(Reuters) – U.S. Launch runner-up Alexander Zverev says it’s “absurd” he stays on the aid of Roger Federer under the ATP Tour’s revised rankings machine all the arrangement via the COVID-19 pandemic, given that the Swiss was once out injured for bigger than a year.
The ATP, which runs the males’s tour, iced over the rankings closing year all the arrangement via the 5-month shutdown of knowledgeable tournaments with countries imposing lockdown and sealing borders to determine the unfold of the unconventional coronavirus.
When the tour restarted in August a revised machine was once save aside in region for calculating the rankings, which opt a avid gamers’ potential to enter events and receive seedings.
“The ranking would not in fact matter, especially with the machine that we now get now,” Zverev, who’s ranked seventh, told reporters earlier than this week’s ATP 500 tournament in Acapulco, Mexico.
“I needs to be high-four, high-5 on the earth appropriate now in the long-established ranking machine. Nonetheless the ranking machine that we now get now would possibly perhaps perhaps be a little bit bit absurd.”
Federer, who handiest returned to the tour in Doha closing week, has been a mountainous beneficiary of the original machine with the 20-times Mammoth Slam winner ranked sixth despite a prolonged shatter due to the double knee surgeries closing year.
“I am the ideal fan of Roger Federer but he hasn’t played in a year and he’s earlier than me in the rankings,” the 23-year-extinct Zverev talked about. “I played a Mammoth Slam closing, a Masters 1000 closing, won two tournaments.
“Factual now the ranking machine is correct so messed up that you simply achieve not desire to listen to it.”
The rankings traditionally operate on a “Only 18” outcomes basis over 52 weeks but the machine was once modified to conceal a 22-month period from March 2019 via December 2020 to enable avid gamers flexibility to skip events amid the pandemic.
The revised machine for calculating rankings was once this month prolonged via the week of Aug. 9 and the ATP anticipates that the passe process with aspects shedding off on 52-week basis will restart after that.
(Reporting by Sudipto Ganguly in Mumbai; editing by Peter Rutherford)
