ATP Rankings Update: Zverev closes gap to Alcaraz, Cobolli debuts in top 10 with huge Italian rises dominating the order

Another Grand Slam tournament has come and gone with the French Open conjuring up a ton of surprises that play their trade in an intriguing shake-up of the ATP Rankings.

Alexander Zverev left as the champion after a thrilling five-set battle against Flavio Cobolli in the final. He finally broke his major title duct as the opportunistic pair took advantage at Roland Garros where others could not.

Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz dropped a huge amount of points for different reasons. 2000 points were pre-arranged to be taken away after Alcaraz was prevented from defending his title due to a wrist injury.

This allowed Zverev to come in and take advantage. He had the favourite tag on him since Sinner's surprising second round exit and he used it to his advantage. The German clinched a maiden Grand Slam title at long last and is just over 2,500 points away from the world number two with Alcaraz set to lose out on more points with a no-show on grass in store.

Felix Auger-Aliassime was desperately disappointed to have exited in the quarter-finals but will be cheerier with a new career-high ranking of fourth in the world. Ben Shelton and Alex de Minaur all leap above Novak Djokovic who is now down in seventh. He could not defend the points won from last year's semi-final run, and pays the price.

Cobolli's tremendous run to the final was an indication of the trajectory the Italian is heading. He could not muster that quality to defeat Zverev but has earned enough points to see him climb into the top 10 for the very first time. He is now ninth with Taylor Fritz on the brink of falling out with a whole load of points to defend on grass.

Alexander Bublik is the one to depart the top 10, fitting in at 11th. Casper Ruud steadily climbs back up the order to 14th. Lorenzo Musetti was not involved due to persistent injury issues this year. His points from the semi-final last year have come off along with pretty much all the points earned from a brilliant clay swing last year. From cementing his spot in the top 10, he is now down to 16th.

Semi-finalist Jakub Mensik returns to the top 20 in style, gaining 750 points to sit in 17th. Another young talent, in the form of Rafael Jodar, continued his mega clay swing with a third big stage quarter-final on the bounce. Zverev was too much of a task for him as he settles in yet another career high, this time at world number 23.

There is also significant progress for Joao Fonseca who was also a maiden Grand Slam quarter-finalist, pipped to the post by Mensik. He goes 25th in the world, one spot off his career high mark.

This ATP Roland Garros was highlighted by the run of Italians. Sinner’s early failure allowed others fellow countryman to take the spotlight. Matteo Arnaldi was one of the gigantic winners of Roland Garros. He clambered up a massive 70 spaces to 34th after reaching the semi-final, with the big what-if remaining if he was well enough to compete against Cobolli.

While he was leading against Matteo Berrettini in the quarter-final, the former Wimbledon finalist was forced to halt his progress in the tournament as more injury woes came back to bite him. While leaving on a negative, Berrettini now sits at 48th following a 57 position rise.

Those are, without doubt, the most significant movers. Juan Manuel Cerundolo, who dumped out Sinner, enjoys a new career high of 45th while Raphael Collignon (+11 to 51st) and fellow Argentine Thiago Augustin Tirante (+8 to 52nd) also broke new ground in Paris. Sebastian Baez added a Challenger title to his collection with an 8-position rise in store.

Other big winners include Martin Landaluce (+11 to 58th), Zachary Svajda (+23 to 62nd), Pablo Carreno Busta (+18 to 71st), lucky loser Jesper de Jong (+23 to 83rd)and Jaime Faria (+21 to 94th). Holger Rune was supposed to return to this tournament but was forced to halt his comeback. He can be found in 64th with Stefanos Tsitsipas losing another five places as he slides to an abysmal 84th. Other losers include Ethan Quinn (-17 to 67th), Daniel Altmaier (-28 to 85th) and Alexei Popyrin (-29 to 90th). Jack Draper is now outside the top 100.

(as per livetennis.eu)