Rafa Nadal has set a new record in Melbourne, where he has reappeared this week after a long period of inactivity since August, when he retired due to injury in Washington, and after testing positive for Covid-19 at the end of 2021. The 35-year-old Spanish tennis player has qualified for the tournament’s seminars Melbourne where he has reappeared in preparation for the Australian Open, and He has completed 6,100 consecutive days within the world Top-10, or what is the same, among the top ten in the ATP ranking. And this despite all the injuries that have hampered his career, in which 20 Grand Slam tournaments shine, including 13 Roland Garros.
As reported by the ATP on its website, it was on Monday, April 25, 2005, after winning the final of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell against Juan Carlos Ferrero, when the man from Manacor entered the select group of ten best players in the world. He climbed from number 11 to 7. A top-10 that he has never emerged from, not even during his inactivity. The 6,100 days is a record since the ATP world ranking was created in 1973. Only one other player has spent more days in the Top-10, and that is none other than Roger Federer. However, he has been out of the top ten several times since he first entered on May 20, 2002. Currently, in fact, he is number 16 in the world, after falling due to his absence from the courts due to his injury. on your knees.
Nadal, current world number 6, completed 850 weeks in the Top-10 on Monday, only surpassed by Federer’s 968. And if nothing goes wrong and according to ATP calculations, it would reach 1,000 weeks at the age of 37, at the end of the 2024 season. It was already number one for 209 weeks spread over eight stages, the last between November 2019 and January 2020. , and he was number 2 for a total of 370 weeks, an absolute record in this position. Of those 850 weeks, 783 have been in the Top-5, second only to Federer at 859 weeks.
With the fall of Federer, Nadal is the oldest of the Top-10, with 35 years, followed by the world number one Novak Djokovic, with 34. Next is the number 2, the Russian Daniil Medvedev, with 25 years and 9 months.
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