All Djokovic’s fault for changing his strategy: the ATP world ranking that seemed destined to be overturned may instead remain the same. Here’s the situation
Who knows, maybe he realized that by not playing this tournament he was almost certain to lose the top spot in the ATP rankings in the coming weeks. Perhaps this really did cross Djokovic’s mind, who quite unexpectedly, too, decided to totally change his plans.
In fact, the Serb, currently first in the world by numbers, has announced that he will participate in the Geneva tournament, a Masters 250, which will be played exactly one week before Roland Garros. Also participating in the Slam will be Jannik Sinner, who has now put the hip problem that caused him to miss Rome behind him, and has taken up the racket again after treatment at J|Medical in Turin. Yes, our tennis player in Paris will be there, and he will try to get there anyway to take the first place in that special ranking that would consign him directly to the legend of the sport.
Djokovic in Geneva, how the calculations change
In the past few days we have been reporting to you what were the calculations that would allow Sinner to be able to become world number in the next few weeks. These, of course, now change, and the tennisworlditalia.com portal has taken care of the exact picture.
In the event of a semifinal in Switzerland, the 24-time slam champion would not necessarily need the final in Paris, but precisely another semifinal would suffice to hold the top position. Obviously these calculations will also have to be remodeled given Sinner’s presence in Paris, however, the absolute certainty then of the shot in the rankings–it seemed to be really so before–is no longer there. Little harm, however. The feeling, given also the physical difficulties of Djokovic, eliminated well in advance from the tournament at the Foro Italico, that it is now only a matter of time. And we all, however, in addition to the rankings have another dream in our hearts: that of seeing Sinner play and triumph in the second slam of the year after the resounding and well-deserved victory at the Australian Open, which also totally changed the way the sport is viewed in Italy. .