ATP Rankings (20/05/24): Chileans climb, as Wawrinka nears top 100 exit
With the ATP positions coming to be more crucial than ever before in advance of the Paris Olympics, there have actually been some extreme motions after 2 weeks of activity consisting of the Italian Open.
In Rome, Alexander Zverev declared the greatest title of his occupation given that winning the ATP Finals back in 2021, after defeating Nicolas Jarry in the Italian Open last.
As an outcome, the German has actually leapfrogged Daniil Medvedev as the brand-new globe No.4 and will certainly be just one of the favourites for the Roland Garros title.
Big Movers
Jarry was among 2 gamers from Chile to have an effective Italian Open, after coming to be the initial gamer from his country to get to a Masters 1000 last given that Fernando Gonzalez in 2007.
Despite shedding in the last, the 28-year-old has actually reached a brand-new career-high position of globe No.16.
3– Nicolas Jarry is the 3rd Chilean in the Open Era to get to the guys’s songs last of the Italian Open after Marcelo Rios (1997-98) and Fernando Gonzalez (2007 ).Massive #IBI24|@InteBNLdItalia @atptour @ATPMediaInfo pic.twitter.com/MPoIH3qBVu
— OptaAce (@OptaAce) May 17, 2024
Alejandro Tabilo was the various other Chilean to discover success in Rome, after getting to the semi-finals in his launching at the event.
As an outcome, he has actually leapt 7 areas upto a brand-new occupation ideal of No.25 and protected a seeded place in his initial major draw look at Roland Garros.
Although Jarry and Tabilo are 2 of the standout tales from the week, the greatest higher moving company inside the top 100 is in fact Brazilian Thiago Monteiro.
After getting to the 3rd round of the Madrid Open, Monteiro went onto receive the Italian Open and attained his fantastic Masters 1000 outcome by advancing to the last-16 phase.
The 29-year-old is currently back inside the top 100 after climbing up 22 areas to be rated at No.84.
Monteiro was defeated in the 4th round by Zhizhen Zhang, that matched his fantastic Masters 1000 outcome by getting to the quarter-finals.
The Chinese No1 had actually battled for type until now in 2024, however is currently back inside the top 50 at globe No.42 after leaping 14 areas.
It was not an especially solid Italian Open for home gamers, however 23-year-old Francesco Passaro had an innovation fortnight.
After getting approved for his home Masters 1000 occasion, Passaro gathered his initial victories at this degree versus Arthur Rinderknech and Tallon Griekspoor.
Following being knocked senseless of the event by Nuno Borges, Passaro headed to the Turin Challenger and made it completely to the last prior to defeating top seed Lorenzo Musetti.
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The minute Francesco Passaro refuted No.1 seed Musetti to take home the Turin prize#ATPChallenger|@federtennis pic.twitter.com/biJQaRBS3U
— ATP Challenger Tour (@ATPChallenger) May 19, 2024
Passaro is currently back inside the top 150, after climbing up a gigantic 107 locations to globe No.133.
Some of the various other large moving companies today consist of Jack Draper (+5 to No.35), Nuno Borges, (+7 to No.46), Luciano Darderi (+7 to No.47), Dan Evans (+7 to No.60), Luca Nardi (+11 to No.70), Yoshihito Nishioka (+8 to No.72), Jungcheng Shang (+16 to No.89), Alexandre Muller (+19 to No.90), Adam Walton (+16 to No.95) and Botic Van de Zandschulp (+12 to No.100).
Not everybody has actually delighted in the previous number of weeks, with Borna Coric remaining to roll down the positions after shedding in the opening round of the Italian Open.
The Croatian has actually just won 2 of his last 7 suits and is currently rated at No.71 after dropping an additional 16 locations.
Three- time Grand Slam victor Stan Wawrinka has actually additionally remained to go down, and is currently on the edge of leaving the top 100 (-10 to No.97).
Dominic Thiem has actually just recently introduced that he will certainly relinquish specialist tennis later on this year, and the 2020 United States Open champ might need to rely upon wildcards after sliding 14 put to No.131.
The Austrian was not given a wildcard for Roland Garros, and is presently attempting to make his method with certifying in a last look at the event where he is a two-time finalist.
Paris, @rolandgarros????????????
One last dancing! pic.twitter.com/fZ1WnmxTJV— Dominic Thiem (@domithiem) May 19, 2024
Other substantial fallers in the most recent ranking upgrade consist of Alexei Popyrin (-9 to No.51), Laslo Djere (-8 to No.52), Jakub Mensik (-11 to No.76), Yannick Hanfmann (-26 to No.85), Aleksandar Vukic (-23 to No.93), Daniel Elahi Galan (-15 to No.105), Cristian Garin (-12 to No.112), Richard Gasquet (-11 to No.124), Hamad Medjedovic (-13 to No.134) and Bernabe Zapata Miralles (-25 to No.203).
ATP Rankings Top 20 (20/05/24)
Here is the present top 20 in the ATP positions after the previous fortnight of activity:
| Ranking | Player | Tournaments Played | Points |
| 1 | Novak Djokovic | 17 | 9,860 |
| 2 | Jannik Sinner | 19 | 8,770 |
| 3 | Carlos Alcaraz | 17 | 7,300 |
| 4 | Alexander Zverev ↑ 1 | 26 | 6,345 |
| 5 | Daniil Medvedev ↓ 1 | 19 | 6,295 |
| 6 | Andrey Rublev | 24 | 4,700 |
| 7 | Casper Ruud | 24 | 4,185 |
| 8 | Hubert Hurkacz ↑ 1 | 24 | 3,885 |
| 9 | Stefanos Tsitsipas ↓ 1 | 25 | 3,700 |
| 10 | Grigor Dimitrov | 22 | 3,615 |
| 11 | Alex de Minaur | 25 | 3,490 |
| 12 | Taylor Fritz ↑ 1 | 25 | 3,025 |
| 13 | Holger Rune ↓ 1 | 23 | 2,700 |
| 14 | Tommy Paul ↑ 2 | 25 | 2,655 |
| 15 | Ben Shelton ↓ 1 | 24 | 2,500 |
| 16 | Nicolas Jarry ↑ 8 | 25 | 2,295 |
| 17 | Ugo Humbert ↓ 2 | 27 | 2,285 |
| 18 | Karen Khachanov | 22 | 2,090 |
| 19 | Alexander Bublik ↓ 2 | 27 | 2,020 |
| 20 | Sebastian Baez ↓ 1 | 28 | 1,985 |
For a complete checklist of the positions, go to the main ATP internet site
Race to the ATP Finals in Turin (20/05/24)
The ATP Finals are an extremely prepared for occasion that happen at the end of yearly, including the top 8 songs gamers and increases groups from the tennis period.
After declaring his 2nd Italian Open title, Alexander Zverev has actually gone up to 2nd in the race to Turin:
1. Jannik Sinner– 4500 factors
2. Alexander Zverev (↑ 2)– 3085 factors
3. Daniil Medvedev (↓ 1)– 2950 factors
4. Casper Ruud (↓ 1)– 2385 factors
5. Andrey Rublev– 2120 factors
6. Stefanos Tsitsipas (↑ 1)– 2065 factors
7. Carlos Alcaraz (↓ 1)– 1900 factors
8. Alex de Minaur– 1855 factors
9. Grigor Dimitrov– 1675 factors
10. Taylor Fritz– 1580 factors
Next week
It is the last week of prep work for Roland Garros, with certifying currently underway for the occasion consisting of the previously mentioned Dominic Thiem.
There are additionally 2 major excursion ATP occasions occurring in Geneva and Lyon, with globe No.1 Novak Djokovic obtaining a late wildcard for the previous.
Djokovic is signed up with by the similarity Casper Ruud, Taylor Fritz and Andy Murray, and might also encounter his previous British opponent in the 2nd round!
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— ATP Tour (@atptour) May 19, 2024
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ATP positions track and place all the gamers on excursion over a 52-week duration. Points are granted for efficiency, with the greatest competitions offering one of the most factors throughout the year.
Those positions are after that utilized to figure out a variety of points, such as seedings at competitions and choosing that gets approved for the season-ending ATP Finals in Turin.
ATP positions factors awarded/tournament
The complying with factors are granted for the various rates of competitions on the ATP Tour, with some small modifications produced the 2024 period:
| Tournament classification | W | F | SF | QF | R16 | R32 | R64 | R128 | Q |
| ATP Tour | |||||||||
| Grand Slam | 2000 | 1300 | 800 | 400 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 10 | 30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATP Finals | +900 ( 1500 max) |
+400 ( 1000 max) |
200 for every round robin suit win ( 600 max) |
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| ATP Masters 1000 | 1000 | 650 | 400 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 10 (30 ) | ( 10 ) | 30 (20 ) |
| ATP 500 | 500 | 330 | 200 | 100 | 50 | ( 25 ) | 25 (16 ) | ||
| ATP 250 | 250 | 165 | 100 | 50 | 25 | ( 13 ) | 13 (8 ) | ||
Admissible competitions
To protect against gamers from adjusting the positions by playing a huge quantity of smaller sized competitions, just 19 competitions are acceptable throughout the year to compose a position.
That number does not consist of the ATP Finals, with that said dealt with as an added gained possibility to win positions factors. However, the larger and a lot of distinguished competitions are taken into consideration ‘mandatory’ entrances. For instance, if a gamer shed in round among a Grand Slam, they would certainly not be allowed to omit it from their position in favour of an ATP 250 which gained them a lot more factors.
Therefore, gamers that contend in any way the compulsory occasions in a period will certainly have the complying with break down of acceptable positions factors:
- 4 Grand Slams
- 8 Masters 1000
- 7 ‘Best Other’ efficiencies
The positions constantly cover the previous 52-week duration, so any kind of factors won even more back than that are subtracted from a gamer’s total amount. That gamer will, however, have the opportunity to ‘defend’ their factors by duplicating or surpassing their previous efficiency.
An instance would certainly be a gamer that was a beat finalist at the Australian Open in 2024 will certainly have 1300 factors subtracted from their position complying with the 2025 last. Those factors would certainly after that be changed by those won at the 2025 event.
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