{"id":117639,"date":"2026-04-28T10:19:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/ranking-the-tennis-greats-who-spent-the-most-weeks-at-world-no-1\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:19:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:19:53","slug":"ranking-the-tennis-greats-who-spent-the-most-weeks-at-world-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/ranking-the-tennis-greats-who-spent-the-most-weeks-at-world-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking the tennis greats who spent the most weeks at World No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Being the best tennis player in the world for a week is one thing. Being the best tennis player in the world for a year is another thing entirely. But spending years, sometimes the better part of a decade, at the very top of a sport that attracts the most gifted athletes on the planet, in every era, from every country, is something that puts certain players in a category that very few people in the history of any sport have reached. The ATP rankings have been running since 1973, and in all that time, only a small handful of players have spent significant stretches of their careers at the top. Most players who reach No. 1 hold it briefly. A few hold it for months. The names on this list held it for years.<\/p>\n

What makes weeks-at-No. 1 such a meaningful measure is that it does not reward one great tournament or one perfect draw. It rewards sustained excellence over time, the ability to show up week after week, month after month, across every surface, against every opponent, in every kind of condition, and still be the best. It is harder than winning a Grand Slam in some ways, because a Grand Slam is two weeks.<\/p>\n

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This is a career. The players on this list did not just peak once and hold on. They kept going back to the top, or they simply never left. From the first generation of ranking-era dominators to the man who turned the record into something almost nobody else will ever touch, here are the ten players who spent the most weeks at world No. 1 in tennis history, ranked from ten to one.<\/p>\n

10. Carlos Alcaraz (66 weeks)<\/h2>\n
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