Novak Djokovic is one of the strongest tennis players in history, one of the best athletes ever, but he has really negative data considering his status. The Serbian player was eliminated in the quarterfinals at the ATP Masters 1000 in Rome.
Nole, winner of 22 Grand Slam titles, was unable to confirm the title he won last year and broke in three sets against young Danish talent Holger Rune. A challenge that saw NextGen almost always in control of the game but fell in the second set mainly due to a rain stoppage.
Nole therefore finishes his tournament in Rome the same way he did in Monte Carlo, hoping that things will go better at the next tournament, the long-awaited Roland Garros. After this departure, Novak Djokovic suffered the most defeats as the world number one.
Quite an important fact that also seems normal since Nole is undoubtedly the tennis player with the most weeks at the top of the tour. Indeed, Wednesday was Nole’s 70th loss in his career as world number one, a bad setback in view of the next crucial tournaments.
After Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, Rome loses another important protagonist and now sees Rune as one of the big favorites to win the final.
Novak Djokovic has shockingly negative data.
Holger had already gotten the upper hand over Nole in the Paris-Bercy 2022 final and has now shown he can mentally and physically hold up against one of the Big Three.
With 70 defeats as world number one, Novak has so far surpassed US tennis player Pete Sampras in this negative ranking. It has to be said that the average is quite different: Nole was number one for 387 weeks, while Pete suffered 69 losses after 286 weeks at the top of the ATP rankings.
On the other hand, Roger Federer’s losses are far fewer, with 56 losses as the number one and 310 weeks at the top of the rankings. Ivan Lendl and Rafael Nadal are tied as number one with 44 defeats each.
It should be stressed that Rafa held the top spot for 209 weeks.
most losses as world #1
djokovic 70 (387 weeks)
sampras 69 (286)
federer 56 (310)
lendl 44 (270)
nadal 44 (209)
connors 41 (268)
mcenroe 35 (170)
agassi 28 (101)
borg 12 (109)(using @tennisabstract)
minimum 100 weeks — allegedly enrico maria riva (@enricomariariva) May 17, 2023
2023-05-19 18:11:39
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