In the just-concluded Abu Dhabi exhibition match, Nadal suffered two consecutive defeats and was hit in the head on his comeback.
When he returned to China for a nucleic acid test, Nadal tested positive, which made his Australian Open entry trip confusing. Even if you can participate as scheduled, I am afraid that the competitive status will not be too obviously improved.
Under a series of bad news, there are still memorable and happy data. Fans teased that the Australian season was at odds with Nadal, but on January 18 this year (during the Australian game), Nadal became the first men's tennis player to be ranked in the world's top ten for 800 consecutive weeks.
But in the second half of the year, he has been absent one after another, has not played since the Washington Open, and even so, he still ended the season with the highest ranking at the end of the year, and so far, his top ten weeks in the world has accumulated to 848 weeks.
In other words, he hasn't fallen out of the list since he made it on April 25, 2005.
Here's a list of the top ten consecutive weeks in men's singles history:
848 weeks Nadal (2005–present)
Nadal's record continues, and with each additional week, he will be a little more solid in the all-time rankings.
But next year Nadal will not face too much pressure to keep points, and the results of the Australian Open quarter-finals this year, the Champions of the Rome Masters and the French Open final four are not much of an advantage compared with his previous years.
But we should see that the elderly Nadal's physical recovery function is slower than others, and it is indeed difficult to estimate whether he can recover as quickly as May and Deyo after the infection of the new crown.
741 week Federer (2002-2016)
In second place is Federer, who has been in the world's top ten the following year since Wimbledon beat Sampras in 2001.
Had it not been for the season reimbursement in the second half of 2016, Federer would have stayed in the world's top ten positions longer.
619 weeks Lendl (1980-1992)
565 weeks Sampras (1990-2001)
They were followed by two Ancient Divine Beasts, Lendl and Sampras, both of whom were the leaders of their time, so it was not difficult to rank in the top ten of the world.
What about this data on the women's side? There is only one player who has surpassed Nadal in the first ten consecutive weeks, and that is the female King Kong Navratinova, whose record is an appalling 1,000 weeks. (Source: Tennis House Author: Luo ChengQiye)