Contender A
- Weeks ranked world No. 1: 310. Seasons finishing year-end No. 1: 5 (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009).
- “Contender A first ascended to the world No. 1 ranking on 2 February 2004 and would remain there for a record 237-consecutive weeks”
- “He won three of the four majors and the Tour Finals in 2004, 2006, and 2007”
- “Contender A's 2006 season is considered by most tennis experts to be one of the most dominant of the Open Era.”
- “A one-point gap is effectively nothing: It means that peak Djokovic would have a 50.1% chance of beating peak Contender A.”
- “In 2005, he won 81 of his 85 matches. 62 were straight-set victories.”
- “Going into Major Y, he’d made 10 of the previous 11 Grand Slam finals, winning seven of them; the three losses had all come to the rival at the Major X.”
- “In what is widely considered to be one of the greatest individual tennis seasons of all time and Contender A's best, Contender A was dominant in 2006, finishing the year with a 92–5 record.”
- “From February 2nd, 2004 to August 17th, 2008, Contender A spent 237 weeks in a row at No. 1, far and away the longest consecutive streak at the top spot in ATP rankings history.”
- “Contender A (their country) reached 10 successive Grand Slam finals, starting with the 2005 Major Y showpiece and finishing with the Major W final in 2008.”
- “From 2005 to 2010 Contender A reached the finals in 18 out of 19 consecutive grand slams, winning 12 titles.”
- “His 23 consecutive semifinals between 2004 Major Y and the 2010 Major Z and his 36 consecutive quarterfinals between 2004 Major Y and 2013 Major X are also the longest streaks for a man in tennis history.”
- “Contender A has also registered a 56-match win streak on hard courts which is the all-time record.”
- “Contender A is the only player to defend three majors (2007 Major Z, Major Y and Major W) that he won the year before.”
- “winning 12 events of the 17 he entered and making the finals of all but one.”
- “He won an unparalleled 11 Grand Slam tournaments (3 Major Z titles, 4 Major Y titles, and 4 Major W titles) of a possible 16 events from 2004 to 2007.”
- “Contender A made the finals in 10-consecutive major tournaments, from the 2005 Major Y tournament to the 2007 Major W.”
- “During this period of dominance, Contender A won 43 titles, including 10 Grand Slams, three ATP Finals crowns and 13 Masters 1000 titles.”
- “winning 24 finals in a row between October 2003 and November 2005”
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