ATP rankings: Djokovic, Medvedev drop; Sinner asserts dominance as No 1 with Turin triumph
The top 10 experienced a shake-up after the season-ending championship, with Taylor Fritz rising to career-high No 4 and Casper Ruud making a move as well in the latest ATP rankings
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The ATP released its updated singles rankings on Monday (November 18) causing a shake-up in the top 10 following the 2024 ATP Finals — the season-ending championship that found a new champion in Italy’s Jannik Sinner. The updated list saw Serbian Novak Djokovic and Russian Daniil Medvedev drop one place each.
Having failed against Djokovic in 2023, Sinner succeeded in clinching the ATP Finals silverware on the second attempt as he beat American Taylor Fritz (6-4, 6-4) in the title clash on Sunday in front of a home crowd in Turin, Italy. The victory added 1,500 ranking points to the Italian’s tally as he inched closer to the 12,000 mark.
Fritz also benefitted from his run to the final, improving his account by 800 points to reach a career-high ranking of world No 4, overtaking Medvedev. Djokovic, who skipped his title defence in Turin this year, dropped to the seventh spot courtesy of Norway’s Casper Ruud, who finished the ATP Finals as a semi-finalist.
Here’s how the ATP top 10 shaped up on Monday morning:
- Jannik Sinner — 11,830 pts
- Alexander Zverev — 7,915 pts
- Carlos Alcaraz — 7,010 pts
- Taylor Fritz — 5,100 pts
- Daniil Medvedev — 5,030 pts
- Casper Ruud — 4,255 pts
- Novak Djokovic — 3,910 pts
- Andrey Rublev — 3,760 pts
- Alex de Minaur — 3,745 pts
- Grigor Dimitrov — 3,350 pts
NEW WORLD #4❗
— TENNIS (@Tennis) November 18, 2024
The new rankings are out and it's official: 🇺🇸 @Taylor_Fritz97 is up to a NEW CAREER-HIGH OF #4 after his run to the final of the ATP Finals. 💪👏
He's the first American man to be ranked in the Top 4 since the week of August 13th, 2007, when Andy Roddick was #4:
Tsitsipas ends year outside top 10 for first time since 2018
Stefanos Tsitsipas, the 26-year-old from Greece, will end the year outside the ATP top 10 for the first time since 2018, when he finished as world No 15.
Tsitsipas fared well in the first half of the 2024 season, subjugating others to take the Monte-Carlo Masters crown home, making the final in Barcelona, semi-finals in Los Cabos, and quarter-finals in Paris (French Open), Rome, and Acapulco.
The latter half saw the Greek fail in the second round of Wimbledon and collect only one win (Cincinnati Masters) during the North American hard court swing, losing his openers at the US Open and Canadian Open. He showed signs of improvement by making the last eight in Antwerp, Basel, and Bercy, but failed to join the ATP Finals octet. With 3,165 points in the ATP singles rankings, he now sits 11th behind Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov.
Other gainers and losers in top 100
Gainers
- Borna Coric — improves five places to No 92 (QFs at All In Open (Lyon))
- Federico Coria — improves two places to No 99 (SFs at Uruguay Open)
- Mattia Belluci — improves four places to No 100 (SFs at Kobe Challenger)
Losers
- Corentin Moutet — falls two places to No 71
- Facundo Diaz Acosta — falls 15 places to No 79 (skipped Uruguay Open title defence)
- James Duckworth — falls five places to No 82 (1R loss in Drumondville Challenger)
