He’ll go down as one of the greatest tennis players of all-time, but for the first time in an astonishing 25 years, Roger Federer has dropped out of the official ATP Singles rankings.
The 40-year-old Swiss legend appeared in the rankings for the first time in September 1997 as a spritely 16-year-old, but hasn’t played since crashing out in the fourth-round of Wimbledon last year due to an ongoing knee injury.
The rankings are based on a player’s results during the previous 52 weeks, and given he hasn’t played, he hasn’t earned any points – meaning he is now not one of the 2068 male singles players in the world that have an official ranking.
