Just remembered that Wimbledon was stripped of ATP points this year due to them not allowing any Russian or Belarusian players to compete. The tournament director explained that they didn’t want them to be able to use the success of their players in the tournament as propaganda. Also, the Royal family presents the championship trophy to the winner and I’m sure they didn’t want to be seen handing it to a Russian player. The female player that won moved to Kazakhstan a few years ago, but was Russian born so the Soviet government still used it as propaganda stating that she was, “Our Product”. Smh.
Without there being any ATP points awarded, Djokovic moves all the way down to 7th in the rankings and he’s now 3000 points behind Medvedev, 2000 points behind Zverev and 1400 points behind Nadal. Novak’s draws are going to much more difficult…