"Carlos Alcaraz has 6470 points and is No. 1" - says Mischa Zverev, believes ATP rankings are misleading

Mischa Zverev explained that 2022 has not been a normal year in tennis highlighting how Alcaraz is number one with less than 7000 points.

Alcaraz became the youngest number one after beating Casper Ruud in the final and it was a consequence of many things going right for the Russian. It's been that kind of year for the Spaniard who undoubtedly played as one of the best players in the world and deserves the ranking but many things out of his control contributed to it as well.

Mischa Zverev talked about that with Eurosport Germany recently pointing out that it's not been a normal tennis year:

"I recently spoke with Grigor Dimitrov. He told me that a few years ago he would have had 7000 points in the world rankings and was number seven in the world. Alcaraz now has 6740 points and is number one."

He added:

"It was not a normal year: Corona, Wimbledon and various failures of top players. It was strange. I hope that next year it will be a bit more normal, that there will be points at all Grand Slams and that all players will be able to play where they want."