Alexander Zverev won't be in the Top 20 on the ATP Tour on Monday after fourth-round Madrid Open exit.
For the first time in over six years, Zverev won't be among the twenty highest-ranked players in the ATP Rankings. On May 1st, 2017, the German entered the Top 20 after losing his spot for a brief moment before, and then he also moved inside of the Top 10 and ended every season from 2017 until 2021 among the elite ten.
But last year, an injury forced Zverev to end his season earlier and after 53 wins and five titles in 2021, he managed to win only 29 matches in 2022, as he missed all the action after the Roland Garros, where he experienced one of the worst moments of his career.
A few weeks ago, journey back to the top started for the German but as he expected, it won't be an easy journey. So far in 2023, he has a balanced record of 12 wins and 12 losses, but that's surely something he will want to improve going forward.
At the 2023 Madrid Open, he won the first two matches but his fourth-round opponent was just too strong. Carlos Alcaraz beat him in last year's final rematch and so Zverev exited the ATP 1000 event in Madrid already after four rounds.
And since the German played the final last year, he was defending 600 points, and because of the early exit, he will lose 510 of those, dropping his total in the ATP Rankings to 1630.
That means, that unless some of the unseeded players have a crazy run and surpass Zverev, he will drop to the 22nd place in the rankings, marking his first exit from the elite twenty in over six years.
However, there's no doubt that the tall German will return back, especially because of the tennis that he was showing in 2022, when he was only a few points away from becoming the world no. 1 for the first time in his career.
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