The rise, fall and hopefulness of American men’s tennis
6:20 PM ET The early May ATP rankings were revelatory for reasons both obvious and subtle. The big, screaming headliner was Daniil Medvedev becoming the first player from outside of tennis’s long-term Big Four — Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Andy Murray — to crack the top two in nearly 16 years. The second revelation, however, was about who wasn’t on the list. For the first time in the history of computerized tennis rankings, there were no American men in the top 30. American men’s tennis hasn’t been in great shape On the women’s side,...
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