March 30, 2024, 10:32 ETGrigor Dimitrov and his backhand, to the Top 10. Getty
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Next Monday, Grigor Dimitrov He will return to the Top 10 of the ATP ranking, which marks a couple of milestones to take into account.
It’s just that, in this way, a little more than a month will pass, six weeks, no one-handed backhand players in the select group.
This period He was the only one in history in which there was not a player with a one-handed backhand in the Top 10 since the ATP rankings were established in 1973..
On February 19 of this year, Stefanos Tsitsipasanother banner of the one-handed backhand, emerged outside the Top 10 of the ATP ranking, something that had not happened since March 4, 2019. And, furthermore, it ended that historic streak.
In addition, the Bulgarian will return to the lot of the best 10 after more than five years. It’s been 260 weeks since he left the elite group in November 2018.
In this way, he has become the third player with the longest period of time to return. The others? Gilles Simonwhich returned to the Top 10 in September 2015 after 308 weeks and Albert Costa which he did after 264, in June 2002.
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2024-03-30 15:32:00
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