LONDON (AP) — Rafael Nadal has clinched the year-end No. 1 ranking for the second time in three years.
The Spaniard, who won the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 2010, also finished at the top of the ATP rankings in 2008.
Nadal says “it has been an incredible season — one of my best ever, if not the best.”
He also says that “I worked very hard to get back to the top and it feels really good to know I will end the year as No. 1.”
Nadal, Ivan Lendl and Roger Federer are the only players to have held, lost and regained the year-end No. 1 spot in the 37-year history of the rankings. Federer did it last year.
