ATP Race to Turin: Sinner moves to top 10 as race intensifies

For the better part of the last few years, the ATP Race to the Finals hasn't been very exciting because there was a significant gap between the top of worlds tennis and the rest of the player pool. While that is still true this year's Race has been a lot more interesting than before.

Numerous players have made the next step this year winning big events and making deep runs at Grand Slams. That reduced the gap between the top and the rest of the players and we now have a proper race for several spots at the ATP Finals in Turin.

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Novak Djokovic is the only player that has officially qualified as he holds a big lead over the rest of the field. Stefanos Tsitsipas sits at 2, Matteo Berrettini at 3, Andrey Rublev is at 4, Alexander Zverev at 5 and Daniil Medvedev at 6 and Rafael Nadal at 7. These players should all qualify if nothing extraordinary like an injury happens.

The final 8th spot is contested by numerous players that have all achieved a similar number of points. Currently, it's occupied by Ruud but both Sinner and Hurkacz are very close. The Italian made a huge step towards that by winning the Citi Open in Washington last week bagging 500 ATP points.

2021 ATP Race to Turin:

1 Novak Djoković 7170

2 Stefanos Tsitsipas 4670

3 Matteo Berrettini 3505

4 Andrey Rublev 3260

5 Alexander Zverev 3195

6 Daniil Medvedev 3030

7 Rafael Nadal 2995

8 Casper Ruud 2280

9 Hubert Hurkacz 2200

10 Jannik Sinner 2030

11 Aslan Karatsev 1795

12 Denis Shapovalov 1645

13 Cameron Norrie 1625

14 Pablo Carreño Busta 1495

15 Félix Auger-Aliassime 1420

16 Roberto Bautista Agut 1315

17 Lorenzo Sonego 1230

18 Diego Schwartzman 1130

19 Alexander Bublik 1115

20 Márton Fucsovics 1110

21 Alex de Minaur 1090

22 Sebastian Korda 1090

23 Cristian Garín 1080

24 Federico Delbonis 1075

25 Nikoloz Basilashvili 1060

26 Karen Khachanov 995

27 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 990

28 Daniel Evans 975

29 Fabio Fognini 960

30 Ugo Humbert 930