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:
| Rank | Player | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jannik Sinner | 2000 |
| 2 | Daniil Medvedev | 1300 |
| 3 | Alexander Zverev | 1135 |
| 4 | Novak Djokovic | 860 |
| 5 | Andrey Rublev | 650 |
| 6 | Hubert Hurkacz | 550 |
| 7 | Alex de Minaur | 465 |
| 8 | Taylor Fritz | 445 |
| 9 | Carlos Alcaraz | 400 |
| 10 | Alejandro Tabilo | 378 |
| 11 | Alexander Bublik | 360 |
| 12 | Grigor Dimitrov | 350 |
| 13 | Arthur Cazaux | 325 |
| 14 | Nuno Borges | 325 |
| 15 | Holger Rune | 315 |
| 16 | Jiri Lehecka | 300 |
| 17 | Cameron Norrie | 295 |
| 18 | Borna Coric | 279 |
| 19 | Brandon Nakashima | 270 |
| 20 | Miomir Kecmanovic | 250 |
| 21 | Adrian Mannarino | 235 |
| 22 | Casper Ruud | 230 |
| 23 | Stefanos Tsitsipas | 215 |
| 24 | Jack Draper | 215 |
| 24 | Emil Ruusuvuori | 215 |
| 26 | Leandro Riedi | 212 |
| 27 | Flavio Cobolli | 210 |
| 28 | Zizou Bergs | 201 |
| 29 | Karen Khachanov | 200 |
| 30 | Juncheng Shang | 200 |
| 31 | Sebastian Korda | 200 |
| 31 | Felix Auger-Aliassime | 200 |
| 31 | Ben Shelton | 200 |
| 34 | Arthur Fils | 200 |
| 35 | Valentin Vacherot | 195 |
| 36 | Taro Daniel | 188 |
| 37 | Aleksandar Kovacevic | 178 |
| 38 | Alex Michelsen | 176 |
| 39 | Jordan Thompson | 175 |
| 40 | Patrick Kypson | 164 |
| 41 | Jakub Mensik | 160 |
| 42 | Pierre-Hugues Herbert | 160 |
| 43 | Pedro Martinez | 159 |
| 44 | Duje Ajdukovic | 159 |
| 45 | Dominik Koepfer | 151 |
| 46 | Tommy Paul | 150 |
| 47 | Michael Mmoh | 148 |
| 48 | James Duckworth | 142 |
| 49 | Tomas Machac | 138 |
| 50 | Luca Van Assche | 138 |
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