Djokovic virtually assures year-end top ranking for sixth time | Malay Mail

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VIENNA, Oct 29 — Novak Djokovic virtually ensured equalling Pete Sampras’s record of ending the year as world number one for the sixth time on Wednesday when he reached the Vienna ATP quarter-finals. Djokovic defeated Croatia’s Borna Coric 7-6 (13/11), 6-3 and will secure the year-end top...

Djokovic, who now has 39 wins and just two defeats in 2020, has been the top-ranked player at the end of a season five times: in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2018. — Reuters pic

If the 33-year-old Serb wins the Vienna title on Sunday, he will make sure of the landmark regardless of whether or not Nadal plays in Bulgaria. Djokovic also has another target -- beating Federer’s all-time best of 310 weeks spent on top of the rankings.Should he stay in pole position, he will pass Federer in early March 2021.

“It was very tiring and very challenging,” said Djokovic after his fourth win in four meetings with Coric, the world number 24.

 

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