Politische Beiträge und philosophische Essays
(Jürgen Fritz, 17.10.2022) Andrey Rublev wins his fourth tournament this season in Gijon, Spain, to move back into the Top Eight in The True Tennis World Ranking. Felix Auger-Aliassime wins his second singles title of the season and career in Florence and is now very close to the Top Ten.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 22.08.2022) Borna Ćorić, No. 152 in the ATP Ranking, beats four top ten players in five days at the Cincinnati Masters and wins a 1000 tournament for the first time in his career. In The True Tennis World Ranking he shoots up to 37. Cincinnati finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas overtakes Casper Ruud to become world No. 6 again.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 11.07.2022) With another Wimbledon win, Novak Djokovic can defend third place in the JFB 52 Week Tennis World Ranking. Nadal moves ever closer to the top three, Alcaraz overtakes Ruud and Tsitsipas. Sinner and Norrie can both move them up four places and are now in the top ten. Kyrgios rises from 57 to 19.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 22.05.2022) The French Open begins today. Defending champion Novak Djokovic continues to lead the JFB 52 Week Tennis World Ranking, even extending his lead a little after his win in Rome. But he loses ten points next week because his tournament win from Belgrade 2 last year drops out of the ranking. And he has 100 points to defend at Roland Garros.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 21.02.2022) The 18-year-old Carlos Alcaraz won the 500 tournament in Rio de Janeiro, Bautista Agut, Rublev and Norrie won the 250 tournaments in Doha, Marseille and Delray Beach. In the JFB Ranking, Alcaraz rises from 22 to 17 with his first D tournament win, Norrie from 13 to 12.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 31.12.2021) Tomorrow the 2022 tennis season begins. Time to look back at the last two years, which were overshadowed by the pandemic for many months. How many tournaments did the top players win from January 2020 to December 2021? Here is the answer.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 06.12.2021) After winning the ATP Cup, Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev also won the Davis Cup for Russia. Djokovic, Medvedev and Zverev have thus divided the seven most important tournaments of the year between them and are at the top of the JFB year-end Ranking.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 18.10.2021) It was not Daniil Medvedev, Alexander Zverev, Stefanos Tsitsipas or Andrey Rublev who won the Masters 1000 title in Indian Wells, but Britain’s Cameron Norrie, who was not even among the top 20 seeds. He beat Nikoloz Basilashvili in the final of the C tournament to move into the top ten of the JFB 52 Week Tennis World Ranking for the first time.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 02.08.2021) First of all, forget the ATP ranking. This does not reflect the true situation. The ATP (because of the pandemic break in 2020) not only evaluates results that already lie two to three years in the past, it also does not award a single point for Olympia, one of the five most important tournaments in the world. If only the results of the last 52 weeks are taken into account and the Olympics are included, the world ranking looks as follows.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 03.05.2021) By reaching the semi-finals of the E-Tournament in Munich (ATP 250), Norwegian Casper Ruud moves up to the Top 15 in the JFB 52 Week Tennis World Ranking, Denis Shapovalov drops to 16. And Britain’s Cameron Norrie moves into the Top 30 by reaching the final in Estoril (E). This is how the 52-Week Tennis World Ranking look on 3 May 2021.
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