{"id":951359,"date":"2026-10-30T02:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951359\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T02:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:24:13","slug":"alexander-zverevs-first-no-1-ranking-will-be-confirmed-monday-thanks-to-win-in-vienna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951359\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Zverev&#8217;s first No. 1 ranking will be confirmed Monday thanks to win in Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">VIENNA (AP) \u2014 Alexander Zverev will finally rise to be the No. 1 men\u2019s tennis player Monday when the next rankings are published.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Zverev\u2019s win Thursday in Vienna to reach the quarterfinals of the Erste Bank Open fixed the specific date when he will claim the top ranking that already was assured by the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cTo have the feeling to be on the top of the world is amazing,\u201d Zverev said after beating Tallon Griekspoor 6-4, 7-5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt is different than winning a tournament or a title,\u201d the French Open and U.S. Open champion said, \u201dbut it\u2019s such a special feeling to know that the No. 1 is going to be next to your name when the new rankings come out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 29-year-old Zverev will replace Jannik Sinner atop the rankings Monday regardless of his next results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sinner announced the end of his season three weeks ago because of inflammation in his right knee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Zverev will be the 30th different men\u2019s player at No. 1 and the oldest first-timer to reach the top since 30-year-old John Newcombe did it in 1974. The ATP rankings had been created the previous year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> See AP\u2019s full tennis coverage here <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIENNA (AP) \u2014 Alexander Zverev will finally rise to be the No. 1 men\u2019s tennis player Monday when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-951359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951359","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=951359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}