{"id":427734,"date":"2023-02-27T09:07:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=427734"},"modified":"2023-02-27T09:07:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:07:33","slug":"djokovic-breaks-grafs-record-for-most-weeks-as-world-number-one","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/djokovic-breaks-grafs-record-for-most-weeks-as-world-number-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic breaks Graf&#8217;s record for most weeks as world number one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" role=\"introduction\" data-reactid=\".1ecbbyradt8.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1\"><span data-reactid=\".1ecbbyradt8.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1.0\">Serbian Novak Djokovic has surpassed German female legend Steffi Graf&#8217;s record for the most weeks as world number one after entering a 378th week at the top of the men&#8217;s rankings.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And still he rises \ud83d\udcab<\/p>\n<p>With 378 weeks at the top of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PepperstoneFX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@PepperstoneFX<\/a> ATP Rankings, Novak Djokovic has made history, breaking the ALL TIME tennis record for the longest spot at number one \ud83d\ude4c \ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zil7BKkKB8\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zil7BKkKB8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ATP Tour (@atptour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour\/status\/1630149275207315456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".1ecbbyradt8.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2\">\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1ecbbyradt8.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0\"><span data-reactid=\".1ecbbyradt8.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0.0\">The 22-time major winner has held the record for the most weeks as men&#8217;s world number one since March 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1ecbbyradt8.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1\">\n<div id=\"bbccom_mpu_1_2_3\" class=\"bbccom_slot bbccom_standard_slot mpu_first_slot\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-reactid=\".1ecbbyradt8.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1.$body-0\">\n<div class=\"bbccom_advert\" data-reactid=\".1ecbbyradt8.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.1.$body-0.0\">&#8220;I&#8217;m flattered, proud and happy,&#8221; said Djokovic, 35, who added that Graf was &#8220;one of the greatest, most legendary tennis players that ever played&#8221;.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1ecbbyradt8.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\"><span data-reactid=\".1ecbbyradt8.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">Graf, who won 22 Grand Slam singles titles between 1987 and 1999,<\/span><span data-reactid=\".1ecbbyradt8.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">\u00a0first rose to the top of the women&#8217;s rankings in 1987 and initially remained there for 186 consecutive weeks &#8211; a women&#8217;s record that was later tied by Serena Williams in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1ecbbyradt8.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".1ecbbyradt8.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">Djokovic, who returned to world number one for the first time in six months by winning the Australian Open in January, first topped the rankings in July 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbian Novak Djokovic has surpassed German female legend Steffi Graf&#8217;s record for the most weeks as world number one after entering a 378th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":427735,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16740,17377],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Serbian enters 378th week at the top of the men's rankings","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427734"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=427734"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=427734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}