Tennis

Shifts in the ATP rankings: the continued rise of Hurkacz and the fall of Vesely

After Wimbledon and the tournaments played in the second week of the London Grand Slam, we bring you an overview of the shifts and falls in the ATP rankings. World number one Novak Djokovic is still in an unthreatened position.

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3 years ago

12. 7. 2021

Petr Hais

Moving forward

The young Canadian Denis Shapovalov is back in the top ten of the rankings after a successful Wimbledon. The 22-year-old is joined at the top by his compatriot Félix Auger-Alliasime, who has moved up to 15th place.

Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz continues his breakthrough year. After his triumph at the Masters tournament in Miami in March, Hurkacz made it all the way to the semi-finals of Wimbledon and is knocking on the door of the world’s elite top ten with his 11th position in Monday’s ranking. The 24-year-old could be one of the dark horses of the Tokyo Olympic tournament.

Belarusian Ilya Ivashka also played a good Wimbledon, and his advancement to the 4th round has carried him up a nice 16 positions. Similar rises were recorded by Argentina’s Facundo Bagnis (up 18 to 74th) and Australia’s James Duckworth (up 15 to 76th).

British veteran Andy Murray is back within striking distance of the Top 100. The 34-year-old went through the rigours of the first two rounds at the All England Club before being knocked out in three sets by the aforementioned Canadian Shapovalov.

Falling down

Significant drops in the rankings of men’s singles took place in the second half of the elite 100. Kei Nishikori and Sam Querry dropped by 14 positions and are still neck and neck. This time, however, they are 67th and 68th.

The biggest drop in the top 100 belongs to Guido Pell. He fell 16 places behind the aforementioned compatriot Facundo Bagnis. The 31-year-old Pella is currently 75th and would like to return to higher positions. Brazilian Thiago Monteiro, 27, dropped 12 places. Lucas Pouille and Yannick Hanfmann dropped out of the top 100.

Czechs

Unfortunately for Jiri Vesely, it looks like his form or health will soon take the Czech number one out of the top 100. The 28-year-old is currently ranked 81st, between Emil Ruusuvuori and Marco Cecchinato.

Currently 145th is Tomáš Macháč, who at 20 years old will make his debut at the Olympic Games, where he will be the only Czech in the tennis competition. Machac also played his first career Grand Slam this year, so hopefully the Tokyo draw could be kind to him.

The Czech Republic has five tennis players in the world’s third 100, four of whom are under 25 years of age. Their lifetime highs in the new ranking are 249. Vít Kopřiva and 257. Jiří Lehečka. The current 290 will still fit into the 300. Michael Vrbenský.

ATP ranking as of 12.7.2021

1) Novak Djokovic (Serbia) – 12113 points

2) Daniil Medvedev (Russia) – 10370 points

3) Rafael Nadal (Spain) – 8270 points

4) Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece) – 8150 points

5) Alexander Zverev (Germany) – 7475 points

6) Dominic Thiem (Austria) – 7425 points

7) Andrey Rubljov (Russia) – 6255 points

8) Matteo Berrettini (Italy) – 5488 points

9) Roger Federer (Switzerland) – 4215 points

10) Denis Shapovalov (Canada) – 3625 points

81) Jiri Vesely (Czech Republic) – 897 points