Sport writer predictions from 2018 of current top 10 relived including Alexander Zverev bizarrely as World Number One
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The Telegraph sports writers' prediction about the top 10 players
in 2023 turned out to be pretty inaccurate.
Back in 2018, three different sports writers Simon Briggs, Charlie
Eccleshare and Vicki Hodges made predictions about men’s singles top 10 in 2023.
Interestingly two out of three predicted Germany’s Alexander Zverev to be a top-ranked
player in the men’s singles category.
Briggs was the only one who picked Canada’s Denis Shapovalov
to be the top-ranked player in men’s tennis. Greece’s tennis star Stefanos
Tsitsipas was tipped to become world number two by Eccleshare and number three
by Briggs.
Interestingly, none of the current top-five players was picked
by any of the writers to feature in the top-10 in 2023.
As things stand, Serbia’s legendary tennis star Novak
Djokovic is leading the ATP Ranking with 11,245 live points. Spain’s young
tennis sensation Carlos Alcaraz is second on the list with 8,855 live points.
Russia’s Daniil Medvedev, who finished as the runner-up in
the fourth and the final Grand Slam of the year, is placed third with 7,600
points. Italy’s Jannik Sinner, who had a strong finish to 2023, is fourth on
the list with 6,490 live points.
Russia’s Andrey Rublev is fifth on the list with 4,805 points.
Zverev is currently placed in the seventh position whereas Greece’s Tsitsipas
is sixth in the list.
Azeem Siddiqui is a seasoned sports journalist and data analyst with a strong background in both digital media and live sports production.
He began his journalism career working with partners of The New York Times and has since contributed to several leading international sports publications, including Fox Sports Asia, Calciomercato, and GiveMeSport. Since 2023, Azeem has been part of the TennisUpToDate team, where he has played a key role in sustaining the platform’s growth and ensuring tennis fans receive timely and reliable coverage of the sport’s biggest stories.
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