, 1980 - Aug 17, 1980 1 Björn Borg Aug 18, 1980 - Jul 05, 1981 46 John McEnroe Jul 06, 1981 - Jul 19, 1981 2 Björn Borg Jul 20, 1981 - Aug 02, 1981 2 John McEnroe Aug 03, 1981 - Sep 12, 1982 58 Jimmy Connors Sep 13, 1982 - Oct 31, 1982 7 John McEnroe Nov 01, 1982 - Nov 07, 1982 1 Jimmy Connors Nov 08, 1982 - Nov 14, 1982 1 John McEnroe Nov 15, 1982 - Jan 30, 1983 11 Jimmy Connors Jan 31, 1983 - Feb 06, 1983 1 John McEnroe Feb 07, 1983 - Feb 13, 1983 1 Jimmy Connors Feb 14, 1983 - Feb 27, 1983 2 Ivan Lendl (6)Feb 28, 1983 - May 15, 1983 11 Jimmy Connors May 16, 1983 - Jun 05, 1983 3 John McEnroe Jun 06, 1983 - Jun 12, 1983 1 Jimmy Connors Jun 13, 1983 - Jul 03, 1983 3 John McEnroe Jul 04, 1983 - Oct 30, 1983 17 Ivan Lendl Oct 31, 1983 - Dec 11, 1983 6 John McEnroe Dec 12, 1983 - Jan 08, 1984 4 Ivan Lendl Jan 09, 1984 - Mar 11, 1984 9 John McEnroe Mar 12, 1984 - Jun 10, 1984 13 Ivan Lendl Jun 11, 1984 - Jun 17, 1984 1 John McEnroe Jun 18, 1984 - Jul 08, 1984 3 Ivan Lendl Jul 09, 1984 - Aug 12, 1984 5 John McEnroe Aug 13, 1984 - Aug 18, 1985 53 Ivan Lendl Aug 19, 1985 - Aug 25, 1985 1 John McEnroe Aug 26, 1985 - Sep 08, 1985 2 Ivan Lendl Sep 09, 1985 - Sep 11, 1988 157 Mats Wilander (7)Sep 12, 1988 - Jan 28, 1989 20 Ivan Lendl Jan 30, 1989 - Aug 12, 1990 80 Stefan Edberg (8)Aug 13, 1990 - Jan 27, 1991 24 Boris Becker (9)Jan 28, 1991 - Feb 17, 1991 3 Stefan Edberg Feb 18, 1991 - Jul 07, 1991 20 Boris Becker Jul 08, 1991 - Sep 08, 1991 9 Stefan Edberg Sep 09, 1991 - Feb 09, 1992 22 Jim Courier (10)Feb 10, 1992 - Mar 22, 1992 6 Stefan Edberg Mar 23, 1992 - Apr 12, 1992 3 Jim Courier Apr 13, 1992 - Sep 13, 1992 22 Stefan Edberg Sep 14, 1992 - Oct 04, 1992 3 Jim Courier Oct 05, 1992 - Apr 11, 1993 27 Pete Sampras (11)Apr 12, 1993 - Aug 22, 1993 19 Jim Courier Aug 23, 1993 - Sep 12, 1993 3 Pete Sampras Sep 13, 1993 - Apr 09, 1995 82 Andre Agassi (12)Apr 10, 1995 - Nov 05, 1995 30 Pete Sampras Nov 06, 1995 - Jan 28, 1996 12 Andre Agassi Jan 29, 1996 - Feb 11, 1996 2 Thomas Muster (13)Feb 12, 1996 - Feb 18, 1996 1 Pete Sampras Feb 19, 1996 - Mar 10, 1996 3 Thomas Muster Mar 11, 1996 - Apr 13, 1996 5 Pete Sampras Apr 14, 1996 - Mar 29, 1998 102 Marcelo Ríos (14)Mar 30, 1998 - Apr 26, 1998 4 Pete Sampras Apr 27, 1998 - Aug 09, 1998 15 Marcelo Ríos Aug 10, 1998 - Aug 23, 1998 2 Pete Sampras Aug 24, 1998 - Mar 14, 1999 29 Carlos Moya (15)Mar 15, 1999 - Mar 28, 1999 2 Pete Sampras Mar 29, 1999 - May 02, 1999 5 Yevgeny Kafelnikov (16)May 03, 1999 - Jun 13, 1999 6 Pete Sampras Jun 14, 1999 - Jul 04, 1999 3 Andre Agassi Jul 05, 1999 - Jul 25, 1999 3 Patrick Rafter (17)Jul 26, 1999 - Aug 01, 1999 1 Pete Sampras Aug 02, 1999 - Sep 12, 1999 6 Andre Agassi Sep 13, 1999 - Sep 10, 2000 52 Pete Sampras Sep 11, 2000 - Nov 19, 2000 10 Marat Safin (18)Nov 20, 2000 - Dec 03, 2000 2 Gustavo Kuerten (19)Dec 04, 2000 - Jan 28, 2001 8 Marat Safin Jan 29, 2001 - Feb 25, 2001 4 Gustavo Kuerten Feb 26, 2001 - Apr 01, 2001 5 Marat Safin Apr 02, 2001 - Apr 22, 2001 3 Gustavo Kuerten Apr 23, 2001 - Nov 18, 2001 30 Lleyton Hewitt (20)Nov 19, 2001 - Apr 27, 2003 75 Andre Agassi Apr 28, 2003 - May 11, 2003 2 Lleyton Hewitt May 12, 2003 - Jun 15, 2003 5 Andre Agassi Jun 16, 2003 - Sep 07, 2003 12 Juan Carlos Ferrero (21)Sep 08, 2003 - Nov 02, 2003 8 Andy Roddick (22)Nov 03, 2003 - Feb 01, 2004 13 Roger Federer (23)Feb 02, 2004 - Present 132
* Records are in bold. Active streaks are in italics.*1973: Ilie Năstase Jimmy Connors Björn Borg John McEnroe Ivan Lendl Mats Wilander Stefan Edberg Jim Courier Pete Sampras Andre Agassi Gustavo Kuerten Lleyton Hewitt Andy Roddick Roger Federer List of WTA number 1 ranked players World No. 1 Tennis Player Pre-ATP Rankings Tennis Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) List of male tennis players
