{"id":233080,"date":"2025-10-18T04:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233080\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T04:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:32:09","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-says-there-is-a-crazy-record-in-tennis-held-by-novak-djokovic-that-he-really-wants-to-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/233080\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz says there is a ‘crazy’ record in tennis held by Novak Djokovic that he really wants to break"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Carlos Alcaraz has already carved out an incredible career at the age of 22. <\/p>\n

If the Spaniard were to retire today, he would go down as a tennis legend, with six Grand Slam titles; as many as both Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg. <\/p>\n

In the last two years, Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have dominated men\u2019s tennis<\/a>, splitting each of the last eight major titles between them, while fighting for the top spot in the ATP rankings. <\/p>\n

Alcaraz<\/a>, who is currently the world number one, has continued to improve this year and, at the moment, looks set to break a multitude of records throughout his career. <\/p>\n

\"CarlosPhoto by FAYEZ NURELDINE\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

He has already clinched a number of records during his time on the ATP<\/a> Tour, including becoming the youngest world number one in history, aged 19 years and 130 days in 2022. <\/p>\n

There is one all-time record, however, which Alcaraz is very keen to break more than any other, currently held by Novak Djokovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The all-time record Carlos Alcaraz says he wants to break<\/p>\n

Following Alcaraz\u2019s triumph over Taylor Fritz<\/a> at the Six Kings Slam, he was asked which feat he wants to achieve the most in the sport. <\/p>\n

The six-time major champion responded: \u201cThere are a few [records] that I would love to break, obviously the most Grand Slams; I think everybody wants to do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cOr having the most weeks at number one. I think that one from Djokovic is something crazy. I think it\u2019s 400 and something.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think those two records could be fun to break. It is tough to say one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Djokovic\u2019s tally for weeks at number one trumps every other player in ATP history.<\/p>\n

PlayerTotal weeks at number oneNovak Djokovic428Roger Federer310Pete Sampras286Ivan Lendl270Jimmy Connors268Rafael Nadal209John McEnroe170Bjorn Borg109Andre Agassi101Lleyton Hewitt80Stefan Edberg72Jannik Sinner65Jim Courier58Gustavo Kuerten43Carlos Alcaraz42All-time ATP list of the players with the most total weeks as world number one<\/p>\n

The Serb has spent a total of 428 weeks atop the world rankings across his illustrious career, 118 more than Roger Federer<\/a>, who has the second most of all time.<\/p>\n

Rafael Nadal<\/a>, the longtime rival of Djokovic and Federer, recorded a total of 209 weeks, which ranks 6th.<\/p>\n

\"NovakPhoto by Lintao Zhang\/Getty ImagesCarlos Alcaraz is capable of breaking Novak Djokovic\u2019s record<\/p>\n

At such a young age, Alcaraz has already amassed 42 weeks at number one, and counting. <\/p>\n

Sinner\u2019s reign from 2024 to 2025 meant he surpassed his rival, and now has the 12th most in history with 65.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both Alcaraz and Sinner are more than capable of surpassing Djokovic\u2019s record, especially if a third star does not emerge anytime soon to challenge them. <\/p>\n

Djokovic had to battle with Federer, Nadal and Andy Murray<\/a> for the top spot in tennis during his prime years, a problem that the \u2018new two\u2019 have not had yet.<\/p>\n

With both stars on sizeable tallies already, they are on track to top the all-time list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Carlos Alcaraz has already carved out an incredible career at the age of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[430,2073,433,99,428],"class_list":["post-233080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}