ATP ranking: Hurkacz tumbles into the Top 20, Federer slowly loses ground

Federer continues his sluggish descent

For a participant who has solely performed two video games in the area of 14 months, being in seventh place in the standings is nothing wanting disastrous. The truth stays that Roger Federer, who was nonetheless world quantity 4 six months in the past, continues to present method slowly however absolutely. Absent in Miami, like half of the Top 10, the Swiss misplaced 500 factors (half of the 1000 gleaned because of his 2019 title), and was overtaken in the hierarchy by Alexander Zverev (sixth), despite the fact that the German was taken out of entry into Florida.

If there are not any different modifications amongst the 10 finest gamers in the world, Federer is now below risk from Andrey Rublev, semi-finalist in Miami, who is just 475 models behind him. It must also be famous that Daniil Medvedev has very barely strengthened his place as runner-up to Novak Djokovic. Quarter-finalist, the Russian has gleaned slightly extra capital which permits him to cross the symbolic ball of 10,000 factors, precisely 1933 lengths behind the Serbian and 360 in entrance of Rafael Nadal.

Hurkacz invitations himself into the 20, Sinner shouldn’t be distant

There are extra actions between the eleventh and the twentieth place. Crowned in Miami, his first Masters 1000 title, Hurkacz killed two birds with one stone by crossing a significant milestone in his profession as he entered the Top 20 in sixteenth place. In entrance of him, Roberto Bautista-Agut (eleventh), semi-finalist, and Gaël Monfils (thirteenth), nonetheless absent, each acquire a spot, the French profiting from the poor efficiency of David Goffin, who left Florida. .

Among the victims of Hurkacz’s progress in the standings are Grigor Dimitrov (seventeenth) and Fabio Fognini (18th) who each fall again a notch, however particularly Félix Auger-Aliassime. Beaten as in 2019 by John Isner however this time in the third spherical, the Canadian couldn’t defend the factors of his semi-final and got here out of the Top 20 (twenty first). He additionally feels the breath of Jannik Sinner (twenty second, 9 ranks received) who by no means ceases to climb the ranks at solely 19 years outdated with this primary Masters 1000 remaining.

Isner’s decade in the Top 30 involves an finish

Finalist in 2019 and overwhelmed in the Round of 16 final week, John Isner additionally misplaced large: 300 factors and 10 locations exactly. The big now shows the quantity 38, a symbolically vital drop for him who had not left the Top 30 since August 1, 2011, virtually ten years. At the identical time, he additionally cedes his standing as American no 1 to Taylor Fritz, who grabs two ranks at … thirtieth place in the world. Sacred nod to a younger US era which definitely takes its place with out hurrying.

Korda leaps, younger individuals at the social gathering

Speaking of triumphant American youth, what about Sebastian Korda’s progress? At the launch of Roland-Garros solely six months in the past, the offspring of Petr was solely a modest 212th at ATP. In the wake of his eighth Porte d’Auteuil, he shone on the Challenger circuit (two titles and a remaining), performed his first ATP remaining at Delray Beach and returned to Florida with sure happiness since he reached his first quarter-final in Masters 1000 in Miami, providing himself his first Top 10 in the individual of Diego Schwartzman. As a reward for this nice Florida journey, he overtook 23 of his colleagues to settle in 63rd place.

In its wake, two different circuit guarantees additionally affirm their latest progress. Alexander Zverev’s shock faller in Miami, 22-year-old Finnish Emil Ruusuvuori, overwhelmed in the spherical of 16 by Sinner, improved his finest rating from 83rd to 76th at the ATP. His three-year-old junior, the Italian Lorenzo Musetti, who received two extra matches in the large desk of a Masters 1000 as in Rome final September, now ranks ninetieth on his facet.

Highs and lows

• They are 7 in the Top 100 to know this week the finest rating of their profession. Hubert Hurkacz (sixteenth, +21 locations), Jannik Sinner (twenty second, +9), Alexander Bublik (forty second, +2), Lloyd Harris (fiftieth, +2), Sebastian Korda (sixty fourth, +23), Emil Ruusuvuori (76th , +7) and Lorenzo Musetti (ninetieth, +4) finish in fashion this primary quarter of 2021.

• For others, spring doesn’t begin auspiciously: John Isner (thirty eighth, -10 locations), Frances Tiafoe (66th, -8), Kyle Edmund (seventieth, -5), Pablo Andujar (71st, -10 ), Federico Delbonis (eighty fifth, -5), Pedro Martinez (one hundredth, -7) and Kevin Anderson (108th, -17) lose large.

The Top 20 at 04/05