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The ATP Tour season is officially over, even if the Challengers and Futures continue.
But it establishes the year-end top 10, led by Jannik Sinner – who leads No. 2 Alexander Zverev by 3,215 points.
The top-10 changes are the only ones in the top 35, as beyond that no one in the top 60 was actually playing last week.
But above and below that magic “top 100” mark that gets people in for the more than $100K AUD waiting for those who can make the Australian Open main draw, there is some frantic scrambling.
For the complete, updated ATP Tour rankings, click here.
Taylor Fritz (USA): No. 5 =========> No. 4 (A career high for Fritz, who doesn’t end his season with a win but does end it at a career high).
Casper Ruud (NOR): No. 7 =========> No. 6 (Ruud’s second half of the season was literally nothing to write home about. And yet, he somehow maintained his ranking, and he made the final four in Turin).
Borna Coric (CRO): No. 97 =========> No. 92 (Coric was at No. 31 after this year’s Australian Open. And while he never QUITE dropped out of the top 100 (No. 99 after the US Open), he’s come awfully close. But Coric’s quarterfinal at the Lyon Challenger gives him a little margin in terms of entry in Australia).
Raphaël Collignon (BEL): No. 142 =========> No. 122 (Collignon, 22, wins the Challenger in Lyon and moves to another career high, under the radar. He began the season at a No. 353, playing low-level ITFs. So it’s been a great season).
Nishesh Basavareddy (USA): No. 172 =========> No. 152 (Basavareddy, 19, is following in the footsteps of another American college player, Learner Tien, and making his breakthrough at the Challenger level. He reaches the Champaign Challenger final, and moves to within a few points of the top 150 after starting the season at No. 451. Since losing in the final round of qualifying at the US Open in late August Basavareddy he has one Challenger title, three finals and two semifinals. And still, that only moves him up just over 100 spots. He’s a junior at Stanford, even though he doesn’t turn 20 until February and, having earned over $120K this year – in theory – probably is in decision mode).
Alexis Galarneau (CAN): No. 216 =========> No. 206 (Galarneau moves up 10 just by winning a round in Drummondville. He’s less than 10 points away from the top 200 and while it might have been a bit borderline a month or two ago, he’s secured his spot in the AO qualifying. He can’t do much more now, though, with benchwarming at the Davis Cup finals eating up two precious weeks. It wouldn’t have changed his status, though, and he picks up a nice wad of cash to cover expenses).
Gabriel Debru (FRA): No. 272 =========> No. 247 (Debru, the junior Australian Open champion in 2022, moves up with a title at the ITF in Heraklion, Greece. Debru has the same Quebecois agent, Bernard Duchesneau, as Gabriel Diallo and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (and Félix Auger-Aliassime used to) have. So yes, that means he’s very tall. he has three ITF and a Challenger title this year. But relatively speaking he hasn’t moved up all that much; he began the season ranked No. 310).
Liam Draxl (CAN): No. 323 =========> No. 296 (Draxl gets back into the top 300 as the points from his win at the $25K ITF in Quebec City come on. But he lost an opportunity to do better by losing a tough one in the first round at the Drummondville Challenger. He’s at the Challenger in Puerto Vallarta this week trying to make a move to squeeze into the AO qualifying).
Chris Rodesch (LIE): No. 385 =========> No. 308 (It’s been awhile since a player from … Luxembourg made any kind of a move in the pros. Although we fondly remember Gilles Muller. But this 23-year-old, a product of the University of Virginia who has taken advantage of the next Gen Accelerator program in the Challengers – as has Basavareddy – upsets No. 1 seed James Duckworth on the way to the Drummondville Challenger final. Rodesch was at No. 647 to start the season and also has won five titles at the ITF level along the way).
Kimmer Coppejans (BEL): No. 516 =========> No. 437 (On the injury comeback trail, the former Roland Garros junior champion adds points from a title at a $15K in Monastir two weeks ago to make another leap. Coppejans went 20-0 and los just five sets in winning four straight ITFs in Tunisia – moving his ranking up nearly 500 spots. He can look to move up more in 2025 with a protected ranking of No. 198, but with match play behind him and his confidence back).
Taylor Fritz (USA) (No. 4)
Arthur Cazaux (FRA) (No. 64)
Bu Yunchaokete (CHN) (No. 66)
Mattia Bellucci (ITA) (No. 100)
Nicolas Moreno de Alboran (USA) (No. 109)
Raphaël Collignon (BEL) (No. 122)
Tristan Boyer (USA) (No. 130)
Joao Fonseca (BRA) (No. 144)
Nishesh Basavareddy (USA) (No. 152)
Novak Djokovic (SRB): No. 6 =========> No. 7 (By skipping the Paris Masters and ATP Finals, both of which he won a year ago, Djokovic drops from No. 4 to No. 7. He will now be the wild card in the Australian Open draw: one of the top four would, on paper, get him in the quarterfinals. Assuming he’s good to go, NONE of them will want to be that guy).
Facundo Diaz Acosta (ARG): No. 64 =========> No. 79 (Diaz Acosta, who moved up, in a sense, to the ATP level this year, goes 16-17 with one title in Buenos Aires and makes over $700K, doesn’t defend his title at the Challenger in Montevideo and drops a fair bit. Notably – he played just four ATP Tour-level events in 2023 and only a handful off the clay. Once the tour moved to the hard courts after he made the Kitzbuhel semis, Diaz Acosta won just one match – his first round at the US Open over Hugo Gaston. Notably, he was up two sets to one against Taylor Fritz in Australia before bowing out in five).
James Duckworth (AUS): No. 77 =========> No. 82 (Duckworth made the Drummondville Challenger final last year. This year, he lost in the first round, as the top seed. And drops. He’s lost 9-of-10 in his first-round matches at the ATP level since he got to the second round in Halle in June).
Thiago Monteiro (BRA): No. 99 =========> No. 108 (Monteiro drops out of the top 100 after losing in the quarterfinal of the Montevideo Challenger. A year ago, he made the final. He drops out of the top 100 and puts himself on the bubble for Melbourne).
Duje Ajdukovic (CRO): No. 122 =========> No. 143 (Adjukovic played the ATP event in Belgrade, and didn’t play last week, dropping his points from winning the Kobe Challenger a year ago. He hit that “oh my, I’m nearly inside the top 100” plateau after the US Open, getting to a career-best No. 105 with a win in the first round of qualifying after winning a Challenger in Manacor the previous week. But since has dropped).
Benoit Paire (FRA): No. 299 =========> No. 311 (Paire drops points from making the second round in Drummondville last year – which led to an epic social media post as he passed through Montreal afterwards –and drops outside the top 300, with a final in a Portugal Challenger to fall in early December. But he’s posted that his season is over. He played 30 events this season – yes, 30 –, and won back-to-back matches twice: in his first event in Noumea in January, and at his final one in Japan a week ago. He earned less than $150K But a final Instagram post indicates that while 2024 was the toughest season of his career, with a lot of physical woes and questions about whether he could mentally carry on when he wasn’t 100 per cent evey day, he got some answers on the Asian Challenger swing and feels he made progress there. And so, he’ll be back for 2025).
Bruno Kuzuhara (USA): No. 428 =========> No. 466 (Kuzuhara was sort of the Learner Tien of a couple of years ago – quick, solid and undersized – except he won a junior Slam: the 2022 Australian Open in singles and doubles. He also was the national 18s champion and an Orange Bowl finalist in 2021. He got to No. 1 in the juniors. Tien made two junior Slam finals in 2023 and got to No. 4. But rather than go the college route, as Tien did, Kuzuhara decided to turn pro. It didn’t even seem like the best decision at the time. And so far, it’s been a slow grind. Kuzuhara broke into the top 400 last July, at No. 394. But now he’s dropping again. Meanwhile, his AO finals opponent Jacub Mensik, who cramped badly in that final but is still just 19, moved into the top 50 a few weeks ago despite some injury issues).
Filip Peliwo (POL): No. 577 =========> No. 601 (Tough times for the Canadian former double junior Grand Slam champ who now represents Poland. He loses in the first round of a low-level ITF in Hungary and drops out of the top 600. Peliwo, who won junior Wimbledon the same year Genie Bouchard won the girls’ title, is at another Futures factory at Sharm ElSheikh this week, as the No. 4 seed).
Year-End Top 10 – Singles
Year-end Top 20 – Doubles
A LOT of movement in this final week of the season.
On the AO borderline
In theory, being top 104 gets you into the Australian Open main draw. But with the number of protected rankings these days, even that’s no sure thing.
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