Corona distorts tennis world rankings – How Federer benefits and climbers are slowed down

The 18-year-old Dane Holger Rune was number 1 in the juniors, he has already won three Challenger tournaments and collected in the last 12 months athree more ATP points than Roger Federer. The small difference: The young Dane is 12th in the world rankings1. Rank, Federer on the other hand in position 15. How is that possible?

The paradoxical injustice has increased with Covid-19 to do: Because the pandemic for tournament cancellations and Caused shifts, the way the world rankings are calculated has been changed several times – with the result that some tournaments remain in the rating for much longer than, as usual, only one year. With it willn player protected like Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka who already 2019 were successful – and at the same time aspiring newcomers were punished because dies youron Ascent difficult und slowed down.