By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday August 21, 2023
Holger Rune hasn’t received a match since Wimbledon, however the Danish 20-year-old continues to be rising within the rankings. Rune reaches a career-high No.4 in Monday’s ATP rankings, per week after making his Prime-5 debut.
Rune, who has misplaced three consecutive matches beginning along with his defeat by the hands at Carlos Alcaraz within the Wimbledon quarterfinal, is simply forward of fellow Scandinavian Casper Ruud, who rises to No.5 within the rankings.
Stefanos Tsitsipas, who was defending closing factors at Cincinnati and misplaced within the spherical of 16 to Hubert Hurkacz, drops three spots to No.7.
Aussie Poppin’
The 2 greatest risers contained in the Prime-50 are from Australia. Max Purcell, who had a breakout week at Cincinnati that noticed him defeat Casper Ruud and attain the quarterfinals (loss to Alcaraz), rises 23 spots to a career-high No.47. Alexei Popyrin, a fortunate loser in Cincinnati who additionally reached his maiden Masters quarterfinal (loss to Hurkacz), rises 18 spots to No.40.
Djokovic Closing in on No.1
Novak Djokovic is getting ready to reclaiming the No.1 rating for a tenth time. Attributable to his victory over Carlos Alcaraz in Sunday’s Cincinnati closing, Djokovic rests simply 20 factors behind the Spaniard within the rankings.
Alcaraz is defending 2000 factors on the US Open; Djokovic is defending zero factors.
Within the Race to Turin standings, Alcaraz leads Djokovic by 510 factors.
Different Notable Risers
No.12 Alexander Zverev, +5
No. 17 Hubert Hurkacz, +3
No. 21 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, +2 (Profession Excessive)
No. 23 Adrian Mannarino, +9
No. 24 Nicolas Jarry, +2 (Profession Excessive)
No. 39 Mackenzie McDonald, +4 (Profession Excessive)
No. 52 Dusan Lajovic, +14
No. 65 Luca Van Assche, +3 (Profession Excessive)
No. 71 Corentin Moutet, +6
No. 84 Alexander Shevchenko, +4 (Joint Profession Excessive)
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