We calculated the weight of each country in the top 30, based on the points won: ours accounts for almost 20%, more than Spain and the United States
Until just over two years ago, tennis fans had to look back through the almanacs to find the last Italian in the world top 5: Adriano Panatta, the year was 1976. Now we even have two at the same time. The new ATP ranking, published today, enters the history books: Jannik Sinner number 2, Lorenzo Musetti number 5. The South Tyrolean, who was at the top for 66 weeks, entered the top 5 for the first time (in 4th place) on 2 October 2023. Today it’s the turn of Carrara.
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Italy is the only country to boast two players in the top five, it has four in the top 30, five in the top 50, eight in the top 100: in addition to the two stars, Flavio Cobolli n.22, Luciano Darderi n.24, Lorenzo Sonego n.41, Matteo Berrettini n.56, Matteo Arnaldi n.65, Mattia Bellucci n.76. Except Sonego and Berrettini, all are between 23 and 24 years old. The movement is rich, deep and destined to last a long time. By focusing the analysis on the top 30 in the world, i.e. on the elite of the professional circuit, Italy clearly emerges as the best nation. The certification comes from our calculation which does not simply take into account the number of representatives that each country manages to express, but also the relative position in the ranking, through the parameter of the points won in the tour and their percentage impact on the total points (97,928) accumulated by the current top 30. This shows the weight of each nation in the first tier ATP ranking.
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Adding up the spoils of SinnerMusetti, Cobolli and Darderi, Italy manages to take a fifth of the cake, exactly 19.54%, keeping the others at a safe distance. Spain follows, led by number one Alcaraz, with 14.94%; then the United States with 13.15%. The American movement expresses the largest number of athletes in the top 30, five, but the first two, Shelton (8th) and Fritz (9th), are far from our top ten. We leave behind numerous nations that, as schools or individual champions, we looked at with envy in the past: Russia (8.00%), Germany (5.21%), Serbia (4.88%), the United Kingdom (4.62%), the Czech Republic (4.30%), Australia (4.17%), Argentina (2.08%), France (1.58%). A record, the blue one, built over twenty years. Sinner was a blessing; everything else was work, planning and investments.