ATP Rankings Report – As of April 8, 2024

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Three 250s – three great opportunities.

And a lot of fun winners as Hubert Hurkacz wins his first title on clay in Estoril, and Matteo Berrettini (unseeded) announces he’s baaaaaaack with a title in Marrakech.

In Houston, an all-American final featured a kid on the comeup in Ben Shelton, and the defending champion – who really needed a win – in Frances Tiafoe.

This coming week, a lot of points on offer with a Masters 1000 in Monte Carlo and five Challengers.

And it’s the week that Novak Djokovic becomes the oldest No. 1 in ATP Tour history.

He is playing Monte Carlo, as are No. 2 Jannik Sinner and No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz. So should be a crazy week.

For the complete, updated ATP Tour rankings for Monday, click here.

WTA Rankings Report – As of April 8, 2024

(First-round opponents in Monte Carlo are in brackets – if they’re playing it).

Hubert Hurkacz (POL): No. 10 ========> No. 8 (Ties his best ranking again with his eighth title – his first on clay) (Jack Draper).

Ben Shelton (USA): No. 16 ========> No. 14 (A career high for the 21-year-old with his second title in as many finals, his first on clay, and prize money that goes over the $500,000 mark for the season)

Gael Monfils (FRA): No. 45 ========> No. 40 (Monfils had decent runs on the Sunshine swing in the U.S., and won a round at Estoril. And that puts him back in the top 40, maybe 100+ points out of potentially being seeded at Roland Garros, with zero points to defend at Monte Carlo) (Jordan Thompson)

Alejandro Tabilo (CHI): No. 48 ========> No. 45 (Tabilo didn’t play last week, but still moved up three) ([Q] Christopher O’Connell)

Mariano Navone (ARG): No. 60 ========> No. 51 (The Marrakech finalist is at a new career high, although about 200 points short of the top 50. He began the season ranked No. 125).

Pedro Martinez (ESP): No. 88 ========> No. 60 (It hadn’t been a great season for the new daddy. But he turned that around in a week with an impressive run to the Estoril final).

Luciano Darderi (ITA): No. 72 ========> No. 64 (Another career high for the Houston semifinalist in Houston, who began the year ranked No. 128).

Matteo Berrettini (ITA): No. 135 ========> No. 84 (It’s finally starting to break right for the former Wimbledon finalist and No. 6, who had played just one ATP Tour match in 2024 until this week (a tough first-round draw in Miami vs. Andy Murray. He made the final in his first tournament of the season, a Challenger in Phoenix during the second week of Indian Wells that was a high-level affair. Just with these two results, he’s cut his ranking almost in half, and he got a wild card into the main draw in Monte Carlo) (Miomir Kecmanovic)

Thiago Agustin Tirante (ARG): No. 108========> No. 91 (A great week for the 22-year-old Argentine in Mexico City, where he wins the Challenger and moves up to a career high).

Fabio Fognini (ITA): No. 100========> No. 94 (You know the veteran Italian, who turns 37 as Roland Garros begins, doesn’t want to be stuck in qualifying. To that end, he’s played a lot at the Challenger level to try to get himself in a position where he doesn’t have to worry about it. By qualifying and getting to the quarterfinals of the ATP 250 in Marrakech last week, he gave himself a little margin although he withdrew late from the qualifying in Monte Carlo, which might have given him extra room).

Nicolas Moreno De Alboran (USA): No. 157 ========> No. 134 (Moreno made the quarterfinals in Marrakech out of the qualifying, and is close to a career high reached last fall. He’s sort of come out of nowhere, barely scratching the top 150 in the juniors, growing up in London, and spending three years at UC Santa Barbara (which is a great place to go to school but a lower-level Div I. He turned pro in 2019; he turns 27 in July. He was sort of meandering about the 200s and 300s for a few years. And suddenly he’s putting together wins; he beat Diaz Acosta and David Goffin last week).

Enzo Couacaud (FRA): No. 217 ========> No. 169 (The winner of the Florianapolis Challenger, now 29, gets close to his best ranking of No. 151 after more than a decade of grinding it out at the lower levels).

Alexis Galarneau (CAN): No. 212 ========> No. 176 (A great week for the Laval native, although he wasn’t able to make a dent in Tirante in the Mexico City Challenger final. Still, he’s back in the top 200 for the first time this season and not far from his best ranking of No. 162).

Jacopo Berrettini (ITA): No. 878 ========> No. 760 (It wasn’t just a good week for his big brother. Jacopo had a good week as well, reaching the semifinal in Barletta on a wild card. He has a ways to go to get to his career high of No. 388, reached in July 2019 – nearly five years ago. But all great journeys begin with one good first step).

***(Matteo and Jacopo Berrettini – pic: Italian Tennis Federation).***

Casper Ruud (NOR): No. 8 ========> No. 10 (It was a good week for Ruud. But he drops although he made the semifinal in Estoril, he won it last year. He went down to Pedro Martinez, who had been having a terrible year but rose up to level this week) (Bye, Tabilo/O’Connell).

Frances Tiafoe (USA): No. 21 ========> No. 23 (Getting to the final is a decent title defence, although obviously Tiafoe wanted to go all the way. But he ran into Shelton, who was just too good. At a rather pedestricn 7-7 on the season coming in, Tiafoe will take some encouragement from this leading into all the big clay-court events).

Daniel Evans (GBR): No. 42 ========> No. 50 (Evans is 4-8 on the season, which is far below what you would expect from him. But he hasn’t had the draw gods on his side. Mostly, he’s lost to in-form players and in Marrakech, it was defending champion Roberto Carballes Baena, who made the final) (Sebastian Ofner).

Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB): No. 50 ========> No. 66 (Defending a final in Estoril, Kecmenovic lost in the first round to Roberto Bautista Agut) (Matteo Berrettini).

Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP): No. 64 ========> No. 73 (The Marrakech champ last year made the final this year, which mitigated all those points he had to defend but still dropped him out of the top 70).

Dominic Thiem (AUT): No. 91 ========> No. 97 (Thiem is not in denial about the fact that his wrist continues to prevent him from playing the way he did at the top of the game. But he has played down in the Challengers and that hasn’t gotten him much of anywhere, either. The best match he played was the five-setter he lost to Félix Auger-Aliassime in the first round of the Australian Open. But he lost to No. 295 and No. 219 in his last two Challengers. And in Monte Carlo on Saturday, he was dismissed by Bautista Agut for the loss of three games. Thiem has been stuck in about the same rankings area for nearly a year and a half now, with seemingly no light at the end of the tunnel.

Gijs Brouwer (NED): No. 199 ========> No. 258 (The 28-year-old has the best result of his career a. year ago in Houston, where he made the semifinals. But he lost in the first round there this year. This week, it’s back to reality on the Challenger circuit in Morelos, Mexico, where he drew Canadian wild card Vasek Pospisil in the first round)

Joao Sousa (POR): No. 272 ========> No. 299 (At 35, Sousa called it a career this week at his home-country tournament in Estoril, losing competitive matches in both singles and doubles. All that’s left now is to watch that number drop every week. He reached. career high of No. 28, and won four ATP titles, including Estoril in 2018. Which was probably the biggest highlight of his career

Steven Diez (CAN): No. 327 ========> No. 354 (Daddy-to-be Diez made the quarterfinals at the Barletta Challenger a year ago, but was out in the first round this year).