Daniil Medvedev entered the world tennis record books, after becoming the third Russian tennis player to be number one in the world in the ATP Ranking.
No matter what happens With Medvedev’s participation in the Mexico Open, his presence at the top of the world ranking is already assured as of Monday of next week.
In this way, the Russian giant ended the Djokovic’s reign after after leading the rankings for a long time.
On the other hand, he became the first tennis player to 17 years to own the world number outside the popular “Big Four”, specifically Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic or Andy Murray, the last Roddick being the last to achieve it.
The tense of 26 years old born in Moscow, he also became the third Russian to be number one in the ATP Ranking. The first to achieve it were Yevgeny Kafelnikov (1999) and Marat Safin (550).
Medvedev, despite having lost the Australian Open final to Rafael Nadal a couple of months ago, is called to be the new king of world tennis. Also, the Russian comes from having a full year 2021 after winning the US Open and being among the last finalists in the rest of the Grand Slam.
In this way, Medvedev gives good news to his country, after what happened this Thursday between Russia and Ukraine. However, the tennis player is looking to get a new trophy for his record and everything indicates that he will face Rafael Nadal in a new final, but this time in a contest that the Spaniard has won three of the six shares of it.
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