ATP Rankings: Alex De Minaur breaks into top ten, Alexander Zverev moves up

James Richardson 07 Jan 2024 3:12 PM

Alex De Minaur celebrates after beating Novak Djokovic at the United Cup

There will be no changes to the ATP Rankings top five when Monday’s update becomes official but Alex De Minaur will join the ranks to the top ten for the first time.

De Minaur secured a historic singles win over Novak Djokovic in the United Cup and altogether gained 210 rankings points across the week to secure a new career-high No 10 ranking.

Alexander Zverev also makes significant gains after he lead Germany to the United Cup title and moves up to No 6 in the rankings which sees Stefanos Tsitsipas drop one place to occupy seventh.

Zverev saved two match points to stun Hubert Hurkacz 6-7(3), 7-6(6), 6-4 and force a deciding mixed doubles in the championship clash against Poland after Iga Swiatek had given the Pole’s a 1-0 lead.

“I have absolutely no idea [how I won]. Also I saved a match point hitting a passing shot this much on the line, so this is how tennis goes sometimes,” Zverev said.

“You win and lose by millimetres and today I was lucky enough in a way.”

Hurkacz lost ground on the rankings and saw Brisbane International runner-up Holger Rune move ahead of him.

World No 1 Djokovic stays on top of the pile but sees his lead at the head of the pack cut albeit by a slender 190 points.

Andrey Rublev took the title in Hong Kong and remains the world No 5 with Jannik Sinner, Daniil Medvedev, Carlos Alcaraz and Djokovic ahead of him.

Nicolas Jarry of Chile has moved up to a new career-high of world No 19 after he represented his country at the United Cup.

There are also new career highs for Adrian Mannarino (world No 20) and Sebastian Baez (world No 26).

James Duckworth’s 20 place jump to world No 96 is the biggest rise for anyone set to start next week in the top 100. He moved one place more than Emil Ruusuvuori, with the Finn rising 19 places to be ranked 50th in the world.

The world No 35, Arthur Fils, world No 36 Roman Safiullin and world No 37 Sebastian Ofner have all reached new career-high rankings.

Taylor Fritz suffers the biggest drop of any top 20 players as he slides two places down to world No 12 after a disappointing United Cup title defence for the United States.

Dutch star Tallon Griekspoor (No 28) and American Sebastian Korda (No 29) both dropped five places to be the biggest rankings losers in the top 50.