The main star of Roland Garros, which ended almost a week ago, was undoubtedly Rafael Nadal. The Mallorcan, after dominating the final against Casper Ruud, raised his 22nd Slam to the Parisian sky, the 14th of them on transalpine soil.
Speaking of rankings and records, not only the world ranking positions of the various tennis players have changed, but also the prize money. The Spanish tennis player, with this success in which he has taken home the beauty of 2.2 million euros, has surpassed Roger Federer for the first time in his career in the general ranking of prize money, moving to second place, behind only Novak Djokovic, who seems decidedly unattainable.
In fact, Nadal has $130,681,472, while the current world number one has $156,541,453. But not only the big three are on everyone’s lips, the top ten of this special classification also includes another tennis player who has once again been as competitive at Roland Garros as he has always been in his career: Marin Cilic.
The Croatian tennis player only lost in the semifinals against Ruud, after beating Medvedev and Rublev in the round of 16 and quarters, respectively. The 33-year-old giant reached the semi-finals in Paris for the first time in his career and also moved up to 10th place in the men’s prize money standings with $30,468,623.
Cilic’s career boasts 567 wins (64.07% winning percentage), a Grand Slam victory in 2014 at the US Open against Kei Nishikori, and two finals both lost to Roger Federer at Wimbledon in 2017 and at the Australian Open in 2018.
Federer on his post-recovery vacation plans
Roger Federer remarked that he had no option but to go ahead with surgery in order to prolong his career. “I knew [my knee surgery and recovery] would be a long process but the operation was necessary, I couldn’t have played like this after Wimbledon.
Now I hope to be able to get back into the Laver Cup in September,” Federer said. Although the 20-time Grand Slam champion said he wanted to go golfing as well, he was worried that it might be too hard on his back. “When I recover, I’ll go skiing, of course.
Maybe I’ll go golfing again, that wasn’t possible in the last few years. Not now with my knee anyway, and as is well known, I used to suffer from back problems,” Federer said. “Once I went to a round of golf with my mother for her 60th birthday and I really wanted to play along.
After that, I suffered from back pain for a week. So I let it go from there. If I start golfing, I won’t do it alone, but together with Mirka.”
Source: Tennis World USA