Looking back: All the year-end ATP No.1s

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Roger Federer has finished as year-end No.1 on five occasions. Photo: Getty Images

Andy Murray has become the seventeenth man to hold the ATP year-end No.1. In doing so he has joined an elite list of players. Who are the men who preceded him? This is a list of the players who have managed that elusive feat:

1973 Illie Nastase (Romania)

1974-1978 Jimmy Connors (US)

1979-1980 Bjorn Borg (Sweden)

1981-1984 John McEnroe (US)

1985-1987 Ivan Lendl (Czechoslovakia)

1988 Mats Wilander (Sweden)

1989 Lendl

1990-1991 Stefan Edberg (Sweden)

1992 Jim Courier (US)

1993-1998 Pete Sampras (US)

1999 Andre Agassi (US)

2000 Gustavo Kuerten (Brazil)

2001-2002 Lleyton Hewitt (Australia)

2003 Andy Roddick (US)

2004-2007 Roger Federer (Switzerland)

2008 Rafael Nadal (Spain)

2009 Roger Federer

2010 Rafael Nadal

2011-2012 Novak Djokovic (Serbia)

2013 Rafael Nadal

2014-2015 Novak Djokovic

2016 Andy Murray (Britain)

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