After his loss to Nadal in the quarter-finals of Roland Garros, the Serb will drop to third place in the standings on June 13. In July, on the other hand, he will not be able to defend the 2,000 units he obtained by winning Wimbledon in 2021. A complex scenario that began when he was also unable to defend the title won. at the Australian Open last year.
Novak Djokovic continues to have a bad time in 2022. If a few weeks ago the world believed that Nole had been reborn after a forgettable start to the season, these negative feelings have once again settled on the Serb. No later than June 13 will cease to be world number one and even after Wimbledon he could be out of the top five.
And it is that if there is something that the Serb has lost this year, it is the points. First it was for his decision not to get vaccinated, now for his fall to Nadal at Roland Garros and in a month it will be for the ATP sanction at Wimbledon. Just for the first three g the rand slams of the season, you will not be able to defend 5,640 units.
Thus, it becomes inevitable that he delivers the number one ranking. Something that will happen either this June 6 at the end of Roland Garros or a week later when the points for the French Open 2021 are cleared. In this way the Serb will drop from 8,660 units to 6,770 on June 13 losing yes or yes the world number one.
Now there are two tennis players who can take that job away from him. The one with the most options is Alexander Zverev, who if he wins the Parisian Grand Slam on June 6, will reach 8,355 ATP points becoming the 28th player to reach the top of the list.
This, yes, if the German can’t lift the Musketeers trophy (plays the semi-finals against Nadal), it will be Daniil Medvedev who will rise to number one on June 13 , beginning his second stint in that seat, having previously held the post for three weeks, earlier this year. In any case, on this date, Zverev would be world number two and the Serb, three.
This could only have changes with the tournaments taking place in the week of June 6-12 (Stuttgart and ‘S-Hertogenbosch), although this seems unlikely, since the only one who seems to be entered into one of these events is Medvedev, for whom if the Russian is already number one, he could only widen his lead. If he continued in second place, what he had won in the Netherlands would not be enough to overtake Zverev.
But the problems would be more serious for Djokovic, since after the announcement that Wimbledon will not issue ATP points and that those of 2021 will not be frozen either, the Serb will drop another 2,000 points on July 11 . A blow that would leave him just over 4,500 points and currently place him in sixth place in the world. Tsitsipas (4th) does not defend points in London, Nadal (5th) only 360 and Alcaraz (6th) only 45.
In this way, the one from the Balkans will be forced to add units in one of the grass-court ATP 500s if he does not want to continue losing positions when the British Open units are removed from his accounting tournaments. The problems, yes, could continue for Nole, since it is not yet confirmed that he can compete in the events of Washington, Cincinnati and the US Open, because he is still not vaccinated. This would mean losing another 1,200 units.
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