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(Jürgen Fritz, 10.05.2023) This is how the current World Tennis Ranking looks if you count all official tournaments, including Wimbledon, Davis Cup, Laver Cup and the ATP Next Gen Finals.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 22.11.2022) The men’s tennis year is almost over. On Sunday, Novak Djokovic won the ATP Finals for the sixth time. The Davis Cup Finals follow this week and otherwise only Challenger tournaments. It is already clear who the three best players of the year were.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 17.10.2022) Andrey Rublev wins his fourth tournament this season in Gijon, Spain, to move back into the Top Eight in The True Tennis World Ranking. Felix Auger-Aliassime wins his second singles title of the season and career in Florence and is now very close to the Top Ten.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 13.10.2022) After his tournament win in Tokyo, Taylor Fritz rises from 10 to 9 in The True Tennis World Ranking and Tokyo finalist Frances Tiafoe from 17 to 16. Novak Djokovic’s tournament win in Astana moves him closer to Alcaraz and Nadal and further away from Ruud.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 03.10.2022) There were big surprises at the 250 tournaments in Seoul and Sofia. Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka and Switzerland’s Marc-Andrea Huesler won there. In Tel Aviv, on the other hand, top-seeded Novak Djokovic won his third tournament this season, the fourth in the last 52 weeks, and can thus distance himself a little further from Casper Ruud.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 26.09.2022) Novak Djokovic’s Laver Cup win over Tiafoe moves him back up to number three in The True Tennis World Ranking. Auger-Aliassime rises from 14 to 12, Tiafoe from 19 to 17. San Diego tournament winner Brendan Nakashima rises from 49 to 38, the new Metz champion Lorenzo Sonego from 56 to 46.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 19.09.2022) Novak Djokovic did not want to play for Serbia in the Davis Cup this year. The Wimbledon winner, who played very successfully in the Davis Cup last year, thus loses quite a few points and falls back to fourth place. Medvedev and Rublev also lose many Davis Cup points from last year. Casper Ruud moves up to position three.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 13.09.2022) The world has a new Grand Slam winner and a new No. 1. It’s the youngest No. 1 ever in men’s tennis. 19-year-old Carlos Alcaraz beats 23-year-old Casper Ruud 6-4, 2-6, 7-6, 6-3 in the youngest US Open final in 32 years. There are two Spaniards at the top of the world now.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 29.08.2022) Es ist nach Wimbledon das älteste, das traditionsreichste Tennisturnier der Welt: die US Open. Vor 141 Jahren, im Jahr 1881 wurden die U.S. National Championships der Herren erstmals ausgetragen (Wimbledon erstmals 1877). Heute gehen die US Open 2022 in Flushing Meadows in New York los.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 28.08.2022) Adrian Mannarino wins an ATP tournament for the second time in his career at the age of 34. He beats Laslo Djere in the final of Winston-Salem and thus moves back into the top 50 one day before the start of the US Open.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 22.08.2022) Borna Ćorić, No. 152 in the ATP Ranking, beats four top ten players in five days at the Cincinnati Masters and wins a 1000 tournament for the first time in his career. In The True Tennis World Ranking he shoots up to 37. Cincinnati finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas overtakes Casper Ruud to become world No. 6 again.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 15.08.2022) At the Canada Masters in Montreal, 31-year-old Spaniard Pablo Carreño Busta wins a C tournament for the first time in his career with victories over Berrettini, Sinner and in the final over Hurkacz. In The True Tennis World Ranking, the bronze medallist from Tokyo thus rises from 26 to 16.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 08.08.2022) Daniil Medvedev wins a tournament in Los Cabos (E) for the first time in 47 weeks and extends his lead in The True Tennis World Ranking by 10 points. Nick Kyrgios wins an ATP tournament in Washington (D) for the first time in three years and thus climbs from 17 to 15.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 01.08.2022) Roberto Bautista Agut won the 250 tournament in Kitzbuhel, Jannik Sinner in Umag and Alex de Minaur in Atlanta. Thus, de Minaur and Bautista Agut move back into the top 20, Sinner consolidates position 8. As the points from the Olympics are removed from the ranking after 52 weeks, Zverev (gold), Khachanov (silver) and Carreño Busta (bronze) drop back.
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(Jürgen Fritz, 25.07.2022) In Hamburg, 20-year-old Lorenzo Musetti won an ATP tournament for the first time. In a high-class final, he beat Carlos Alcaraz. Musetti thus moves into the top 50 of The True Tennis World Ranking for the first time. The previous Hamburg champion Pablo Carreño Busta falls out of the top 15. In Gstaad, world No. 7 Casper Ruud successfully defended his title in the final against Matteo Berrettini.
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