Paris – Spain’s Carlos Algarz reclaimed the top tennis ranking from Serbia’s Novak Djokovic on Monday, a day after winning his first title on grass, a week before the start of his third Wimbledon championship in four majors.
Remaining at the top of the rankings among the chasers, Alcaraz, who started the year at the top, regained the lead from the Serbian for the third time since January after winning the British Queen’s tournament on Sunday.
And Djokovic returned to the summit after being crowned at Roland Garros earlier this month, reaching his record twenty-third major title, before reclaiming it on Monday as the Spaniard, who now leads his opponent by 80 points.
As a result, Algarez, who won his fifth title of the year and eleventh of his career, enters Wimbledon as the No. 1 seed at the expense of defending champion Djokovic, who is aiming for an eighth London crown. The Swiss equaled Roger Federer’s record.
Alcazar hopes this maiden crown on grass will give him a boost at Wimbledon in his third appearance on the court.
Algaraz, 20, hopes this maiden crown on grass will give him a boost at Wimbledon in just his third appearance at the venue, after losing last year in the final and a second in 2021. A top ten ranking was the witness. Another change, which saw Italy’s Yannick Zenner move up to eighth at the loss of American Taylor Fritz who finished ninth.
Kazakhstan’s Alexander Publik climbed 22 places to 26th after winning his second career title at the Halle tournament on Sunday at the expense of Russia’s Andrey Rublev.
In the women’s category, the top ten is still topped by Poland’s Ika Siwontek, who saw Czech Barbora Krycikova drop back to tenth place after reaching the final of the Birmingham tournament on Sunday. against Latvian Jelena Ostapenko.
The Czech Republic’s advance to the 2021 Roland Garros champion came at the expense of Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maya, who fell to thirteenth place.
American Jessica Pegula also moved up to fourth at the loss of fifth-placed French Caroline Garcia. Tunisian Anas Jaber, runner-up to Kazakhstan’s Elina Rybakina last year, is still ranked sixth and enters Wimbledon with title aspirations.
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