The first reign of Carlos Alcaraz at the helm of world tennis will come to an end this Monday because of Novak Djokovic. The Serbian, with a sequence of 37 victories in the last 38 games playedwill recover the number one that he lost on June 13, 2022 in favor of Daniil Medvedev.
It was then that the Roland Garros champion points were deducted in the 2021 edition. Last season he stayed in the quarterfinals against Rafael Nadal.
Djokovic will start week number 374 as ATP leader, with an income of 340 points compared to Alcaraz. The Murcian could close the gap or even return to the top before the European clay court tour.
Carlitos returns to official competition from February 13 to 19 at the Argentina Open and will then chain presences in Rio de Janeiro, Acapulco, Indian Wells and Miami.
In that time interval, the brand new Australian Open champion will only play in Dubai because he is still unable to enter the United States because he has not been vaccinated against the coronavirus. In this way, he will miss the first two Masters 1,000 of the course, in Indian Wells and Miami, how it happened in 2022.
Tsitsipas remains 875 points behind Djokovic and will wait for a new opportunity to assault the first position in the ranking. if he continues with this regularity, he will have it within easy reach in the near future.
This is how the ATP ranking remains
Novak Djokovic 7.070
Carlos Alcaraz 6,730
Stefanos Tsitsipas 6,195
Casper Ruud 5.765
Andrey Rublev 4.200
Raphael Nadal 3,815
