ATP Rankings Report – As of Sept. 9, 2024

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As with the women, a ton of changes in the rankings after a roller-coaster US Open.

And with a lot more Challenger-level tournaments taking place the last two weeks, all of those results come on as well.

Novak Djokovic drops to No. 4 with his shocker of a loss in the third round (although, the way he had played, maybe not so much of a shock). And Alexander ties his career high at No. 2.

On the Canadian side, Gabriel Diallo is whiskers away from the top 100 after a great run in New York.

But there are no Canadians in the top 20 this week. And the No. 2 Canadian sits exactly at … No. 100.

Meanwhile, the top 10 in the doubles rankings is in complete disarray after the US Open.

There are no ATP-level events this week, because of Davis Cup.

WTA Rankings Report – As of Sept. 9, 2024

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

Alexander Zverev (GER): No. 4 ===========> No. 2 (Zverev, despite *only* making the US Open quarterfinals, moves up to a career high No. 2, which he first reached after the 2022 edition of Roland Garros. Mostly, he moves up because of Djokovic’s drop, after being upset in the third round by Alexei Popyrin. Feels like a long time ago, doesn’t it, that Djokovic went out?)

Taylor Fritz (USA): No. 12 ===========> No. 7 (Fritz’s run to the US Open final has been an impressive study in determination. And in doing so, he put a lot of distance between himself and the other Americans in the top 16, with whom he was tightly bunched before the start of the tournament. He gave it everything he had; there had to be a pang when it was over that this just … wasn’t enough, and that there’s a large gap between him and Sinner in a lot of ways. But hopefully that’s fuel for the fire. he has a lot to be proud of).

Frances Tiafoe (USA): No. 20 ===========> No. 16 (Tiafoe was crushed, his body and mind having let him down in his semifinal in New York against friend, contemporary and countryman Fritz. Still, he makes a nice move up).

Jack Draper (GBR): No. 25 ===========> No. 20 (It ended … most unhygienically for Draper, who left his … mark on Arthur Ashe Stadium on a number of occasions during his semifinal loss to friend Jannik Sinner. He’ll have to figure out a way to address these issues with the humidity, which have plagued him his entire career so far. But at 22, he’s at a career high and into the top 20 for the first time).

Jordan Thompson (AUS): No. 32 ===========> No. 29 (Thompson, a late bloomer at 30, is inside the top 30 for the first in his career after making the round of 16 in singles. Even better, he’s a US Open champion in doubles with countryman Max Purcell).

Nuno Borges (POR): No. 34 ===========> No. 30 (Another new entrant into the top 30, at a later age, is the 27-year-old Portuguese player who went collegiate at Mississippi State with few expectations of becoming a top pro. Borges got through the pandemic and various injuries after that. So it’s only now that he’s making a move. He made the fourth round).

Brandon Nakashima (USA): No. 50 ===========> No. 40 (Overlooked with the impressive generation just a few years older and the surging Shelton behind him – and a lot of injuries – the 23-year-old makes the top 40 for the first time with a run to the round of 16 in New York that included wins over Holger Rune and Lorenzo Musetti. And he’s playing Davis Cup this week).

David Goffin (BEL): No. 78 ===========> No. 64 (Outside the top 100 just before Wimbledon , the 33-year-old is slowly crawling back and made the third round in New York).

Gabriel Debru (FRA): No. 381 ===========> No. 276 (Another client along with that other Gabriel – Diallo – of Félix Auger-Aliassime’s former agent Bernard Duchescneau, the tall Frenchman wins the Challenger in Como, Italy two weeks ago and reaches a career high. He’s a former Australian Open junior champion, and he’s still only 18).

Marin Cilic (CRO): No. 1,082 ===========> No. 778 (On the 10th anniversary of his title at the US Open, the 35-year-old Cilic has been on the Challenger circuit trying to comeback from injury issues – notably, knee surgery in Jan. 2023 – that have kept him out for much of the last two years. He returned two weeks ago and won a round in Manacor, and then last week made the quarterfinals in Cassis. It’s a start. He plays to play the Asian fall circuit with his protected ranking).

Novak Djokovic (SRB): No. 2 ===========> No. 4 (The ranking doesn’t mean much to Djokovic any more. But it was clear he wasn’t ready to play the US Open after his career-completing gold medal at the Olympics in Paris. The serve was never on song, and he went out in the third round to Alexei Popyrin)

Ben Shelton (USA): No. 13 ===========> No. 17 (Shelton was the No. 2 American just two weeks ago, one spot behind Fritz. Now, after he made the third round but drops a lot of points from last year’s semifinal, he finds himself at No. 5. Crazy, but still a great place to be for American men’s tennis).

Thiago Seyboth Wild (BRA): No. 68 ===========> No. 98 (Back on the Challenger circuit with a first-round loss in Genoa last week, Seyboth Wild lost in the first round of the the US Open to No. 6 seed Andrey Rublev, and drops his points from a year ago, when he lost in the second round of qualifying at the US Open but quickly jetted to Challengers in Genoa and Como during the tournament – and won them both).

Denis Shapovalov (CAN): No. 105 ===========> No. 100 (Shapovalov lost a bit of a shocker in the first round of the US Open to Botic Van de Zandschulp – not SO shocking, given what the Dutchman did later. But at least he’s back into the top 100. He’s playing Davis Cup this week in Manchester, but it seems somewhat unclear where he can play in the fall).

Gabriel Diallo (CAN): No. 143 ===========> No. 103 (A new career high for the Canadian, who qualified and made the third round in New York and gave No. 14 seed Tommy Paul quite a tussle before going down. He’s 17 points behind Shapovalov at No. 100. And although he’ll not be able to add any points this week and likely next because of Davis Cup, he gives captain Frank Dancevic an interesting dilemma in terms of who might play No. 2 singles given his fine form).

Dominic Stricker (SUI): No. 169 ===========> No. 336 (Stricker, 22, basically doubles his ranking – in the wrong direction – even as he tried to compete at the US Open. But he lost in the first round to Francisco Comesana of Argentina. He was defending a nice run from the qualies to the fourth round from a year ago. Stricker missed a lot of time; he retired in the semifinals of the Next-Gen finals last November, and didn’t return until the grass-court season in June).

Borna Gojo (CRO): No. 204 ===========> No. 439 (Gojo, who reached No. 72 in the rankings at the end of 2023, lost in the second round of qualifying at the US Open this year and dumps all his points from a qualies-to-fourth-round run a year ago. That’s a tough blow).

Vasek Pospisil (CAN): No. 612 ===========> No. 664 (Pospisil hasn’t played since retiring three games into his first-round match against Sebastian Korda in Montreal, after receiving a wild card. He’s played just three matches since April, but has pronounced himself fit to go for Canada’s Davis Cup quest this week in Manchester, UK. He drops points from winning a round in qualifying a year ago at the US Open).