{"id":127468,"date":"2023-02-20T21:39:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/djokovic-equals-steffi-grafs-record-in-atp-rankings\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T21:39:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:09:49","slug":"djokovic-equals-steffi-grafs-record-in-atp-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/djokovic-equals-steffi-grafs-record-in-atp-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic equals Steffi Graf&#8217;s record in ATP rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Until now, the German had held this record alone, in women as in men, since her retirement in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Serb <b>returned to the top of the rankings after his victory at the Australian Open<\/b> at the end of January, his 22nd Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p>The number 2 Carlos Alcaraz, absent for three months between an abdominal muscle tear at the end of 2022 and a muscle injury at the beginning of 2023, returned to the track in style, prevailing in Buenos Aires and thus maintaining a considerable advantage over the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, who completes the podium.<\/p>\n<p>Relegated to twelfth position at the end of January, the former Russian world number one won his sixteenth title in the Netherlands, while his unlucky opponent, Italian Jannik Sinner, moved up two places (12th).<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev&#8217;s advance pushes Canada&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliasime (9th), Norway&#8217;s Holger Rune (10th) and Poland&#8217;s Hubert Hurkacz (11th) back one place.<\/p>\n<p>The British Cameron Norrie, who fell in the final against Alcaraz, drops to 13th position.<\/p>\n<p><b>Top 10 of the ATP ranking <\/b>Monday, February 20:<\/p>\n<p>1. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 7,070 pts<br \/>2. Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) 6,480<br \/>3. Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 5,940<br \/>4. Casper Ruud (NOR) 5,515<br \/>5. Andrey Rublev (RUS) 3,860<br \/>6. Rafael Nadal (ESP) 3,815<br \/>7. Taylor Fritz (USA) 3,660<br \/>8. Daniil Medvedev (RUS) 3,250 (+3)<br \/>9. Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) 3,200 (-1)<br \/>10. Holger Rune (DEN) 3,161 (-1)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n        FB.init({\n                appId : '162165018053926',\n            cookie     : true,\n            xfbml      : true,\n            version    : 'v8.0'\n        });\n        FB.AppEvents.logPageView();\n    };\n    (function(d, s, id){\n        var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n        if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n        js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n        js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n        fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, the German had held this record alone, in women as in men, since her retirement in 1999. The 35-year-old Serb returned to the top of the rankings after his victory at the Australian Open at the end of January, his 22nd Grand Slam. The number 2 Carlos Alcaraz, absent for three months between<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":127469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22615],"tags":[25184,27449,31489,34111,33051,13969,34112,24936],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn-3.expansion.mx\/dims4\/default\/40aa8ea\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/4062x2133%200%20288\/resize\/1200x630!\/format\/jpg\/quality\/80\/?url=https:\/\/cdn-3.expansion.mx\/00\/79\/a1fa423044b681594064759f82f2\/gettyimages-1460669960.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}