Congratulations to Novak Djokovic for clinching the year-end #1 ranking in the ATP tour. He achieved this last Friday when he won his last round-robin match during the ATP World Tour Finals. That win allowed him to get to the semifinals and guaranteed that Roger Federer would not be able to catch him.
As it turned out, Roger had to withdraw in the final due to a back injury. Federer's withdrawal allowed Novak to claim his third ATP World Tour final trophy in a row and fourth overall. Only one other player, Ivan Lendl, has won the year-end title three years in a row. Djokovic is now the seventh player in the open era to be ranked #1 at the end of the year at least three times. He has definitely achieved a tremendous amount of success in his career so far, making him one of tennis' all-time greats, and it will be interesting to see how much more he will accomplish over the next few years.
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