As the season progressed, Lleyton Hewitt and his good mate Patrick Rafter talked about it a lot. Rafter, born in Mount Isa, Queensland, had made the final eight in after his breakthrough victory at the US Open. Hewitt, from Adelaide, had qualified the year before in Lisbon but fell in the round-robin stage. He was still only 19 at the start of the year when he won the Adidas International tournament in Sydney. Hewitt knocked off former world No.
He went on to win his fifth title of the year in Tokyo. His 77 match wins — including a winning streak of 17 — led all year-end participants. Then the US Open came along and I played fantastic to put myself in a position, finished the year off really strongly as well. The city was excited, too, fresh off its time in the global spotlight a year earlier with the staging of the Olympic Games. Hewitt was seeded No.
All three athletes found themselves in position to finish as year-end No. The pressure Hewitt felt, playing at home with so much at stake, was enormous. If we went out and won the Masters Cup at the time we would finish No. That pressure was evident when Hewitt dropped the initial set of his first round-robin match against Sebastien Grosjean of France.
The ranking takes into account the results of the immediate past 52 weeks. Ranking lists are usually issued each Monday except during the duration of the four Grand Slam tournaments and the events in Miami and Indian Wells. The winner of one of the Grand Slam tournaments, for example, is awarded 2, ranking points, while the runner-up gets 1, ranking points. The Masters, challengers and futures tournaments are less valuable than the Grand Slam tournaments in regards to the number of ranking points a player can gain.
Since ATP introduced its computerized ranking system in , 25 men have been ranked as the world number one. Roger Federer, winner of a record 19 Grand Slam titles in his career, also holds the record for the most total weeks at number one, with weeks spanning over three separate periods. This achievement bettered the record of Pete Sampras who held the number one spot for weeks over eleven separate periods.
Ivan Lendl and Jimmy Connors are the only other men to have ranked number one for more than weeks in total. Yet Federer remains the only man to be ranked number one for over weeks, a feat that has also been achieved by female players Martina Navratilova weeks and Steffi Graf weeks.
At the other end of the scale, Pat Rafter is the only man to have the number one position for just a single week, which he achieved in July Loading statistic Show source. Download for free You need to log in to download this statistic Register for free Already a member? Log in. Show detailed source information? Register for free Already a member? More information. Supplementary notes. Other statistics on the topic. Professional Sports Male tennis players with most Grand Slam wins Professional Sports Female tennis players by number of Grand Slam tournament titles won However, the Australian kept persevering and made numerous comebacks, including a memorable one at the Wimbledon when he reached the quarter-final lost to Andy Roddick.
It was the last time the Australian reached the last-eight at a Major. Lleyton Hewitt retired from tennis in at the age of Two years later, in , Hewitt made his comeback to the tour, on the doubles circuit. Google News. Ranking ATP. ATP Live Scores.
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