Norway’s defeat this Friday Casper Ruud 2-6, 6-3 and 2-6 against Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka in the quarterfinals of the Seoul tournament, making Rafa Nadal almost the new world No. 2 after Carlos Alcaraz, so it will be the first time two Spaniards. It leads the ATP classification.

Prior to the Seoul tournament, the ATP classification saw Alcaraz as n.1 in the individual division. 6,740 points; followed by Ruud (5,850) and Nadal (5,810).

Ruud’s defeat in the quarterfinals in Seoul this Friday will surpass Norway, according to ATP’s virtual roster. 4,930 points when it becomes official this Monday at the end of the previous week’s tournaments, it drops to third place in the world behind Alcaraz and Nadal, who did not play and did not change their points.

For the first time in the ATP rankings, two Spanish players will take the 1st and 2nd place.. Spanish tennis has so far seen many of its members lead the world rankings (in ATP, Carlos Moyá, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Nadal, Alcaraz; in WTA, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, Garbiñe Muguruza), but the first two positions of one of them.

Ruud’s meeting this Friday didn’t start off particularly well for the last US Open finalist, who lost in a duel against Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz and also decided on world No. Caught in Nishioka’s gameHe was number 56 in the ATP standings and gave up two service breaks to lose the first set.

Ruud woke up in the second set, but had trouble recovering a few break balls from his opponent until he found an opening, which allowed him. win the Japanese serve in game six and then maintains his serve, gaining the upper hand on set.

third set The Norwegian 23 and the Japanese 27 were tied until 2-2. From there, Nishioka took four straight games to take the match, breaking an unsuccessful Ruud in games six and eight.

Casper Ruud has said goodbye to the Seoul hard court early, but is also prolonging his streak of poor results since losing in the final, beating second place in the world rankings to the benefit of Rafa Nadal at the ATP 250 tournament. Arthur Ashe American.

Nishioka, on the other hand, advanced to the semi-finals this Friday, where the winner of the match between the Americans will be measured. Mackenzie McDonald and Aleksandar Kovacevic.