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04/11/2026

Eight players have been ranked No.1 in the World since Roger Federer achieved it on February 02, 2004.

Among them, it was none other than Novak Djokovic who rose to that position for the first time in his career on July 04, 2011 with maximum of 13,285 ATP ranking points. Djokovic garnered those many points to be the No.1 player in the world while fighting alongside with his BIGGEST rivals Federer and Rafa Nadal, who were in their prime age and top form👍

Carlos Alcaraz is the player to be ranked as No.1 in the world for the first time by earning only 6,740 ATP points – the least of all. Any real tennis fan, NOT the “internet bullies” or “trolls” on social media platforms who are basically from the FEDAL bandwagon, know how and why Alcaraz was able to become the youngest No.1 in Men's tennis history.

No further explanation is required.!

03/11/2026

What a great win that was from the 24-times Grand Slam Champion Novak Djokovic in his first-round match against World No.27 Valentin Vacherot to reach the Round of 32 at Paris Maters 1000 event, where he had won the titles 7-times in his career.!

Coming back to win the match from a set down and an early break down in the second against such an in-form player was truly an INCREDIBLE performance from the 39-years-old tennis legend👍

It was another tough opponent, and another tough match for Novak Djokovic towards the end of the 2026 season. He was playing against a GIANT KILLER in Valentin Vacherot, the Monegasque player who had just won the ATP 500 Title in Basel a day before, and was playing tennis at a very high level.

Novak fought very hard to save three set points in the first in the 12th game, and was just two points away from winning it in the tie-break at 5-4, but lost it 7-6(5).

It was very tough to break Vacherot today as he was serving bombs. The 2025 Shanghai Masters Champion fired down 21 aces in the first two sets.! Still Djokovic, one of the best returners in the game, managed to get a break back in the second set against him to level it 2-2. He broke the serve of Valentin again in the last game to take it 7-5 to level it 1-set-all.

In the deciding third set, Djokovic served extremely well winning 93% on his own first serves. He gave no chance for the Monegasque player as he broke his serves three times to present him a bread-stick one to win the match in great style👏👏

That was VINTAGAE Djokovic👌He has thus kept his hopes alive to qualify to play in the 2026 season-ending ATP Finals. BIG Congratulations and Good Luck to Novak❤️👍🙏

03/11/2026

ATP Rankings, the merit based computerized system, was launched on August 23, 1973.

Among ACTIVE players, here is the details of eight players who could make the ‘quickest’ Top 10 debut from outside 100 in their ATP rankings.

The 20-year-old Rafael Jodar happens to be the player to make the Top 10 debut in quickest time (217 days) from being ranked outside 100 in ATP rankings. He is now ranked #10 for the week starting November 02, 2026.

The young Spaniard is followed by Holger Rune (294 days) and his Senior country man Carlos Alcaraz (336 days). Novak Djokovic comes fourth in the list, having taken 623 days to be ranked No.10 for the first time on 19 March, 2007. For the information of readers, Roger Federer needed 1119 days and Rafa Nadal 734 days to do so.

In ATP history, former World No.1 Boris Becker is the only player to accomplish this feat in quicker days than Jodar. The German was ranked No.10 for the first time in his career on 08, July 1985. He still remains the youngest ever male player in 210 days to reach there at the age of 17 Years 228 Days.! Isn’t it surprising to note that Becker then was younger than Alcaraz, the youngest male player in tennis history, who was ranked among the Top 10 at the age of 18 Years 355 Days.?!

Alcaraz, Djokovic, Jannik Sinner and Alexander Zverev too have cracked the Top 10 before they turned 21 years of age, and are multiple Slam winners already. If that’s any indication, Jodar, Holger Rune, Ben Shelton, and even Flavio Cobolli have plenty of time left to win Majors in the near future.

Sure, it’s not the beginning but the end that matters in the career of any sportsperson. That’s why, the Slam titles leader Djokovic who became No.1 in the World for the first time on 04 July, 2011 at the age of 24 ruled the tennis world in that position for a whopping 428 weeks -118 weeks and 219 weeks more than Federer and Nadal who were No.1 at the age of 22.

But it looks like the NEW Rafa from Spain is well on course to win his first Slam title, perhaps in 2027 itself.

Good Luck to all these youngsters who are knocking on the door to win the Majors for the first time in their career👏👏

02/11/2026

HUGE Congratulations to Alexander Zverev for becoming the World No.1 player in Men’s tennis, and to Rafael Jodar for making his ATP Top 10 debut for the first time in their career👏👏

This position at the top of ATP Rankings was long overdue for the German as he was only two match wins away from it during the 2022 French Open where he had to retire from his semi-final match against the then World No.5 Rafa Nadal due to a nasty fall on the red clay at ROLAND-GARROS. The ankle injury he suffered there put him out of action on the tour till he played at the Australian Open next year in 2023.

The NEW Rafa from Spain is only 20-year-old, and can be really proud of his meteoric rise in ATP rankings this season. Jodar was ranked No.168 at the end of last year in 2025, and what a performance that was from him in a single season on his debut to be ranked No.10 in ten months’ time.! STUPENDOUS indeed💪

01/11/2026

For the first time in their career, Current World No.3 Carlos Alcaraz defeated the No.5 seed Alex de Minaur, and World No.31 Valentin Vacherot beat the No.8 seed Jiri Lehecka to win the ATP 500 events in Vienna and Basel respectively.

Alcaraz is the third Spanish player to win the Veinna title in Austria after Feliciano Lopez in 2004 and David Ferrer in 2015. Lopez had a career high No.12 ATP rankings on 02 March, 2015 and Ferrer was ranked as high as No.3 on July 08, 2013.

Vacherot is the first Monegasque player to win the Basel title in Switzerland.

BIG Congratu;taions to Carlos and Valenitn👏👏

28/10/2026

After a tough start to his first match in Basel in fifteen years, the 24-times Slam Champion Novak Djokovic came back from a set down to defeat World No.38 Frenchman Ugo Humbert to reach R 16 of the 2026 ATP 500 Swiss Indoors tournament.

Congratulations and Good Louck to Novak👏👏

28/10/2026

Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic have all played professional tennis for more than twenty years. Here are the statistical results of the ATP tour-level matches played by three of the greatest players the tennis sport has ever witnessed.

These are wholesome numbers👍And, NOT a few "cherry-picked" ones that most of the FEDAL fans come out with to make themselves feel happy about the success of their favourites.

The matches played on CARPETS are not considered here as they were very few compared to the total. The last official main-tour ATP tournament played on Carpet was the Lyon Grand Prix in France, in October 2008. The Win-Loss record of Roger, Rafa and Novak on Carpet laid courts were: 50-20; 2-6; and 9-4 respectively.

The Swiss has played a total of 1456; the Spaniard 1300; and the Serbian 1410 tour matches in their career. The graphics here displays the Win-Loss record and the respective Win% of the BIG 3 played on each surface – Hard, Grass & Clay at the start of 2026 ATP 500 Swiss Indoors, Basel.

As can be expected, Federer has played more matches than Rafa and Novak on both hard courts and grass courts – 269 more than Nadal’s 669 & 51 more than Novak’s 887 on hard courts. On grass, Roger played 125 matches more to Rafa’s 96, and 69 more to Novak’s 152.

On the other hand, Nadal has played a total of 535 matches on his favourite and most successful Clay surface – 238 more than Federer’s 297, and 164 more than Novak’s 371.!

In win percentages, Djokovic leads the table on hard courts with a slight advantage over Federer (84.10% to 83.48%). The Swiss leads on grass court matches with a little better advantage over the Serbian (86.88% to 85.52%). Nadal of course leads on the red-clay in win percentages, with Djokovic coming second (90.47% to 80.05%).

The legendary Serbian is the only player to have a Win Percentage of above 80% on each of the surfaces. And, he also leads the table on Hard Courts, Grass Courts and Clay Courts combined on that parameter (Roger 82.49%; Rafa 82.92% & Djokovic 83.19%), in spite of Nadal having a success rate of above 90% on clay.!

After reading this piece, if some tennis fans still think one of Federer or Nadal is the Greatest of All Time, they are not talking tennis which is a SPORT.! They are EITHER awarding marks like Judges in an event for the Miss World Contest OR waving white handkerchiefs by the spectators to signal the approval of the matador’s bravery in a Spanish Bullfight😂😂

There is One and ONLY One GOAT - that is Novak Djokovic from Serbia, the Master on all surfaces👏👏

BRAVO and Long Live Nole💪❤️🙏

27/10/2026

It’s the Swiss former tennis player Martina Hingis, the youngest ever to be ranked World No.1 in tennis history, Male or Female.! Hingis reached the pinnacle in this sport for the first time on March 21, 1997 at 16 Years 182 days👌

When Carlos Alcaraz reached the ATP World No.1 ranking for the first time on September 12, 2022, he was 19 Years 130 Days. The Spaniard occupies only the 6th position in this list after the Russian former tennis player Maria Sharapova achieved it on August 22, 2005 at the age of 18 Years 125 Days.!

Women don’t have to be EMPOWERED.! They already are💪Better than Men in their early life, at least when it comes to developing their body and maturing in mental strength to play professional tennis and to become Champions👏👏

26/10/2026

JustTennis was not aware of this reaction from Roger Federer after losing the title match against Novak Djokovic at the 2009 ATP 500 Swiss Indoors, Basel, until this poster on a tennis site came to notice two or three days back.

Novak was making his Basel debut in the year 2009. Roger was the clear favourite to win the title there again, having won it three consecutive years before that in 2006, 2007 & 2008. Federer was obviously disappointed losing in the finals to the then 22-year-old Djokovic.

During the Italian Open press conference next year, a reporter asked Roger whether he would consider playing in Belgrade in 2010 to get even with Novak and win the Serbian’s home tournament.

This was Roger’s response: “Not really. I’m not that kind of guy. He [Djokovic] can come to Basel every year if he wants; I will make sure he won’t win again”.

Djokovic came back to Basel to play again in 2010, and Roger made sure he defeated Novak in the finals.

But that kind of statement coming from Federer on Djokovic in a press conference was uncalled for, and not expected from such a successful tennis player towards his colleague who was much junior to him, trying to make his presence felt in the tennis circuit.

There were many instances like that on the part of Roger, and the most insulting one was his “lucky shot” remark on a bullet like cross-court forehand service return winner from Djokovic when the Swiss was 2 match-points up in the semifinals of the 2011 US Open. Federer lost that match and Djokovic went on to win his first title at Flushing Meadows, New York defeating Rafael Nadal in the finals.

As fate would have it, that service return winner turned out to be death-knell for Roger in his later matches against Novak, especially in Majors, till the Swiss retired in September 2022. After that terrible loss at Flushing Meadows in New York, one could see the lack of confidence on Roger’s face every time he was about to serve against Novak.

No wonder, Djokovic leads Roger 8-1 in Slam matches since he won 2011 US Open. Roger’s lone win against Novak in Majors after that match in New York was at 2012 Wimbledon. The Swiss was leading the Serbian 5-3 before that.

And Roger lovers and admirers keep saying he is a GENTLEMAN.! Unfortunatley, Federer was far from it, whenever he was speaking about Djokovic, his nemesis on tennis courts🥲

Now after 15 years in 2026 at the age of 39, Novak is back in Basel to play again.! It doesn’t matter whether he wins a single match there this time. The legendary Serbian has already proved the whole world that he is the Greatest of All Time in tennis👏👏

25/10/2026

Former World No.1 and the 2021 US Open Champion Daniil Medvedev defended the ATP 250 Almaty title after losing the first set to defeat Nikoloz Basilashvili. SCORE: 6-7(6); 6-1; 6-3.

The Georgian is currently ranked No.128 in the world, but has a career high ranking of No.16 in ATP which he achieved in May 2019.

This is Daniil’s fourth tour-level title of the 2026 season and his 25th overall. Incidentally, this Championship win also happened to be only the second time the Russian had won a second title at the same venue. It was only early this year in February, Medvedev won his second title for the first time in his career at the ATP 500 event in Dubai.

As the last ATP 1000 tournament of this season, 2026 Paris Masters is to start next month on 2nd November, Medvedev is back to No.5 in Live ATP Rankings, one position above the 6th ranked Italian Flavio Cobolli.

Big Congratulations to Daniil👏👏

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