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For the first time in history, Stefanos Tsitsipas will hold a top-three ranking. By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday August 6, 2021

For the first time since 2017, Rafael Nadal will drop out of the ATP’s Top-3. The Spaniard, who lost in the round of 16 at the Citi Open on Thursday evening, will be surpassed by Stefanos Tsitsipas in Monday’s ATP rankings, the Greek star becoming the 13th active player to reach the top three.

Tsitsipas, the first Greek ever to reach this high in the rankings, will join a list of active player that have claimed a Top-3 ranking, which includes Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Juan Martin del Potro, Stan Wawrinka, Marin Cilic, Dominic Thiem, Milos Raonic, Grigor Dimitrov, Alexander Zverev and Daniil Medvedev

Tsitsipas made hit Top-5 debut on March 8, 2021, then hit No.4 after his run to the Roland-Garros final, on June 14.

🇬🇷 Stefanos Tsitsipas at 22y 362d will join for the 1st time the Top 3 on @atptour rankings

🇺🇸 Andre Agassi was the youngest to do it at 18y 192d pic.twitter.com/79eSn1ZwPV

— TennisMyLife (@TennisMyLife68) August 6, 2021

Nadal was last ranked No.4 on May 29, 2017.

Rising American Coco Gauff hopes to bounce back this summer after missing the Tokyo Olympics due to COVID-19.
By Erik Gudris | Thursday, August 5, 2021

Rising American Coco Gauff hopes to bounce back this summer after missing the Tokyo Olympics due to COVID-19.

The 17-year-old Gauff is in Washington DC this week for the Citi Open Women's Invitational, an exhibition series of three round-robin matches. It's the first appearance for Gauff since reaching the fourth round of Wimbledon. Gauff was set to compete in Olympic tennis for the United States. But before she could get vaccinated, she tested positive for COVID and had to withdraw.

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"I mean, I was obviously disappointed," Gauff said. "I mean, you all know I have talked about the Olympics pretty much since Australian Open when I realized I had a chance to make the team, but, I mean, I think I'm very hopeful I will have many other opportunities to qualify for the team and hopefully actually get to the Olympics before any unforeseen circumstances happen.

"But I'm just happy that I didn't have really many symptoms. I was pretty much asymptomatic, I still have a loss of smell, but other than that, a-ok."

Gauff added that she could not get the vaccine earlier in the year while in Charleston because she was under 18 at the time. She hopes to get it soon after playing in Cincinnati.

With player "bubbles" planned for upcoming events, including in Montreal, Canada, Gauff looks forward to playing in front of a crowd again.

"It definitely means a lot to be out here on the court even if it's just an exo, just to play in front of the crowd, especially since we are going back to Canada which will be a bubble, so it will be nice just to get some crowd experience and be in the crowd before it's time to go back to the bubbles."

Gauff is joined in the exhibition by two-time major winner Victoria Azarenka and 2019 Citi Open women's champion Jessica Pegula.