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(Jürgen Fritz, 17.01.2022) The 2022 tennis season has begun. Canada won the ATP Cup, Monfils, Nadal, Karatsev and Kokkinakis won the four preparation tournaments for the Australian Open. Zverev overtakes Medvedev to become world No. 2 again in the JFB 52 Week Tennis World Ranking. Nadal rises from 10 to 8.
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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, 22.11.2021) Alexander Zverev beat both world No. 1 Novak Djokovic and world No. 2 Daniil Medvedev in the space of 21 hours at the weekend. With his second win at the ATP Finals, he overtakes Medvedev in the JFB 52 Week Tennis World Ranking and is the new No. 2.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 19.11.2021) In his third group match of the ATP Finals against Jannik Sinner, Daniil Medvedev not only had to go through three sets and two and a half hours, but also had to fend off two match points against the young Italian, who was playing excellently and rearing back with all his might.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 08.11.2021) With his victory at the Paris Masters 1000, Novak Djokovic moves further away from Daniil Medvedev, who was unable to defend his title, in the JFB 52 Week Tennis World Ranking. Paris semi-finalist Hubert Hurkacz moves up to 8, 18-year-old Carlos Alcaraz is in the top 20 for the first time and quarter-finalist Taylor Fritz is the new US No. 1.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 06.10.2021) The seventh and penultimate Masters 1000 tournament (C category) starts on Thursday. 96 players will be competing in the men’s main draw in Indian Wells. 48 are fighting for the last 12 free places in the main draw in the qualifying tournament. 17 Top Twenty players will be competing in California.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 13.09.2021) Daniil Medvedev defeats Novak Djokovic in the US Open final in three sets to become the second player born after 1988 to win a major title after Dominic Thiem. At 25.5 years old, he is also the youngest Grand Slam winner since Andy Murray’s US Open victory in 2012. In the JFB 52 Week Tennis World Ranking, Medvedev thus overtakes Alexander Zverev and is now very close to Djokovic.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 24.08.2021) After his Olympic victory, Alexander Zverev was the world No. 2 for a fortnight. But then Daniil Medvedev overtook him again with his victory in the Masters 1000 tournament in Toronto last week. After his title win at the Masters 1000 tournament in Cincinnati, his sixth tournament win in the last 52 weeks, Zverev is now back at No. 2 in the JFB 52 Week Tennis World Ranking.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 16.08.2021) With his tournament win in Toronto, Daniil Medvedev has moved back to second place in the JFB 52 Week Tennis World Ranking. Alexander Zverev had overtaken Medvedev a fortnight ago with his victory at the Olympic Games. This was Medvedev’s fifth tournament win in the last 52 weeks in singles plus the victory with Russia in the ATP Cup and his fourth career Masters 1000 title (C).
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(Jürgen Fritz, 28.06.2021) Daniil Medvedev’s victory at the Mallorca Championships, his first career title on grass, moves him closer to No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the JFB 52 Week Tennis World Ranking. In Eastbourne, Alex de Minaur secured the title with a win over Lorenzo Sonego in the final to move into the top 15.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 31.05.2021) In its rankings, the ATP has two players in the top eight who have not been able to keep up with the world’s best for months, and one who is miles away from the top five on clay. Nevertheless, at Roland Garros, the most important clay tournament in the world, he is seeded at 2, the other two at 4 and 8. Others, on the other hand, are massively disadvantaged throughout, but this distorts the entire tournament.
Read More… (Jürgen Fritz, 31.05.2021) Die ATP führt in ihrem Ranking zwei Spieler unter den ersten acht, die schon seit Monaten mit der Weltspitze nicht mehr mithalten können, ferner einen, der auf Sand von den Top-Fünf meilenweit entfernt ist. Gleichwohl wird er in Roland Garros beim bedeutendsten Clay-Turnier der Welt, an 2 gesetzt, die beiden anderen an 4 und 8. Andere werden dagegen durchgehend massiv benachteiligt, dadurch aber das gesamte Turniergeschehen verzerrt.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 17.05.2021) Rafael Nadal won the Masters tournament in Rome (C) for the tenth time with a final victory over defending champion Novak Djokovic. In the JFB 52 Week Tennis World Ranking, the clay court king rises from 6 to 4 with only 8 tournaments played, but Djokovic drops from 1 to 2. The new leader is ATP Finals champion Daniil Medvedev. And his compatriot Aslan Karatsev enters the top ten for the first time.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 26.04.2021) In recent months, the ATP Ranking has repeatedly come in for criticism. The points system, which has been heavily modified due to the long pandemic break in play from March to August 2020, is said to be distorting, illogical, unfair and hardly understandable. JFB therefore developed a different scoring system that only takes into account results from the last 52 weeks, is less tendentious, more appropriate and quite simple to understand.
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