ROMA (ITALPRESS) – Today’s date of red circle for blue tennis fans. It becomes official what math already certified from Saturday. That is, for the first time in tennis history, Italy sees two players at the same time among the top five players in the world in single male: Jannik Sinner (2) and Lorenzo Musetti (5). It had never happened before or after 1973, the date of watershed that marks the advent of the computerized ATP ranking. Thanks to the final reached in Hong Kong, despite the defeat Musetti has climbed two positions and climbed to number 5. It has become the fourth Italian with the best best ranking ever. In front of him only Sinner, the first Italian number 1 of the world who has occupied the top of the ranking for 66 weeks; Nicola Pietrangeli, considered the number 3 of the world in 1959 and 1960, the years of his triumphs in singular at Roland Garros; and Adriano Panatta, who reached the fourth position in the ATP ranking. In the Australian Open’s main board week, Italy can boast four players among the top 30, which will be standard heads in the first Slam of the season.
In addition to Sinner and Musetti, in fact, there are Flavio Cobolli (22), who started training in Melbourne, and Luciano Darderi (24), engaged this week in singular and double at the Auckland Classic AASB, New Zealand. Looking beyond Italy, he also celebrates Alexander Bublik who beat Musetti in the final in Hong Kong and thanks to the title, the ninth in the career major circuit, debuted in Top 10.
This is the top ten of the new Atp ranking:
1. Jannik Sinner (Ita) 12.050 (–)
2. Carlos Alcaraz (Esp) 11,500 (–)
3. Alexander Zverev (Ger) 5.105 (–)
4. Novak Djokovic (Srb) 4.780 (–)
5. Lorenzo Musetti (Ita) 4.105 (+2)
6. Alex De Minaur (Aus) 4.080 (–)
7. Felix Auger-Aliassime (Can) 3.990 (-2)
8. Ben Shelton (Usa) 3.960 (–)
9. Taylor Fritz (Use) 3.840 (–)
10. Alexander Bublik (Kaz) 3.065 (–)
So the other Italians:
22. Flavio Cobolli 1.995 (–)
24. Luciano Darderi 1.579 (–)
40. Lorenzo Sonego 1.240 (-1)
56. Matteo Berrettini 945 (-1)
65. Matteo Arnaldi 858 (-4)
76. Mattia Bellucci 758 (-3)
108. Luca Nardi 561 (-3)
138. Andrea Pellegrino 438 (+1)
140. Francesco Passaro 436 (–)
141. Francesco Maestrelli 436 (-3)
PAOLINI RISALE AL SETTIMO POSTO WTA
Small variations in a three-color key in the women’s world chart published this morning by the WTA 500 in Brisbane and the 250 in Auckland. Also this week are always two blues among the first hundred. Tricolor leader is still Jasmine Paolini: the 29-year-old of Bagni di Lucca dates a step and is again seventh. Behind her, she earned a position Elisabetta Cocciaretto, now number 80, while she lost a Lucia Bronzetti, exited at the end of October last from the top one hundred: the Romagna is 106th. Several armchair changes in the world ten. Aryna Sabalenka, for the 65th consecutive week (the overall 73rd: it had already been from 11 September to 5 November 2023): the 27-year-old of Minsk, thanks to the success bis in Brisbane, brings to 2.662 points the advantage on Iga Swiatek, winner with his Poland of the United Cup 2026: the 24-year-old of Warsaw, former world tennis queen, had lost its leadership in October of 2024 after 125 weeks overall (the last 50 consecutive). On the third step of the podium goes back the American Coco Gauff, detached of 1,905 points from the Polish. The 21-year-old born in Atlanta, Georgia, passes the compatriot Amanda Anisimova, fourth.
The new “master” Elena Ribakina can be found in fifth position: behind the kazaka there is Jessica Pegula, sixth. Immediately behind the 31-year-old from Buffalo comes Jasmine Paolini, seventh, which recovers a position. Mirra Andreeva takes a step forward, just 35 points away from the blue: the 18-year-old Russian precedes the fourth American in the world elite, Madison Keys, who sees himself subtracting the points of Adelaide 2025’s victory, loses two positions and is ninth. After more than three years, Belinda Bencic has a top ten place, thanks to the second place with Switzerland in United Cup, earns a position and is tenth closing the world elite.
This is the top ten of the new Wta ranking:
1. Aryna Sabalenka (Blr) 10.990 (–)
2. Iga Swiatek (Pol) 8.328 (–)
3. Coco Gauff (Usa) 6.423 (+1)
4. Amanda Anisimova (Usa) 6.320 (-1)
5. Elena Rybakina (Kaz) 5.850 (–)
6. Jessica Pegula (Usa) 5.453 (–)
7. Jasmine Paolini (Ita) 4.267 (+1)
8. Mirra Andreeva (Rus) 4.232 (+1)
9. Madison Keys (Use) 4.003 (-2)
10. Belinda Bencic (Sui) 3.512 (+1)
So the other Italians:
80. Elisabetta Cocciaretto 849 (+1)
106. Lucia Bronzetti 728 (-1)
139. Lucrezia Stefanini 518 (-3)
164. Nuria Brancaccio 430 (-3)
214. Silvia Ambrosio 336 (-1)
225. Camilla Rosatello 325 (-10)
228. Jessica Pieri 318 (-2)
234. Tyra Caterina Grant 309 (–)
238. Lisa Pigato 303 (+28)
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