Alcaraz extends his reign one more week

Carlos Alcaraz begins this Monday his seventh week at the head of the ATP classification. A leadership with which the Spanish tennis player hopes to add his first ATP victory as number one in his debut at the Basel tournament after his defeat against David Goffin at the Astana tournament.

Alcaraz remains at the top of the classification with 6,730 and maintains his advantage of 920 points over Rafa Nadal (second with 5,810), which allows Spanish tennis to boast for the fourth consecutive week of having two tennis players from the country in the first two positions of the ranking. The Norwegian Casper Ruud completes the podium with 5,600 points.

The ATP ranking does not leave us big changes this week except the approach of the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas to the fourth place of Daniil Medvedev despite his defeat in the Stockholm final (Medvedev has 5,155 points to Tsitsipas’s 5,035) and the rise of Felix Auger-Aliassime to ninth position after winning the title in Antwerp to the detriment of Taylor Fritz who closes the Top-10 this week with 3,195 points, but with only 65 points of margin over the Polish Hubert Hurkacz, eleventh with 3,130.

ATP Rankings as of October 24, 2022

1. Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) 6,730

2. Rafael Nadal (ESP) 5,810

3. Casper Ruud (NOR) 5.600

4. Daniil Medvedev 5.155

5. Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 5,035

6. Alexander Zverev (ALE) 4.860

7. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 4.320

8 Andrey Rublev 3.685

9. Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) 3.315

10. Taylor Fritz (USA) 3.195

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15. Pablo Carreno (ESP) 2,405

22. Roberto Bautista (ESP) 1,805

31. Alexander Davidovich (ESP) 1,300

40. Albert Ramos (ESP) 1,050

57. Jaume Munar (ESP) 839

61. Pedro Martinez (ESP) 785

79. Bernabe Zapata (ESP) 704

80. Roberto Carballés (ESP) 695

Alcaraz and Nadal lead a Race that still distributes three tickets

Alcaraz and Nadal also continue as leaders of the Race to Turin, which grants places to the eight best tennis players of the year for the Nitto ATP Finals. Alcaraz, with 6,460 points, and Nadal, with 5,810, are already classified as well as the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (third with 4,990), the Norwegian Casper Ruud (fourth with 4,930) and the Serbian Novak Djokovic as Wimbledon champion.

Thus, there are still three places left for the ATP Finals for which everything indicates that the Russians Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev, the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the American Taylor Fritz and the Pole Hubert Hurkacz will fight. This week’s ATP 500 in Vienna and Basel and, above all, the Masters 1,000 in Paris (October 31-November 6) will decide the three players who will play Alcaraz, Nadal, Tsitsipas, Ruud and Djokovic at the Nitto ATP Finals from Turin.

Race to Turin on October 24, 2022

1. Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) 6,460*

2. Rafael Nadal (ESP) 5,810*

3. Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 4,990*

4. Casper Ruud (NOR) 4.930*

5. Daniil Medvedev 3.555

6. Andrey Rublev 3.440

7. Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) 3.225

8. Taylor Fritz (USA) 2.885

9. Hubert Hurkacz (POL) 2.770

10. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 2.720*

*Qualified for the ATP Finals. In the case of Djokovic, he is classified as the winner of Wimbledon and after finishing in the Top-20 of the year (the 2,000 champion points were not added by ATP decision).