ATP Rankings Report – As of April 21, 2025

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Two ATP 500s and lots of Challengers, so lots of moves. Most notably, Carlos Alcaraz falling one match short of defending his Barcelona title means that Alexander Zverev, who wins in Munich, moves up to No. 2.

In the big picture, with the imminent return of Jannik Sinner from his doping suspension, it’s fairly important for tennis that Alcaraz get back up to No. 2; otherwise, there’s a 50 per cent change that he and Sinner will end up in the same halves of draws. And given they’re the two most compelling figures in the men’s game at the moment, you’d rather avoid that.

It’s bad enough that Novak Djokovic could run into either of them as early as the quarterfinals these days.

WTA Rankings Report – As of April 21, 2025

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

 

Alexander Zverev (GER): No. 3 ===========> No. 2 (Zverev’s shot at overtaking the No. 1 ranking in the absence of Jannik Sinner came and went with a thud this winter. But more crucially the tennis wasn’t quite there, probably hampered by that uncooperative muscle that is the brain. So his victory in his home-country Munich event will do him a world of good, heading into the meet of the clay-court season).

Holger Rune (DEN): No. 13 ===========> No. 9 (Rune has had a tough year so far; it seems as though he’s been sick much of the time, and was one of several players who went all the way down to South America for the clay who was rather the worse for wear. So his victory over Carlos Alcaraz in Barcelona was a great kickstarter for him, especially given the type of tennis he played and the out-of-character calm he displayed overall. He’s back in the top 10 for the first time in a year).

Ben Shelton (USA): No. 15 ===========> No. 13 (Great effort for Shelton to get to the final of an ATP 500. But homeboy Alexander Zverev was too much for him in the final. Still, he’s less than 300 points out of the top 10).

Fabian Marozsan (HUN): No. 77 ===========> No. 58 (The Hungarian makes a nice leap after going all the way to the semifinals in Munich).

Hamad Medjedovic (SRB: No. 72 ===========> No. 61 (He’s an undeniably talented hothead who just needs to smooth out a few rough edges to get even higher than this. But he’s coming; he’s only 21).

Gabriel Diallo (CAN): No. 81 ===========> No. 78 (It’s been a so-so clay debut so far for the Canadian, who takes on Nicolas Moreno de Alboran of the U.S. in the first round of qualifying in Madrid Monday. It looks like he’s straight into Rome, so that’ll take a little pressure off).

Alexander Shevchenko (KAZ): No. 104 ===========> No. 92 (Shevchenko gets himself back into the top 100 with  second-round effort in Munich. But it’s a week too late to get straight into the main draw at Roland Garros. You never know, though; a lot can happen and he’s only a few spots out).

Elmer Moller (DEN): No. 148 ===========> No. 114 (Another 21-year-old, this one from Denmark, rises to a career high with a title at the Oeiras Challenger).

Emilio Nava (USA): No. 140 ===========> No. 132 (The third Challenger final in a row for Nava – although he didn’t win this one in Tallahassee. He probably more or less has the USTA’s reciprocal Roland Garros wild card locked up at this point).

Terence Atmane (FRA): No. 144 ===========> No. 136 (Atmane, whose career high of No. 118 came last July, wins the big Challenger in Busan, Korea and puts a dent in that).

Chris Rodesch (LUX): No. 239 ===========> No. 177 (Not a well-known player, but a rare one from Luxembourg – and a 6-foot-6 one at that, Rodesch wins the Tallahassee Challenger, and hits another career high. Rodesch played collegiately at the University of Virginia, and was the MVP of their 2023 NCAA championship team as well as the scholar-athlete of the year in his conference. He couldn’t lead them again last year, as he ended up having to sit out during the tournament with mononucleosis. But it’s a quick rise in just a year).

Diego Dedura-Palomero (GER): No. 549 ===========> No. 376 (The 17-year-old bottle blonde made himself briefly viral in Munich last week, when his … exuberant celly after winning his first ATP Tour-level match – won after an under-the-weather Denis Shapovalov retired – made all sorts of webnoise. He has another wild card into the Madrid qualifying this week).

Maximus Jones (THA): No. 618 ===========> No. 436 (He’s got a great name. And he’s an Aussie-born 20-year-old who represents Thailand. And he wins the Challenger in Côte d’Ivoire this week out of the qualifying. We want him playing doubles with the equally well-named Johannus Monday of Great Britain at some point in their careers).

Dan Martin (CAN): No. 740 ===========> No. 583 (The 25-year-old from Laval, who’s really only been out there a couple of years after earning a B.A. from Dartmouth and a Masters from the University of Florida, has a great week in San Luis Potosi in going from the qualifying to the semis. He breaks the top 600 barrier with that effort, obviously a career high).

 

Quentin Halys (FRA) (No. 52)
Hamad Medjedovic (SRB) (No. 61)
Jacob Fearnley (GBR) (No 68)
Gabriel Diallo (CAN) (No. 78)
Raphaël Collignon (BEL) (No. 81)
Elmer Moller (DEN) (No. 114)
Liam Draxl (CAN) (No. 156)
Chris Rodesch (LUX) (No. 177)
Diego Dedura-Palomero (GER) (No. 376)
Maximus Jones (THA) (No. 436)
Dan Martin (CAN) (No. 583)

 

Carlos Alcaraz (ESP): No. 2 ===========> No. 3 (It was always going to be a tough physical slog to win Monte Carlo and Barcelona back to back – we take for granted what a beast his countryman Rafael Nadal was all those years, as he tore through the clay-court season. But in the end, a groin/upper right leg issue slowed him down in the final against worthy winner Holger Rune. So hopefully it’s nothing too serious, because the heavy lifting is coming).

Casper Ruud (NOR) : No. 10 ===========> No. 15 (Ruud was the Barcelona champion last year, beating Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final. But fell to eventual champion Holger Rune in the quarters this year, and drops out of the top 10 for the first time in a year – and even then, it was only a relative brief period out going all he way back to 2021. He has a lot of points coming up in the money part of his season: fourth round in Madrid, a 250 title in Geneva, a semifinal at Roland Garros. By mid-June, his ranking could look quite different, because at the moment his tennis is a mere shadow of itself).

Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE): No. 16 ===========> No. 18 (A finalist in Barcelona a year ago after winning Monte Carlo, Tsitsipas is going to be up against it as he’s defending quarterfinal results in both Rome and at Roland Garros. He can make his first move in Madrid, though. Last year, he lost his opener to the unseeded Thiago Monteiro. So it’s all potentially uphill from there).

Tomas Martin Etcheverry (ARG): No. 45 ===========> No. 51 (Etcheverry was defending semifinal points in Barcelona, and didn’t make it so he slides out of the top 50. He lost his opener in Madrid a year ago to Denis Shapovalov, so he can make up some points there).

Joao Fonseca (BRA): No. 59 ===========> No. 65 (We’re coming into the Madrid-Rome-Paris chunk of the season. So het’s see what the 18-year-old can do. He drops because of a quarterfinal result at the ATP event in Bucharest held this week a year ago, when he was ranked just No. 276. Fonseca hasn’t played since Miami, and hopefully the noise around him has quieted just a bit, so he can get back to work. He made his Masters 1000 debut in Madrid a year ago as a wild card, upsetting Alex Michelsen in the first round before losing to Cameron Norrie).

Francisco Comesana (ARG): No. 62 ===========> No. 70 (Comesana drops points from winning the Oeiras 125 Challenger a year ago, even though he got to the final of the same event last week).

Jan-Lennard Struff (GER): No. 51 ===========> No. 79 (A tough drop for Struff – ranked a career high No. 21 less than two years ago –who was the defending champion in Munich last year when it was a 250-level tournament, and got a wild card. He lost in the first round – in a tough draw – to Francisco Cerundolo).

Mariano Navone (ARG): No. 70 ===========> No. 85 (Navone made the final of the ATP 250 in Bucharest last year, but lost in the second round of Munich to Goffin this year. Hee has a big Challenger title coming up for renewal for the next rankings update, so hopefully he can do some things in Madrid).

Marton Fucsovics (HUN): No. 90 ===========> No. 130 (Tough drop for the 33-year-old Hungarian, who is obviously better than that ranking. But he did squeeze into the RG main draw just in time. He was the Bucharest champion a year ago, just the second title of his career. He made the semifinals when it was held at the end of March to buffer it some, but not enough).

Dusan Lajovic (SRB): No. 97 ===========> No. 138 (Lajovic, whose career high of No. 23 came in 2019, also squeezed in under the wire for Paris as his points from last year’s Barcelona semi were dropping off this week. He made the quarterfinals in Oeiras, losing to Safiullin. But that didn’t soften the. blow too much. He’s closing in on $10 million in career earnings, and should get over that mark in Paris).

Alexis Galarneau (CAN): No. 184 ===========> No. 201 (After getting close to his career high just a few weeks ago, Galarneau finds himself defending a lot of Challenger points. And losing in the second round in Tallahassee didn’t do it for him last week. He’ll try again in Savannah this week).

Cristian Garin (CHI): No. 158 ===========> No. 214 (Garin was once No. 17. And it wasn’t even that long ago. But he has really struggled in recent years and while he didn’t play last week, he dropped the points from a year ago, when Munich was a 250 and he was a semifinalist. Garin squeezed into the Madrid qualifying this week).

Radu Albot (MDA): No. 233 ===========> No. 266 (The 35-year-old veteran, once a top-40, drops precipitously after losing in the first round of qualifying at the Oeiras Challenger after making the second round a year ago at the ATP in Bucharest. With a week left before the Roland Garros qualifying cutoff, he’s up against it).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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