ATP Rankings: Alcaraz edges closer to Sinner as Draper secures Wimbledon milestone, Alexander Bublik +15
Carlos Alcaraz’s Queen’s Club Championships title has helped him to edge closer to Jannik Sinner at No 1 in the ATP Rankings while Jack Draper has secured his highest-seeded position for Wimbledon.
Sinner had a 3,500-point lead over Alcaraz just over two months ago, but the Spaniard has since won the Monte Carlo Masters, Italian Open, French Open and the Queen’s Club event.
With his four titles, second-placed Alcaraz is now 1,130 points behind his big rival in the standings.
Sinner dropped 450 points after he failed to defend his Halle Open crown – moving to 10,430 points – while Alcaraz now sits on 9,300 points after adding 450 points on the back of his second title in London.
But the Italian, who has now spent 55 consecutive weeks at No 1, looks set to remain at the top after Wimbledon as he is defending 1,300 points at SW19 while Alcaraz won the trophy last year so will defend 2,000 points.
Alexander Zverev’s semi-final defeat in Halle means the German remains well adrift in third place while Draper climbed two places back to his career-best fourth place.
The 23rd June rankings update is the cutoff for Wimbledon seedings and it means Draper is now assured of being the fourth seed at his home major, which is one spot better than at this year’s French Open.
The British No 1 is followed by Taylor Fritz, Novak Djokovic, Lorenzo Musetti, Holger Rune, Daniil Medvedev and Ben Shelton.
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Former world No 1 Medvedev is back in the top 10 after finishing runner-up to Alexander Bublik in Germany as he climbed to spots while champion Bublik surged 15 places to No 30, good enough to be seeded at Wimbledon.
The Kazakh star is in the form of his life as he followed up his maiden Grand Slam quarter-final at Roland Garros with his fifth career title and second in Halle.
Jiri Lehecka was the other finalist over the weekend as he finished runner-up to Alcaraz at Queen’s Club and the Czech is up five places to No 25.
Much further down the rankings, former world No 3 Marin Cilic is back in the top 100 as he jumped 16 places to No 85 after winning the ATP Challenger event in Nottingham.
ATP Rankings Top 20
1. Jannik Sinner Italy – 10,430 points
2. Carlos Alcaraz Spain – 9,300
3. Alexander Zverev Germany – 6,500
4. Jack Draper Great Britain – 4,650
5. Taylor Fritz United States – 4,635
6. Novak Djokovic Serbia – 4,630
7. Lorenzo Musetti Italy – 4,140
8. Holger Rune Denmark – 3,530
9. Daniil Medvedev – 3,420
10. Ben Shelton United States – 3,170
11. Alex de Minaur Australia – 3,085
12. Frances Tiafoe United States – 2,990
13. Tommy Paul United States – 2,970
14. Andrey Rublev – 2,920
15. Casper Ruud Norway – 2,905
16. Arthur Fils France – 2,830
17. Jakub Mensik Czech Republic – 2,356
18. Francisco Cerundolo Argentina – 2,285
19. Karen Khachanov – 2,240
20. Ugo Humbert France – 2,195
