ATP Rankings Update: No. 2 Medvedev shrinks gap to No. 1 Djokovic

Novak Djokovic is still ranked as the best player in the world and his lead over Medvedev is comfortable. However, the Russian is slowly shrinking the gap between the two which is now less than 2.000 points. The rest of the top 10 was left largely unchanged.

Tsitsipas is still 3, Nadal is at 4, Zverev is at 5, Thiem is at 6, Rublev is at 7, Berrettini is at 8, Federer is at 9 and Shapovalov is at 10. Reilly Opelka made significant gains with his run to the National Bank Open finals jumping 9 spots to number 23.

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Further down the pecking order James Duckworth made big gains as well. The Australian is making a breakthrough in 2021 sitting now at 69 after a 16-spot jump. He is the biggest jumper this week. In total 5 players have new career-high rankings this week.

They are Ruud at 11, Opelka at 23, Harris at 46, Duckworth at 69 and Nakashima at 86. Check out the full top 100 below.

ATP Rankings as of August 16th 2021:

1 Novak Djoković 12113

2 Daniil Medvedev 10620

3 Stefanos Tsitsipas 8350

4 Rafael Nadal 7815

5 Alexander Zverev 7263

6 Dominic Thiem 7005

7 Andrey Rublev 6005

8 Matteo Berrettini 5533

9 Roger Federer 4215

10 Denis Shapovalov 3625

11 Casper Ruud 3350

12 Hubert Hurkacz 3288

13 Pablo Carreño Busta 3260

14 Diego Schwartzman 2980

15 Jannik Sinner 2745

16 Roberto Bautista Agut 2720

17 Félix Auger-Aliassime 2693

18 Alex de Minaur 2600

19 David Goffin 2513

20 Cristian Garín 2510

21 Grigor Dimitrov 2466

22 Gaël Monfils 2423

23 Reilly Opelka 2341

24 Milos Raonic 2294

25 Aslan Karatsev 2287

26 John Isner 2238

27 Lorenzo Sonego 2157

28 Daniel Evans 2096

29 Ugo Humbert 2090

30 Karen Khachanov 2055

31 Cameron Norrie 1975

32 Stan Wawrinka 1900

33 Filip Krajinović 1724

34 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 1723

35 Borna Ćorić 1714

36 Fabio Fognini 1689

37 Márton Fucsovics 1644

38 Alexander Bublik 1633

39 Marin Čilić 1628

40 Nikoloz Basilashvili 1578

41 Dušan Lajović 1565

42 Taylor Fritz 1550

43 Adrian Mannarino 1539

44 John Millman 1530

45 Sebastian Korda 1449

46 Lloyd Harris 1433

47 Jan Lennard Struff 1410

48 Federico Delbonis 1407

49 Albert Ramos Viñolas 1378

50 Benoît Paire 1375

51 Frances Tiafoe 1312

52 Laslo Djere 1307

53 Richard Gasquet 1221

54 Kei Nishikori 1218

55 Carlos Alcaraz 1196

56 Tommy Paul 1193

57 Yoshihito Nishioka 1170

58 Miomir Kecmanović 1142

59 Dominik Koepfer 1126

60 Vasek Pospisil 1125

61 Lorenzo Musetti 1106

62 Jordan Thompson 1090

63 Aljaž Bedene 1087

64 Mackenzie McDonald 1060

65 Federico Coria 1054

66 Marcos Giron 1047

67 Ilya Ivashka 1025

68 Jaume Munar 1022

69 James Duckworth 1004

70 Sam Querrey 1003

71 Emil Ruusuvuori 998

72 Jérémy Chardy 994

73 Gianluca Mager 990

74 Alexei Popyrin 970

75 Pablo Andújar 970

76 Kevin Anderson 958

77 Pedro Martínez 951

78 Soonwoo Kwon 949

79 Steve Johnson 946

80 Arthur Rinderknech 924

81 Nick Kyrgios 923

82 Facundo Bagnis 916

83 Marco Cecchinato 911

84 Egor Gerasimov 910

85 Tennys Sandgren 907

86 Brandon Nakashima 893

87 Andreas Seppi 873

88 Jiří Veselý 865

89 Denis Kudla 858

90 Corentin Moutet 848

91 Mikael Ymer 843

92 Ričardas Berankis 837

93 Guido Pella 834

94 Thiago Monteiro 829

95 Feliciano López 823

96 Benjamin Bonzi 821

97 Roberto Carballés Baena 819

98 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 813

99 Jenson Brooksby 812

100 Stefano Travaglia 811