Sinner, officially, first Italian to be #1 in the ATP ranking :: Olé

He ATP ranking seems to go through moments of transition. As of this Monday, number 1 is Jannik Sinner and, after winning his first title at Roland Garros, Carlos Alcaraz He jumped to the second step of the classification. The one who completes the podium is Novak Djokovic, who still hasn’t been able to play in even a final so far this year. The grass season is coming and the fight for positions is red hot with the Argentine rackets as worthy protagonists.

It seemed like a matter of time before Sinner reached the top of the rankings with the incredible first half of 2024 shown. The titles in Australia, Miami and Rotterdam catapulted him upwards. Finally, he couldn’t put the icing on the cake at Roland Garros, but Djokovic’s withdrawal from the competition plus his arrival in the semifinals ended up putting the 22-year-old at the top.

The 9,525 points allow Jannik, who became the first Italian to reach this privileged positionhave a little fresh air thinking about the grass tournaments that will come and for him it will be key to do a good job in Wimbledon to begin to consolidate itself at the heights of the ranking.

For his part, Alcaraz shouted champion for the first time at Roland Garros and thus reached 8,580 units which help him stay close to Sinner and leave Djokovic behind. Nole could not defend his points in Paris and was left with 8,360. At the same time, the novelty is that the Serbian left the first position in the ranking, something that has not happened since August 2023 and was again third in the classification after more than 365 days. In May of last year it had been the last.

The top ten is completed by Alexander Zverev (4th), Daniil Medvedev (5th), Andrey Rublev (6th), Casper Ruud (7th), Hubert Hurkacz (8th), Alex de Miñaur (9th) and Grigor Dimitrov (10°). The classification did not forgive the bad work of the Greek Stefanos Tsitispas and dropped him from the top ten again: he is now 11th.

The Argentines did not have their best performance at Roland Garros and lost the chance to get good points. Even so, the five representatives within the top 100 remain intact.

Sebastian Baez He rose one place and is now 19th, Francisco Cerúndolo remained at 27th, while Tomas Etcheverry It fell two places and is ranked 31st. Further back it appears Facundo Díaz Acosta who fell nine places due to a shoulder blade injury that is not allowing him to compete. Federico Coria appears at 69th, who climbed two places. Pedro Cachín (113°), Camilo Ugo Carabelli (114°), Francisco Comesaña (120°) and Facundo Bagnis (122°) are some of those outside the top 100 in the world.

In a 100% silver final in the Santa Fe challenger, because in addition to being played on Santa Fe soil, it had two albiceleste tennis players facing each other, Andrea Collarini (292°) was more than Facundo Mena (333°) and defeated him 6-2 and 6-3.

Due to the great tournament he did and the coronation he achieved, the 32-year-old tennis player made a tremendous growth in the ATP ranking: he climbed 37 positions, so as of this Monday he left 292nd place and jumped to 255th.