ATP world rankings: Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev remain in the lead, Davidovich Fokina with the biggest jump, Dominic Thiem falls behind
There are no changes to report at the top of the ATP world rankings after the ATP Masters 1000 event in Monte Carlo:Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev continue to lead them unchanged. Behind it, on the other hand, there have definitely been major shifts.
by Michael Rothschädl
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Apr 18, 2022, 10:01 am
Just 90 points separate Daniil Medvedev from a renewed advance to first place in the ATP world rankings. And yet this position is so far away for the Russian at the moment. Due to injury, Medvedev currently has to pause and watch somewhat passively as Novak Djokovic steadily works to expand his lead in the ATP charts. An undertaking that the Serbs were not very successful in Monte Carlo.
Alexander Zverev, who would have had the chance to make up ground on the leading duo in Monte Carlo, is now around 1000 points behind the leaders after his semi-final in the Principality. The lead over the currently injured fourth-placed Rafael Nadal is a good 500 points. Another 1000 points behind is the Monte Carlo champion Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Alcaraz just before entering the top 10
Matteo Berrettini, Casper Ruud, Andrey Rublev, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Cameron Norrie complete the current top 10 in the world rankings. Only 110 points behind, Carlos Alcaraz is making legitimate claims at the ATP 500 event in Barcelona to being among the top ten in the world rankings for the first time. In Spain, Alcaraz could meet Stefanos Tsitsipas in the quarterfinals.
Major changes in the world rankings can only be reported outside the top 20: Grigor Dimitrov made up six places with his semi-finals in Monte Carlo and is in 23rd place, finalist Davidovich Fokina can boast an improvement of 19 places and a new personal best with world ranking rank 27. The Spaniard lost in straight sets to Stefanos Tsitsipas in Sunday's final.
Thiem falls further behind
Dominic Thiem from Lower Austria continues to go down: The former third in the world rankings is currently only in 54th place, but this week in Belgrade he will play the first ATP tournament since his month-long injury break. The 28-year-old meets John Millman in Belgrade at the start , Novak Djokovic could wait in the quarterfinals.
The big loser of the ATP Masters 1000 event in Monte Carlo is the Italian Fabio Fognini: With this update, the champion from 2019 lost a lot of points from the ranking, which put Fognini in 62nd place (-30) in the ATP world rankings find is. One place ahead of the currently injured Jan-Lennard Struff, who is the second best German, three places ahead of compatriot Dominik Koepfer (ATP 66th).
Otte with new personal best
Directly after Koepfer is the German who can look forward to a new personal best with this update: Oscar Otte. The 28-year-old made up five places. With Daniel Altmaier (ATP 69th) and Peter Gojowczyk (ATP 100th), two other DTB aces are in the top 100 of the current tennis world rankings. Two youngsters were also able to make up ground within them: Holger Rune achieved a new best performance with place 72, Lorenzo Musetti is in place 68 (+15).
The next best placed Austrians in the new ATP world rankings are Dennis Novak and Jurij Rodionov. The former is 148th, Rodionov is 162nd.