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Welcome Jack Draper to the top 10 – and with style, as he wins the BNP Paribas Open in impressive fashion over Holger Rune in the final.
Rune never really stood a chance, with the level Draper displayed after a nervy upset over Carlos Alcaraz in the semifinals.
And Novak Djokovic is back up at No. 5, without having done much. Let’s see if he can hold on to that spot as the circus relocates to Miami.
For the complete rankings update for Monday, click here.

Novak Djokovic (SRB): No. 7 ============> No. 5 (It’s a tight section of the rankings from No. 5-10. And even though he dropped a few points with his second-round loss at Indian Wells, players like Casper Ruud and Daniil Medvedev dropped more. And so Djokovic is back in the top five for the first time in 2025).
Jack Draper (GBR): No. 14 ============> No. 7 (By winning Indian Wells, Draper finally – not that it’s taken that long – leaps into the top 10. Just like his fellow Indian Wells champion Mirra Andreeva, he leaps to a career high).

Holger Rune (DEN): No. 13 ============> No. 12 (Rune makes a big final for the first time in awhile. And while it’s only one spot in the rankings, it was a lot of victories in a row. Something he had been looking for).
Arthur Fils (FRA): No. 21 ============> No. 18 (A new career high for Fils, who made the Indian Wells quarterfinals. He’s also parted ways with Sébastien Grosjean, his coach of the last 15 months).
Tallon Griekspoor (NED): No. 43 ============> No. 34 (Griekspoor at his best is a big challenge for any player. But after a quarterfinal effort at Indian Wells he’s close to being seeded at the spring 1000s and Roland Garros. So he won’t be such a dangerous floater).

Joao Fonseca (BRA): No. 80 ============> No. 60 (Fonseca had a lot of eyes on him at Indian Wells, but he lost in the second round to Jack Draper – which in retrospect was hardly a bad loss. He bounced back in terrific fashion at the Phoenix Challenger during the second week, though, taking the title and moving to another career high).
Kei Nishikori (JPN): No. 76 ============> No. 64 (Nishikori lost in the second round in the desert but made the semis at the Phoenix Challenger).

Damir Dzumhur (BIH): No. 84 ============> No. 70 (Dzumhur, 32, sort of went AWOL for awhile and a year ago, was down to No. 159. But he seems to be back in form as he qualified at Indian Wells and won a round. He upsets rising star Jakub Mensik and made the final at the Punta Cana Challenger. Dzumhur’s career high of No. 23 came in 2018, when he was 26).
Borna Coric (CRO): No. 120 ============> No. 112 (Coric, the former No. 12, skipped the Sunshine Double qualifying to play Challengers in Europe. He won in Thionville, France two weeks ago and makes a move).

Thiago Agustin Tirante (ARG): No. 134 ============> No. 117 (Tirante won the Cordoba Challenger, playing on the South American clay instead of trying his luck at Indian Wells in the qualifying)
Valentin Royer (FRA): No. 151 ============> No. 121 (The 23-year-old was already at a career high. But he hits another one after winning a Challenger in Kigali, Rwanda two weeks ago).
Aslan Karatsev (RUS): No. 207 ============> No. 195 (It’s crazy how much the former No. 14 is struggling. He had to qualify at the first Crete Challenger, but made the quarterfinal. And he made the semis at the second one. That at least gets him back into the top 200).

Yosuke Watanuki (JPN): No. 349 ============> No. 214 (Watanuki, 26, has been playing on an injury-protected ranking after missing six months with knee tendonitis. But he got some attention in the desert not only because of his Pepsi product placement, but the fact that he qualified and defeated Frances Tiafoe to make the fourth round. He’s trialing a coaching association with former Tiafoe coach Wayne Ferreira, which made that all the more interesting. His career high of No. 72 came at the end of 2023. He faces Canadian Gabriel Diallo in the first round of Miami qualifying on Monday).

Jack Draper (GBR) (No. 7)
Arthur Fils (FRA) (No. 18)
Zizou Bergs (BEL) (No. 51)
Joao Fonseca (BRA) (No. 60)
Learner Tien (USA) (No. 66)
Eliot Spizziri (USA) (No. 134)
Ethan Quinn (USA) (No. 135)
Arthur Bouquier (FRA) (No. 193)
Colton Smith (USA) (No. 202)

Jiri Lehecka (CZE): No. 24 ============> No. 27 (A great result a year ago in making the quarters, but a second-round loss in the desert this year drops Lehecka a few spots).
Nuno Borges (POR): No. 36 ============> No. 42 (Borges, 28, had some points to defend from Indian Wells a year ago, but lost in the second round. He rallied at the Phoenix Challenger to mitigate the damage; but making a semifinal run there still drops him out of the top 40).

Gael Monfils (FRA): No. 42 ============> No. 46 (Monfils provided plenty of thrills, as often is the case, at Indian Wells. But his third-round run doesn’t mitigate the points from round-of-16 run a year ago).
Aleksandar Vukic (AUS): No. 64 ============> No. 77 (The 28-year-old Aussie lost in the first round at Indian Wells, and the first round at the Phoenix Challenger. So all his points from a second round in the desert and a semifinal in Phoenix a year ago drop off).
Luca Nardi (ITA): No. 67 ============> No. 84 (Nardi, who made the fourth round in the desert last year, lost in the first round at Indian Wells and the first round in Phoenix, so those points go away).

Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS): No. 86 ============> No. 93 (Kokkinakis is going to be out awhile after surgery, so his ranking will tank a bit. But when he returns he should be able to play with a protected ranking).
Otto Virtanen (FIN): No. 115 ============> No. 133 (Virtanen drops points from winning the Lugano Challenger a year ago, after losing in the first round of the Punta Cana Challenger this year).
Adrian Mannarino (FRA): No. 126 ============> No. 145 (It’s all not happening for the 36-year-old, who lost in the first round of Indian Wells qualifying and in the first round of the qualifying at the Phoenix Challenger).

Milos Raonic (CAN): No. 381 ============> No. 447 (Raonic hasn’t played since the Olympics in Paris last July, and so drops his points from winning a round at Indian Wells a year ago. He has 50 points from ‘s-Hertogenbosch and 50 more from Queen’s club last summer left on his chart).












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