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2000–2008; ‘Best of 18’ ranking system, where a player’s best 18 results in the events counted. 2009–2019; A new point scale for ATP rankings to the ‘Best of 18’ ranking system. [8] 2020 [a] –2021; ‘Best of 24-month’ ranking system from Aug 23, 2020 to Aug 9, 2021 for the two pandemic-impacted seasons. [9]
Since 1969, the tournament became open to professionals, so it is now called the Australian Open. [1] The senior men's and women's tournaments are open to any player with a world ranking, although players below number 100 in the world rankings generally have to enter a preliminary qualification tournament or receive a wildcard to gain entry. [2]
World number 1 ranked male tennis players is a year-by-year listing of the male tennis players who were ranked as world No. 1 by various contemporary and modern sources. The annual source rankings from which the No. 1 players are drawn are cited for each player's name, with a summary of the most important tennis events of each year also included.
Unless otherwise sourced, all records are based on data from the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), [3] the International Tennis Federation (ITF), [4] and the official websites of the four Grand Slam tournaments. All rankings-related records are based on ATP rankings, which began in 1973.
The four Grand Slam tournaments are the Australian Open in January, the French Open from late May to early June, Wimbledon in late June to early July, and the US Open in late August to early September, with each played over two weeks. The Australian and the United States tournaments are played on hard courts, the French on clay, and Wimbledon ...
In 1959, Jack Kramer established a series of 15 tournaments in Australia, North America, and Europe linked by a points system which provided a full field ranking of all the contract professionals, plus a substantial money prize for the top finisher, with Lew Hoad emerging as world No. 1. [37]
In men's tennis, the Grand Slam tournaments, the Masters tournaments, and the year-end championships are considered the top-tier events of the annual ATP Tour calendar, in addition to the quadrennial Olympics. They are collectively known as the 'Big Titles'. [a] [1] The ATP defined the mandatory events (Slams, Masters and YEC) as follows
This article presents top ten lists of male singles tennis players, as ranked by various official and non-official ranking authorities throughout the history of the sport. The article is split into two sections: 1912–1972 , and since 1973 when the first official ATP rankings were published, for ease of navigation.