06/10/2020 - 15:42
Clarín.com
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This Tuesday's victory against Dominic Thiem gave Diego Schwartzman not only the arrival in the semifinals of Roland Garros: it was also guaranteed that from the next ranking he will be part of the
top ten in world tennis
for the first time
.
And now both your next results and those of other competitors will determine your position in the next ranking.
If today a ranking was put together with the points that everyone had so far, Schwartzman (who started the tournament in 14th place) would be
the eighth in the world
.
Of course, there is still a long way to go, so it is convenient to review the possibilities.
Who are the ones who can overcome it?
According to what they do at Roland Garros, both the Russian Andrey Rublev and the Spanish Pablo Carreño are in a position to pass it in the ranking.
Rublev would be ahead of Peque again if he prevails in his match this Wednesday for the quarterfinals against the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Instead, Carreño would not only have to beat world number 1 Novak Djokovic, but would need to go to the final to be on top of the Argentine.
This account is valid if the points obtained so far are taken into account, since if
Peque
goes beyond the semifinals it would leave the bar even higher for its competitors.
Until now, eleven of his compatriots had crept into the top ten: Guillermo Vilas (2nd), Juan Martín Del Potro, David Nalbandian and Guillermo Coria (3rd), José Luis Clerc (4th), Gastón Gaudio (5th) , Guillermo Cañas (8th), Alberto Mancini (8th), Mariano Puerta (9th), Juan Mónaco and Martín Jaite (10th).
Today they welcome Diego Schwartzman.
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