Rafael Nadal he had to stay at home for the first time since he made his debut at Roland Garros in 2005, where he won the first of his fourteen titles. Recently operated on his right hip, in an attempt to return to competition next season, which will be his farewell, he turned 37 in Manacor, he has to follow the final from afar.
He saw how the Serbian Novak Djokovic lifted the Musketeers Cup for the third time, defeating one of the players from his academy, the Norwegian Casper Ruud. How he grabbed the record for most Grand Slam titles, breaking his tally of 22 with the 23rd.
The Balkan regained the world number one, which he stole from his victim in the semifinals, the Spanish. Carlos Alcaraz. Rafael Nadal He deducted from his account the 2,000 points he added in the previous edition of the campaign.
This reduction caused the Spaniard to lose 121 places in the ATP rankings, falling from 15th to 136th place, an unprecedented classification for a Spanish tennis player in the last twenty years.
This is his worst ranking since March 24, 2003, when he was 152 in the world. He hasn’t seen himself out of the top 100 since April 14 of that course, when he appeared in 109th place.
He is the player with the most weeks spent in the top-10, which he entered in April 2005 and did not leave until March 2023, after 913 uninterrupted weeks.
Without competing since then australia tomorrow, in mid-January, this season they have only played four games, with one win and three losses. Melbourne’s second round equals 45 points which he will hold until the end of January 2023.
Of the 445 accumulated, the other 400 will be lost in the coming months: in August 10 of cincinnati, another 180 of US Open in September, 200 in November for Turin ATP Finals.
How can he participate in tournaments when he reappears? For a certain time or frames, he will enter with the highest rank, protected by a lasting damage. The classification of the moment does not count, but the one he had when the loss began.
In any case, you can always have an invitation to the contest.
Yes, it will affect the draw, since it is not seeded, it will enter the hype with the current ranking position.
He signed to heal the iliac psoas in his right leg, to be competitive again in 2024. The rest is secondary for him.
Source: La Verdad
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