Rafa Nadal out of the Top 100 of the ATP ranking for the first time in 20 years, is the end of an era near?

on Sunday Novak Djokovic revolutionized the world of tennis after conquering the Roland Garros and thus be able to obtain, at 36 years of age, his title 23 of grand slam which deposits him as the most winning male tennis player in this type of contest, displacing Rafael Nadal who won 22.

Added to the fact that Nadal could not defend the crown obtained in the brick dust of Paris in 2022, but also remained one step below the Serbian in number of titles grand slam and now I am, after its update, out of the Top 100 of the ranking atp for the first time in 20 years.

The thing is nadalwho in recent days underwent an operation on his hip and who has not competed since January, lost the 2,000 points he got last year in Roland Garros not being able to participate in the tournament that he knew how to win 14 times.

This used him to drop from 2,445 to 445 points in the ranking and to fall from 15th to 136th position, which meant his departure from the top 100 for the first time since 2003.

The last time the Spaniard was not in the top 100 in the world was the week of April 14, 2003, when he was just 16 years old.

To measure how much time passed, Roger Federer he still hadn’t won his first grand slamit took more than a year for Gaston Gaudio and william coria they will play that historic final of Roland Garros and more than three so that andre agassi retire from tennis Lionel Messi I hadn’t debuted with him yet Barcelona and carlos alcaraz I wasn’t even born.

The winner of 22 titles of grand slam he will continue to fall in the ranking since he could only compete again at the end of the year or at the beginning of 2024, the season in which he would retire as announced on May 18.