Paris (AFP)
The Russian Daniil Medvedev, current world No.3, will climb for the first time in his career to 2nd place in the ATP ranking on March 15, dislodging the Spaniard Rafael Nadal, ATP announced on Saturday.
With the publication of the tables for next week's tournaments, the association that manages the men's circuit has confirmed that the 25-year-old Russian, who will be the No. 1 seed in the Marseille Open 13, will become the new runner-up. by Novak Djokovic.
Medvedev, recent Australian Open finalist and representative of "NextGen", the new generation of tennis champions, will become the first player outside the Big 4 (Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Andy Murray) at reach the top 2 since 2005.
He could have passed Rafael Nadal as early as this week if he had reached the final of the ATP tournament in Rotterdam, but he was eliminated in the first round by Serbian Dusan Lajovic.
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