ATP Rankings: Novak Djokovic edges closer to peerless record as Carlos Alcaraz looks to restart No 1 push

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Novak Djokovic started his 397th week at No 1 in the ATP Rankings on Monday, but the battle for the year-end No 1 ranking heats up this week as Carlos Alcaraz joins him at the Paris Masters.

With Alcaraz dropping 180 points after he was forced to skip last week’s Swiss Indoors in Basel due to injury, it meant Djokovic increased his lead at the top of the ATP Rankings.

The 24-time Grand Slam winner sits on 11,045 points and leads the standings by 2,420 points from the Spaniard, but there is a lot on the spell at the final ATP Masters 1000 event of the year at Paris-Bercy and the season-ending ATP Finals.

Djokovic has 2,100 points to defend over the next three weeks (600 in Paris and 1,500 at the Finals in Turin) while Alcaraz only has 180 to defend from last year’s run to the quarter-final of the Paris Masters.

Needless to say there will be a lot on the spell as Alcaraz will look to deny Djokovic the chance to reach the 400-week milestone before the year is out.

Djokovic already holds the record for most weeks at No 1 with Roger Federer a distant second on 310 weeks. Steffi Graf is second in the overall list with 377 weeks.

Battle For Year-End No 1 Race

Alcaraz also still has the year-end No 1 ranking – which is different to the world No 1 ranking – in his sights as Djokovic only a 500-point lead race with the Serbian is on 8,955 compared to the 20-year-old’s tally of 8,455.

Should Alcaraz go all the way in Paris and Djokovic lose before the final then the Spaniard will take over at the top before they settle matters at the ATP Finals.

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Jannik Sinner was the big winner in the rankings this week as he won the Vienna Open, defeating Daniil Medvedev in the final. The Italian picked up 410 points, but the gap to Medvedev is still quite big as he is 1,790 points adrift of third place.

Andrey Rublev remains at his career-high No 5 while Stefanos Tsitsipas moved up one place to No 6. Alexander Zverev is up to No 9 after he reached the quarter-final in Vienna with Taylor Fritz now at No 10.

The only other change in the top 20 sees Karen Khachanov and Ben Shelton swap places with the former now at No 15.

Outside the top 20 there were a couple of new career highs as Tallon Griekspoor now sits at No 23 after moving up two places while French teenager Arthur Fils is up to No 36 and Matteo Arnaldi is now at No 41.

Alexander Shevchenko was one the biggest winner in terms of ranking positions gained as he jumped 20 places to No 62 after reaching the quarter-final of the Swiss Indoors.

There was hardly any movement for the British contingent as Cameron Norrie remained at No 18, Dan Evans dropped to spots to No 37, Andy Murray is still at No 40 while Jack Draper is unchanged at No 91.

ATP Rankings Top 20

1. Novak Djokovic Serbia 11,045 points
2. Carlos Alcaraz Spain 8,625
3. Daniil Medvedev – 7,200
4. Jannik Sinner Italy 5,410
5. Andrey Rublev – 4,935
6. Stefanos Tsitsipas Greece 4,435
7. Holger Rune Denmark 4,280
8. Casper Ruud Norway 3,705
9. Alexander Zverev Germany 3,540
10. Taylor Fritz United States 3,500
11. Hubert Hurkacz Poland 3,110
12. Tommy Paul United States 2,800
13. Alex De Minaur Australia 2,650
14. Frances Tiafoe United States 2,480
15. Karen Khachanov 2,385
16. Ben Shelton United States 2,355
17. Grigor Dimitrov Bulgaria 2,060
18. Cameron Norrie Great Britain 1,985
19. Felix Auger-Aliassime Canada 1,940
20. Nicolas Jarry Chile 1,765

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