{"id":1697,"date":"2014-08-14T18:33:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T22:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavytopspin.com\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2014-08-14T18:33:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T22:33:43","slug":"tommy-robredo-and-the-men-who-beat-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/14\/tommy-robredo-and-the-men-who-beat-number-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Robredo and the Men Who Beat Number One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today in Cincinnati, Tommy Robredo<\/a> took out the top-ranked player in the world, Novak Djokovic<\/a>, in straight sets. Robredo has had a fine career, peaking in the top five and beating many of the world’s best, but it was only the second time in eight tries<\/a> that he managed to defeat a reigning world number one.<\/p>\n

The first time Robredo accomplished the feat was more than eleven years ago, at the 2003 French Open, where he upset Lleyton Hewitt<\/a> in five sets. Since then, his only chances to beat\u00a0number ones have come against Roger Federer<\/a>, and he lost in all five tries. When the Spaniard finally scored a win over Fed in New York last year, Roger had long since fallen out of the top spot.<\/p>\n

With today’s win, Robredo becomes the 66th man since the advent of the ATP ranking system\u00a0who has beaten at least two different number ones. Only 13 active players have managed the feat.<\/p>\n

23 players in ATP history have beaten at least three players who were ranked number one at the time. Coincidentally, the man who defeated the most number ones was present at today’s match. Boris Becker<\/a> upset six different players in the top spot, compiling a very impressive 19-16 career record against players ranked number one.<\/p>\n

Next on the list is Michael Chang<\/a>, who beat five different number ones (though he only won 7 of 27 matches against them), while Federer, Andre Agassi<\/a>, Greg Rusedski<\/a>, and Dominik Hrbaty<\/a> beat four. Four more active players have defeated three number ones: Andy Murray<\/a> , David Ferrer<\/a>, Juan Martin del Potro<\/a>, and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga<\/a>. Each of those four recorded their upsets against Rafael Nadal<\/a>, Djokovic, and Federer, except for Ferrer, who has never beaten Fed but did defeat Agassi when the American held the top spot.<\/p>\n

Becker’s 19 wins against top-ranked players is also a record, though he has to share this one with Nadal, who is 19-10 against number ones. Boris and Rafa tower far above the next players on the list, Djokovic and Bjorn Borg<\/a>, who each have 11 career wins against number ones. Next on the list among active players are Murray (9), del Potro (6), Ferrer (5), and Federer (5).<\/p>\n

Robredo doesn’t quite rank among this elite company, but his second top-ranked\u00a0scalp adds a little more luster to an already lengthy list of career highlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today in Cincinnati, Tommy Robredo took out the top-ranked player in the world, Novak Djokovic, in straight sets. Robredo has had a fine career, peaking in the top five and beating many of the world’s best, but it was only the second time in eight tries that he managed to defeat a reigning world number … Continue reading Tommy Robredo and the Men Who Beat Number One<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rankings","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}