A German player criticizes the "professional tennis" rating ... and gives Federer the example
German tennis star Alexander Zverev has expressed his dissatisfaction with the current classification mechanism for professional tennis players, citing Roger Federer as an example of the poor ranking, which was recently announced after the stalemate due to the outbreak of the Corona virus.
During a press conference ahead of the start of the Acapulco tournament on solid ground in Mexico, where the German beat Spaniard Carlos Alcaras easily in the first round 6-3, 6-1, Zverev criticized his failure in the classification for Federer, who has played only two games since the Australian Open last year.
Federer was back on the field recently after a 13-month absence due to two knee surgeries.
"I am a big fan of Roger Federer. But he has not played in a year, and he is higher than me in the ranking," the world ranked seventh said in a press statement.
He added, "I played the Grand Slam Final and the Masters Final," referring to the two final matches of the US Open 2020 and the Masters Championship in Paris last year, respectively.
According to the latest classification, the Serbian Novak Djokovic remained at the top, while the Russian Daniel Medvedev rose to second place for the first time in his career, to be the first player from outside the great quartet composed of Djokovic, the Spaniard Rafael Nadal, the Swiss Roger Federer and the British Andy Murray to climb to second place , After Australian Lytton Hoyt in July 2005.
With the arrival of Zverev in the seventh, the latter considered that "at the moment, the system is in a state of chaos," but nonetheless said that "the arrangement is not really important to me, and with the system we have now, I mean, I must be in the first four or five in The world is in a normal order, but the system we have now is a bit ridiculous. "
Zverev was knocked out about two weeks ago from the Dutch Rotterdam role, when he suffered a first-round defeat by Kazakh Alexander Public.
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