The Swiss, winner of 20 Grand Slam, entered the Top 10 of the ATP on May 20, 2002 and only left it for a few weeks, between July and October 2002, and from November 2016 to January 2017.
The Swiss tennis player Roger Federer, ninth in the ATP ranking, will descend to the eleventh position and will be left out of the “Top 10” after almost five years.
The victory of the Polish Hubert Hurkacz for the round of 16 of the Masters 1000 in Indian Wells will mean that next Monday Federer “no longer appears in the Top 10 of the ATP rankings for the first time in almost five years“, Indicated this Tuesday the Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo.
Federer’s absence from Indian Wells will cost him 480 points, and, combined with Hurkacz’s ranking (current number 12), it will lower the Swiss from 9th to 11th place, surpassed by the Norwegian Casper Ruud.
The Swiss multi-champion had a 2020 with two operations on his right knee and returned to play this year, although after 13 games played, including a quarter-final at Wimbledon, he ended his season after his trip to London, due to a recurrence of his pain in his right knee.
“The prolonged absence from the courts slowly dragged him down the world rankings, where it was still in fifth place until the beginning of this year ”, highlighted the Spanish sports newspaper.
Federer, 40, and winner of 20 Grand Slam, entered the ATP Top 10 on May 20, 2002 and only left it for a few weeks, between July and October 2002, and from November 2016 to January. of 2017.
Source: Télam.
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