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ATP Rankings (14/10/24): Jannik Sinner - Shanghai Masters 2024, Hubert Hurkacz - Miami Open 2022
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ATP Rankings (14/10/24): Sinner guarantees year-end No.1 status


After the past fortnight of action at the Shanghai Masters and across the Challenger Tour, the ATP rankings have had a dramatic shakeup as the 2024 season moves into its final stages.

As has been the case for many tournaments this year, Jannik Sinner was the champion after lifting his seventh title of the season in Shanghai.

This is Sinner’s third Masters 1000 title of the year, meaning that the Italian has already obtained a lead so great that confirms that he will end the season as World No.1 for the first time.

Big Movers

Despite Sinner being the champion this week, the biggest upward mover inside the top 100 is actually 19-year-old Jakub Mensik.

After beating the likes of Andrey Rublev and Grigor Dimitrov, Mensik was able to reach his first Masters 1000 quarter-final in Shanghai.

As a result, Mensik has risen 14 places upto a career-high ranking of World No.51, as he continues his impressive debut season on the main ATP Tour.

Another Czech man in Tomas Machac has also achieved his best Masters 1000 result in Shanghai, beating Carlos Alcaraz to reach the semi-finals before losing to eventual champion Sinner.

This has enabled Machac to break inside the top 25 for the first time in his career after climbing eight places this week.

While the Shanghai Masters have taken most of the headlines over the past fortnight, the ATP Challenger Tour has also had quite the impact in this latest rankings update.

One of those players to have found success on this circuit is former top 10 player Lucas Pouille, who claimed the title in the French commune of Mouilleron-Le-Captif after beating compatriot Quentin Halys in the final.

Pouille began the year ranked outside the top 300, but is now on the brink of a return to the top 100 (currently ranked No.101) after a three-year hiatus following his recent success.

Some of the other significant upward movers include Pedro Martinez (+6 to No.39), Gael Monfils (+5 to No.41), David Goffin (+13 to No.53), James Duckworth (+12 to No.63), Thiago Seyboth Wild (+8 to No.80), Denis Shapovalov (+10 to No.92), Francisco Comesana (+10 to No.94), Jesper de Jong (+10 to No.108), Daniel Elahi Galan (+15 to No.112), Kamil Majchrzak (+29 to No.117), Nicolas Moreno De Alboran (+22 to No.122), Learner Tien (+24 to No.124), Mackenzie McDonald (+14 to No.137), Jerome Kym (+14 to No.141), Benjamin Bonzi (+34 to No.142), Kei Nishikori (+10 to No.143), Jaime Faria (+21 to No.147), Elmer Moeller (+62 to No.169) and Marin Cilic (+11 to No.200).

After withdrawing from the Shanghai Masters due to knee pain, defending champion Hubert Hurkacz surrendered the 1000 points he earned from claiming the title last year.

Consequently, the Pole has fallen outside of the top 10 after dropping four places to World No.12.

Another former top 10 player who has dropped this week is Diego Schwartzman, who had one of his best results last year when he reached the fourth round of the Shanghai Masters.

However, the Argentine was not even eligible for qualifying this year and has subsequently dropped 79 places to fall outside the top 300 for the first time since 2012!

Schwartzman is set to retire at the ATP tournament in his home of Buenos Aires next year, and will now certainly require a few wildcards along the way.

Some of the other players to have suffered noteworthy drops this week include Sebastian Korda (-3 to No.22), Nicolas Jarry (-5 to No.34), Fabian Marozsan (-9 to No.57), Thiago Monteiro (-11 to No.88), Aleksandar Kovacevic (-14 to No.90), Gabriel Diallo (-13 to No.118), Chris Eubanks (-10 to No.120), Zachary Svajda (-32 to No.163), Constant Lestienne (-90 to No.172), Dan Evans (-10 to No.180), Ugo Blanchet (-64 to No.203), Emilio Nava (-30 to No.208) and J.J. Wolf (-47 to No.218).

ATP Rankings Top 20 (14/10/24)

Here is the latest update of the top 20 in the ATP rankings, with Jannik Sinner now a huge 4,800 points ahead of World No.2 Carlos Alcaraz:

RankingPlayerTournaments PlayedPoints
1Jannik Sinner 1811,920
2Carlos Alcaraz 177,120
3Alexander Zverev 226,795
4Novak Djokovic 206,210
5Daniil Medvedev 185,530
6Taylor Fritz ↑1234,415
7Andrey Rublev ↓1254,110
8 Casper Ruud ↑1233,885
9Alex de Minaur ↑2223,610
10Grigor Dimitrov 193,580
11Stefanos Tsitsipas ↑1233,445
12Hubert Hurkacz ↓4233,060
13Tommy Paul 213,055
14Holger Rune 252,985
15Frances Tiafoe ↑2252,600
16Ugo Humbert ↓1272,515
17Ben Shelton ↓1262,500
18Lorenzo Musetti 302,425
19Jack Draper ↑1232,320
20Arthur Fils ↑1272,215

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

Race to the ATP Finals in Turin (14/10/24)

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.

Despite losing the Shanghai Masters final to Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic has now climbed back inside those all-important top eight spots in the race to 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) – 3,910 points

7. Casper Ruud (↓1) – 3,805 points

8. Andrey Rublev (↓1) – 3,580 points

9. Alex de Minaur (↓1) – 3305 points

10. Grigor Dimitrov – 2,935 points

Next week

As the main ATP Tour now transitions away from the Asian swing and moves to the European hard courts, there are three 250 level events taking place this week in Antwerp, Stockholm and Almaty.

Antwerp features the returning Alex de Minaur as the top seed, alongside Stefanos Tsitsipas, former champion Felix Auger-Aliassime and Sebastian Baez.

While Stockholm hosts the likes of Andrey Rublev, Casper Ruud, Grigor Dimitrov and Tommy Paul, and the relocated tournament in Almaty sees Frances Tiafoe, Alejandro Tabilo, Karen Khachanov, Francisco Cerundolo and Tomas Machac as some of the top seeds.

There are also five Challenger tournaments to look out for in Brazil, France, Italy, China and Canada.

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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 Tour 
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 ‘mandatory’ 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 ‘Best Other’ performances

The rankings always cover the previous 52-week period, so any points won further back than that are deducted from a player’s total. That player will, though, have the chance to ‘defend’ 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.