It has been a very exciting Australian Open fortnight which brought Novak Djokovic his 9th Australian Open and Aslan Karatsev a top 50 ranking.
The Australian Open came and went and besides delivering some top match and a high level of tennis it gave us a new breakout tennis player in the form of Aslan Karatsev. The Russian has been the story of the Grand Slam reaching the semifinal at the first Grand Slam he ever played. The Russian was ranked as the 114th player in the World prior to the event and now he is the 42nd player in the World. That is a leap of 72 spots which might just be the biggest one ever.
On the top Novak Djokovic remained as the World number one following his 9th Australian Open title. Daniil Medvedev jumped to number 3 following a strong run that saw him lose in the finals while last year's finalist Dominic Thiem fell to number 4. The rest of the top 10 stayed unchanged with the majority of players achieving good results at the Australian Open.
ATP Rankings as of February 22nd, 2021:
1 Novak Djoković 12030
2 Rafael Nadal 9850
3 Daniil Medvedev 9735
4 Dominic Thiem 9125
5 Roger Federer 6630
6 Stefanos Tsitsipas 6595
7 Alexander Zverev 5615
8 Andrey Rublev 4609
9 Diego Schwartzman 3480
10 Matteo Berrettini 3480
11 Denis Shapovalov 2910
12 Gaël Monfils 2860
13 Roberto Bautista Agut 2710
14 Milos Raonic 2630
15 David Goffin 2600
16 Pablo Carreño Busta 2585
17 Grigor Dimitrov 2575
18 Fabio Fognini 2535
19 Félix Auger-Aliassime 2516
20 Stan Wawrinka 2365
21 Karen Khachanov 2290
22 Cristian Garín 2180
23 Alex de Minaur 2155
24 Casper Ruud 1909
25 John Isner 1895
26 Borna Ćorić 1890
27 Dušan Lajović 1875
28 Daniel Evans 1794
29 Benoît Paire 1738
30 Hubert Hurkacz 1735
31 Filip Krajinović 1718
32 Ugo Humbert 1706
33 Taylor Fritz 1695
34 Jannik Sinner 1694
35 Adrian Mannarino 1641
36 Lorenzo Sonego 1623
37 Jan Lennard Struff 1495
38 Reilly Opelka 1457
39 John Millman 1421
40 Nikoloz Basilashvili 1405
41 Miomir Kecmanović 1388
42 Aslan Karatsev 1382
43 Kei Nishikori 1355
44 Marin Čilić 1325
45 Guido Pella 1310
46 Alexander Bublik 1255
47 Albert Ramos Viñolas 1210
48 Nick Kyrgios 1190
49 Richard Gasquet 1155
50 Jordan Thompson 1113
51 - -
51 Kyle Edmund 1095
52 Tennys Sandgren 1091
53 Sam Querrey 1085
54 Tommy Paul 1080
55 Pablo Andújar 1079
56 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 1078
57 Feliciano López 1078
58 Márton Fucsovics 1072
59 Laslo Djere 1068
60 Aljaž Bedene 1065
61 Yoshihito Nishioka 1062
62 Frances Tiafoe 1040
63 Stefano Travaglia 1024
64 Jérémy Chardy 1020
65 Cameron Norrie 1015
66 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 1015
67 Vasek Pospisil 1013
68 Gilles Simon 990
69 Jiří Veselý 988
70 Fernando Verdasco 985
71 Dominik Köpfer 966
72 Corentin Moutet 963
73 Pablo Cuevas 962
74 Thiago Monteiro 929
75 Ričardas Berankis 909
76 Radu Albot 907
77 Salvatore Caruso 898
78 Marcos Giron 889
79 Lucas Pouille 887
80 Steve Johnson 880
81 Soonwoo Kwon 877
82 Lloyd Harris 873
83 Egor Gerasimov 854
84 Federico Delbonis 851
85 Emil Ruusuvuori 851
86 Kevin Anderson 845
87 Marco Cecchinato 838
88 Juan Ignacio Lóndero 832
89 Pedro Martínez 830
90 Pierre Hugues Herbert 822
91 Mikael Ymer 820
92 Sebastian Korda 810
93 Norbert Gombos 797
94 Mikhail Kukushkin 796
95 Federico Coria 790
96 Roberto Carballés Baena 786
97 Attila Balázs 784
98 João Sousa 782
99 Gianluca Mager 770
100 James Duckworth 756
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