Carlos Alcaraz Garfia will appear at Roland Garros as world number 1 and 485 points ahead of Russian Daniil Medvedev, who now occupies second place in the ATP rankings, while Serbian Novak Djokovic, now third, will start this Grand Slam in Paris. with 860 points less than the Murcian tennis player.

Alcaraz, despite his defeat in the third round of the Masters 1000 in Rome – he lost 3-6, 6-7 (4) against Hungarian Fabian Marozsan and conceded his third defeat of the season in 33 games played -, reached the top spot in the standings toppled Djokovic, who was also overtaken on this list by Medvedev, who eventually won the Foro Italico, beating Denmark’s Holger Rune in the final with a 7-5 brace.

Now, that of El Palmar has 6,815 against 6,330 for that of Moscow and 5,955 for that of Belgrade.

Next is the Norwegian Casper Ruud, fourth with 4,915; the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, fifth with 4,775; Rune, which moves up one place and is sixth with 4,375; Russian Andrey Rublev, who fell one place to seventh place with 4,270; the Italian Jannik Sinner, eighth with 3,435; American Taylor Fritz, ninth with 3,390; and Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime, who closes the top 10 with 3,065 points.

The second Spaniard in this relationship is still the currently injured Mallorcan Rafa Nadal, fifteenth with 2,445 points, 2,000 of which he will lose in the second Grand Slam of the season due to the injury that will see him through the rest of the season. year without competing. .

Three of these players will play before landing in Paris, so they could add more points but their position would hardly change. Ruud and Fritz will play the ATP 250 in Genoa, Italy; and Auger-Aliassime, of Lyon, France.

At Roland Garros, Alcaraz will defend 360 points after reaching the quarter-finals last year – in that round he lost to Germany’s Alexander Zverev 4-6, 4-6, 6-4 and 6-7 (7 ) – and they are the same that Djokovic will defend, who also reached this instance of the tournament. Medvedev, for his part, was knocked out in the Round of 16, for which he added 180.

Recall that in 2022 Nadal lifted the trophy in the French capital, absent this year, when he won by a resounding score of 6-3, 6-3 and 6-0 against Ruud on the Philippe Chatrier court. .

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