Daniil Medvedev lost to Dutchman Tim Van Rijthoven on Sunday in the Hertogenbosch final. It takes 9 months without winning titles. Photo: EFE
Russian Daniil Medvedev returned to number one in the ATP rankings this Monday, while Serbian Novak Djokovic, who has been at the top of the table so far, has lost two places and is now number three behind German Alexander Zverev as well.
Medvedev, 26, had already briefly held the top spot for two weeks, in late February and early March. A peculiarity: the Muscovite hasn’t won titles on the circuit for nine months.
Between Medvedev and Djokovic is Zverev, who moves up one place and is the new number two, a place that the 25-year-old German tennis player had not reached until now. Zverev, yes, was number three in a total of 56 weeks. Another curiosity: the German, who is in full recovery after breaking his right ankle ligaments in the Roland Garros semi-finals, hasn’t celebrated a title for seven months. Yes, the ranking is crazy.
Djokovic comes from the elimination of Nadal in the quarter-finals of Roland Garros. Photo: AFP
Djokovic, champion in Paris in 2021, was eliminated in the second Grand Slam of this 2022 in the quarter-finals by Rafael Nadal, who remains in fourth place in the standings, but now just 245 points behind its great rival.
The Serbian, who at the end of 2021 was number one with a good advantage, pays for that elimination at Roland Garros and, above all, not having been able to compete in the Australian Open at the beginning of the year, after being expelled from that country for not being vaccinated against the COVID-19.We have to go back to October 2018 to see Djokovic out of one of the first two positions on the list that marks the hierarchy of the ATP circuit.
Norwegian Casper Ruud, recent runner-up at Roland Garros, reached the best ranking of his career on Monday reaching number 5, overtaking Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, who now has six, while young Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz continues at number seven.
Nadal and Ruud, champion and finalist of the last Roland Garros. Photo: EFE
In the rest of the ‘Top 20’ it stands out that the Polish Hubert Hurkacz gains a position and is now number 12, overtaking the Italian Jannik Sinner. For his part, the Canadian Denis Shapovalov who is fifteenth also gains a position, dropping the Argentine Diego Schwartzman to sixteenth place.
A curiosity, the Swiss Roger Federer, who in the last few hours has provided details on how it will be his return to the circuit, where he has not played since the 2021 edition of Wimbledon, fell 18 positions and finished in 68th place. To find it so at the bottom of the ranking you must travel 22 years and eight months, i.e. until Monday 11 October 1999when it was at the 93rd step of the ranking.
top 20
1. Daniil Medvedev (RUS) 7950 points (+1)
2. Alexander Zverev (GER) 7075 (+1)
3. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 6770 (-2)
4. Rafael Nadal (ESP) 6525
5. Casper Ruud (NOR) 5050 (+1)
6. Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 4945 (-1)
7. Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) 4893
8. Andrey Rublev (RUS) 4125
9. Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) 3895
10. Matteo Berrettini (ITA) 3570
11. Cameron Norrie (GBR) 3455
12. Hubert Hurkacz (POL) 3258 (+1)
13. Jannik Sinner (ITA) 3185 (-1)
14. Taylor Fritz (United States) 2920
15. Denis Shapovalov (CAN) 2473 (+1)
16. Diego Schwartzman (ARG) 2325 (-1)
17. Marin Cilic (CRO) 2130
18. Reilly Opelka (United States) 2100
19. Pablo Carreno (ESP) 1965
20. Roberto Bautista (ESP) 1858
Argentines in the top 100
34. Sebastian Baez (ARG) 1.168 (+2)
46. Francesco Cerundolo (ARG) 1.035 (-2)
64. Federico Coria (ARG) 898 (+1)
80. Tomas Martin Etcheverry (ARG) 764 (+10)
89. Federico Delbonis (ARG) 679 (-16)
Source AFP
Source: Clarin
