Tennis rankings: Djokovic, Nadal and Federer rank among the top three

The Big Three is the top three end of the year, which happened in 2014.

With Novak Djokovic at No. 1, Rafael Nadal at No. 2 and Roger Federer at No. 3 on Monday, this great trio of tennis leads the final standings of the ATP season for the seventh time.

This is the first time, however, that each of these three men has spent time at No. 1 in the same year. The seven changes have been the largest since 1999, when they were eight.

Djokovic won Wimbledon and the US Open in 2018, while Federer won the Australian Open and Nadal won the title at the French Open.

They also represented numbers 1 to 3 in the final rankings in 2007-2011 and 2014.

For Djokovic, it is the fifth time that he closes a year in first place, after 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015. Only Pete Sampras, with six finals No. 1 at the end of the year. year, did it more often.

The 31-year-old Serbian is also the eldest of the men to rank No. 1 at the end of the season and the first to finish top of the standings after coming out of the top 20 during the year – or in out of the top 10 at the end of the previous year (it was # 12 in 2017).

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Simona Halep finished the season at No. 1 in the WTA rankings for the second year in a row; she landed this place more than a month ago. Angelique Kerber was the second woman, followed by Caroline Wozniacki, Elina Svitolina and Naomi Osaka.

Djokovic doubled Nadal three weeks ago; The Spaniard competed nowhere after stopping, because of a painful right knee, in his semi-final of the American Open, in September, against Juan Martin del Potro. Nadal underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right ankle this month.

Nadal finishes his season at No. 1 or No. 2 for the 10th time, ahead only 11 times at Federer.

Federer, meanwhile, ranks in the top three at the end of the year for a record 14th time. Switzerland, 37, won 20 Grand Slam titles, the highest number of men, followed by Nadal (17), Djokovic and Sampras (14 retired).

The rest of the top 10 of the ATP for 2018: No. 4 Alexander Zverev, No. 5 del Potro, No. 6 Kevin Anderson, No. 7 Marin Cilic, No. 8 Dominic Thiem, No. 9 Kei Nishikori and No. 10 John Isner.

Del Potro was a finalist at the American Open, Anderson at Wimbledon, Cilic at the Australian Open and Thiem at the Open de France.

Neither Anderson nor Isner have ever finished a year in the top 10, while Del Potro is back in this group for the first time since 2013.