ATP Rankings Update: Djokovic begins pivotal week for number one ahead of Medvedev

Novak Djokovic is still world number one but this might be the final week he is because Daniil Medvedev has never been closer and the Russian has a chance to overtake Djokovic this week.

This will be a very important week in the career of Daniil Medvedev. The Russian is only trailing Djokovic by about 400 points which is the least amount he has trailed him ever. He has control over who sits on top of the rankings next Monday with the Russian needing to win the Acapulco tennis event in order to become world number one.

Djokovic spoke about it in a recent interview admitting that Medvedev deserves it and he would congratulate him. When it comes to the rest of the top 10, there hasn't been any changes. Zverev is 3rd, Tsitsipas is 4th, Nadal is 5th, Berrettini is 6th, Rublev is 7th and Ruud is 8th. Carlos Alcaraz won the Rio Open and jumped 9 spots to number 20 making his top 20 debut.

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ATP Rankings as of February 21st:

1 Novak Djoković 8875

2 Daniil Medvedev 8435

3 Alexander Zverev 7515

4 Stefanos Tsitsipas 6565

5 Rafael Nadal 6515

6 Matteo Berrettini 4928

7 Andrey Rublev 4590

8 Casper Ruud 3975

9 Félix Auger-Aliassime 3883

10 Jannik Sinner 3429

11 Hubert Hurkacz 3333

12 Cameron Norrie 3070

13 Diego Schwartzman 2865

14 Denis Shapovalov 2863

15 Roberto Bautista Agut 2585

16 Taylor Fritz 2265

17 Pablo Carreño Busta 2181

18 Reilly Opelka 2156

19 Nikoloz Basilashvili 2156

20 Carlos Alcaraz 2061

21 Lorenzo Sonego 1962

22 Aslan Karatsev 1933

23 John Isner 1891

24 Marin Čilić 1865

25 Gaël Monfils 1813

26 Karen Khachanov 1770

27 Cristian Garín 1716

28 Daniel Evans 1702

29 Roger Federer 1665

30 Alexander Bublik 1571

31 Albert Ramos Viñolas 1529

32 Alex de Minaur 1486

33 Grigor Dimitrov 1471

34 Frances Tiafoe 1467

35 Lloyd Harris 1393

36 Márton Fucsovics 1382

37 Federico Delbonis 1382

38 Fabio Fognini 1359

39 Tommy Paul 1342

40 Sebastian Korda 1306

41 Ugo Humbert 1248

42 Kei Nishikori 1200

43 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 1195

44 Filip Krajinović 1187

45 Ilya Ivashka 1179

46 Dušan Lajović 1161

47 Jenson Brooksby 1153

48 David Goffin 1151

49 Benoît Paire 1110

50 Botic van de Zandschulp 1096

51 Laslo Djere 1076

52 Dominic Thiem 1070

53 Arthur Rinderknech 1066

54 Dominik Koepfer 1064

55 Adrian Mannarino 1064

56 Jan Lennard Struff 1054

57 Tallon Griekspoor 1046

58 Lorenzo Musetti 1010

59 Marcos Giron 990

60 Soonwoo Kwon 990

61 Mackenzie McDonald 986

62 Federico Coria 981

63 Miomir Kecmanović 966

64 Benjamin Bonzi 929

65 James Duckworth 926

66 Alexei Popyrin 916

67 Maxime Cressy 913

68 Pablo Andújar 890

69 Alex Molčan 888

70 Hugo Gaston 887

71 Emil Ruusuvuori 876

72 Pedro Martínez 867

73 Richard Gasquet 852

74 Facundo Bagnis 838

75 Brandon Nakashima 830

76 Francisco Cerundolo 830

77 Kamil Majchrzak 823

78 Sebastian Baez 821

79 Juan Manuel Cerundolo 821

80 John Millman 818

81 Roberto Carballés Baena 806

82 Oscar Otte 804

83 Jordan Thompson 800

84 Daniel Altmaier 787

85 Mikael Ymer 773

86 Henri Laaksonen 769

87 João Sousa 762

88 Holger Rune 750

89 Andy Murray 733

90 Marco Cecchinato 721

91 Steve Johnson 719

92 Jiří Lehečka 715

93 Jaume Munar 712

94 Kevin Anderson 709

95 Peter Gojowczyk 705

96 Thanasi Kokkinakis 681

97 Guido Pella 676

98 Hugo Dellien 673

99 Ričardas Berankis 669

100 Denis Kudla 659