Sinner At No. 1 Despite Ban, Shelton & Tsitsipas Climb, Draper Drops In ATP Rankings
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Jannik Sinner cannot play on the ATP Tour for the next two months but remains the world No. 1 in the current rankings.
Sinner is suspended from professional tournaments after accepting a three-month ban from February 9th until May 4th from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to settle his controversial and high-profile case.
The Italian was scheduled to have an appeal hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in April, but WADA decided to settle the case since it accepted that Sinner was contaminated without his knowledge and was a million miles away from doping.
A positive aspect of the settlement for Sinner is that his weeks at No. 1 continue to be counted despite his suspension. He has been the world No. 1 since overtaking Novak Djokovic at the summit in June after the 2024 French Open.
Sinner has 11,330 points. Alexander Zverev, who Sinner beat in the 2025 Australian Open final, is closest to him at No. 2 with 8,135 points, but still needs to close a gap of more than 3,000 points.
Zverev might be disappointed that he did not get closer to Sinner during the Golden Swing in South America. The German played at the 2025 Argentina Open and 2025 Rio Open for the first time, but lost in the quarterfinal at both tournaments.
The Top 7 in the ATP rankings remains unchanged. Carlos Alcaraz is No. 3, Taylor Fritz is No. 4, Casper Ruud is No. 5, Daniil Medvedev is No. 6, and Novak Djokovic, who holds the record for the most weeks at No. 1, is No. 7.
Andrey Rublev rose one spot to No. 8 despite losing in the opening round of last week's 2025 Dubai Championships. He played that match in Dubai a few days after winning the 2025 Qatar Open title in Doha.
Stefanos Tsitsipas' superb run to the Dubai Championships title means he has re-entered the Top 10, jumping two places from No. 11 to No. 9. The Greek's triumph at the tournament was his first ATP 500 title after 11 previous final defeats at that level.
Alex de Minaur fell two places to No. 10. Despite being the two-time defending champion at the Mexican Open, he chose to play in Dubai this year. The Australian lost in the opening round to Marin Cilic, meaning he dropped the points earned from winning in Acapulco last year.
Tommy Paul slipped out of the Top 10 and sits at No. 11. The American was among several players who withdrew from the Mexican mid-tournament due to getting food poisoning in Acapulco.
Ben Shelton moved up two places to No. 12 despite being defeated in the round of 16 in Acapulco by David Goffin. That match included Shelton being mocked by the Belgian in the second set.
Jack Draper, who finished as the runner-up to Rublev in Doha, did not play last week. That led to him dropping some points from last season and sliding down two places in the rankings to No. 14.
Other ATP ranking changes included Dubai Championships runner-up Felix Auger-Aliassime rising three places to No. 18, Mexican Open champion Tomas Machac jumping five spots to No. 20, and Hubert Hurkacz falling outside the Top 20 at No. 22.
