Talk:Association of Tennis Professionals

The ATP tennis website lists Marat Safin as number one, not Roger Federer? Why are some saying that Safin is fourth yet the ATP lists him as first?

Reply: Because ATP has two kinds of ranking systems. One is the ATP entry ranking system which evaluates the ranking according to the performance of the players in the past 52 weeks. It is the main ranking. This is the ranking that tournament officials use to decide the "seeds". This is the true reflection of the current top player. For example, right now, Marat Safin's calculated rating for the past 52 weeks is 3360 points. On the other hand Federer's rating is 5975 points.

The second kind of ranking is the ATP Race for a specific year. In this case, all the players's rankings are set to zero at the beginning of each year and the top player in the year is decided at the end of the year. So, ranking according to the ATP race DURING a year means nothing as far as the true current status of the player. --- Zaheen, 14 Feb, 2005.

Missing former world n.1 player

Hi. You seem to have missed Magnus Norman, of Sweden. He was n.1 in the late first semester of the year 2000 (granted he doesn't even have an article on Wikipedia). Regards, Redux 15:07, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Magnus was never #1 in the entry systems ranking, which is what this ranking table is about. Norman might have led the first ever ATP Champions Race for a brief while, but that's not what we are talking about here. Besides, a lot of players can become #1 in the Champions Race during the course of the year, but in that case, the guy #1 in the entry ranking is still considered the number 1 player in the tour, not the guy who is currently topping the race leaderboard.

For your information here is the history of all the #1 rankings:

RANK DATE PLAYER WEEKS AT NO. 1

Aug. 23, 1973  Ilie Nastase (1)  40  
June 3, 1974  John Newcombe (2)  8   
July 29, 1974  Jimmy Connors (3)  160  
Aug. 23, 1977  Bjorn Borg (4)  1  
Aug. 30, 1977  Connors  84  
Apr. 9, 1979  Borg  6  
May 21, 1979  Connors  7  
July 9, 1979  Borg  34  
Mar. 3, 1980  John McEnroe (5)  3  
Mar. 24, 1980  Borg  20  
Aug. 11, 1980  McEnroe  1  
Aug. 18, 1980  Borg  46  
July 6, 1981  McEnroe  2  
July 20, 1981  Borg  2  
Aug. 3, 1981  McEnroe  58  
Sept. 13, 1982  Connors  7  
Nov. 1, 1982  McEnroe  1  
Nov. 8, 1982  Connors  1  
Nov. 15, 1982  McEnroe  11  
Jan. 31, 1983  Connors  1  
Feb. 7, 1983  McEnroe  1  
Feb. 14, 1983  Connors  2  
Feb. 28, 1983  Ivan Lendl (6)  11  
May 16, 1983  Connors  3  
June 6, 1983  McEnroe  1  
June 13, 1983  Connors  3  
July 4, 1983  McEnroe  17  
Oct. 31, 1983  Lendl  6  
Dec. 12, 1983  McEnroe  4  
Jan. 9, 1984  Lendl  9  
Mar. 12, 1984  McEnroe  13  
June 11, 1984  Lendl  1  
June 18, 1984  McEnroe  3  
July 9, 1984  Lendl  5  
Aug. 13, 1984  McEnroe  53  
Aug. 19, 1985  Lendl  1  
Aug. 26, 1985  McEnroe  2  
Sept. 9, 1985  Lendl  157  
Sept. 12, 1988  Mats Wilander (7)  20  
Jan. 30, 1989  Lendl  80  
Aug. 13, 1990  Stefan Edberg (8)  24  
Jan. 28, 1991  Boris Becker (9)  3  
Feb. 18, 1991  Edberg  20  
July 8, 1991  Becker  9  
Sept. 9, 1991  Edberg  22  
Feb. 10, 1992  Jim Courier (10)  6  
Mar. 23, 1992  Edberg  3  
Apr. 13, 1992  Courier  22  
Sept. 14, 1992  Edberg  3  
Oct. 5, 1992  Courier  27  
Apr. 12, 1993  Pete Sampras (11)  19  
Aug. 23, 1993  Courier  3    
Sept. 13, 1993  Sampras  82    
Apr. 10, 1995  Andre Agassi (12)  30    
Nov. 6, 1995  Sampras  12    
Jan. 29, 1996  Agassi  2    
Feb. 12, 1996  Thomas Muster (13)  1    
Feb. 19, 1996  Sampras  3    
Mar. 11, 1996  Muster  5    
Apr. 15, 1996  Sampras  102    
Mar. 30, 1998  Marcelo Rios (14)  4    
Apr. 27, 1998  Sampras  15    
Aug. 10, 1998  Rios  2    
Aug. 24, 1998  Sampras  20    
Mar. 15, 1999  Carlos Moya (15)  2    
Mar. 29, 1999  Sampras  5    
May 3, 1999  Y. Kafelnikov (16)  6    
June 14, 1999  Sampras  3    
July 5, 1999  Agassi 3    
July 26, 1999  Patrick Rafter (17)  1    
Aug. 2, 1999  Sampras  6    
Sept. 13, 1999  Agassi 52    
Sept. 11, 2000  Sampras  10    
Nov. 20, 2000  Marat Safin (18)  2    
Dec. 4, 2000  G. Kuerten (19)  8    
Jan. 29, 2001  Safin  4    
Feb. 26, 2001  Kuerten  5    
Apr. 2, 2001  Safin  3    
Apr. 22, 2001  Kuerten  30    
Nov. 19, 2001  Lleyton Hewitt (20)  75    
Apr. 28, 2003  Agassi  2    
May. 12, 2003  Hewitt  5   
Jun. 16, 2003  Agassi  12    
Sept. 8, 2003  Juan Carlos Ferrero (21)  8   
Nov. 3, 2003 Andy Roddick (22) 13   
Feb. 2, 2004 Roger Federer (23) 55 (current)