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ATP Rankings (21/10/24): Roberto Bautista Agut - Australian Open 2023, Ben Shelton - Wimbledon 2024
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ATP Rankings (21/10/24): Resurgent Roberto climbs, Shelton slips out of top 20


The indoor hard court season got underway last week, with three familiar faces taking the titles and impacting the latest update of the ATP rankings.

Main tour events took place in Almaty, Stockholm and Antwerp, with Karen Khachanov, Tommy Paul and Roberto Bautista Agut ending the week as the respective champions.

It has been a mixed season for former top 10 player Khachanov, who has only surpassed the second round of one of the four Grand Slams this year.

However, after claiming his seventh career title in Almaty, Khachanov has moved up two places to World No.24 and softened the potential blow of significant ranking points dropping in the coming weeks.

While in Stockholm, Tommy Paul has claimed his third title of the year and second title in the Swedish capital after beating Grigor Dimitrov in the final.

As a result, the American has moved up a place to match his previous best ranking of World No.12.

Big Movers

The third main tour champion of the week is the aforementioned Bautista Agut, who claimed his 12th title and first since 2022 in Antwerp.

Bautista Agut had dropped to his lowest ranking since 2012 earlier this year (World No.122), but after an upturn in form the 36-year-old Spaniard is now back up to No.45 after climbing 15 places this week.

That being said, the biggest upward mover inside the top 100 this week is actually Canadian Gabriel Diallo, who reached his maiden ATP Final in Almaty.

Despite losing to Khachanov in the final, Diallo has been rewarded for beating the likes of Borna Coric, Alejandro Tabilo and Francisco Cerundolo with a new career-high ranking of No.87 after jumping 31 spots.

After recently dropping outside the top 200, many were speculating over whether 39-year-old Stan Wawrinka had much left in the tank to offer.

However, after producing three very impressive victories over Brandon Nakashima, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and World No.7 Andrey Rublev in Stockholm, Wawrinka has proved otherwise.

As a result of his victory over Rublev, Wawrinka became the second oldest player in history to beat a top 10 player, and the three-time Grand Slam champion has consequently risen 48 places to No.169.

Some of the other significant upward movers this week include Jiri Lehecka (+5 to No.28), Aleksandar Vukic (+13 to No.72), Jacob Fearnley (+7 to No.92), Lucas Pouille (+5 to No.96), Mackenzie McDonald (+17 to No.120), Benjamin Bonzi (+20 to No.122), Martin Landaluce (+74 to No.158), Tristan Boyer (+55 to No.159), Dan Evans (+19 to No.161), Juan Pablo Ficovich (+25 to No.179), Beibit Zhukayev (+29 to No.184) and Bernard Tomic (+7 to No.200).

On the other side of the coin, Ben Shelton has suffered a rankings drop this week after his points came off from winning the title in Tokyo last year.

The tournament in the Japanese capital changed its spot in the calendar by a few weeks this year, with Shelton only reaching the quarter-finals before losing to eventual champion Arthur Fils.

Shelton has now seen 490 points drop from his ranking this week and has fallen six places down to No.23.

Both Alexander Bublik (-4 to No.32) and Gael Monfils (-11 to No.52) have suffered similar fates, after electing not to defend their titles in Antwerp and Stockholm, respectively.

A player to suffer an even more dramatic drop this week is former Australian Open semi-finalist Aslan Karatsev, who was a finalist in Tokyo last year.

Despite winning four matches this week at the tournament in Almaty to qualify and reach the last 16, Karatsev has lost over 60% of his ranking points and fallen a colossal 177 places down to No.316.

Other players to have a notable rankings slump this week are James Duckworth (-6 to No.69), Pavel Kotov (-16 to No.75), Thiago Monteiro (-10 to No.98), Aleksandar Kovacevic (-9 to No.99), Laslo Djere (-15 to No.128), Maximilian Marterer (-22 to No.136), Coleman Wong (-12 to No.145), Cristian Garin (-18 to No.147) and Shintaro Mochizuki (-97 to No.245).

ATP Rankings Top 20 (21/10/24)

Here is the latest update of the top 20 in the ATP rankings:

RankingPlayerTournaments PlayedPoints
1Jannik SinnerĀ 1811,920
2Carlos AlcarazĀ 177,120
3Alexander ZverevĀ 216,795
4Novak DjokovicĀ 196,210
5Daniil MedvedevĀ 185,530
6Taylor FritzĀ 224,380
7Andrey RublevĀ 264,150
8 Casper RuudĀ 233,890
9Grigor Dimitrov ā†‘1203,735
10Alex de Minaur ā†“1223,570
11Stefanos Tsitsipas233,405
12Tommy Paul ā†‘1213,215
13Hubert Hurkacz ā†“1223,060
14Holger RuneĀ 242,985
15Frances Tiafoe ā†‘2262,625
16Ugo Humbert272,515
17Lorenzo Musetti ā†‘1302,425
18Jack DraperĀ ā†‘1222,310
19Felix Auger-Aliassime ā†‘2242,130
20Arthur Fils262,090

For a full list of the rankings, visit theĀ official ATP website

Race to the ATP Finals in Turin (21/10/24)

The ATP Finals are a highly anticipated event that take place at the end of each year, featuring the top eight singles players and doubles teams from the tennis season.

After winning his third title of the season, Tommy Paul has put himself into contention of qualifying for the ATP Finals that take place next month in Turin:

1. Jannik Sinner – 10,330 points (Qualified)

2. Carlos Alcaraz – 6,710 points (Qualified)

3. Alexander Zverev – 6,215 points (Qualified)

4. Daniil Medvedev – 4,820 points

5. Taylor Fritz – 4,290 points

6. Novak Djokovic – 3,910 points

7. Casper Ruud – 3,845 points

8. Andrey RublevĀ – 3,620 points

9. Alex de MinaurĀ – 3355 points

10. Tommy Paul (ā†‘1) – 3,135 points

Next week

The European indoor hard court swing steps up a gear over the next week, with two iconic ATP 500 tournaments taking place in Vienna and Basel.

Vienna is holding its 50th edition this year, and will be the resting place of home favourite and 2020 US Open champion Dominic Thiem’s career.

Thiem will take on Luciano Darderi in what could be the final match of his career, with Alexander Zverev, Alex de Minaur, Grigor Dimitrov and Stockholm champion Tommy Paul as the top four seeds.

While in Basel, Andrey Rublev, Casper Ruud, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Holger Rune are the top seeds, with two-time defending champion Felix Auger-Aliassime also featuring.

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ATP Rankings rules

ATP rankings track and rank all the players on tour over a 52-week period. Points are awarded for performance, with the biggest tournaments giving out the most points over the course of the year.

Those rankings are then used to determine a number of things, such as seedings at tournaments and deciding who qualifies for the season-ending ATP Finals in Turin.

ATP rankings points awarded/tournament

The following points are awarded for the different tiers of tournaments on the ATP Tour, with some slight alterations made for the 2024 season:

Tournament categoryWFSFQFR16R32R64R128Q
ATP TourĀ 
Grand Slam20001300800400200100501030
ATP Finals+900
(1500 max)		+400
(1000 max)		200 for each round robin match win
(600 max)
ATP Masters 100010006504002001005010 (30)(10)30 (20)
ATP 50050033020010050(25)25 (16)
ATP 2502501651005025(13)13 (8)

Admissible tournaments

To prevent players from manipulating the rankings by playing a large amount of smaller tournaments, only 19 tournaments are admissible over the course of the year to make up a ranking.

That number does not include the ATP Finals, with that treated as an extra earned opportunity to win rankings points. However, the bigger and most prestigious tournaments are considered ā€˜mandatoryā€™ entries. For example, if a player lost in round one of a Grand Slam, they would not be permitted to omit it from their ranking in favour of an ATP 250 which earned them more points.

Therefore, players who compete at all the mandatory events in a season will have the following breakdown of admissible rankings points:

  • 4 Grand Slams
  • 8 Masters 1000
  • 7 ā€˜Best Otherā€™ performances

The rankings always cover the previous 52-week period, so any points won further back than that are deducted from a playerā€™s total. That player will, though, have the chance to ā€˜defendā€™ their points by repeating or improving upon their previous performance.

An example would be a player who was a defeated finalist at the Australian Open in 2024 will have 1300 points deducted from their ranking following the 2025 final. Those points would then be replaced by those won at the 2025 tournament.

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Matthew Johns, Tennishead Writer, is a professional tennis journalist with a specialist degree in Sports Journalism. He's a keen tennis player having represented his local club and University plus he's also a qualified tennis coach. Matthew has a deep knowledge of tennis especially the ATP Tour and thrives on breaking big tennis news stories for Tennishead.