ROMA (ITALPRESS) – It is a historic Monday for Italian tennis. For the first time, in fact, Italy can boast four players among the top 20 in the world. Guide Jannik Sinner, number 2, first Italian able to climb to the top of the ATP ranking. Following Lorenzo Musetti (5) and Flavio Cobolli, who improves his best ranking and climbs to position number 14, as well as celebrating success in Indian Wells in double mixed with Belinda Bencic. The record is made possible by the rise to the 18th place of Luciano Darderi, the 14th Italian player to enter the top 20 of the world in the ATP ranking, since the ATP ranking was introduced in 1973. The first Masters 1000 of the season allowed Sinner to reduce the gap from Carlos Alcaraz, a world leader, from 3.150 to 2,200 points. The blue can not exceed Alcaraz even after Miami, which assigns 1,000 points, and therefore the Spanish champion is sure to match the 66 total weeks by number 1 of Sinner: it will happen next 6 April.
However, the San Candido outclass has no points to defend until the Italian International, while Alcaraz, who confirmed the semi-final reached in Indian Wells in 2025 but suffered against Daniil Medvedev, back in top 10, the first defeat of the season, in the same period he will see the 1,000 points of victory in Montecarlo, 330 in Barcelona and only 10 in Miami.
This is the top ten of the new Atp ranking:
1. Carlos Alcaraz (Esp) 13.550 (–)
2. Jannik Sinner (Ita) 11.350 (–)
3. Novak Djokovic (Srb) 5.370 (–)
4. Alexander Zverev (Ger) 4.905 (–)
5. Lorenzo Musetti (Ita) 4.365 (–)
6. Alex De Minaur (Aus) 4.235 (–)
7. Taylor Fritz (Usa) 4.170 (–)
8. Felix Auger-Aliassime (Can) 4.000 (+1)
9. Ben Shelton (Usa) 3.860 (-1)
10. Daniil Medvedev (Rus) 3.610 (+1)
14. Flavio Cobolli 2.520 (+1)
18. Luciano Darderi 2.084 (+3)
62. Lorenzo Sonego 850 (-1)
68. Matteo Berrettini 800 (-2)
77. Mattia Bellucci 720 (+17)
101. Matteo Arnaldi 625 (-16)
112. Francesco Maestrelli 577 (+3)
128. Andrea Pellegrino 510 (-3)
139. Luca Nardi 444 (-4)
143. Francesco Passaro 431 (-3)
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