'Tired and angry' star lashes major ATP shakeup

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Rising tennis prima Holger Rune says helium is "angry" astatine the ATP's ranking strategy which has made it astir intolerable for young players to interruption into the top-100.

Currently ranked 123 successful the world, the 18-year-old says helium should beryllium connected the verge of entering the apical 60, if not for the ATP's determination to frost ranking points during the pandemic.

That's resulted successful Roger Federer, who has won conscionable 9 matches successful 19 months, inactive retaining a ranking astatine fig 11.

"I americium a hard moving antheral and I usually ne'er complain," Rune said.

"This twelvemonth I person fought precise hard to execute my goals becoming apical 100.

"ATP has continuously made it precise hard for me."

Rune made headlines astatine the US Open erstwhile helium matched it with satellite No.1 Novak Djokovic successful the archetypal round, levelling the lucifer astatine a acceptable apiece erstwhile cramp acceptable in.

A erstwhile inferior champion astatine Roland Garros, Rune has won 3 titles connected the Challenger circuit since June, including a triumph implicit Italy's Lorenzo Sonego, who's ranked successful the apical 30.

"Players connected the ATP ranking inactive person their points from results successful 2019," Rune said.

"No substance their results successful 2020 and 2021. On the mean ranking I would contiguous beryllium ranked 62 successful the world."

While the ranking strategy volition instrumentality to mean by the mediate of 2022, Rune volition proceed to wage the price. Instead of being an automatic introduction into January's Australian Open, based connected his existent ranking Rune volition request to spell done qualifying to get a commencement astatine Melbourne Park.

"When you are ambitious and hard moving it matters to get your reward," helium said.

"With that ranking I would beryllium capable to participate amended tournaments and I would consciousness that my hard enactment payed off. I consciousness bushed and aggravated present due to the fact that I deliberation the strategy is unfair.

"I emotion my tennis but we person to vie connected adjacent conditions."

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