Andy Murray, the third player in history to form a pair with another number 1

Carlos Alcaraz’s rise to number 1 in world tennis brought together a team, the one he formed with his coach Juan Carlos Ferrerowhere both player and coach reached the top of the Association of Professional Tennis Players (ATP), where join the Rafa Nadal-Carlos Moyá binomial and Andy Murray and Ivan Lendl.

The one from Ontinyent, 42, who has been working in Alcaraz since the summer of 2018, was number 1 for eight weeks between September and November 2003 after rising above American André Agassi and then handing the scepter to fellow American Andy Roddick.

Rafa Nadal, who spent 209 weeks at the top of the ATP in three different decades and eight seasons between August 2008 and February 2020, he had number 1 by his side for two weeks in March 1999.

Murray, 35, was the world tennis leader for 41 weeks between November 2016 and August 2017.and leading Scot, now 43rd in the standings, was trained by the man at the top for 270 weeks over eight periods between February 1983 and August 1990.

In total, there have been 28 tennis players who have accessed the first place since Romanian Ilie Nastase in August 1973Of which only five remain active after the announcement of Roger Federer’s departure: Nadal, Serbian Novak Djokovic, Murray, Russian Daniil Medvedev and Alcaraz, who ousted him from that position at the US Open.

Djokovic, 35 years old and the seventh player in the world after being number 1 373 weeksthe most, did it in six stages between July 2011 and June 2022, and with Goran Ivanisevic in his team, who became number 2 in July 1994.

Medvedev, 26 and fourth on the list, is the first 16 weeks between February and September of this year and is led by Frenchman Gilles Cervara, who has no relevant career as a player.