In a week overshadowed by the Six Kings Slam, the circuito ATP continued with its usual programming in Almaty, Antwerp y Stockholmwhere the Russian Karen Khachanov (26th), the Spanish Roberto Bautista Agut (60°) and the American Tommy Paul (13th), respectively, were crowned champions to climb the men’s classification.
Thanks to his hard-fought victory against the Canadian Gabriel Diallo (118°) in the Kazakh ATP 250, the Muscovite lifted his seventh trophy on the circuit, second in the current season, after Doha, to move up two positions in the ranking, surpassing the Australian Alexei Popyrin (24th) and the Czech Tomas Machac (25th).
For his part, the man from Castellón closed a perfect week on the Belgian cement, where he had surprised the Argentine Tomás Etcheverry (35th) and the Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime (21st), among others, by winning 7-5 and 6-1 the Czech Jiri Lehecka (33rd) and win his 12th title in the Tourfirst since July 2022, jumping up to 45th place of the ladder.
Already in the Swedish competition, the New Jersey native drowned the consecration of the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov (10th), defeating him 6-4 and 6-3 in the definition to add his fourth crown at the highest level, third in 2024, then of Dallas and Queen’s, displace the Polish Hubert Hurkacz (12th) and match its best historical positioning.
Despite his corresponding defeats in the Stockholm quarterfinals, the Russian Andrey Rublev (7th) and the Norwegian Casper Ruud (8th) will maintain their privileged positions in the Top 10a platoon that will only present a modification with the outstanding performance of Dimitrovwhich will rise to the ninth locationsending Australian Alex De Minaur (9th) into tenth.
This is how the Top 10 of the ATP ranking looked:
1) Jannik Sinner with 11,920 points
2) Carlos Alcaraz with 7,120
3) Alexander Zverev con 6.795
4) Novak Djokovic con 6.210
5) Daniil Medvedev with 5,530
6) Taylor Fritz con 4.380
7) Andrey Rublev con 4.150
8) Casper Ruud con 3.890
9) Grigor Dimitrov con 3.735
10) Alex De Minaur with 3,570
