Pablo Carreno Busta is the new world No. 9

20Jul
von Jürgen Fritz

By Jürgen Fritz, Tue 20 Jul 2021, Cover picture: © JFB

Pablo Carreno Busta beat Tsitsipas defeater Filip Krajinovic 6:2, 6:4 in the final of the Hamburg European Open, the biggest tennis tournament in Germany. The Spaniard thus won a D tournament (ATP 500) for the first time in his career and is the new world No. 9 in the JFB 52 Week Ranking. In Bastad (E), Sweden, Casper Ruud won, thus moving back into the top 15, and in Newport (E), USA, Kevin Anderson won his seventh ATP title.

The JFB 52 Week Tennis World Rankings as of 19 July 2021

And here’s how the JFB 52 Week Tennis World Rankings look after Hamburg (D), Bastad (E) and Newport (E):

2021-07-19-A

2021-07-19-B

(c) JFB

16 Top 30 players have entered for the Olympic Games in Tokyo

Competing this week on clay at the Swiss Open Gstaad (E) are:

  • Denis Shapovalov (10)
  • Casper Ruud (15)
  • Roberto Bautista Agut (16)
  • Federico Delbonis (27) and
  • Cristian Garín (29)

and in Los Cabos (E), Mexico: Cameron Norrie (19). In Umag (E), Croatia, no Top 30 player is competing.

Then on Saturday, 24 July, the Olympic Games (B) in Tokyo begin. The following players are entered there in the men’s singles:

  1. Novak Djoković (1)
  2. Daniil Medvedev (2)
  3. Alexander Zverev (3)
  4. Stefanos Tsitsipas (4)
  5. Andrey Rublev (5)
  6. Pablo Carreño Busta (9)
  7. Hubert Hurkacz (11)
  8. Aslan Karatsev (12)
  9. Félix Auger-Aliassime (13)
  10. Diego Schwartzman (18)
  11. Lorenzo Sonego (20)
  12. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (22)
  13. Márton Fucsovics (23)
  14. Karen Khachanov (24)
  15. Ugo Humbert (25)
  16. Alexander Bublik (30)

Here you can read how the JFB 52 Week Tennis World Ranking works.

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