US Open runner-up Alexander Zverev says it is “absurd” he remains behind Roger Federer under the ATP Tour’s revised rankings system during the COVID-19 pandemic, given that the Swiss was out injured for more than a year.
The ATP, which runs the men’s tour, froze the rankings last year during the five-month shutdown of professional tournaments with countries imposing lockdown and sealing borders to check the spread of the novel coronavirus.
When the tour restarted in August a revised system was put in place for calculating the rankings, which determine a players’ ability to enter events and receive seedings.
“The ranking doesn’t really matter, especially with the system that …
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