Nagel has reached new heights and the wolf is hungry

ATP Rankings (12/02/24): Nagal reaches new peak, leaves Wolf Hungry

Three matches took place on the main tour this week, resulting in a total of 10 new top 100 career-highs in the most recent update of the ATP Rankings.

The ATP 250 events in question took place in Marseille, Dallas and Córdoba, resulting in Ugo Humbert, Tommy Paul and Luciano Darderi as champions respectively.

Maintaining his 100% record in ATP singles finals (5/5), Humbert rose three places to a career best ranking of world No.18 and regained his status as French No.1.

Masterclass in Marseille????@HumbertUgo He is unbeaten in his last 5 tour-level finals, defeating Dimitrov 6-4 6-3. @Open13 Title!#Open13Provence pic.twitter.com/M7N8hOjQfW

— ATP Tour (@atptour) February 11, 2024

Big movers

After winning his first ATP title since qualifying on the clay of Córdoba, the aforementioned Tarteri is the biggest upward mover of the week.

The 21-year-old, playing only his third main draw ATP tournament, rose 60 places to 76th as a result.

Tarteri is now one of six Italians in the world's top 100 and will be looking to continue his rise in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires this week.

Despite not playing on a major ATP tour this week, Indian player Sumit Nagal managed to break into the top 100 for the first time in his career.

Nagal was ranked outside the top 500 in February last year, but climbed 23 places to 98th after winning his fifth ATP Challenger title in Chennai.

Welcome to Top 100, @NagalSumit! ????

Weeks after becoming the first Indian man to beat a seed in a major in 35 years, ???????? Sumit Nagal has now secured his first 100 debut by winning the 5th Challenger title of his career in Chennai. ????

He was ranked #509 a year ago:

— Dennis (@dennis) February 11, 2024

Marcos Girone (+15 to No.52), Yoshihido Nishioka (+6 to No.77), Facundo Diaz Acosta (+8 to No.87), James Duckworth (+9 to No.97), this week Notable upward movers. ) and Facundo Bagnis (+69 to no.138).

On the other side of the coin is JJ Wolf, who was unable to defend his semi-final spot from Dallas last year and fell 18 spots to 94th.

Albert Ramos-Vinolas (-15 to No.99), Federico Correa (-13 to No.106) and Quentin Hollis (-10 to No.111) weren't the only Americans to fall in the rankings this week. ), Tomas Barrios Vera (-12 to No.120), Liam Brady (-23 to No.121) and Hugo Dellien (-23 to No.136) also do.

ATP Rankings Top 20 (12/02/24)

Here are the current top 20 ranked players after this week's action:

ranking	player	Matches played	points
1	Novak Djokovic	19	9,855
2	Carlos Algaraz	18	9,255
3	Daniel Medvedev	21	8,765
4	Jannik Pavi	21	8,070
5	Andrei Rublev	24	5,050
6	Alexander Zverev	27	5,030
7	Holkar Rune	23	3,695
8	Hubert Hurcox	25	3,595
9	Taylor Fritz	25	3,150
10	Stephanos Tsitsipas	24	3,025
11	Alex de Minar	25	2,970
12	Casper Root	23	2,965
13	Grigor Dimitrov	24	2,905
14	Tommy Paul	27	2,255
15	Francis Thiafoe	22	2,065
16	Ben Sheldon	28	2,055
17	Karen Kachanov	22	2,010
18	Hugo Humbert	27	1,990
19	Adrian Mannarino	30	1,975
20	Cameron Norrie	25	1,820

For a full list of rankings, visit Official ATP website

Race to the ATP Finals in Turin (12/02/24).

The ATP Finals is a highly anticipated event that concludes every year, featuring the top eight singles players and doubles teams of the tennis season.

Not much has changed again after this week, although Jannik Sinner will have a chance to extend his lead in Rotterdam:

1. Jannik Sinner – 2000 points

2. Daniil Medvedev – 1300 points

3. Alexander Zverev – 1135 points

4. Novak Djokovic – 860 points

5. Andrei Rublev – 650 points

6. Hubert Hurkacz – 650 points

7. Grigor Dimitrov – 515 points

8. Alex de Minar – 465 points

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9. Taylor Fritz – 445 points

10. Carlos Algaraz – 400 points

Next week

More points are on offer this week at the historic ATP 500 event on Rotterdam's hard courts.

It is here that Australian Open champion and 2023 runner-up Jannik Sinner will attempt to win his first major title.

Rotterdam will be joined by two ATP 250 events in Buenos Aires and Delray Beach, featuring Carlos Algarz, Taylor Fritz and Francis Tiafoe.

Also read – Tennis on TV next week: How to watch WTA Doha, ATP Rotterdam and more!

The ATP Rankings track and rank all players on tour over a 52-week period. Points are awarded for performance, with larger tournaments awarding more points throughout the year.

Those rankings are used to determine many things, such as tournament seeding and who qualifies for the season-ending ATP Finals in Turin.

ATP ranking points awarded/tournament

With some minor changes for the 2024 season, the following points are awarded for tournaments at various tiers of the ATP Tour:

Competition type	W	F	SF	QF	R16	R32	R64	R128	K
ATP Tour
Grand Slam	2000	1300	800	400	200	100	50	10	30
ATP Finals	+900 (Max 1500)	+400 (Max 1000)	200 for each round robin match win (Max 600)
ATP Masters 1000	1000	650	400	200	100	50	10 (30)	(10)	30 (20)
ATP 500	500	330	200	100	50	(25)			25 (16)
ATP 250	250	165	100	50	25	(13)			13 (8)

Permitted Matches

To prevent players from manipulating the rankings by playing a large number of smaller tournaments, only 19 tournaments are allowed throughout the year to make up the rankings.

That number does not include ATP Finals, which are considered an additional earned opportunity to win ranking points. However, larger and more prestigious tournaments are considered 'compulsory' entries. For example, if a player loses in a Grand Slam round, they are not allowed to drop out of the rankings in favor of the ATP 250 that earned them the most points.

Therefore, players competing in all mandatory events in a season will have the following breakdown of acceptable ranking points:

4 Grand Slams
8 Masters 1000
7 'Best Other' shows

Rankings always cover the previous 52-week period, so any points are deducted from a player's total. However, that player will have the opportunity to 'protect' their points by repeating or improving on their previous performance.

A player who was a losing finalist at the US Open in 2023 will have 1200 points deducted from their ranking after the end of 2024. Those points will then be replaced by those won in the 2024 tournament.

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