Quarter-finalists in Montpellier, David Goffin, yet the title holder of this Open Sud de France, gained five places in the ATP ranking published on Monday. The Liégeois, Belgian number 1, is in 47th position and returns to a top 50 that he left for the first time since 2014 after the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam lifter.
The world hierarchy has not seen any change in its top 13 with the Serb Novak Djokovic still solid world number 1 ahead of the Russian Daniil Medvedev and the German Alexander Zverev surprised in the final in Montpellier precisely by Alexander Bublik. The 24-year-old Kazakh took the opportunity to climb four places and rank 31st in the world, his best ranking.
Among the other winners of the weekend, the Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas, winner in Cordoba, moved up 12 places to return to 32nd place, who was already 17th in the world. In Pune, India, it’s Portuguese Joao Sousa who won, jumping 51 places to return to 86th place in the world, he was a former resident of the top 30 (27th).
On the Belgian side again, Zizou Bergs, 2nd Belgian in the hierarchy, has lost two places and is in 188th position. The 3rd Belgian is out of the top 200 with a 216th place for Kimmer Coppejans down 10 ranks.
David Goffin is playing the Rotterdam tournament this week, which also features in doubles Sander Gillé and Joran Flying. Gillé is 27th (+1) in the world doubles ranking and Vliegen 32nd (+2).
