Just for the info of members who follow Tennis - the Geneva and Lyon tournaments

Geneva Tournament 

The number 1 seed was Roger Federer - but he went out in the first game he played in.   The tournament has been badly disrupted by inclement weather and there are still problems with a number of matches that were originally supposed to have been  played,   In view of the start of the Roland Garross Tournament the final is on Saturday and some players will have to com]lete their Round 2 matches and the quarterfinal marches today,

Quarterfinal lineup - Top Half of the Draw    

Pablo Andujar-Alba            vs               Dominic Stricker

3  Casper Ruud                   vs                Dominik Koepfer

Quarterfinal lineup - Bottom Half of the Draw

4   Giorgi  Dimitrov            vs                Pablo   Cuevas

2  Denis  Shapovalov         vs                Laslo Djere

Lyon Tournament

Same weather problems as the Geneva tournament,

Quarterfinal lineup - Top Half of the Draw  

Cameron Norrie                    vs             Arthur Rinderknech

8   Karen Kachanov               vs            Richard Gasquet

Quarterfinal lineup - Bottom Half of the Draw  

Lorenzo Musetti                   vs               Aljaz Bedene

2   Stefanos Tsitsipas            vs              Yoshihito   Nishioka

Quarterfinal   Lineups   -   Geneva

3   Casper  Ruud          -               Pablo Andujar-Alba 

2  Dena Shapovanov    -               Pablo Cuevas  

Quarterfinal s  Lineups    -   Lyon

8  Kraen Kachanof          -            Camron Norrie

2  Stefanos Tsiotsipas     -            Lorenzo Musetti

Lyon Tournament 

Semifinals Line-up

8    Karen  Kachanov    vs    Cameron Norrie

2   Stefanos Tsitsipas     vs    Lorenzo Musetti

Finals  Lineups

Geneva Tournament 

2   Denis Shapovalov       vs     3   Casper Ruud

Casper Ruud won the  Final  

Lyon Tournament 

2   Stefanos Tsitsipas       vs     Cameron Norrie

Stefano Tsitsipas  won the Final

The results of tennis  matches  this year has been shocking for the last sic months.  This is particularly so when it comes to the  10  top ranked players.    Although  Federer played only three matches this year - he won only one and lost the other two by players outside of the Top 5 players. It clearly shows that as a  serious injury at his age - putting him out of tennis - will stop any chance of remaining a top 10 player,

So who are the players  from the top 10  that showed  declimne in performances this year?   Here are the factual list;

1      Roger Federer

2      Diego Schwartzman

3      Dominic Thiem 

4       Novak Djokovic

5      Rafael Nadal 

6      Danill Medvedev 

The 7th top ten player is  Matteo Berrettini who has been on and off during matches he played in this year,   He has been average and will likely be around the number 8 or 9 ranking in future.           

I must add that Medvedev  could possibly suffer from a decline in performances due to his recent Covid infection and he is not a clay court player specialist - he dislikes  playing on clay courts,   Once there is a return to hard court tennis  he is likely to improve/

The only three players who actually performed  consistently well this year:-

1     Stefanos Tsitsipas

2     Alexander Sverev

3     Andrey Rublev

At this stage the fact is that the ranking system was changed in 2020 year and effectively protected  players like Federer, Nadal and Djokovic/  The changed system was not a real evaluation of performances and the ATP have decided to return to the previous system in August this year.     That could drastically effect the position of some  ranked players who compared to the past year  did not perform up to standard and   may result in going  down in the ranking system,         

The fact is that if the players above players do not improve  later this year they are going to lose their privileged rankings.