Roger Federer drops out from top-5 after two years

Roger Federer is spending his 859th week within the top-5, 18 years after cracking the elite group for the primary time! The Swiss will return to the courtroom on the subsequent week’s ATP 250 occasion in Doha as world no. 6, shedding one place to Stefanos Tsitsipas, who will enter the top-5 once more on Monday.

Tsitsipas earned a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 conquer Karen Khachanov within the Rotterdam quarter-final in two hours and 42 minutes and grabbed sufficient factors to ship Roger out from the top-5 for the primary time since March 2019. Tsitsipas trailed 3-1 within the decider earlier than erasing the deficit and settling into a pleasant rhythm that secured a late break for him and the semi-final spot.

The Greek has been ranked sixth since November and can now go Roger on Monday and compete in Marseille because the top-5 participant. Federer hasn’t performed because the final 12 months’s Australian Open and has stayed ranked so excessive attributable to new ATP rating guidelines following the coronavirus outbreak.

Roger Federer will drop out from the top-5 on Monday, changed by Stefanos Tsitsipas.

Because of his 2019 factors and the 2020 Melbourne semi-final, Roger spent your complete pandemic interval within the top-5, protecting his rating excessive forward of the much-awaited subsequent week’s Doha return.

The Swiss star kicked off an unbelievable top-5 streak that began in February 2003, staying within the elite group till August 2013. The Swiss was again within the talked about group in March 2014 for one more robust streak that saved him contained in the top-5 till August 2016.

Scuffling with a knee damage within the second a part of 2016, Roger returned stronger in the beginning of 2017, turning into a Main champion for the primary time since 2012 and conquering Indian Wells and Miami to safe one other top-5 run.

After failing to defend the Australian Open title in 2019, Roger needed to spend 5 weeks outdoors the unique group earlier than that every one modified in the beginning of March following the one hundredth ATP title in Dubai. Federer will compete in Doha subsequent week as world no.

6, dealing with Dominic Thiem, Andrey Rublev and Denis Shapovalov en path to the title. At 39 years and 6 months, Roger is the second-oldest top-5 participant since 1973 after Ken Rosewall.