By: Lauren Lynch

Photo Credit: Andy Kentla

(October 18, 2011) According to AskMen.com, tennis’ No. 1 Novak Djokovic was chosen at the third most influential athlete in the world and was voted as 19th over all on the sixth annual Top 49 Most Influential Men 2011 edition. In fact, he beat out icons like Mark Zuckerberg, Barack Obama, Tom Brady, and Ashton Kutcher.

Other athletes that were ranked higher on the most-influential-men list were Lionel Messi and Tour de France winner Cadel Evans. The magazine highlighted three qualities, not limited to only sports, that Djokovic has achieved this year being: 1) First player to win five ATP Masters in one season; 2) Awarded the Order of St. Sava First Class, the highest decoration of the Serbian Orthodox Church; 3) Played US Open as the World No. 1.

They answered why he is 19th in the World with this blurb: “While the whole world was weighing in on the Nadal vs. Federer debate, Novak Djokovic was quietly (OK, maybe not so quietly) putting together one of the most impressive seasons in the history of men’s tennis. Before the 2011 French Open semifinals -- which he lost to Roger Federer -- the wily Serb won 41 straight matches, including the Australian Open and Wimbledon. Just when it looked liked Rafael Nadal was set to begin his long reign atop the men’s ATP rankings, the notoriously hotheaded Djokovic quieted all the outside noise, put all his tools together and reminded us why, right now, men’s tennis is the most exciting sport on the planet, after defeating Nadal at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships and the 2011 US Open.”

This website alone reaches more than 15 million readers globally and they claim that More than 200,000 voted. No other tennis players made the list this year.

The list, 1 Steve Jobs
2 SEAL Team Six
3 Larry Page
4 Warren Buffett
5 Kanye West
6 Mohamed Bouazizi
7 Prince William
8 Anonymous (Wiki leaks group)
9 Ryan Gosling
10 Lionel Messi
11 Cadel Evans
12 Jon Stewart
13 Andrew Mason
14 George Clooney
15 Jay-Z
16 Charlie Sheen
17 Alexander Skarsgard
18 Pep Guardiola
19 Novak Djokovic
20 Pierce Morgan
21 Barack Obama
22 Rene Redzepi
23 Ashton Kutcher
24 Anderson Cooper
25 Ai Weiwei
26 Jean-Claude Trichet
27 Mark Zuckerberg
28 Chris Hemsworth
29 Terry Richardson
30 Peter Dinklage
31 Louis C.K.
32 Mark Cuban
33 Soleio Cuervo
34 Elon Musk
35 Jimmy Fallon
36 Jack Dorsey
37 Michael Bloomberg
38 Dana White
39 Dirk Nowitzki
40 Matt Damon
41 Julian Assange
42 Tom Brady
43 Christopher Nolan
44 Larry David
45 Rory McIlroy
46 Justin Timberlake
47 Bradley Cooper
48 Oscar Pistorius
49 Simon Cowell