The bad results of Carlos Alcaraz during their tour they caused Argentina and Brazil Novak Djokovic he will increase his difference at the top of the ATP ranking compared to the Spanish tennis player, who he even sees as the Italian Jannik Sinner, winner in Melborne, threatens second place. But this is not the only salient data provided by the new publication of the ranking: as of this Monday there are eight Argentinians in the Top 100, something that hasn’t happened for two years.
Alcaraz, who reached the quarterfinals at the Australian Open – lost to Alexander Zverev– defended many points on the clay tour of South America, after the victory in 2023 in Buenos Aires and the final in Rio de Janeiro. In the ATP 250 in Buenos Aires he remained in the semifinals, when he faced the Chilean Nicolás Jarry, and in the ATP 500 in Rio, last week, he retired in the debut match due to an ankle injury.
Consequence: the Spaniard loses 300 points in a week and his disadvantage compared to Djokovic rises to 1,150 points. And he only has 535 more than Sinner.
And there’s more about Nole. He reached 414 weeks as world number one. Not only is he the one who has been at the top of the rankings for the longest time, but he has also already taken two calendar years ahead of his pursuer, the already retired Roger Federer. Yes, crazy, no matter how you look at it.
Argentine public
The Argentine Francisco Cerúndolo He re-entered the Top 20 at the expense of the Chilean Jarry and his compatriot Sebastiano Baezwinner on Sunday in Rio, he moved up nine places to 21st, the best ranking so far for the 23-year-old tennis player.
However, the Argentine also made the big leap Mariano Navonewho had never entered the Top 100 and who after surprisingly playing the final in Rio (starting from the qualifiers) rose 53 positions up to 60th place.
To these three we must add another five Argentines who fall into the restricted group of the ranking. I am Tomás Etcheverry (27th), Facundo Díaz Acosta (52nd), Pedro Cachin (78th), Facundo Coria (88th) and Thiago Tirante (100th). The latter, like Baez and Navone, had never been so high in the rankings.
With this number of players in the Top 100, Argentina is ranked as the third power in world tennis together with Australia, since only the United States, with 12 representatives, and France (10), have so many tennis players in the top top of the ranking. the classification. Spain, however, only has five – Carlos Alcaraz (2nd), Alejandro Davidovich (24th), Roberto Carballés (66th), Jaume Munar (70th) and Roberto Bautista (98th) -. It is the lowest figure in the last 35 years.
It’s not a record, obviously. The week of June 26, 2007, in the transition times between the end of the golden era of the Argentine Legion and the beginning of the Del Potro era, national tennis had 14 exponents among the best hundred.
They were Guillermo Cañas (17th), Juan Ignacio Chela (20th), David Nalbandian (25th), Agustín Calleri (29th), Juan Mónaco (32nd), José Acasuso (49th), Juan Martín Del Potro (56 °°), Diego Roitman (71st), Mariano Zabaleta (83rd), Diego Hartfield (88th), Martín Vassallo Argüello (89th), Carlos Berlocq (92), Gastón Gaudio (99th) and Juan Pablo Guzmán ( 100°). Curiously there were no representatives in the top ten, as if it had happened in previous years. The last to appear in the top ten was Diego Schwartzman, now far from his splendors, in 2020.
The top 20
1. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 9,855 points
2. Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) 8,805
3. Jannik Sinner (ITA) 8,270
4. Daniil Medvedev (RUS) 8,015
5. Andrey Rublev (RUS) 5,110
6. Alexander Zverev (GER) 5,085
7. Holger Rune (DEN) 3,700
8. Hubert Hurkacz (POL) 3,395
9. Alex De Minaur (AUS) 3,210
10. Taylor Fritz (United States) 3,150
11. Casper Ruud (NOR) 3,120 (+1)
12. Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 3,080 (-1)
13. Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) 2,925
14. Tommy Paul (United States) 2,375
15. Karen Khachanov (RUS) 2,260 (+2)
16. Frances Tiafoe (USA) 2,155 (-1)
17. Ben Shelton (United States) 2,055 (-1)
18. Ugo Humbert (FRA) 1990
19. Adrian Mannarino (FRA) 1,950 (+1)
20. Francisco Cerúndolo (ARG) 1,840 (+2)
Argentines among the top 100
21. Sebastián Baez (ARG) 1,825 (+9)
27. Tomás Etcheverry (ARG) 1,470
52. Facundo Díaz Acosta (ARG) 948 (+7)
60. Mariano Navone 906 (+53)
78. Pedro Cachin (ARG) 754 (-2)
88. Federico Coria (ARG) 678 (-3)
100. Thiago Agustín Tirante 598 (+5)
Source: AFP
Source: Clarin
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