Tuesday, last noon. Track 3 of the Magic Box. Eighth Eighth Party of Madrid Open. With a score of 6-3 and 3-2 against, Alexander Bublik, a 27-year-old ‘veteran’, sits on his bench and addresses the referee, Mohamed Lahyani, to make a reflection aloud. “Do you remember how easy tennis was five years ago? There were a lot of random uncles in the Top-50, which could almost almost move. Now this uncle is not even Top-10. What the pussy is this?”, Says the Kazakh. That“ uncle ”is Jakub Mensik, 19 years old and 23rd world Miami Masters 1,000, which is passing over a bublik whose reflection, in a comic tone, It has an important background.
The ATP circuit goes through a fundamental moment, that of the first years without Big Threethe triumvirate who exercised a tyranny for almost two decades. Roger Federer said goodbye in 2022, Rafa Nadal said goodbye to last Novemberand Novak Djokovic gives, apparently, last ponytails about to turn 38 and without titles since August. The change of guard has not been the logical, and that is that the first litter of Nextgen, that of the Stefanos Tsitsipas, Andrey Rublev and Daniil Medvedev (can add to Alexander Zverev, some Bublik.
Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz are, for the moment, the great dominators of this new era, having distributed the last five Grand Slams and seven of the last 10. But from behind come the mesik or Jack Draperalready with 1,000 masters titles, and the Joao Fonseca or Learner have, future projects that are very serious. The generalized sensation is that the middle class is much more competitive than in past times, and Alexander Zverev, 28 years old and second in the ranking, spoke of the ranking, after falling for the third consecutive time against Francisco Cerúando, 26 and 21st. “There is much more depth of players. Before, I remember that the first time I arrived at the Top-10 was in 2017, eight years ago. Yes, the Top-10 was very strong, and we had the four best players in the world: Novak, Rafa, Roger, Andy (Murray), Stan (Wawrinka), of the foal and all those, but the level would say, I would say, from 10 to 30, it was much lower than now. Yes, the top of the top was incredible, but now there is much more depth. ”
Zverev’s words go in line with Bublik’s: there are every time there are a greater number of tennis players capable of everything. In view it is in this course, in which several data illustrates this. Only two players have reached three quarters of Masters 1,000, and they are not the great stars of the ATP, but Arthur Fils and closing it. In Madrid, only two members of the Top-10 are alive in the quarterfinals (Medvedev and Draper), a fact that contrasts with the five WTA players who reached this round, a circuit that lately has been branded as irregular. Nowadays, The Top-10 has an average of 5,300 pointswhile a decade ago 6,453 were needed. This means that the points are distributed more for greater competitiveness in the midst of this middle class revolution.
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