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This is the week the points from last year’s Roland Garros drop off.

Which means also some tennis bombs are dropping. And of course, those aren’t the last ones to drop this summer as the players will not be earning ranking points at Wimbledon.

They also will be dropping their 2021 Wimbledon points and (in some cases), the remaining points from … 2019 Wimbledon (this means you, Roger Federer).

So quite a few changes.

WTA Rankings Report – As of June 13, 2022

(For the full, updated ATP Tour rankings picture, click here).

ON THE UPSWING

Daniil Medvedev: No. 2 =========> No. 1 (Medvedev is back to No. 1 with the massive drop from Novak Djokovic. He reached the final at s’-Hertogenbosch this past week, as well).

Alexander Zverev (GER): No. 3 =========> No. 2 (Zverev loses 720 points from Roland Garros last year – but he still moves up to a career-best ranking of No. 2 even though the nasty ankle injury and subsequent surgery will keep him out for a fairly long time. He has fourth-round points from Wimbledon, 1,000 from Cincinnati and 90 from Canada dropping this summer. On the plus side for him, no one else is earning at Wimbledon either).

Casper Ruud (NOR): No. 6 =========> No. 5 (The Norwegian is into the top 5 for the first time in his career without doing a thing; he missed Roland Garros last year, and so didn’t drop a thing).

Daniel Evans (GBR): No. 35 =========> No. 31 (He was already looking pretty good for a seeded spot at Wimbledon. But now he’s pretty much nailed that down after winning the Nottingham Challenger on Sunday).

Ilya Ivashka: No. 49 =========> No. 42 (Ivashka made the quarterfinals in s’-Hertogenbosch, and gets to within one of a career high ranked last March. He has round-of-16 points to defend at Wimbledon. But even if they WERE giving points, he wouldn’t be able to play anyway as he’s from Belarus).

Andy Murray (GBR): No. 68 =========> No. 47 (Murray is back in the top 50 for the first time in nearly exactly four years. Had he won over Matteo Berrettini in the Stuttgart final, he might well have been seeded at Wimbledon. As it is, though, the left hip issue that scuttled that objective has to be a concern with the big one two weeks away. He’s defending 45 points at Queen’s Club, and losing 90 from last year’s Wimbledon).

*Berrettini defeated Murray in the Stuttgart final Sunday (TennisTV)*

Oscar Otte (GER): No. 61 =========> No. 51 (Nine ranking points away from the top 50, and a career high for Otte, at 28. He made the Stuttgart semis, losing to Berrettini. And it’s a shame he can’t play Wimbledon for points, because he’s a classic grass-court player who had his moments there last year. Otte came out of the qualifying, beat Arthur Rinderknech in the 12-12, fifth-set tiebreak, and then took Murray to five sets in the second round before succumbing).

Nick Kyrgios (AUS): No. 78 =========> No. 65 (It didn’t end well for Kyrgios in Stuttgart, as he reacted to a slur thrown at him from the stands – the tournament even apologized publicly to him – and his run ended in semifinals).

Tomas Martin Etcheverry (ARG): No. 90 =========> No. 80. The big accomplishment for the 22-year-old from Argentina was breaking into the top 100 in April. He made the final in Perugia, and now he’s 20 spots beyond that. His problem is that he’s only won two main-draw matches at the ATP level in his career. And while you can spend a lot of time getting points in clay Challengers, that’s the transition you have to make if you want to make your next move).

Jason Kubler (AUS): No. 119 =========> No. 100 (The 29-year-old Aussie rushed from losing in the Roland Garros qualies to Orlando, where he reached the final of a Challenger and moved up nearly 20 spots. He’s in the top 100 again, for the first time since 2018).

Tim Van Rijthoven (NED): No. 205 =========> No. 106 (The unlikely ‘s-Hertogenbosch champion won his first-ever ATP Tour level match this week at his home event. Then he went and won the tournament as a wild card. Without a doubt the story of the week. And the fact that he’s well within the entry cutoff for Wimbledon – albeit a few weeks too late – you would hope, would spur the All-England Club to give him a main-draw wild card. Otherwise, it’s the wilds of Roehampton and the qualifying. We’ll know next week).

Corentin Moutet (FRA): No. 128 =========> No. 109 (Moutet wins the Lyon Challenger).

Yibing Wu (CHN: No. 617=========> No. 332 (Cutting your ranking almost in half is nice salve for the 22-year-old from China, who won the ATP Challenger in Orlando. His career high is No. 298, reached more than three years ago).

ON THE DOWNSWING

*Djokovic’s ranking is taking a huge beating over the next month.*

Novak Djokovic (SRB): No. 1 =========> No. 3 (Djokovic drops the 2,000 points from his title at Roland Garros a year ago. And that’s not the end of the carnage; the 20-time Grand Slam champion will also drop his 2,000 points from winning Wimbledon last year – as all the players will drop their 2021 points – in a few weeks. that will drop him at least four more spots. Beyond that, the future is unclear as vaccination requirements might prevent him from going after 4,000 more points in the U.S. and Canada this summer).

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP): No. 30 =========> No. 44 (Davidovich Fokina was a quarterfinalist at Roland Garros a year ago, and a shock first-round loser this year. Those 360 points come off Monday. He has no Wimbledon points to defend. So if he can some up with a grass game in a hurry it’s all uphill from here).

Roger Federer (SUI): No. 50=========> No. 68 (Federer still hanging in there, even after dropping his 2021 Roland Garros points. He’ll drop 250 from Halle 2019 next week, and then the balance of 600 – 50% of making the Wimbledon final three years ago – comes off in three weeks’ time. In the meantime, he made a guy’s life).

Amazing @rogerfederer pic.twitter.com/Nue4pTXGrd
— Igor Santos (@igorsos) June 11, 2022

Lorenzo Musetti (ITA): No. 57 =========> No. 74 (Musetti lost in the first round of Stuttgart to Basilashvili, and watches his 2021 points from making the fourth round in Paris fall away).

Federico Delbonis (ARG): No. 73 =========> No. 89 (Delbonis made the fourth round a year ago in Paris – he made the second round this year. So those points fall off Monday).

Kei Nishikori (JPN): No. 84 =========> No. 104 (The good news: Nishikori looks to be hitting again at the IMG Academy in Florida. The bad news, his ranking is out of the top 100).

Taro Daniel (JPN): No. 109 =========> No. 127 (Every time the Japanese veteran gets close to getting back into the top 100, something seems to happen).

Jack Sock (USA): No. 110 =========> No. 129 (Sock earned some points from qualifying and making the second round at Roland Garros in 2020. But those fall off, as do his points for winning a Challenger in Little Rock, Arkansas a year ago. He made some up this week by getting to the semifinals of the Nottingham Challenger, but it wasn’t close to enough).

*Jack Sock during Roland Garros 2020. Those points drop off on Monday.*

Jan-Lennard Struff (GER): No. 103 =========> No. 149 (Struff was at a career high No. 29 less than two years ago. But he missed a lot of time because of a right foot injury and now, his 2021 RG points have fallen off. He made the fourth round a year ago, and got a zero-pointer this year because he couldn’t make the date. He was able to win just one round in Stuttgart as he returned for the first time since Miami, losing to Lorenzo Sonego in the second round. But it’s been a rough go anyway; the only other match Struff won in 2022 was in the ATP Cup round-robin back in January; he then went 0-for-7 through Miami).

Pablo Cuevas (URU): No. 145 =========> No. 193 (In 2022, Cuevas matched his 2021 Roland Garros second-round points, so that was a wash. But a year ago he also won the Lyon Challenger, and those 100 were not replaced).

Marco Cecchinato (ITA): No. 160 =========> No. 206 (Cecchinato is out of the top 200 after his Roland Garros points from making the third round a year fall off; he lost in the first round of the Perugia Challenger this week).

Zizou Bergs (BEL): No. 168=========> No. 207 (Bergs had just dug IN to the top 200, now he falls back out after losing in the ‘s-Hertogenbosch qualifying. The Belgian won a Challenger in Kazakhstan a year ago – his biggest points grab at 80 – and those fall off).

Milos Raonic (CAN): No. 245 =========> No. 281 (The points are gone from his 2019 Stuttgart semifinal, with more 2019 points from 2019 Wimbledon, Rogers Cup, Queen’s Club and the Citi Open – and 2021 Atlanta, the last tournament he played – set to follow in the next couple of months).

Dominic Thiem (AUT): No. 198 =========> No. 352 (Thiem is good to go for awhile with his protected ranking. And of course he can get wild cards. But at some point he has to turn his comeback around because his actual ranking is going to be a steep slope).

*Chung during 2020 Roland Garros qualifying – the last time he appeared in the flesh.*

Hyeon Chung (KOR): No. 495 =========> No. 503 (Chung, a former top-20 player beset by back woes, is even more deeply MIA than Raonic at this point. And he’s still only 26. He hasn’t played since losing in the second round of qualifying at the fall 2020 edition of Roland Garros. The rest of his points are from August 2019, and will finally fall off in a couple of months).

Dudi Sela (ISR): No. 650 =========> No. 796 (The 37-year-old from Israel has been showing up at Grand Slams on a protected ranking. We don’t know how he got three, but he did. In fact, five of his last eight tournament appearances have been in majors. And with the exception of a first-round win in the Wimbledon qualifying last summer, he’s not won a match since he reached the final of the Cassis Challenger in Sept. 2019).