This is what the world ranking looks like after Rafa Nadal announced his retirement

Rafael Nadal announced that he will retire from professional tennis at the Final 8 of the Davis Cup, which will be played at the Palacio de los Deportes in Malaga from November 19 to 24.

Cooperate with Carlos Alcaraz, Roberto Bautista, Pablo Carreño and Marcel Granollersunder the captaincy of David Ferrer. Manacorí seeks to “close the circle”, as he commented, with a sixth ‘silver salad bowl’ completing a record opened with the title in 2004, at the age of 18, 20 years ago.

The Balearic player is preparing his participation in the competition by training at the Rafa Nadal Academy in Manacor. Ferrer pointed out that he can also count on him in singles, which is an option in doubles, either Carlos Alcaraz, which he accompanied to the Paris 2024 Games, or Marcel Granollerswith whom he shared selection in the base categories and also occasionally matched with Davis.

In the two singles of the qualifiers, which will start against the Netherlands on Tuesday the 19th, he is settled as No. Carlos Alcaraz. He has the best ranking, occupying the second place after Jannik Sinneras he remains to lose in the quarterfinals of the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 against the Czech Tomas Macac. Next, Roberto Bautistanumber 36, and it’s coming in Rafael Nadalnot 158, although there are options to get through until then Pablo Carreno, is coming back after a long injury and is in 203rd position.

Nadal has only one event announced so far before the Davis Cup, the ‘Six Kings Slam’ in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from October 16 to 19. In the semifinals of this exhibition he will meet Carlos Alcaraz or Holger Runewith Novak Djokovic competing one on one against either Jannik Sinner or Daniil Medvedev.

It does not contribute any ATP points in a week where the ATP 250 tournaments in Almaty, Stockholm and Antwerp are held in parallel. The ATP 500 in Basel and Vienna are played, leaving the option of the ATP Masters 1000 in Paris, from October 28 to November 3, where the final cut will be established for the top-8 to compete in ATP Finalsin Turin from October 28 to November 3.

nadal He started this season in 670th place in the world ranking, because in 2023 he played only four games on the Australian tour. This season, he played only 19 singles matches, including six doubles matches. His best result was the final, on clay, in Bastad.

Accumulate 380 points in six scoring tournaments. This will keep them, it doesn’t ‘defend’ anything until the end of the course. Although it can be surpassed by other players who compete on a weekly basis.

Just a reflection of his struggles with being able to compete without limitations since he suffered a hip injury. The explanation for hanging up his racket, not to continue testing in 2025.

Back to Davis Cupfive years after the victory at the Caja Mágica in Madrid in 2019. His streak in singles is 29 consecutive victories. They lost only once, the first against the then Czech top ten Jiri Novakwhen he was 17 years old, in Brno And he ended up sealing the classification that ended up winning the final in Seville 2004.

After Alcaraz, the most famous Spaniards in the ranking are Pedro Martinez (45th), which is in the group stage, and Roberto Carballes (54th), who did not make the list of Ferrer, who opted for hard core in recent times.

This is the team from the Madrid 2019 final, with the replacement of Carlos Alcaraz for the retired Feliciano Lopezwho will serve as the sports director of the competition.

1. Jannik Sinner (Ita) / 11,320

2. Carlos Alcaraz (Esp) / 7,120

3. Alexander Zverev (Ale) / 6,795

4. Novak Djokovic (Srb) / 5,710

5. Daniil Medvedev (Russian) / 5,530

6. Taylor Fritz (USA) / 4,415

7. Andrey Rublev (Russian) / 4,110

8. Casper Ruud (Nor) / 3,885

9. Alex de Minaur (Aus) / 3,620

10. Grigor Dimitrov (Bul) 3,580

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158. Rafael Nadal / 380