Nadal spoils the Russian Medvedev the joy of leading the "Tennis World"
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Spain's Rafael Nadal spoiled Russia's Daniil Medvedev as his world number one tennis player, by defeating him 6-3 6-3 in the semi-finals of the Acapulco Games in Mexico.
Medvedev was unable to avenge his loss to Nadal last month in the final of the Australian Open, where the Matador overturned a two-set deficit, to win his twenty-first title in the Grand Slam and hold the record.
But the 26-year-old Russian will leave Mexico knowing that he will top the world rankings to be released on Monday.
This included after the loss of Serbian Novak Djokovic in the quarter-finals of the Dubai Tournament.
Djokovic topped the world rankings for 361 weeks in a record feat, but the Serbian, who was denied the defense of his title in the Australian Open on the background of the issue of not receiving the anti-Coronavirus vaccine, should have achieved a better result than Medvedev in Dubai, and the latter should not be crowned the Acapulco title In order to maintain this position.
Medvedev came out on top with several scenarios, and the matter was decided by reaching the quarter-finals in Acapulco and Djokovic's failure to qualify for the semi-finals in Dubai.
Nadal raised his impressive score in 2022 to 14 wins without a loss, but it was not easy, as the result indicates.
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