Juan Manuel Cerúndolo is among the 100 best / @Challengerba
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What he has shown on the court with his game and his excellent results earned Juan Manuel Cerúndlo one of the top 100 tennis players in the ATP world ranking.
The Cerúndolos’ younger brother, semifinalist in the last Challeneger in Buenos Aires (he was eliminated in the semifinals of said tournament by who would ultimately be the champion: Sebastián Báez) climbed eight positions so he is now ranked 94th in the slafón world.
In this way, Juan Manuel Cerúndolo, aged 19 years and eleven months, became one of the five youngest Argentine tennis players of the 21st century to enter the exclusive “club” of the Top 100.
In fourth place appears David Nalbandian, who achieved it with 19 years and six months. The Cordoba tennis player entered the Top 100 after being a semifinalist in the ATPs in Umag and Sopot in 2001.
Then Guillermo Coria is located, who was positioned among the one hundred best tennis players in the world with 18 years and ten months. The current captain of the Argentine Davis Cup team entered that select lot in 2000 after having won three consecutive Challengers: Lima, San Pablo II and Montevideo.
Jose “Chucho” Acasuso is the national tennis player who gets into second place. At 18 years and six months, the missionary achieved in 2001 thanks to his title at the Bermuda Challenger.
Finally, the youngest Argentine tennis player to enter the Top 100 in this century was Juan Martín Del Potro. The Tandilense did it with 18 years and less than a month after having obtained the title in the Challenger of Segovia and two good performances in the ATP tournaments of Bombay and Tokyo.
“These last weeks he had put pressure on me that I wanted to do it. I felt that I deserved it, that it should already be given and now that I got it, it’s a relief. It’s something that leaves me calm and motivates me for what I have ahead of me, ”said Cerundulo, who is in Lima playing the Challenger in the Peruvian capital.
In what has to do with Diego Schwartzman, he fell back to sixteenth place in the world ranking, which is why he was below the Swiss Roger Federer (15), who fell for the second consecutive week after leaving the “top ten” on Monday of last week.
Federer resigned four positions and precedes the “Peque”, for whom the points of the final reached in the ATP of Antwerp were not enough for the promotion of the Canadian Denis Shapovalov and the British Cameron Norrie, champion of the last Masters 1000 in Indian Wells.
The Italian Jannik Sinner, winner of the “Peque” in the definition of the Belgian tournament, rose two places and placed eleventh, on the threshold of access to the “top ten” that only had one castling between eighth and ninth.
The ranking of this privileged group is as follows: 1) Novak Djokovic, 2) Daniil Medvedev, 3) Stefanos Tsitsipas, 4) Alexander Zverev, 5) Rafael Nadal, 6) Andrey Rublev, 7) Matteo Berrettini, 8) Casper Ruud, 9) Dominic Thiem and 10) Hubert Hurkacz.
In the “Top 100” another five Argentines are placed: Federico Delbonis (41), Federico Coria (74), Guido Pella (80), Facundo Bagnis (81) and, as mentioned, Juan Manuel Cerúndolo (94).
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