Tennis
Tsitsipas: The big loss of points and the crash in the world rankings
Stefanos Tsitsipas disqualification at Taylor Fridge will cost him many points in the world rankings. The data for the remainder of the soil period.
Stefanos Tsitsipas’ run at the Monte Carlo Masters ended in the quarterfinals after losing to Taylor Fritz which would see him lose many points.
As we pointed out ten days ago, the clay court season is particularly critical for the 24-year-old Greek as he has to defend 40% of points.
Before the start of the Masters in Monte Carlo he had 5770 points and he has 2230 to defend which corresponds to 38.6% of his overall grade.
To get a better idea of how many points Stefanos Tsitsipas had to defend, suffice it to say that of the current top ten, only Kasper Rude scored more points last year.
Specifically, the Norwegian had collected 2295 points, 65 more than Tsitsipas. From there only three others had more than 1000.
In fact, it’s about Djokovic, Alkarath and Rublev. For better understanding: Taylor Fritz and Daniil Medvedev have already secured as many points with his course at the Monte Carlo Masters as they won in the entire clay court season last year.
The points achieved by the top 10 athletes in 2022
- Rudd: 2,295
- Tsitsipas: 2,230
- Djokovic: 1,880
- Alcarath: 1,870
- Rubles: 1,025
- Gloss: 850
- Özer Aliassim: 705
- Rune: 360
- Fridge: 270
- Medvedev: 180
The fall to No5 and the trio fire before Roland Garros
Now let’s move on to the next day. Stefanos Tsitsipas left the Monte Carlo Masters with a loss of 820 points. Last year he got 1000 points for winning the title, while this year he only got 180 for participating in the quarterfinals.
As a result, Data will drop from third to fifth place in the world rankings next Monday. Of course, regardless of what happens in the tournament from now on, he can’t be further down.
In the next three tournaments before Roland Garros, Stefanos Tsitsipas has 1050 points to defend. Steph has to repeat at least the moves he made last year to at least not lose points.
Of course, even that alone isn’t easy, given that he reached the quarter-finals in Barcelona, the semi-finals in Madrid and the final in Rome last year.
Also, the possibility that he is outside the top four in the world rankings ahead of Roland Garros will also make a French Open draw difficult for him. This means he will have a tougher draw.
As you can easily see, Stefanos Tsitsipas had a terribly difficult time until mid-June.
Source: sport 24
