{"id":281184,"date":"2025-11-13T21:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281184\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T21:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:31:09","slug":"alcaraz-locks-down-atps-year-end-no-1-ranking-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281184\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz Locks Down ATP\u2019s Year-End No.1 Ranking \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/pages\/tennis-player\/carlos-alcaraz\\\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> has claimed the year-end No.1 ranking for the second time. The Spaniard eliminated his rival <a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/pages\/tennis-player\/jannik-sinner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> from the race on Thursday in Turin, defeating Lorenzo Musetti 6-4, 6-1 to complete group play undefeated at the ATP Finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz is now the 11th player to hold the year-end No. ranking multiple times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Players with Multiple Year-End No.1 Finishes, ATP\u00a0Novak Djokovic, 8\u00a0Pete Sampras, 6\u00a0Jimmy Connors, 5\u00a0Roger Federer, 5\u00a0Rafael Nadal 5,\u00a0John McEnroe, 4\u00a0Ivan Lendl, 4\u00a0Bjorn Borg, 2\u00a0Stefan Edberg, 2\u00a0Lleyton Hewitt, 2\u00a0Carlos Alcaraz, 2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz is one of 19 players that have held the year-end ranking, from 29 players that have featured as ATP World No.1s. The Spaniard became the only teenager to achieve the feat in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has won 70 matches in a single season for the first time, and claimed seven titles \u2013 Monte-Carlo, Rome, Roland-Garros Queen\u2019s Club, Cincinnati, US Open, Toky \u2013 already. At the ATP Finals he has matched his best performance by reaching the semifinals.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz has claimed the year-end No.1 ranking for the second time. The Spaniard eliminated his rival Jannik&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-281184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}