The first edition of the Pepperstone ATP Rankings was published on 23 August 1973, more than 50 years ago. Next Monday, for the first time, there will not be a player with a one-handed backhand in the world’s Top 10.
When the first edition of the Pepperstone ATP Rankings was released, nine of the world's Top 10 wielded a one-handed backhand. The only exception was lefty Jimmy Connors, known for his two-hander.
Eleven of the 28 players who have reached No. 1 in the Pepperstone ATP Rankings have hit a one-handed backhand. On Monday, only two members of the Top 25, No. 11 Stefanos Tsitsipas and No. 13 Grigor Dimitrov, will be one-handed backhand players.
This moment was close to happening at the Australian Open, where Alex de Minaur could have displaced Stefanos Tsitsipas from the Top 10 with a fourth-round win against Andrey Rublev. The Australian lost in five sets.
According to the Pepperstone ATP Live Rankings, Tsitsipas will drop from the Top 10 Monday for the first time since March 2019. And with De Minaur’s win against Dimitrov in the semi-finals of the ABN AMRO Open, there is no other player with a one-handed backhand who could ascend into the Top 10 Monday.
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