Once you top the history tables, you can rewrite it every day that you stay atop, and that is exactly what Novak Djokovic is doing.
Only a few weeks ago, the Serb equaled Steffi Graf's record for spending 377 weeks as the world no. 1. Naturally, one week later, the world no. 1 on the ATP Tour stood alone as he broke Graf's record and continues to extend it every week since then.
Well, except for a period when Carlos Alcaraz dethroned him after the Indian Wells triumph. On April 3rd, the 22-time Grand Slam champion regained the world no. 1 spot again and started his 381st week as the highest-ranked player.
Now, his record has been extended already to 384 weeks and it will be extended even further. Thanks to the young Spaniard defending his title in Madrid, he can't overtake the Serb and that means that Djokovic will be the world no. 1 at least until the Italian Open in Rome.
But how does it look behind the 35-year-old in the ATP Rankings? The Serb leads with 7135 points and Carlos Alcaraz is second with 6770 points and upcoming defence of 1000 points from last year's triumph in the Spanish capital at the Madrid Open.
Climbing back up is the third Daniil Medvedev, who overtook Casper Ruud by 30 points. The Russian has 5240 points, the 24-year-old Norwegian is behind him with 5210 points and very close behind the two is fifth Stefanos Tsitsipas with 5195 points.
Andrey Rublev in sixth has a bit bigger gap to the Top 5 with 4280 points and more than 900-point deficit. On the other hand, Holger Rune is closing up in 7th with 4070 points and behind him, another youngster Jannik Sinner has 3615 points.
Rounding up the Top 10 are two players from the North America, Felix Auger-Aliassime in 9th with 3405 points and the highest-ranked American, Taylor Fritz who is 10th with 3290 points.
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