Less than a month from the ATP Finals, Italy maintains two top 10 and four players among the top thirty in the world. Jannik Sinner is number 2 and, after the performance in Saudi Arabia, he is expected on the field at the ATP 500 in Vienna and at the Masters 1000 in Paris where he should meet again with Carlos Alcaraz, who after the Chinese tournaments remains firmly at the top of the rankings. If Sinner wins the two titles in Austria and France he will return world number 1 but only for a week.
Lorenzo Musetti gains a position, moving up to number 8 after the round of 16 match in Shanghai. Seven other Italians among the top 100: Flavio Cobolli (22), Luciano Darderi (26), Lorenzo Sonego (47), Matteo Berrettini (61), Mattia Bellucci (71), Matteo Arnaldi (74), Luca Nardi (83). Aside from Sinner, they’re all on the field this week. Cobolli, Darderi and Nardi in Almaty; Musetti, Bellucci and Arnaldi in Brussels; Sonego and Berrettini in Stockholm. But the ranking rewards in particular the protagonists of the most unexpected final of the circuit, namely Valentin Vacherot and Arthur Rinderknech. The Monegasque triumphed in Shanghai as world number 204, the lowest-ranked player to win a Masters 1000 and climbed 164 positions, rising to number 40. Rinderknech, his cousin, beaten in the final, gained 26 and became world number 28.