President of the Russian Tennis Federation (RTF) Shamil Tarpishchev in an interview with , he said the absence of a pronounced leader in men’s world tennis has a positive effect on the sport as a whole.
At the beginning of January 2023, the Spaniard is at the top of the ATP ranking Carlos Alcaraz , which has 6820 points in assets. Following him are Rafael Nadal (6020), Casper Ruud (5820), Stefanos Tsitsipas (5550) and Novak Djokovic (4820). Russians Daniel Medvedev (4065) and Andrei Rublev (3930) rank seventh and eighth respectively.
– Men no longer have one or even two masters who can lead the rankings for a long time. And that, I think, is very good. Now, finally, there is competition, not four people vying for first place, as was the case recently, but eight or nine at a time. Young – Hurkach, Sinner, Alkaraz, our guys, plus Djokovic, Zverev, Tsitsipas. Any match with their participation is already a holiday, the competition there is quite serious. And competition, as you know, is the key to development.
– Is it really good for world tennis? It’s much easier to build marketing on four-star wrestling, not such a big group of masters.
– Remember how it was for women when Serena Williams just upstaged everyone else. I think it was a very bad period in the development of women’s tennis. The more competition there is, the more interesting the matches. As in football: in Spain there are two leaders, Real Madrid and Barcelona, and is this a plus for La Liga? In my opinion, this only impoverishes the championship. Now the women have a leader again – Iga Swiatek She has an advantage over everyone. I think she came for 3-4 years, in the near future someone is unlikely to push her,” Tarpischev told .
Source : MatchTV
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