ATP tennis ranking, Sinner rises to 12th place. Record-breaking Djokovic: 377 weeks as number one like Steffi Graf

Jannik Sinner lost the final by Rotterdambut the update of the ATP tennis rankings it will console him: the blue, thanks also to the victory in Montpellier, rises to 12th place (he was 17th before taking the field in France). The run-up to the top ten will start from Marseillewhere the South Tyrolean is seeded number two in the 250 draw and therefore promoted by right to the second round.

Musetti advances, he is eighteenth

Italy smiles not only for its strongest player: our tennis keeps six players in the top 90 and nineteen in the top 200 in the world. Adjust your best ranking Riccardo Bonadio (171, +3), while Lorenzo Musetti back number 18 (+2) after the quarterfinals in Buenos Aires. They slide back instead, Lorenzo Sonego (71, -11) e Fabio Fognini (86, -20), beaten in the first round in singles at the Argentina Open. The Ligurian ended up outside the Top 80 because he missed out on points from last year’s ATP 500 semifinal in Rio de Janeiro.

Djokovic like Graf, 377 weeks as number one

Looking at the ranking as a whole, Novak Djokovic begins his 377th week as world number 1 and equals the all-time record held since 1996 by Steffi Graf. The German had been number 1 in the world for the first time from 11 August 1987 to 10 March 1991 for 186 consecutive weeks, then for another 6 periods until 30 March 1997. Nole reached the top for the first time on 4 July 2011 and then, like Steffi, he did it six more times. The longest period lasted 122 weeks, from 7 July 2014 to 6 November 2016. Few movements in the Top 20, the return to the Top 10 of Daniil Medvedev after the title in Rotterdam won in the final against Sinner. That a half smile, however, will sketch it all the same.

WTA ranking, Swiatek always in the lead. Trevisan in 25th place

Last week’s WTA 500 in Doha brought about a single change in the world’s elite. The dominatrix of the top ten of the ranking is the Pole Iga Swiatek: thanks to her first hit of the season in the ‘500’ in Doha, the 21-year-old from Warsaw takes her advantage over the queen of Melbourne, the Belarusian, to 4,800 points Aryna Sabalenka. The final reached in Qatar allows the American Jessica Pegula to return to the third step of the world podium by overtaking the Tunisian Ons Jabeurfourth but stopped in the pits due to injury ahead of the French Caroline Garcia, fifth. Sixth the other American Coco Gauff in front of the Greek Maria Sakkari. There is no change in the rankings for Italian tennis players, they are always ahead of all Martina Trevisan: the 29-year-old left-handed Tuscan – already eliminated in the WTA 1000 in Dubai – is stable at number 25. Behind her, she also confirms the position Elizabeth Cocciaretto: the 21-year-old from Fermo – this week in the WTA 250 in Merida – is number 54. Positions unchanged also for Jasmin Paolininumber 64, Lucia Bronzettinumber 65, e Camila Giorgiwhich dates back to issue #68.