ATP Race Update: Sinner And Medvedev Set Pace After Melbourne

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Monday, 05 February 2024 at 14:30
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With the dust settling after the first Grand Slam of 2024, the ATP Race is beginning to have a familiar look.

After Chile's Alejandro Tabilo briefly led the race mid-January, the ATP's top-ranked players have now taken over. Jannik Sinner became the first Italian in history to win the Australian Open and received 2,000 ranking points.

Even without playing a preparatory warm-up tournament, those points proved sufficient to take Sinner on top of this year's race, and he will likely stay there until the end of February. Sinner and Daniil Medvedev contested this year's final at Melbourne Park and have set the early pace.

Medvedev, for his part, received 1,300 points for his third runner-up finish at the Australian Open. He sits in the second spot ahead of Alexander Zverev, who has tallied 1,135 points after winning the United Cup for Germany and attaining a semifinal finish at the Australian Open.

Novak Djokovic has topped the year-end race a record eight times but languishes in fourth place with 860 points. Djokovic will likely be overtaken by the likes of Andrey Rublev, Hubert Hurkacz, and Alex de Minaur, with the trip expected to play at least one tournament in February.

The Serb's return to competition will be in March, where he'll play the Indian Wells Masters for the first time since 2019. Elsewhere, Carlos Alcaraz sits in ninth place with 400 points. The Spaniard's solitary tournament in 2024 has been the Australian Open, where he lost in the quarterfinals.

Alcaraz is expected to soar in the ATP race, having signed up to play in two clay court tournaments in South America this month, where he could win a maximum of 750 points. That would potentially take him up to fourth.

Alexander Bublik won his second Montpellier crown last weekend and added 250 points to his tally. The Kazakh climbed as high as 11th. The ATP Race will determine the eight players who will qualify for the 2024 ATP Finals, which will be held in Turin, and the player who finishes the season as World No. 1.

2024 ATP Race as of February 5th, 2024:

RankPlayerPoints
1Jannik Sinner2000
2Daniil Medvedev1300
3Alexander Zverev1135
4Novak Djokovic860
5Andrey Rublev650
6Hubert Hurkacz550
7Alex de Minaur465
8Taylor Fritz445
9Carlos Alcaraz400
10Alejandro Tabilo378
11Alexander Bublik360
12Grigor Dimitrov350
13Arthur Cazaux325
14Nuno Borges325
15Holger Rune315
16Jiri Lehecka300
17Cameron Norrie295
18Borna Coric279
19Brandon Nakashima270
20Miomir Kecmanovic250
21Adrian Mannarino235
22Casper Ruud230
23Stefanos Tsitsipas215
24Jack Draper215
24Emil Ruusuvuori215
26Leandro Riedi212
27Flavio Cobolli210
28Zizou Bergs201
29Karen Khachanov200
30Juncheng Shang200
31Sebastian Korda200
31Felix Auger-Aliassime200
31Ben Shelton200
34Arthur Fils200
35Valentin Vacherot195
36Taro Daniel188
37Aleksandar Kovacevic178
38Alex Michelsen176
39Jordan Thompson175
40Patrick Kypson164
41Jakub Mensik160
42Pierre-Hugues Herbert160
43Pedro Martinez159
44Duje Ajdukovic159
45Dominik Koepfer151
46Tommy Paul150
47Michael Mmoh148
48James Duckworth142
49Tomas Machac138
50Luca Van Assche138
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