The clear demonstration of how difficult it is to have a perfect week lies in seeing how more than 20% of the current top-50 have never been able to become champions in an ATP tournament. They will look for their opportunity in 2024 in which competition will be fierce, although many present an upward trend that suggests they will break this drought.
Going undefeated in a week of competition at the highest level is not at all easy and no matter how much the panorama of opportunities has opened somewhat before the decline of the careers of legends still active, adding a title of ATP category It remains a huge challenge. If not, tell the eleven players who, being among the 50 best tennis players in the world, still don’t know what it’s like to finish a week without being defeated and take home a trophy of this magnitude. Some are young people in full progress, but others have been trying for some time and seeing how all their attempts end up frustrated.
– Three players ranked among the top 30 in the world have never won an ATP tournament
It is the case of Jan-Lennard Struff, the best ranked on this list, currently 25th in the world. A long period of inactivity due to injury hampered a tennis player for a time and it seems inconceivable that, at 33 years old, he lacks a title. He has lost three finals and in 2024 he intends to take the final step. Next in the ranking is Alexander Davidovich, a player predestined to great levels of success, but who still eludes a title. He reached the final in Monte Carlo, but is not being able to impose his relative favoritism in more humble events that would seem conducive to him breaking out of the shell. He is also in the top 30 Tomás Martín Etcheverrywhose drought is understandable considering the short time he has been rubbing shoulders with the best, although he already had time to play in two finals (Santiago and Houston).
As the next name we come across that of a Grand Slam quarterfinalist, as is Use Lehecka, another great recent novelty on the circuit, who lost in the Winston-Salem final last year and will seek to take advantage of the accumulated experience to continue evolving and demonstrate that he is a tennis player with the potential to reach the top-10 in the future. We must now go to 39th place in the ATP ranking to find the next member of this list, such as the Russian Roman Safiullin, capable of reaching the Wimbledon quarterfinals and beating Alcaraz in Paris-Bercy, among other great results. He lost in Chengdu, the only final he has played so far, as well as a single final he has played in, and lost, Mackenzie McDonalda tennis player established among the 50 best and a true pawn on the circuit, capable of establishing himself quietly and progressively.
We must also mention the case of the Austrian Sebastian Ofner, who has recently returned to the elite after a time spent in the desert after making himself known at Wimbledon 2017, when he reached the third round. He has cemented his rise on the Challenger circuit and that meritorious fourth round at Roland Garros 2023, but he has not even played in an ATP tournament final. Similar may be the case of Max Purcell, for whom a couple of good weeks in important tournaments have been enough to confirm his upward trend seen in minor tournaments, but he also does not know what it is like to play in the final of an important event. We finish the list with two young people with whom it seems a matter of time before they make their debut, as they are Matteo Arnaldi y Alexander Shevchenkoand with a Botic Van de Zandschulp who closes the top-50 and lost the two finals played in his career.
2023-12-30 16:01:33
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