The same fate is shared by Serena Williams, whose presence in the WTA ranking is contingent on the 40 year old coming back to her winning ways in any tournaments she plays in after Wimbledon.“The ability for players of any nationality to enter tournaments based on merit, and without discrimination, is fundamental to our Tour,” said the ATP in a statement. Roger Federer, who will not be able to compete until 2023 due to his injuries, will also disappear from the rankings soon, since he only had his Wimbledon 2021 QF points to boast. This will radically affect current world number one spot holder, Djokovic, as the Serb will lose all the points he got by winning last year’s Wimbledon and will drop to seventh in the ATP rankings a week from now. World number one Djokovic will drop to seventhĮven if the biggest stars of tennis, including the likes of Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and young Carlos Alcaraz are indeed battling on the courts this week, none of them will get ranking points for their efforts. The WTA young stars, such as number one, Iga Swiatek, and Paula Badosa, are fighting for the honor of their first Wimbledon victory, but their rankings will remain intact after their efforts. Renowned tennis players like Canadian star Eugenie Bouchard decided not to participate, as she could only lose ranking points after a year-long injury kept her sidelined from the courts.

In a tournament that had already lost the world’s number two player, Daniil Medvedev, and number four, Alexander Zverev, due to the Russian ban and an injury respectively, the loss of ranking points changes how players see the tournament, as they are only fighting for the prize money and the prestige of advancing in a Grand Slam tournament. The ATP, alongside the WTA, explained that “it is with great regret and reluctance that we see no option but to remove ATP Ranking points from Wimbledon for 2022.″ Discrimination by individual tournaments is simply not viable on a Tour that operates in more than 30 countries”. Unilateral decisions of this nature, if unaddressed, set a damaging precedent for the rest of the Tour. The ATP took the strong measures after Wimbledon’s ban decision, with a press release stating that “our rules and agreements exist in order to protect the rights of players as a whole.

The ATP strips away Wimbledon points due to Russian ban This ruling will have severe consequences as players have withdrawn from the tournament and some others, like Novak Djokovic, will drop in the rankings no matter how well they do in it. When Wimbledon decided to ban Russian and Belarusian players from competing in this year’s tournament due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine it was a controversial move, one that ended up with the ATP and WTA taking away the world ranking points the Grand Slam event was supposed to award.

Wimbledon standings