ATP Rankings Update: Auger-Aliassime climbs after title triumph while Shapovalov and Hurkacz tumbles down order

The tennis roadshow continues as some of the finest players to grace the ATP Tour were back in action over the prior week, looking to gain more ranking points and see them rise up the order. While some managed to pull this off, others were not so lucky and have plummeted down with work to do.

It has been a quiet week for the players at the top of the rankings. Carlos Alcaraz keeps an enormous gap to Jannik Sinner in second, but that has been slightly altered with 500 points being taken off his rankings after last year’s ABN AMRO Open title. He will not defend it this year, with his tally staying at 13,150 compared to Sinner’s 10,300.

The Australian Open runner-up Novak Djokovic has his eyes set on Qatar, along with the big two. He remains in this with 5,280 with Alexander Zverev in fourth. Lorenzo Musetti was set to traverse to Argentina to take part in the Golden swing, but injury has prevented him from doing that, meaning he will stay on 4,405 points for the foreseeable future.

He is left vulnerable from behind, especially from a charging Felix Auger-Aliassime. The Canadian was able to come out on top in the Open Occitanie, retaining the 250 points he won last year in Montpellier as he rises two positions back to sixth in the world on 3,950. Taylor Fritz stays in seventh thanks to Alex de Minaur dropping two places. The Aussie loses 245 points from his Rotterdam final run last year. Ben Shelton and Alexander Bublik stay in ninth and tenth respectively after a quiet week.

Outside the top 10, Casper Ruud sacrifices the chance to defend the Dallas Open final from last year with 320 falling off and putting him down to 13th, with the fortunate Jack Draper moving up a place.

Alejandro Davidovich Folkina rises above Andrey Rublev into 14th and a joint career-high despite neither of them playing. Further down, Tommy Paul drops a couple of places with Luciano Darderi and Learner Tien benefiting by one place, both achieving new career-high rankings in 22md and 23rd respectively. A quarter-final in Montpellier moves Tallon Griekspoor up two places to 27th while both Arthur Rinderknech and Brandon Nakashima jump up three places to 28th and 29th with Tomas Machac falling by the same number of places into 31st. Stefanos Tsitsipas completes the top 32.

Denis Shapovalov returns to Dallas as the champion. This means going into it he has lost a chunk of points. A 15 place drop is what has occurred, now tumbling down to 40th in the world.

It is incredibly tight in the rankings from here, with even a slight loss in rankings points seeing you fall down a sizeable number of places. A good case study for this is Daniel Altmaier, who saw 88 points come off and a six place fall accompanying this, Camilo Ugo Carabelli also drops three places but is in an ATP 125 final in Rosario where a title would see him rise from 51st to 45th.

The big winner of the week was none other than Adrian Mannarino. The French veteran reached the Open Occitanie final and thanks to his heroics on home soil climbs an outstanding 18 spots to world number 51. Following in a different trend, the loser of the week is Hubert Hurkacz who falls 18 spots down to 70th in the world with 190 points being snatched away from his semi-final in Rotterdam last year.

Some other big drops include Adam Walton down 12 places to 93rd and Pedro Martinez falling 17 spots to 94th in the world. Luca Nardi makes a return to the top 100 in 97th, and so does Carlos Taberner in 100th spot.