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With the No. 2 and No. 3 players in the world meeting in the men’s singles final – the same two players who met a year ago – there wasn’t nearly as much turbulence atop the men’s rankings.
They went much more to form, even if a number of players helped themselves out a fair bit during the fortnight – and during the last two weeks of Challengers as well.
The top five hasn’t changed. But Alex de Minaur is a mover.
For the complete, updated ATP Tour rankings as of Monday, click here.
(All screenshots from the BBC)
Alex de Minaur (AUS): No. 9 ===========> No. 6 (You could probably call de Minaur the Paolini of the ATP Tour – or vice-versa, even though he wasn’t nearly the late bloomer the Italian is. He’s had a solid, steady career. But suddenly, he’s a mainstay in that top 10 and is at a career-high No. 6 this week. Who knows, he might have had more. But the Aussie injured himself on match point of his fourth-round match against Fils at Wimbledon. And he had to withdraw from his quarterfinal against Djokovic.
Lorenzo Musetti (ITA): No. 25 ===========> No. 16 (Still just 22, Musetti is one away from his career high after being a surprise Wimbledon semifinalist. He had a great draw, ’tis true: Lestienne, Darderi, Comesana, Mpetshi Perricard and then Taylor Fritz. But he maximized it. The five-set win over Fritz might have taken too much out of him, though; he lacked that little extra in a fairly close, straight-loss to Djokovic in the semifinals. And that is NOT to say that he didn’t play well. He did. He was a revelation during the fortnight).
Arthur Fils (FRA): No. 34 ===========> No. 28 (Fils and his pote Perricard, 2021 Roland Garros juior doubles champs, made huge waves at Wimbledon. It had to be nice for them, as they came into their home Slam in Paris with a … lot of expectations. And flamed out pretty quickly. Fils made the fourth round, and finds himself at a career high this week).
Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (FRA): No. 58 ===========> No. 44 (Turned 21 last week, the 6-8 Frenchman from Lyon made a lot of new fans at WImbledon, as he lost in the final round of qualifying – even though he was a top-60 player, it came too late for the deadline – but squeezed in as a lucky loser. Then he upset No. 21 seed Sebastian Korda in five sets in the first round. By the time he got to the second week he was a little out of gas. But his new ranking will open up some nice opportunities this summer and fall. And he won’t have to qualify at the US Open).
Emil Ruusuvuori (FIN): No. 87 ===========> No. 70 (The 25-year-old has had a rough year, falling some 50 spots from his career-high ranking of No. 37 back in April, 2023. He began 2024 with a final at the opening tournament in Hong Kong. But while there are are NO holes in his 2024 schedule – he’s played 17 events so far, including some second-week Challengers during the big-draw 1000 events – he hasn’t been healthy or winning many matches. So his third-round effort at Wimbledon was a good step).
Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP): No. 112 ===========> No. 75 (The 36-year-old isn’t done yet, as he fell outside the top 100 in late January and was at No. 122 after Halle. But he pulled it together and had quite a good grass season overall. He made the fourth-round at Wimbledon, beating fellow 30-something Fabio Fognini in five sets in the third round, and got himself back into the top 75).
Fabio Fognini (ITA): No. 94 ===========> No. 80 (Maybe it was the Roger Federer circa 1998 platinum look. But Fognini, 37, got to the third round at Wimbledon and while playing an absolutely ton of tennis at every level, wherever he could get in, has gotten himself back into the top 100. No matter how it seems sometimes, he clearly lives for the game. He’s banked nearly $20 million on court in his career, but he’s still grinding)
Francisco Comesana (ARG): No. 122 ===========> No. 100 (No, we didn’t have the 5-foor-10, 158-pound, 23-year-old Argentine in the third round of Wimbledon, either, But there he was, after upsetting the beleaguered Andrey Rublev in the first round. After making an obligatory pit stop in Australia to start the season, he played a dozen clay-court tournaments until he landed in Eastbourne the week before Wimbledon. He lost in the first round of qualifying there – the first match he ever played on grass in his entire life – before hitting the AELTC. And he had a great week).
Hugo Dellien (BOL): No. 171 ===========> No. 140 (The 31-year-old and his 26-year-old brother Murkel had a great Dellien Week. Hugo won the Challenger on clay in Iasi, Romania. And brother Murkel jumped to a career high, from No. 214 up to No. 168, with a Challenger win in Brasov, Romania the previous week).
Lucas Pouille (FRA): No. 212 ===========> No. 150 (Pouille, who had to retire ahead of his third-round match at Wimbledon after getting through the qualifying, is back in the top 150 for the first time since April, 2022.
Federico Agustin Gomez (ARG): No. 224 ===========> No. 163 (Gomez, 27, has won two clay-court Challengers in the last three weeks to jump from No. 284 in that brief period of time. The first one, in Milan, he won from the qualifying. Then he won again last week in Trieste).
Mark Lajal (EST): No. 269 ===========> No. 246 (From the high of playing Centre Court at Wimbledon to the … wilds of the Canadian Challenger circuit, the 21-year-old is having an interesting summer. His qualifying effort at Wimbledon and his qualifying effort in Winnipeg last week have been worth 23 spots in the rankings; he’s in Open Court’s next of the woods at the Granby Challenger this week).
Holger Rune (DEN): No. 15 ===========> No. 17 (Just barely 21, Rune’s fortunes definitely aren’t going in the right direction as less than a year ago – after Cincinnati – he was at a career high No. 4 in the world. This week, afer losing in the fourth round of Wimbledon, with serious alacrity, to Novak Djokovic, he’s down to No. 17).
Roman Safiullin (RUS): No. 44 ===========> No. 67 (Safiullin came into Wimbledon having lost the opening match in his previous four tournaments, including two on grass. So it was still somewhat impressive that he got to the third round, with an 0-2 comeback in the first round against No. 30 seed Francisco Cerundolo to open things up. He lost in five sets to Arthur Fils. He got to the quarterfinals a year ago, though, so that hurts. He’s 8-15 on the season. But he’s going to the Olympics after Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov declined ahead of him).
Matteo Berrettini (ITA): No. 59 ===========> No. 82 (Tough break for Berrettini, who was rounding into form with wins over Safiullin, Shapovalov and Musetti as he reached the Stuttgart final. But he had the misfortune of drawing compatriot Jannik Sinner in the second round. He lost in four sets; the three he lost were in tiebreaks. He was playing well enough to make a run, but loses ground because he made the fourth round a year ago).
David Goffin (BEL): No. 83 ===========> No. 98 (It was a tumultuous fortnight for the veteran Belgian, who was ranked high enough when the Wimbledon qualifying began to get into the main draw. Except that rise in fortune came too late to make the deadline. So he played the qualifying at the tournament where he’d been a quarterfinalist in 2019 and 2022 – for the first time since his maiden appearance in 2011. And like in 2011, he lost in the final round. But he squeaked in as a lucky loser, and was up two sets to none vs. Tomas Machac – only to lose in the fifth-set tiebreak. And as a third-rounder a year ago, he lost ground in the rankings, too).
Christopher Eubanks (USA): No. 62 ===========> No. 128 (After his fairy-tale run to the title in Mallorca and the Wimbledon quarterfinals, Eubanks’s career took a completely different turn, and he was in the top 30 by the US Open. That gave him a year-long cushion to buttress the inevitability that he’d probably not defend all those points. But he wasn’t able to keep the momentum. Since last year’s Wimbledon, Eubanks is 11-24 and has piled up the opening-round losses – including in the first round of both Mallorca and Wimbledon (in straight sets to qualifier Quentin Halys). That hurts that ranking, big time. It’s literally back to the drawing board, and h’ll have to do it at lower levels because that number won’t get him near Montreal and Cincinnati).
Denis Shapovalov (CAN): No. 121 ===========> No. 139 (The Canadian had a pretty good Wimbledon, and had his chances against No. 14 seed Ben Shelton in the third round. But he ultimately went down in five sets, dropping points fro his fourth-round effort a year ago – which was his last tournament of the 2023 season because of a knee injury. He’s been back this year, and healthy. But it hasn’t yet clicked for a big run that will get his ranking back into the right area code).
Milos Raonic (CAN): No. 155 ===========> No. 177 (Raonic asked for a wild card from Wimbledon, where he’s been a finalist. But he was snubbed, and so decided not to play the qualifying. What was the point, really. You’d think he’d get through. But by the time he’d even play his first round in the main draw it would be his fourth match in a week. That’s something he hadn’t even done since the 2021 Australian Open and the 2020 Paris Masters. So he drops a few points from his second-round effort a year ago. But he got himself back training on the clay ahead of the Olympics in Paris).
Diego Schwartzman (ARG): No. 182 ===========> No. 212 (Schwartzman falls outside the top 200, after winning just one match in qualifying attempts in Paris and at Wimbledon. His plan is to retire at home in Argentina in early 2025; feels like it’s going to be a rough slog for the next few months for him).
Benoit Paire (FRA): No. 160 ===========> No. 227 (Paire has won one match since February, a first-round effort at the Phoenix Challenger during the second week of Indian Wells. It was a lot – he ended up retiring in the first of his next match. And he’s lost seven straight since then, including clay-court Challengers the last two weeks after losing in the first round of Wimbledon qualifying. And then he jumps right back this week to play the Newport event on grass).
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