{"id":1363,"date":"2011-10-13T18:47:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T17:47:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-22T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T10:44:08","slug":"nole-clinches-year-end-no-1-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/nole-clinches-year-end-no-1-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole clinches year-end no.1 for the first time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=arhiva src=https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arhiva\/slike\/TvrdaPodloga\/863b.jpg>{nl}<font color=\"gray\">Photo: The Canadian Press<\/font>{nl}{nl}<b>Nole will finish as the no.1 player in the year-end South African Airways 2011 ATP Rankings. He is the 16th different player to finish no.1 in the history of the ATP Rankings (since 1973).<\/b>{nl}{nl}World no.2 Rafael Nadal\u2019s third-round loss at the Shanghai Rolex Masters on Thursday assured the Serb of the top ranking come the end of the season.{nl}{nl}The 24-year-old Belgrade native is the first Serbian man to finish no.1 in the history of the ATP Rankings (since 1973). It also marks a record eighth straight year a European is the no.1 player on the ATP World Tour. For seven years from 1985-91, Europeans finished no.1.{nl}{nl}Djokovic will be officially crowned as the year-end no.1 at a special trophy presentation at the season-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London where he will be competing for a fifth straight year. The tournament takes place Nov. 20-27.{nl}{nl}On July 4, Novak became no.1 in the South African Airways 2011 ATP Rankings for the first time after winning his first Wimbledon title. He began his outstanding season with a 41-match winning streak (43 overall back to last year). He has won a career-high 10 titles in 11 finals, including his second Australian Open and first US Open crowns.{nl}{nl}En route to a 64-3 match record, he has captured a record five ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles in a season, in Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid, Rome and Montreal. He has also compiled a 20-2 mark vs. Top 10 opponents, defeating rivals Nadal six times and Federer four times so far in 2011. {nl}{nl}Between now and the end of the season, the Serb is due to play at the Basel Swiss Indoors, the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris, and the season-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals at The O2 in London.{nl}{nl}<font color=\"gray\">www.atpworldtour.com<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole will finish as the no.1 player in the year-end South African Airways 2011 ATP Rankings. He is the 16th different player to finish no.1 in the history of the ATP Rankings (since 1973).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101010215],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27945,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/27945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}