How Novak Djokovic Can RECLAIM the World No. 1 Spot?

[Applause] and the world number one [Music] survives 2011 Champion Novak yovic the battle for the world number one spot in tennis is heating up after Novak jovic withdrew from his quarterfinal match at Roland garos due to a knee injury which allowed janx sner to rise to the top of the men's rankings but with s recent Cincinnati Victory and the shocking news of a failed drug test the situation has become even more complicated as tennis fans wonder how siners wins and controversies could shake up the rankings and what jokovic must achieve to reclaim his number one spot before the end of the season stay tuned to find out how this dramatic story will unfold janx cner is currently ranked number one with 9,360 points jokovic is second with 7460 points followed by Carlos alarz with 7,360 points CER recently increased his points tally by defeating Francis TFO in straight sets in the Cincinnati open finals securing his fifth title of the season yna is the cazzi champion the 23-year-old Italian despite struggling with a hip problem won the final 7-6 7-4 6 to2 against American tifo after winning the first set in a tie break top seated Center claimed his latest trophy in 1 hour and 37 minutes it was a very difficult week a tough week I'm very happy about today's match cner said he is the youngest men's champion in Cincinnati since Britain's Andy Murray won the tournament in 2008 at the age of 21 cner added it was very tough mentally I had such an amazing run here and I tried to do my best today we were both quite tired from the semi-finals CER began the Year by winning his Maiden Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in January he followed this with victories in reram Miami and haly after his Triumph in Ohio CER is now focused on the US Open but with an unexpected twist yanic sinner the world's number one ranked male tennis player has escaped a ban after an independent tribunal sner has been cleared of wrongdoing despite testing positive twice which has been kept Under Wraps since March the tennis world was stunned when the international tennis Integrity agency IA announced on August 20th 2024 that cner tested positive for a ban substance during the Indian Wells open in March sinner first failed a test on March 10th and 8 Days Later his second sample also tested positive although he was provisionally suspended after each positive test he successfully appealed and was allowed to continue playing speculation has arisen among tennis journalists and jovic fans about whether Novak jovic could regain the the number one spot due to janx Sinner's failed drug test jokovic holds the record for 428 weeks at number one in the ATP rankings although Center was cleared the Ia announced that his results prize money and ranking points from the Indian Wells ATP Masters 1000 event where he tested positive for clust ball are disqualified cner initially earned 400 points for reaching the Indian Wells semi-final but those points were deducted on August 20th typically points are subtracted retroactively meaning cner would lose them in March potentially affecting the ATP rankings CER first rose to number one two in the rankings after Indian Welles surpassing Carlos alcaraz and sitting just below jokovic if the points were retroactively deducted CER would have dropped below alcaraz until mid April cner later reached number one after the French Open maintaining his lead over alcaraz even with a retroactive deduction however the critical point came during the week of August 12th that's amazing play when Center dropped 800 points after failing to defend his Canadian open title had the retroactive deduction occurred cner would have had 8,370 points instead of 8,770 potentially allowing jokovic who had 8,460 points last week to reclaim the number one spot instead the ATP only reduced Sinner's tally by 400 points following his Cincinnati open Victory leaving him with 9,360 points while jokovic remains at 7,460 after skipping the ATP Masters 1,00 event the ATP is yet to respond to a question by Ben Rothenberg about the issue with the tennis journalist confirming on X I've asked ATP what will happen re counting cner and jovic's weeks at number one a metric ATP promotes quite a bit because if C's 400 points from IW are retroactively subtracted which would make sense then jovic would have been number one for one additional week last week the ATP could yet update their system and apply the points deduction retrospectively giving jovic another week at number one which will take him to 429 weeks on another note to reclaim his world number one spot from Center Noak jovic will need to win both the US Open and the ATP finals the Serbian has the opportunity to earn 2,000 points at the US Open and up to 1,500 more at the ATP finals additionally jovic would benefit if cner loses points in these tournaments last year cner lost in the round of 16 at the US Open and this year he will aim to go deeper Y moves through to if CER reaches the quarterfinals at the US Open or improves on his Runner up finish at the ATP finals he could gain more points jokovic has not played since winning his Maiden gold medal at the Paris Olympics earlier this month his first title in what had been a challenging year in it's fifth Olympic [Music] [Applause] [Music] Games the legendary Serbian lack of hardcourt match play ahead of his US Open title defense is not ideal but he may be in a stronger position mentally than his rival after claiming the only significant prize missing from his collection at the Olympics jokovic could be liberated as he chases his 25th Grand Slam title as it stands Novak jokovic will need everything to go his way if he is to reclaim the world number one spot from Center however there is a possibility of this happening if jokovic successfully defends both his US Open and ATP Finals titles in the coming weeks with the US Open Just Around the Corner jovic gave fans a hilarious glimpse into his pre tournament preparations despite being a tennis champion it turns out he's just like the rest of us when it comes to lastminute packing on Tik Tok jokovic shared his packing routine and joked about his tendency to overpack I'm one of those people who always takes more than he needs jokovic confessed revealing he was packing late at night I don't seem very excited right now because it's 11:00 p.m. and of course the night before departure I still haven't finished packing I live in suitcases I live in bags it's a sad story not about the playing but I'm just stating the obvious in a humorous twist jovic chose to pack in his children's room explaining it's much neater and cleaner than my room and my wife's room at the moment it's way too many bags so I didn't want it to look that bad here at least it's quite easy as he prepares to head to New York for the US Open he's ready to [Music] go jokovic is also staying fit in an unexpected way cycling he's been spotted training alongside fellow cyclists and even challenged today pogar the three-time tour to France champion in a playful Instagram post back in training setting new goals next stop tour to France I'm Coming For You jovic joked how do you feel po d p to the fr