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Unlike the WTA Tour, the ATP lops off last year’s ATP Finals points as the event is beginning.
It’s still a week earlier than for regular tournaments, where the old points drop off as the new points are added. But it’s a week later than the WTA Tour does it.
As a result, the 1,500 points Sinner drops put him 1,050 points behind Alcaraz, who drops just 200. That’s what the Italian would have to make up if he hopes to finish year-end No. 1. He would have to win the event undefeated, and hope that Alcaraz doesn’t win any more than one of his two remaining pool matches (and doesn’t win his semifinal if he does advance there). Not much of a chance there.
With Taylor Fritz dropping his points from last year, he drops to No. 6. That’s unlikely to hold, as he’s just 35 points behind Ben Shelton. But he’s nearly 1,000 points behind Novak Djokovic, who moves to No. 4 after winning the ATP tournament in Athens.
For the complete, updated rankings effective Monday, click here.
Carlos Alcaraz (ESP): No. 2 ============> No. 1
(With Sinner dropping 1,300 points more than Alcaraz from last year in Turin, Alcaraz moves back to No. 1 after being down at No. 2 for a week. And unless some crazy stuff happens, he’ll stay there to end the season).
Ben Shelton (USA): No. 6 ============> No. 5
(In a move reminiscent of Genie Bouchard’s one-week move to the top 5 just before the 2014 WTA Finals in Singapore, Shelton moves up because the 2024 Turin points dropped – and he didn’t have any, because this is the first time he qualified. It’s unlikely he’ll stay although you’d think that, unlike Bouchard, he’ll have more looks at it in the near future. But for the moment, call it his top-five debut. His loss to No. 3 seed Alexander Zverev, despite being up 4-0 and 6-3 in the second-set tiebreak, on Sunday wasn’t a great way to kick it off).
Alexander Bublik (KAZ): No. 13 ============> No. 11
(Bublik reaches another career high after Daniil Medvedev and Casper Ruud drop their points from Turin 2024. Medvedev didn’t qualify this year; Ruud arrived Sunday as a last-minute alternate, but you wouldn’t expect him to play. If he does, and wins a match, he’ll not only be back to No. 11; he’d supplant Jack Draper and get back into the top 10).
Learner Tien (USA): No. 38 ============> No. 28
(Tien got through a decimated field in Metz to win his first career ATP Tour title Saturday, edging Cameron Norrie in a third-set tiebreak. What a first full year on Tour for the American, who doesn’t leave his teens for a couple of weeks. At the start of the season, he made his big splash at the Australian Open out of the qualifying, ranked No. 121. In January, he’ll likely be a seeded player AND he has Michael Chang in his corner).
Sebastian Korda (USA): No. 52 ============> No. 48
(Korda, so often injured, squeezes back into the top 50 after his semifinal effort in Athens; he dropped out following Roland Garros. It was just a little over a year ago that he was at a career-high No. 15, and one to watch).
Matteo Berrettini (ITA): No. 63 ============> No. 56
(It’s been a year to forget for the handsome Italian, who turns 30 next April. Like Korda, despite his diminished profile, he still managed to play a fair few tournaments – 17 – but without much notable success. His won-loss record was barely over .500 at 19-17, and his prize money just squeezed past the $1 million mark. On the plus side, he hadn’t won back-to-back matches since Monte Carlo, before doing it in his last two tournaments. He lost in the Metz quarterfinals to Tien).
Eliot Spizzirri (USA): No. 96 ============> No. 87
(The 23-year-old won’t get much notice for the breakthrough or “most improved” awards because it’s been so low-key and gradual. But he moves to a career high Monday after qualifying and winning a round in Athens. He made most of his hay on the Challenger circuit. But he made the quarters in Brussels out of the qualifying, losing to eventual champion Félix Auger-Aliassime, and followed that up with a final in the Brest Challenger the following week. Spizzirri got a wild card at the US Open, but he didn’t make it past the second round of qualifying in any of the other three majors. So it really was incremental. He began the season ranked No. 232).
Yannick Hanfmann (GER): No. 117 ============> No. 103
(Hanfmann gives himself a shot at making the main draw in Australia, at age 33, with a run from the qualifying to the semis in Athens. Hanfmann has played in 30 Grand Slams, most in qualifying but some in the main draw when he had his best ranking. But he’s only won two matches – a five-setter against Thiago Monteiro in the first round at Roland Garros in 2023, and against Thanasi Kokkinakis in the first round of the 2022 Australian Open, both out of the qualifying. He’s the No. 7 seed in Lyon this week, to try to nail that down).
James Duckworth (AUS): No. 113 ============> No. 106
(Duckworth made the final at the Taipei Challenger last week – his 31st tournament of the season. That gets him close to being straight into his home Slam, something he’s done every year but one since 2019. Despite that record, they didn’t give him a wild card in 2023, and he lost in qualifying. He’s not playing this week in Japan, but has two more Challengers coming up at home in Australia to try to wrap that up. He has no points to defend, so it’s all value-added).
Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN): No. 134 ============> No. 112
(The former top-25 player has struggled this season, but righted the ship with a title at the Challenger in Taipei last week. Nishioka had an eight-match losing streak – and 15-of-16 in opening-round losses –from Dallas in early February through Shanghai, where he turned it around. He retired in Dallas, Delray Beach, Miami, Roland Garros, Birmingham and Stuttgart through that period).
Patrick Kypson (USA): No. 146 ============> No. 117
(The 26-year-old, a former junior rival of Félix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov who went to Texas A&M in 2018 and 2019, reaches a career high with a Challenger title in Helsinki. Kypson was the top player on a squad that featured BOTH cousins, Arthur Rinderknech and Valentin Vacherot – both doubles partners of his – and a former roommate of Vacherot’s. That can’t help but have motivated him to persevere. According to a story on Tennis.com, Kypton had reached as high as No. 133 before fracturing his left foot in Australia in 2024 – and only realizing it was a full fracture when he’d already travelled to Portugal the next week. It was the fourth surgery of his career, and it’s taken him a year and half to get it back – and more. Helsinki was his fourth Challenger title of 2025).
Vitaliy Sachko (UKR): No. 222 ============> No. 164
(The little-known 28-year-old from Ukraine gets close to his career high of No. 156, reached in July 2023, with his run to the final in Metz out of the qualifying. He beat Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard and Alexander Bublik en route).
Ben Shelton (USA) (No. 5)
Alexander Bublik (KAZ) (No. 11)
Learner Tien (USA) (No. 28)
Ethan Quinn (USA) (No. 64)
Filip Misolic (AUT) (No. 80)
Dalibor Svrcina (CZE) (No. 86)
Eliot Spizzirri (USA) (No. 87)
Emilio Nava (USA) (No. 88)
Patrick Kypson (USA) (No. 117)
Joao Lucas Reis Da Silva (BRA) (No. 187)
Darwin Blanch (USA) (No. 297)
Jannik Sinner (ITA): No. 1 ============> No. 2
(Sinner’s reign atop the rankings lasted just one week. And it doesn’t look likely he’ll get it back this season. But he still looks good to defend his title in Turin. He faces Félix Auger-Aliassime in his opener Monday night).
Taylor Fritz (USA): No. 4 ============> No. 6
(Fritz made the final in Turin last year, and drops all those points – 800 – today. He’s likely to pass by Ben Shelton and back to No. 5. Catching No. 4 Djokovic will take another incredible result. He begins campaign Monday afternoon against Lorenzo Musetti, fresh from nearly beating Djokovic in the Athens final and into Turin as an alternate after Djokovic’s withdrawal).
Hamad Medjedovic (SRB): No. 65 ============> No. 83
(Medjedovic didn’t play the Athens tournament last week, after making the final a year ago when it was held in Belgrade).
Benjamin Bonzi (FRA): No. 57 ============> No. 94
(Bonzi’s ranking takes a deep dive after he drops his points from winning Metz a year ago out of the qualifying. He had to miss the Paris Masters because of injury, And he withdrew from Metz as well, where he had promised to return for the event’s final edition this year).
Laslo Djere (SRB): No. 82 ============> No. 99
(Djere lost in the first round in Athens, after making the semifinals a year ago).
Vit Kopriva (CZE): No. 92 ============> No. 102
(The Czech qualified and beat Reilly Opelka in the first round in Athens. But it wasn’t enough to make up for his title in Lima, Peru, at a clay Challenger a year ago. So he drops out of the top 100, and will find himself on the bubble to make it into the Australian Open main draw).
Kei Nishikori (JPN): No. 119 ============> No. 159
(Nishikori won the ATP 250 in Hong Kong to start 2025 – really, to end 2024. But after that, the only place he won back-to-back matches all year was at a Challenger in Phoenix, the second week of Indian Wells in March. He has played just one match since before Roland Garros, a first-round loss in Cincinnati. And amid all that, he’s had some messy issues on the personal front that made big news at home in Japan)
Christopher Eubanks (USA): No. 196 ============> No. 261
(Eubanks is another who started the year decently, making the quarterfinals of a Challenger in Canberra to start the year and get within a few points of the top 100. But after that, it was disaster. In 28 tournaments, he got past his opening match just once – and that was because of a retirement by the above-mentioned Nishikori in Houston).
Nicolas Moreno De Alboran (USA): No. 394 ============> No. 677
(The 28-year-old American was at a career high No. 107 to start the season. And so he’s fallen into the abyss. He didn’t start his 2025 season until Madrid, won one main-draw match all year, and hasn’t played since losing in the second round of the Birmingham Challenger in early June. He alluded, in an Instagram post in early May hijacked by gamblers, that it “got dark, dark at some point” and thanked an orthopedic surgeon based in Spain. So injuries were clearly the culprits this year. In 2024, as he was playing his best, he dealt with complications from dengue fever – and even was defaulted and stripped of his prize money at a Challenger in Seville for … taking a shower during a bathroom break. If you can believe that).
