Djokovic marks 100th week at No.1
Novak Djokovic is marking his 100th week at No. 1 in the ATP rankings.
Novak Djokovic is marking his 100th week at No. 1 in the ATP rankings. The 26-year-old Serb is the ninth player to reach the milestone,joining Andre Agassi 101 weeks,Rafael Nadal 102,Bjorn Borg 109,John McEnroe 170,Jimmy Connors 268,Ivan Lendl 270,Pete Sampras 286 and Roger Federer 302.
Djokovic reached No. 1 in July 2011. He lost the top spot to Federer for three months in 2012 but regained it in November of that year.
Djokovic’s bid to finish the year at No. 1 for a third straight time is under serious threat from Nadal. Djokovic has 11,120 points,while Nadal has 10,860.
Both are entered in next week’s China Open,where Djokovic will be defending his title and Nadal has no points to defend. Nadal can get to No. 1 for the first time since July 3,2011,by reaching the final.
Somdev back in top 100
India’s top singles player Somdev Devvarman returned to top-100 after a gap of one year and nine months as he jumped three places to 98 in the latest ATP singles rankings,issued on Monday.
Somdev had achieved a career-best rank of 62 in 2011 but struggled after that as a shoulder injury halted his progress.
Of late he has done well,reaching second rounds of the US Open and the ATP 500 event in Washington via qualifiers.
Also making tremendous progress was Yuki Bhambri as he zoomed up to 287 with a huge jump of 190 places,following his superb performance at the Taiwan Challenger,where he ended runner-up after qualifying for the main draw.
In the doubles,US Open champion Leander Paes 5,Rohan Bopanna 7 and Mahesh Bhupathi 10 remained unchanged in top-10.
Left-hander Divij Sharan and marginally improved as he was 69,a one place gain. Purav Raja was the fifth top-100 player for India at 89.
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