May 4, 2026

Open Court

MORE TENNIS THAN YOU'LL EVER NEED

As with the women, it’s been two weeks since a full rankings update. And in that time not only was there the Masters 1000 in Madrid, but a dozen or so Challengers – some of them high level.

There is only one change in the top 10 as Daniil Medvedev moves up one to No. 9, dropping Lorenzo Musetti to No. 10.

The gap between Madrid champion Jannik Sinner and No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz and … the rest is … gaping.

But there are more than a dozen players in the top 100 who have reached new career highs.

And Rafael Jodar leaped atop the Next-Gen standings.

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

 

Arthur Fils (FRA): No. 25 =========> No. 17 (Fils looked like a champion – until he ran into Jannik Sinner. Still, it’s going well and he might well be a top 16 seed at his home Slam).

Cameron Norrie (GBR): No. 23 =========> No. 19 (Norrie is so low key as to be invisible. But he makes the fourth round in Madrid, losing to Jannik Sinner, and moves back into the top 20).

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Rafael Jodar (ESP): No. 42 =========> No. 34 (Jodar is within seeding range after making the quarterfinals in Madrid. And he’s on a roll,)

Alejandro Tabilo (CHI): No. 43 =========> No. 35
(The Cana-Chilean is back on a roll, and wins the Aix-en-Provence Challenger over Zizou Bergs in the final).

Alexander Blockx (BEL): No. 69 =========> No. 36
(As with Jodar, Blockx announced himself in Madrid after making the quarterfinals and leaps up to the top 40).

Hubert Hurkacz (POL): No. 63 =========> No. 53 (A Hurkacz-Berrettini quarterfinal at a Challenger was something – a snapshot of where these two former top-10 players are at the moment. But Hurkacz made the final in Cagliari, beaten by Matteo Arnaldi).

Vit Kopriva (CZE): No. 66 =========> No. 55
(Kopriva, 28, made the fourth round in Madrid).

Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE): No. 80 =========> No. 75
(At least the former No. 3’s ranking is going back up, after a precipitous decline this spring. He made the fourth round in Madrid, losing a squeaker to Ruud).

Adolfo Daniel Vallejo (PER): No. 96 =========> No. 84
(The 21-year-old Vallejo is coming on during this clay season; he made the third round in Madrid).

Yibing Wu (CHN): No. 100 =========> No. 88
(Wu made the quarterfinals in Aix-en-Provence and is back inside the top 100 for the first time since Sept. 2023. He began the season at No. 408).

Nishesh Basavareddy (USA): No. 177 =========> No. 154
(Basavareddy is another player who lost his coach this spring, as Gilles Cervara defected to join Camp Hurkacz. But he moves up after winning the Savannah Challenger on Har-Tru two weeks ago, and he nailed down the USTA’s reciprocal main-draw wild card in Paris).

Alexis Galarneau (CAN): No. 201 =========> No. 192
(The Canadian gets back into the top 200 playing hard-court Challengers on the Asian circuit).

Pol Martin Tiffon (ESP): No. 312 =========> No. 237
(The 26-year-old Spaniard made the semis at the Aix-en-Provence Challenger, beating Grigor Dimitrov along the way).

Flavio Cobolli (ITA) (No. 12)
Valentin Vacherot (MON) (No. 16)
Arthur Rinderknech (FRA) (No. 24)
Tomas Martin Etcheverry (ARG) (No. 26)
Rafael Jodar (ESP) (No. 34)
Alexander Blockx (BEL) (No. 36)
Vit Kopriva (CZE) (No. 55)
Roman Andres Burruchaga (ARG) (No. 56)
Thiago Agustin Tirante (ARG) (No. 69)
Dino Prizmic (CRO) (No. 79)
Adolfo Daniel Vallejo (PER) (No. 84)
Daniel Mérida (ESP) (No. 86)
Martin Landaluce (ESP) (No. 94)
Titouan Droguet (FRA) (No. 109)
Coleman Wong (HKG) (No. 110)
Martin Damm (USA) (No. 115)
Nicolai Budkov Kjaer (NOR) (No. 124)
Moïse Kouamé (FRA) (No. 313)

 

Andrey Rublev (RUS): No. 12 =========> No. 14
(Rublev lost his opener in Madrid, after making the third round a year ago. On the plus side, he has nothing to defend in Rome).

Frances Tiafoe (USA): No. 19 =========> No. 22
(Tiafoe skipped Madrid, dropping his points from a fourth-round effort a year ago and dropping out of the top 20).

Casper Ruud (NOR: No. 15 =========> No. 25
(Ruud won Madrid a year ago. And while he played well in reaching the quarterfinals this year, he was beaten by rookie Alexander Blockx and drops 10 spots. He has a quarterfinal to defend in Rome coming up).

Francisco Cerundolo (ARG): No. 20 =========> No. 27
(Cerundolo also lost to Blocks, in the round of 16, and drops after making the semifinals a year ago).

Gabriel Diallo (CAN): No. 36 =========> No. 46
(Diallo was a surprise quarterfinalist last year in Madrid as a lucky loser; seeded this year, he was beaten in his opener by qualifier Elmer Moller).

Jack Draper (GBR): No. 28 =========> No. 50
(Draper was a finalist in Madrid a year ago, and everything was looking up. He was at No. 5 and got to a career high No. 4 a few weeks later. He has quarterfinal points falling off next week in Rome, and fourth-round points at Roland Garros – which he will also miss. By the time grass rolls around, he will be well outside the top 100).

Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (FRA): No. 53 =========> No. 61
(The tall Frenchman didn’t play in Madrid, and …. He also saw his coach poached by Iga Swiatek as Francisco Roig made the move. He was at a career high No. 29 a little more than two months ago).

Cristian Garin (CHI): No. 85 =========> No. 103
(Garin is out of the top 100 after losing in the second round in Cagliari, after winning a similar Challenger in Mauthausen a year ago. He will drop another Challenger title by the time the rankings are next issued after Rome).

Stan Wawrinka (SUI): No. 106 =========> No. 124
(Wawrinka’s goal is to finish his career in the top 100. But after losing in the first round of the Aix-en-Provence Challenger, he gets a little further away from that objective).

Grigor Dimitrov (BUL): No. 137 =========> No. 170
(Dimitrov lost in the first round of the Aix-en-Provence Challenger to a Spanish qualifier. It was his first tournament at the Challenger level since he lost in the second round in Prague to Aljaz Bedene exacty 14 years ago. He dropped out of the top 50 in March, and the top 100 in early April; his current ranking is his lowest since Sept. 2010, when he moved into the top 150 for the first time at age 19. It will be strange to see him in the Roland Garros qualifying – if he plays – since he hasn’t done that since, well, ever. He made his debut there in 2011, already ranked No. 64 in the world).

Liam Draxl (CAN): No. 158 =========> No. 171
(Draxl lost early in the Savannah Challenger and didn’t play last week. He drops points from making the Savannah final a year ago).

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