Despite losing to Roger Federer in the final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship tournament on Saturday, Stefanos Tsitsipas climbed up to Number 10 in the the ATP tennis rankings on Monday.
Awarded a total of 3.175 points, the 20-year-old Greek champion has become the first Greek tennis player ever ranked among the top ten players in the world.
Remarkably, Tsitsipas is also the youngest man among the top twenty players in the world.
Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Alexander Sverev occupy the first three positions in the rankings. Swiss legend Roger Federer, who beat Tsitsipas in the Dubai final by a score of 6-4, 6-4, moved to fourth.
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