ATP Rankings Report – As of Feb. 23, 2026

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Only one change in the top 10 this week as Taylor Fritz and Félix Auger-Aliassime switch spots, with Auger-Aliassime losing his last year’s Doha points as he skipped it this year.

But a lot of career highs. And a lot of evidence at how the somewhat beleaguered South American swing makes heros of some of its more local players, who come back the next year, don’t defend their points, and fall back down.

There will be more of that from Santiago this week, which is the craziest week on a tennis fan’s schedule if they’re in the North American time zones.

The action start a the crack of dawn from Dubai, and often ends in the middle of the night from Acapulco.

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Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE): No. 33 =======> No. 30
(Modest gains for the Greek, who makes the quarterfinals in Doha. His problem is that he won Dubai a year ago, over Félix Auger-Aliassime in the final. If he doesn’t do much this week, he’ll fall out of the top 40. He has Ugo Humbert in the first round, and then perhaps Andrey Rublev)

Tomas Martin Etcheverry (ARG): No. 51 =======> No. 33
(Etcheverry won his first career ATP title in Rio the hard way, with a four-hour semifinal over two days, followed immediately by a three-hour final on Sunday. A great moment).

Sebastian Korda (USA): No. 50 =======> No. 40
(After an injury-marred season, Korda seems to be on the comeup again. It was only a year and a half ago that he was at a career high No. 15. He made the decision to play a Challenger in San Diego on the way home from a first-round loss to USTA wild card Michael Zheng in Australia. He didn’t win it, but he won four matches and made the final. Then he got his revenge on Zheng and beat Frances Tiafoe on his way to the quarterfinals in Dallas. In Delray Beach, he beeat Michelsen, Ruud, Cobolli and Tommy Paul in the final to win his third career title, his first since Washington in 2024).

Alejandro Tabilo (CHI): No. 68 =======> No. 42
(Tabilo, who was in the top 20 a year and a half ago, is back into the top 50 and on the comeup after making the Rio final. He was close; it was definitely a heartbreaker).

Alexei Popyrin (AUS): No. 53 =======> No. 47
(Popyrin hadn’t won a match since last year’s US Open when he arrived in Doha. Whereupon the draw gods were kind to him and gave him a Qatari wild card. So the drought is done. The gods reversed course by giving him Jannik Sinner in the second round. But that loss was respectable and perhaps he can now build on that as he’s back in the top 50).

Vit Kopriva (CZE): No. 87 =======> No. 65
(At 28, one of the more obscure Czechs is at a career high after making the Rio semifinals).

Ignacio Buse (PER) No. 91 =======> No. 66
(Just 21, Buse gets to a career high after making the Rio semis, and beating Joao Fonseca and Matteo Berrettini in three sets en route. It’s hard to know where he’ll go; as we’ve seen with other South American players who make moves in on their clay circuit, the challenge is to make bank on the hard courts as well. He’s played just four tour-level matches off clay in his career, and is 1-3).

Luca Van Assche (FRA): No. 130 =======> No. 100
(The Frenchman, whose career high of No. 63 came in Oct. 2023, when he was just 19, is 21 now and it remains to be seen if he can transition full-time. He won the Challenger in Lille last week; it was his fifth title at the Challenger 175 level. Which is great, but doesn’t evidence whether he can sustain success at a higher grade than that).

Zhizhen Zhang (CHN): No. 319 =======> No. 263
(The former No. 31 is battling back from injury on a protected ranking, but helped his real ranking by winning a round on Doha. He fell to Auger-Aliassime in the first round of Dubai on Monday, a tough draw against the No. 1 seed).

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Jakub Mensik (CZE) (No. 13)
Vit Kopriva (CZE) (No. 61)
Ignacio Buse (PER) (No. 66)
Juan Manuel Cerundolo (ARG) (No. 70)
Thiago Agustin Tirante (No. 76)
Rafael Jodar (ESP) (No. 114)
Coleman Wong (HKG) (No. 125)

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Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN No. 7 =======> No. 8
(The Canadian added Montpellier after his early AO exit, and won it. So he passed on Doha, where he reached the final a year ago, and sets his sights on Dubai, where he’s the No. 1 seed. He faced the talented Zhang Zhizhen in the first round Monday night and beat him in two close sets)

Jack Draper (GBR): No. 12 =======> No. 15
(The good news: Jack is BACK after just one lower-level Davis Cup match since last year’s US Open. He gets qualifier Quentin Halys in Dubai Monday. The bad news is that he loses his points from last year’s Doha final. And he has a title in Indian Wells coming up for defence shortly).

Andrey Rublev (RUS): No. 14 =======> No. 18
(Rublev won Doha last year and so by making the semis, he defends some but not all of his points and drops four spots … He gets Valentin Royer in the first round, and then perhaps Tsitsipas. On the plus side, he lost his openers in Dubai, Indian Wells AND Miami last year. So there’s plenty of room to make moves and he seems to be playing better of late).

Sebastian Baez (ARG): No. 32=======> No. 52
(A year and a half ago, Baez was in the top 20. But the vagaries of relying heavily on clay-court points bit him this week, as he drops his points from winning Rio last year when he lost in the first round. He has a final in Santiago this week to defend, too. After those efforts last year, he lost his opener in 16 of his 22 tournaments the rest of 2025. He looked SO good in Australia, beating Fritz, Munar and Wawrinka at United Cup, Shelton and Giron to reach the Auckland final. But since then, regressing to the recent mean).

Camilo Ugo Carabelli (ARG): No. 46 =======> No. 59
(Carabelli lost in the first round in Rio, after going from the qualies to the semis last year. He has semifinal points to defend in Santiago, too).

Alexandre Muller (FRA): No. 52 =======> No. 78
(Muller has played just one match since losing in the second round at the Australian Open – a Davis Cup qualifier, which he lost to Alex Molcan of Serbia. He made the final in Rio last year).

Francisco Comesana (ARG): No. 63 =======> No. 82
(Comesana lost to eventual champion Etcheverry in the first round of Rio, after making the semis last year and beating both Nicolas Jarry and Alexander Zverev).  

Geoffrey Blancaneaux (FRA): No. 266 =======> No. 324
(Blancaneaux’s career peak may end up being winning the Roland Garros juniors a decade ago, beating Denis Shapovalov and Auger-Aliassime in the process. At 27, his career high came 3 1/2 years ago, a No. 134. He won a Challenger in the Republic of Congo a year ago – a great place to vulture points as the remoteness of the location means a weaker field – but didn’t play last week).

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