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A pair of 500s – in Rotterdam and Dallas – meant there were going to be some nifty moves on the ATP Tour inside of a week.
As well as some players who made big moves a year ago, and couldn’t defend them.
Notable among all is the super week by Denis Shapovalov in Dallas.
He skipped Davis Cup the previous week, citing a back injury. But it was a good move in the end as he’s looked vintage all week and took the biggest title of his career.
For the complete, updated ATP Tour rankings for Monday, click here.
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Alex de Minaur (AUS): No. 8 ===========> No. 6 (A career high for de Minaur, who made the final in Rotterdam – as he did a year ago. But that’s likely to drop again next week, because Rotterdam was a week later and last year’s finalists points will drop off).
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Denis Shapovalov (CAN): No. 53 ===========> No. 32 (Shapovalov is getting closer to where he belongs, at the top of the game. His tennis in Dallas this past week has been top-10 quality; he beat the top three seeds – all top-10 players – to take the biggest title of his career. It was a good decision to back off from Davis Cup the previous week, and put all his energies into this ATP 500 event – not for Canada, of course. But if you don’t take care of your own career, who will?)
Jaume Munar (ESP): No. 64 ===========> No. 53 (Munar, 27, had a lot of pressure coming up behind a rather more famous Mallorcan named Nadal. He never has quite lived up to that. But he had a great week in Dallas, making the semifinals and barely losing to Casper Ruud. He would have made more of a move – broken back into the top 50 – but he made the quarterfinals at the now-defunct ATP 250 in Cordoba last year and those points drop off).
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Mattia Bellucci (ITA): No. 92 ===========> No. 68 (Yes, another young Italian is rising up, this one a 23-year-old lefty who made the semifinals in Rotterdam. Needless to say, a career high; his previous ranking also was a career high).
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Lucas Pouille (FRA): No. 102 ===========> No. 93 (Pouille, 30 and briefly a top-10 player, has been grinding and made it to the final at the Lille Challenger. He’d have been No. 83 if he won – his highest ranking since May 2021. But the gods were cruel to him again – he retired in the final and ruptured his Achilles, for which he’ll have surgery in the coming days with no guarantee that he’ll be able to make it back).
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Reilly Opelka (USA): No. 145 ===========> No. 121 (Opelka, playing on a protected ranking after missing nearly two years, made the quarterfinals in Dallas and lopped another chunk off his actual ranking. He’s playing Delray Beach this week as well).
Ethan Quinn (USA): No. 199 ===========> No. 150 (The 20-year-old out of the U.S. college system – he won the 2023 NCAAs as a redshirt freshman – and who has Tommy Paul coach Brad Stine also in his corner, moves up with a second-round effort in Dallas and breaks the top 150 for the first time).
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Andrea Vavassori (ITA): No. 317 ===========> No. 240 (Vavassori, a top doubles player, would have a much better singles ranking if he played more. But he’s in that abyss between making the biggest events in doubles, which he would have to sacrifice to drop down a level or two to work on his singles ranking. But when he gets a chance, he does well with his agressive, forward-thinking style. He benefited from a retirement from Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime in the first round, after getting through qualifying. He and Bolelli also won the doubles).
Elias Ymer (SWE): No. 332 ===========> No. 266 (The 28-year-old former No. 105 is back on the comeup, as he makes the final at the Chennai Challenger).
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Tomas Machac (CZE) (No. 24)
Jakub Mensik (CZE) (No. 45)
Mattia Bellucci (ITA) (No. 68)
Ethan Quinn (USA) (No. 150)
Brandon Holt (USA) (No. 166)
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Grigor Dimitrov (BUL): No. 11 ===========> No. 13 (Dimitrov has been a bit of a ghost so far in 2025, with a shoulder injury the reported culprit. He retired against Reilly Opelka in Brisbane, and he retired in his first round against lucky loser Francisco Passaro in Melbourne. He has, it should be said, been remarkably healthy during a long career. But he drops his points from making the Marseille final a year ago).
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Marcos Giron (USA): No. 41 ===========> No. 49 (Giron didn’t play last week; the trip from Taiwan where he played Davis Cup just made that pretty onerous, and so drops his points from making the Dallas final. It’s a big sacrifice, but with the depth of the U.S. men who knows when he’d get another chance to play for his country?)
Luciano Darderi (ITA): No. 46 ===========> No. 59 (Darderi didn’t even try to defend his points this past week. He retired in the second set of his first-round match in Melbourne last month, and hasn’t played since. He won the Cordobá ATP 250 last year – now defunct – out of the qualifying last year).
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Sumit Nagal (IND): No. 105 ===========> No. 129 (Nagal won a Challenger in Chennai last year, but he’s gone to the South American clay-court circuit this year and lost in the second round of the Rosario Challenger last week to drop those points. He’s defending a Challenger semi next week as well).
Adrian Mannarino (FRA): No. 107 ===========> No. 130 (Mannarino’s slide continues after he lost in the first round in Dallas to Rinky Hijikata).
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Emil Ruusuvuori (NOR): No. 142 ===========> No. 147 (Ruusuvuori lost in the first round of the Tenerife Challenger and drops some points. But the main thing is that he’s back in action – for the first time since the Washington, D.C. tournament last July. He can return with a protected ranking in the low 70s that will help him get into events – especially he 96-draw Masters 1000s).
Marin Cilic (CRO): No. 188 ===========> No. 195 (Cilic, now 36, hasn’t started his 2025 season yet But he’s due to play in the Middle East with what’s left of his protected ranking).
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Facundo Bagnis (ARG): No. 156 ===========> No. 292 (The 34-year-old Argentine lefty, whose career high in singles was No. 55 back in 2016, hasn’t played since losing in the first round of qualifying at the US Open last summer. ….. He drops points from making the final of the now-defunct ATP 250 in Cordoba a year ago, out of the qualifying, no less. What started so well in 2024 ended with a knee issue that continues to keep him off the court).
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