ATP Rankings: Slow Return to Normal from Cincinnati
With the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Cincinnati, normality is returning to the ATP world rankings. With a few exceptions.
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last edit: Aug 05, 2021, 07:32 am
The "best of" logic, according to which the ATP proceeded with its world rankings during the time after the pandemic break, is slowly coming to an end. Even if there are still some peculiarities in the way the points are counted. Basically, from the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Cincinnati, the following applies again: All counters that were won in a tournament before the one-year period will be replaced by those that the player has taken in the current edition.
So far so good. However, there are exceptions, as the example of Dominic Thiem shows: He still has 500 points from his victory in Indian Wells 2019. However, these will only drop out of valuation in March 2022. Although Indian Wells is back this fall. Thiem will still receive 180 points for reaching the quarter-finals in Roland Garros. However, this means the quarter-finals last October. In the meantime, the French Open were played regularly again - Thiem was eliminated in round one against Pablo Andujar. But this has no effect on its ranking. In addition, there are 1,200 points from the final participation in 2020 at the Australian Open, which the convalescent Austrian could not achieve at the edition this year.
Roger Federer also benefits
The same applies to Roger Federer , who was eliminated in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon this year. What should actually carry 360 points in the ATP world rankings. In fact, there are 600 - half for his 2019 final. In addition, there are 500 for the victory in Miami and 300 for the final in Indian Wells. Also from 2019, mind you.
Cincinnati may be the beginning - but until the tennis world rankings reflect the real balance of power for the last 52 weeks, it will take until August 2022. Because for the 1000 in Canada that starts on Monday, the “best of” rule applies once again: Those who did better in 2019 than in the coming week can continue with the points they earned back then.