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That’s the end of the 2024 season. The final of the ATP Finals has meant a new title for Jannik Sinner and thus consolidates itself as number one in the world of ATP ranking until, at least, after the 2025 Australian Open. The Italian has shown a stellar level of tennis that has led him to be the clear dominator on hard courts throughout the course. He has reached 70 ATP victories and has shown how amazing he can be with a racket in his hand.
He ATP ranking has undergone changes during 2024 compared to how it ended last season. There have been surprises, disappointments, players who have entered the top 100 and others who have permanently retired, such as Rafa Nadal, Andy Murray or Dominic Thiem. We review the most notable movements.
– The ‘Next Gen’ that never arrived
With the retirement of Dominic Thiem at just 31 years old, the long-awaited generation that had to directly stand up to names like Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic is left orphaned, because The Austrian was the only one of that select group of chosen ones who has won a Grand Slam title to date.. It is true that Alexander Zverev is in one of the best moments of his career as number two in the world, but the truth is that names like Jannik Sinner or Carlos Alcaraz seem to have eaten the toast of both him and Stefanos Tsitsipas, or even Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov.
The season has been quite tough for both the Hellenes and the Canadians. At practically no time have they been able to display their good tennis and, in the case of Tsitsipas, he has left the top 10 and has even suffered a drastic change in his staff and his father has been left out of his professional team due to the bad time they were going through together. On the other hand, Shapovalov has been outside the top 100 during the year and will start 2025 on the right foot given his last few weeks of good tennis, but he still has a lot to prove to become the feared young man from a few seasons ago.
– Djokovic is no longer interested in the ranking
Novak Djokovic He won the gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, a fact that meant he had won absolutely everything in tennis. From that moment, Nole assured that He preferred to focus on the Grand Slams and the dates with the Serbian team rather than continue fighting for number one in the world or for more ATP titles, a fact that meant he lost the top of the rankings and fell to number six, where he is currently. In addition, he refused to play the ATP Finals, so it definitely seems to show that at 37 years old he is no longer interested in the ATP ranking. Will he drop from the top 10 in 2025?
– A new pure punch
After the retirement of John Isner and the indefinite leave of Reilly Opelka, elite tennis had been left without a top reference in a game focused ‘almost’ exclusively on service. Nobody expected it, it already appeared Giovanni Mpetschi Perricarda French backhand to one hand that is breaking several records as for powerful missiles from the first hit of the point. At 21 years old, he already has numerous Challenger titles, two ATP titles and has risen to 31st place in the rankings, where he started the 205th season.
– The future of Spanish tennis
With six players located within the top 100 and with Carlos Alcaraz As a maximum reference, Nadal’s withdrawal seems to not do as much damage to Spanish tennis as it could have done, since this year two Grand Slams went to Spain. Furthermore, we all already have the name of Martin Landalucewhich already has great promise and its more than 300 positions in the classification throughout 2024 demonstrate all its great potential. The year began in 449, it ends in 164, it still has a long way to go, but it is on the right path.
A 2024 full of emotions is coming to a close, with new faces on the circuit and other legends fading away, but tennis is still more alive than ever and each tournament in 2025 is going to bring us many sensations and new surprises. What are your predictions?
