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ATP Rankings Report – As of Feb. 24, 2025

A pair of ATP 500s and a slate of Challengers mean a number of impressive rankings move on the ATP side this past week.

Doha champion Andrey Rublev moves up a spot, while finalist Jack Draper moves up four to a career high.

In Rio, another unpredictable tournament in a top event with a weaker field. With defending champion Sebastian Baez getting back to the final, and veteran Frenchman Alexandre Müller – who took out new darling Joao Fonseca – proving to be a revelation on and off the court.

For the complete, updated ATP Tour rankings, click here.

Andrey Rublev (RUS): No. 10 ===========>No. 9 (Rublev moves up a spot with his win at the ATP 500 in Doha – and turns right around as the No. 3 seed in Dubai, where he’s also playing doubles with his pal Karen Khachanov).

Jack Draper (GBR): No. 16 ===========>No. 12 (Draper did yeoman’s work to reach the Doha final and rise to a new career high. He – probably wisely, given how he looked at the end of the match against Rublev – decided to pull out of Dubai with the two big ATP 1000s in Indian Wells and Miami coming up).

Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN): No. 23 ===========>No. 21 (Another two spots up for the Canadian, who got two tremendous breaks on the way to his semifinal in Doha. He fought like a demon against Rublev in the semis, but fell just short of a result that might well have gotten him back into the top 20. He gets Alexander Bublik in the first round of Dubai).

Jiri Lehecka (CZE): No. 25 ===========>No. 22 (Lehecka gets to a new career high after making the Doha semifinals, beating Carlos Alcaraz in the quarters).

Matteo Berrettini (ITA): No. 35 ===========>No. 30 (Berrettini is still on the comeup after making the quarterfinals in Doha, and is back in the top 30).

Alexandre Muller (FRA): No. 60 ===========>No. 41 (Even if he wasn’t able to go all the way, Müller was a revelation in Rio, from the first round where he defeated the hot player of the moment, Brazilian and Buenos Aires champion Joao Fonseca. After breaking into the top 100 just less than two years ago and sort of peeking in and out and settling in the 60s and 70s since then, he made a big move this past week).

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Francisco Comesana (ARG): No. 86 ===========>No. 67 (Comesana had a great week in Rio, making the semifinals and rising to a new career high).

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Camilo Ugo Carabelli (ARG): No. 91 ===========>No. 69 (Carabelli made the semifinals in Rio as a lucky loser, and rises to a new career high).

Jaime Faria (POR): No. 107 ===========>No. 87 (The lucky loser, just 21, leaps into the top 100 for the first timeafter making the quarterfinals in Rio).

Raphael Collignon (BEL): No. 122 ===========>No. 98 (The 23-year-old Belgian joins countryman Zizou Bergs in the top 100, after winning the high-level ATP Challenger in Pau, France).

Chun-Hsin Tseng (TPE): No. 125 ===========>No. 99 (The 23-year-old from Taiwan made the quarterfinals in Rio out of the qualifying and is back into the top 100).

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Dalibor Svrcina (CZE): No. 219 ===========>No. 161 (Svrcina, 22, wins the Challenger in Pune, India)

Alexis Galarneau (CAN): No. 170 ===========>No. 162 (A semifinal effort at the Pune Challenger means another rise in the rankings. He’s at another Challenger in Bengaluru this week).

Liam Draxl (CAN): No. 184 ===========>No. 176 (Another career high for the Canadian, after a quarterfinal effort at the Glasgow Challenger. He continues on the indoor European Challenger circuit to Lugano, Switzerland this week as the No. 8 seed, and also is playing doubles).

Nicolai Budkov Kjaer (NOR): No. 439 ===========>No. 298 (The 18-year-old, who was the No. 1 junior in the world last July, had already been at a career high after winning the junior singles title at Wimbledon. He wins his first Challenger in Glasgow, in only his 12th match at the Challenger level. And he jumps into the top 300 for the first time).

 

 

Karen Khachanov (RUS): No. 21 ===========>No. 24 (Khachanov was defending points from Winning Doha, when it was an ATP 250 a year ago. Unseeded as it was upgraded to a 500 in 2025, he got a tough draw and lost in the first round to Daniil Medvedev).

Khachanov won Doha a year ago, when it was just an ATP 250.

Jordan Thompson (AUS): No. 29 ===========>No. 37 (Thompson has been injured since Melbourne, and drops the points from winning the Los Cabos ATP 250 a year ago to drop out of the top 30. Couldn’t have come at a worse time since, at 30, he was playing the best tennis of his career).

Jakub Mensik (CZE): No. 45 ===========>No. 54 (Mensik, who made the Doha 250 final last year and hasn’t played since Rotterdam. So he drops back out of the top 50 after jumping into it last October. He’s back in Acapulco this week and drew countryman Tomas Machac in the first round).

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Mariano Navone (ARG): No. 46 ===========>No. 64 (Navone lost in the second round in Rio, after making the final a year ago).

Cameron Norrie (GBR): No. 59===========>No. 74 (Norrie didn’t play in Doha, and so drops his points from making the Rio semifinal last year. He squeezed into the main draw in Acapulco this week but drew Denis Shapovalov in the first round).

Joao Fonseca (BRA): No. 68 ===========>No. 78 (After a star-making week in Buenos Aires, Fonseca came home to Rio with the spotlight firmly on him. He just didn’t have anything left, and so went out in the first round to Alexander Muller. He couldn’t move without being mobbed as he hung around all week, though. That said, he drops points from making the quarterfinals a year ago and the ranking dips a little. He has already secured a wild card into Indian Wells).

Dusan Lajovic (SRB ): No. 83 ===========>No. 100 (The 34-year-old Serb lost in the first round in Rio and his ranking takes a drop, after he quarterfinals a year ago).

 

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