Each year that passes, the year that extends the legacy of Marcelo Rios in world tennis. Being the only tennis player who managed to climb to the top of the ranking without having achieved a Grand Slam makes the achievement more valuable and almost impossible to achieve. But as if that were not enough, the Chilean is part of an amazing list that he shares with Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal.
The “Chino” although he failed to lift any of the four Majors of the season, he knew how to keep other trophies of great value that were enough for him to write his story and get into all the books, to the point that almost twenty years have passed since his retirement and still integrates a prestigious ranking. After the completion of the Masters 1000 in Miami, where Daniil Medvedev kept the trophy, the Russian, like Marcelo Rios, add five different titles in this category.
In this way, the 27-year-old tennis player conquered the tournaments in Cincinnati, Shanghai, Paris, Toronto and Miami, while the native of Vitacura did the same in Monte Carlo, Indian Wells, Miami, Rome and Hamburg –current ATP 500–. Therefore, Medvedev not only shares the position with the Chilean, but also with the historic American Pete Sampras.
Therefore, with the passage of time, the milestone achieved by Marcelo Rios each time it expands more, since Andre Agassi, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal appear within the same list with seven different Masters 1000 trophies, while at the top is Novak Djokovic, who won all nine tournaments. And twice, as if that were not enough.
“Get ready a bit”
Beyond the great tennis career he had, Marcelo Rios He has had countless controversies with different celebrities both in the world of sports and in entertainment, where his favorite victims are journalists, but especially Juan Cristóbal Guarello, who knew how to criticize him on several occasions.
During the last hours, the communicator, while analyzing the match between Daniil Medvedev and Jannik Sinner in the M1000 final in Miami, made the mistake of pointing out that Medvedev was Italian when he was actually Russian and that he had won Indian Wells, when the tournament of the Californian desert was left in the hands of Carlos Alcaraz two weeks ago. This situation provoked the ridicule of “Chino”, who wrote on his Instagram account: “Nothing to say. You are a poor hue…, get ready a little if it is 25 seconds and you left two shits you went too far ”.
