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Wimbledon 2022: Wimbledon’s ‘punishment’ to Djokovic: falling to seventh place in the ranking on Monday even if he wins the tournament

Novak Djokovic looks for his seventh Wimbledon title tomorrow, which would tie him with Pete Sampras and William Renshaw. It would also be the fourth consecutive gold medal and only Roger Federer would have won more times than him in the cathedral of tennis.

The Serbian, like the rest of the players who have reached the final rounds, not seeing their effort rewarded in terms of ATP points. S in terms of money because the finalist takes 1,241,027 euros.

The management of the All England Club boycotted the presence of Russian and Belarusian professionals in the British tournament and both the ATP and the WTA decided to withdraw the points at stake.

In this way, whatever ‘Nole’ does, he will subtract 2,000 points from his ranking, going from third to seventh place. To find the last time the Serb was this low in the rankings you have to go back to August 13, 2018 when he was the 10th racket.

Carlos Alcaraz appear sixth, just ahead of ‘Nole’ on the charts, and Rafael Nadal close the ATP podium with Daniil Medvedev as first and Alexander Zverev, second.

This is how the ATP ranking will be on Monday

1. Daniil Medvedev 7.775

2.Akexander Zverev 6.850

3.Rafael Nadal 6,165

4. Stefanos Tsitsipas 5,150

5. Casper Ruud 5.050

6.Carlos Alcaraz 4,845

7.Novak Djokovic 4.770

8.Andrey Rublev 3.700

9.Happy Auger-Aliasimus 3.445

10.Jannik Sinner 3.185

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