Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal left the top 10 on Monday after almost 18 years. He emerged in 13th place, having dropped four places after failing to defend points won at last year’s Indian Wells Masters 1000

Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz created his world number one status on Monday after winning the Masters 1000 in Indian Wells in the past few hours, while Rafael Nadal has left the ‘Top 10’ of the ATP rankings for the first time in almost 18 years.

The Manacor man, 36, had not left the top ten spots in the men’s rankings since April 25, 2005, after winning the Conde de Godó trophy -when he climbed to seventh place-, and in total, he has accumulated 912 weeks in a row in the ‘Top 10’.

His iliopsoas injury had already prevented him from defending his Australian Open crown earlier this year, and the 600 points loss in Indian Wells, where he was a finalist last year, ruled him out. ATP honors. SO, fall four places to thirteenthwhere he remains with 2,725 points.

Nadal’s record of weeks in the top 10 without a break is one of the most impressive in the history of tennissince not even legends like Roger Federer either Novak Djokovic They were about to overcome it.

The Swiss is third in the statistics, behind Nadal and Jimmy Connorswith 734 weeks (between October 2002 and October 2016), while the Serb is fifth with 555 weeks (between March 2008 and October 2017).

Meanwhile, Alcaraz returns to number one, something I had already realized on September 12, 2022 by winning his first “Grand Slam”, the US Open. On January 30, Serbian Novak Djokovic ousted him from the ATP summit with his tenth Australian Open.

The 640 points added by the Murcian (7,420) bring him back to number one, where he leads the Balkan by 260 points (7,160), now number two. The Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas remains on the “podium” of the classification, and the Norwegian Casper Ruud continues fourth.

Additionally, Russian Daniil Medvedev moved up one spot to fifth, ahead of Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, who moved up four spots to sixth. The Russian Andrey Rublev is seventh, the Dane Holger Rune is eighth, the Pole Hubert Hurkacz moves up two places to ninth place and the American Taylor Fritz closes the “Top 10” by losing five places for not having defended his title in Indian Wells.