ATP Rankings Report – As of April 15, 2024

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Only one ATP level event, but a big one: the Masters 1000 in Monte Carlo that had most of the top players (with the conspicuous exception of the injured Carlos Alcaraz, who withdrew from both Monte Carlo and from Barcelona this coming week, where he’s the defending champion).

Stefanos Tsitsipas was the winner, beating three top-10 players along the way.

And in doing so he moves back into the top 10 where few wouldn’t argue he belongs.

So many moves this week – those who jump with good results, fall because they didn’t defend last year’s good result, and Challenger champs during the last week before the Roland Garros singles entry deadline.

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

WTA Rankings Report – As of April 15, 2024

Casper Ruud (NOR): No. 10 =========> No. 6 (Ruud has been a bit of an enigma this year. He’s 25-7 on the season, and made finals in Acapulco and Los Cabos – on hard courts – but the big stuff has eluded him of late. Still, it’s been more than enough to keep him in the top 10, and making the final after losing in the third round a year ago gives him a nice bump. Coming up for renewal: 3rd round in Barcelona, semifinal in Rome, quarters in Geneva and at the end of all that – last year’s Roland Garros final. So staying there will be a big challenge).

Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE): No. 12 =========> No. 7 (Tsitsipas is back in the top 10 after winning Monte Carlo for the third time. And it’s not as though he had a cake draw; he defeated Djere, Etcheverry, Zverev, Khachanov, Sinner and Ruud to take the title. And he’s now just just 30 points behind Ruud for the No. 6 spot)

Ugo Humbert (FRA): No. 15 =========> No. 13 (Most probably didn’t have Humbert in the top-15 pool this year, but he rises to a career high after his quarterfinal effort in the Principality).

Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN): No. 35 =========> No. 34 (With a win in Monte Carlo, Auger-Aliasime moves up a spot in the rankings but still will be out of a seeded spot in Madrid, Rome and Roland Garros unless he does a little more in the next weeks. He meets Maximilian Marterer in the first round in Munich, having been knocked out of the fourth and final bye seed by Taylor Fritz’s late entry)

Gael Monfils (FRA): No. 40 =========> No. 37 (Monfils is up to his highest ranking since Sept. 2022, and is taking Bucharest off this week despite entering that event. When he spoke last year of having the Olympics as a goal, he was at No. 394 last May, just before Roland Garros. People, of course, scoffed. That is some solid work for a 37-year-old; if you ranking matches your age, you’re doing well).

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Alejandro Tabilo (CHI): No. 45 =========> No. 41 (The Cana-Chilean moves up after winning a round in Monte Carlo. He has a first-round bye in Bucharest this week).

Lorenzo Sonego (ITA: No. 57 =========> No. 51 (In as a lucky loser with a first-round bye after the withdrawal of Alcaraz, Sonego wouldn’t have maximized this without winning his second-round match. He did, beating Auger-Aliassime before losing to Humbert in the third round).

Sumit Nagal (IND): No. 93 =========> No. 80 (Nagal qualified and won a round in Monte Carlo – taking Holger Rune to three sets in defeat. It’s a career high at age 26, improving last week’s ranking – which also was a career high).

***Nagal, in his blonde phase at Roland Garros some years ago.***

Corentin Moutet (FRA): No. 101 =========> No. 92 (Just in time, it looks like Moutet will get straight into his home Slam in Paris next month after qualifying in Monte Carlo. He’s had a long road back from wrist surgery and was at No. 173 last November. But he faces wild card Canadian Denis Shapovalov in the first round of Bucharest).

Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS): No. 106 =========> No. 94 (A win on Sunday in the Sarasota Challenger final should seal a Roland Garros main-draw spot for Kokkinakis, who has worked long and hard to get there. His opponent, Zizou Bergs, was just three spots behind him in the rankings before this match and would have been the one to jump into the RG main draw, had he won. A lot at stake beyond the Challenger prize money).

Stefano Napolitano (ITA): No. 158 =========> No. 125 (The 28-year-old Italian wins his second Challenger of the season in Madrid, and makes a big leap in the rankings to a career high, in his 12th year a a pro).

Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN): No. 241 =========> No. 167 (A massive leap for the 31-year-old former No. 78, as he wins the Challenger in Hong Kong. He’s been in the 200s and 300s for most of the last 2 1/2 years).

Alexis Galarneau (CAN): No. 176 =========> No. 170 (Another move forward for the Quebecer after making the quarters in Morelos. He is the No. 5 seed at another hard-court Challenger in Acapulco this week).

Kamil Majchrzak (POL): No. 406 =========> No. 354 (Making his way back after a doping suspension, the 28-year-old wins an ITF in Sharm El Sheikh two weeks ago to jump into the top 350. He had … no ranking at the start of 2024. He went 29-4 through last week in seven tournaments, and earned a total of $20,000).

Soonwoo Kwon (KOR): No. 645 =========> No. 480 (Kwon has a protected ranking. But he puts a dent into his actual ranking after making the semifinals at a Challenger in Busan).

***The struggling Russian might welcome a return to Rome, where he’ll be greeted like a rock star.***

Andrey Rublev (RUS): No. 6 =========> No. 8 (Rublev, the defending champion in Monte Carlo, lost the opener of his title defence to Alexei Popyrin. He’s been in a pretty huge funk since that default in the Middle East).

Holger Rune (DEN): No. 7 =========> No. 12 (Rune lost in the quarters of Monte Carlo to Sinner. But he made the final last year, and thus tumbles out of the top 10. And he is defending the title in Munich this week after winning it the last two years, as well as a final in Rome in the leadup to Roland Garros).

Taylor Fritz (USA): No. 13 =========> No. 15 (Fritz lost his opener to Musetti in Monte Carlo. And not having defended last year’s points from last year’s surprise semifinal, he drops behind young compatriot Ben Shelton, who becomes the No. 1 American despite being in Florida supporting the women’s BJK Cup team instead of starting his clay-court campaign. Fritz took a late entry into Munich this week; he’s just 40 points behind Shelton).

Alexander Shevchenko (KAZ): No. 55 =========> No. 63 (Shevchenko, who won the Madrid Challenger a year ago, lost in the first round of qualifying in Monte Carlo).

Daniel Altmaier (GER): No. 52 =========> No. 66 (Altmaier had a great run in winning the Sarasot Challenger. But moving up in class because his ranking allowed it, he lost in the first round of the Monte Carlo qualies this year to Francisco Cerundolo).

Stan Wawrinka (SUI): No. 79 =========> No. 86 (Tough draw for Wawrinka in Monte Carlo, where he lost his opener to Alex de Minaur. He gets Borges in the first round of Bucharest this week).

Matteo Berrettini (ITA): No. 84 =========> No. 98 (A step back for Berrettini, who won in Marrakech but couldn’t master the quick turnaround to Monte Carlo, losing to Miomir Kecmanovic in the first round. A year ago, he made the third round. He likely will still squeeze in, at Roland Garros).

**(Thiem in Madrid, 2021. 📸: A.MARTINEZ/MMO)**

Dominic Thiem (AUT): No. 97 =========> No. 105 (The former Roland Garros finalist may have put himself out of contention for a main draw spot this year without a wild card, as he drew the tough Roberto Bautista Agut in the first round of qualifying in Monte Carlo, and went down. He’s in Munich this week, where he plays a qualifier in the first round).

Diego Schwartzman (ARG): No. 123=========> No. 142 (It’s still going all wrong for the former top-10 player, who lost in the first round of the Monte Carlo qualifying – with a wild card – to Facundo Diaz Acosta).

Gabriel Diallo (CAN): No. 150 =========> No. 157 (Diallo lost a heartbreaker to Kokkinakis in the quarterfinals of the Sarasota Challenger, after taking a wild card. His spring schedule was definitely not set up to maximize, as he isn’t even playing anywhere this week).

Norbert Gombos (SVK): No. 383 =========> No. 501 (The 33-year-old, whose career high ranking of No. 80 came in 2017, loses in the first round of the Split Challenger and, defending finalist’s points from last year, sees his ranking drop out of the top 500. Gombos began his season in Mrach and has lost in the first round of four Challenger qualifyings, all in straight sets. He has won back-to-back matches only once since then – and even then, withrew in his next match).