Daniel Medvedev

Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev passed the rating of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), again becoming the world’s first racket. Novak Djokovic, who was among the leaders before, dropped to third place, and now Alexander Zverev is in second place.

Now the top ten in the ATP ranking looks like this:

a. Daniel Medvedev (Russia) — 7,950 points.
2. Alexander Zverev (Germany) – 7,075 points.
3. Novak Djokovic (Serbia) – 6,770 points.
four. Raphael Nadal (Spain) – 6,525 points.
5. Casper Ruud (Norway) – 5,050 points.
6. Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece) – 4,945 points.
7. carlos alcaraz (Spain) – 4,893 points.
eight. Andrey Rublev (Russia) — 4,125 points.
9. Felix Auger – Aliassime (Canada) – 3,895 points.
front. Matteo Berrettini (Italy) – 3,570 points.

The rankings changed after Medvedev reached the final of the tournament on 11 June at ‘s-Hertogenbosch and defeated French tennis player Adrian Mannarino with a score of 7:5.

Previously, Daniil Medvedev held the lead in the ATP rating from February 28 to March 21.

— journalist Nadezhda Sagittarius commented on the news on the telegram channel.

Recall that the organizers of the Wimbledon tournament decided to exclude Daniil Medvedev and other Russian tennis players from participation in the competition due to the situation in Ukraine. In turn, the major tennis associations took away the ranking points at Wimbledon.

Medvedev became the third Russian tennis player to top the ATP rankings. In 1999, Yevgeny Kafelnikov became the world’s first racket, and from November 2000 to November 2001 Marat Safin and Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten occupied the first and second places three times.