DFor a few days we are going to read a lot on social networks and the web that Carlos Alcaraz will not be able to add points for the ATP ranking in Wimbledon whatever his performance at Wimbledon. That you will not be able to score points in this tournament that are added to the 8.130 that he already has and they serve to occupy the third place in the men’s world ranking. So let’s explain us why, for the benefit of the many people who are supposedly looking for this information.
The explanation has to do with the mechanics from ATP classification. It is a ranking cont�nuo which applies to players who they choose more or less freely their calendars (Although the Grand Slam and the Masters 1,000 demand the participation of tennis players with sufficient ranking for the same, the players can let them pass without further ado penalizaci�n not to add points. Furthermore, there are regulations about which tennis players each tournament can choose according to its equipment).
How does the ATP ranking work and what is points ‘defense’?
And since it was established, in 1973apply the principle of ‘defense’ of points: the result that each player achieves in a tournament is maintained in their ranking for a year, and then it disappears. During the period of existence of the ranking there have been variationssuch as the points being maintained in the ranking by weeks natural or until the next edici�n of each tournament. But the principle is always the same: the defense’.
What score can Carlos Alcaraz achieve at Wimbledon?
Grand Slam tournaments are assigned a score of 2,000 points to the champion and evidently that was what Carlos added Alcaraz last year. These 2,000 points will remain in your ranking until the end of the 2024 edition of Wimbledon, in which again you can add a maximum of 2,000 points. Therefore, Carlos Alcaraz could not improve his score in this tournament. On the contrary: if the title is not revalidated, it will only add the difference between the score achieved and last year’s 2,000.
Can Alcaraz’s rivals beat him at this Wimbledon?
Instead, everyone Your rivals will be able to improve their score but of course, as long as improve the round reached last year: Djokovic will do it if he wins the tournament, Daniil Medvedev and Jannik Sinner if they make it past the semifinals, and so on. In your case, they will add the difference between what was achieved last year and this year. Obviously if you don’t reach at least the round then your score will be equally harmed.
A defeat for Carlos Alcaraz in the first round I made him loser all of the 2,000 points achieved would probably make him lose many positions, although not leave the ‘top 10’.
Anyway the number 1 in the world It is not within Carlos Alcaraz’s reach at this Wimbledon. The difference in favor of Jannik Sinner It is too big to wipe it out even if the Italian did not make it past the first round.
