{"id":163210,"date":"2023-02-27T07:10:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T06:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=163210"},"modified":"2023-02-27T08:07:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T07:07:45","slug":"nole-breaks-the-all-time-world-rankings-record-for-most-weeks-spent-as-world-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/events\/nole-breaks-the-all-time-world-rankings-record-for-most-weeks-spent-as-world-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole breaks the all-time world rankings record with 378th week at No.1!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Novak surpassed 25-year-old record for most weeks at the top of the rankings on Monday, overtaking Steffi Graf, the legendary German who won 22 Grand Slam titles and dominated women\u2019s tennis in the late 1980s and for much of the 1990s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak already held the record among men, when he surpassed Roger Federer two years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today, Djokovic is ranked No.1 for a record 378th week with 6,980 points.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak says breaking tennis legend Steffi Graf&#8217;s record of 377 weeks at number one is &#8220;surreal&#8221; and that he is proud to surpass one of the sport&#8217;s all-time greats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI could not have imagined it at that point, to be honest,\u201d<\/strong> Djokovic said, talking about his childhood hopes. <strong>\u201cI was dreaming as a kid to be Wimbledon champion, to be No.1 in the world. I achieved those dreams in 2011. After that, of course, I wanted more. I still want more achievements. I\u2019m driven by the goals. I\u2019m as dedicated to the sport really as anybody else. I know that it\u2019s not handed to me, that I have to earn it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cOf course, it\u2019s surreal in a way to be that many weeks world No.1, to match Steffi Graf, that is one of the all-time greats of our sport, both men and women. Just being amongst these legendary names is flattering. I\u2019m very proud of it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak began his 378th week as the number one in the world which is one week more than the previous record of Steffi Graff at 377 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":163092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[101013325,101013181,101011059],"class_list":["post-163210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-other-news","tag-atp-no-1-en-2","tag-most-weeks-at-no-1","tag-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163210","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163210"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163220,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163210\/revisions\/163220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}