Carlos Alcaraz begins his eighth consecutive week at the top of the ATP rankings on Monday. A condition that, unless there is a big surprise, it seems that she will also keep after the Masters 1000 in Paris. since most of his main pursuers have moved away on points from the Murcian in recent tournaments, and this would allow him to face the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin (November 13-20) as world number one.

Despite his fall in the semi-finals of the Basel tournament against Auger-Aliassime, Alcaraz leaves the Swiss tournament with the same points he had last week, 6,730. A figure that allows him to stay at the top of tennis for another week and that gives him plenty of opportunities to stay on top of the leaderboard next week after the Masters 1000 in Paris.

The only tennis player who could take Alcaraz’s number one after the Paris tournament is Rafa Nadal. The Balearic appears one more week in second position in the standings with 5,810 points, which allows him to have distant options to regain number one in Paris. Nadal’s only option occurs as Alcaraz fall in the second round or round of 16 of the tournament and Nadal wins one of the few titles that still eludes him on his record, which would leave him with a hypothetical 6,810 points.

The ranking also leaves us this week with the return to the podium of the Russian Daniil Medvedev, who with the 500 points obtained as champion of the Vienna tournament is third with 5,655, just 155 points behind Nadal. However, it will be a short-lived approach for the Russian, since, while waiting for the results he obtains in Paris, Medvedev will lose 1,600 points. next week as a runner-up in Paris in 2021 and a runner-up at last year’s ATP Finals. Medvedev’s promotion takes Casper Ruud off the podium, who has been losing steam since the US Open final and appears this week in fourth place with 5,510 points.

In the rest of the Top-10, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alexander Zverev and Novak Djokovic remain fifth, sixth and seventh respectively while thThe Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime moved up to eighth position after his victory at the Basel tournament. The Russian Andrey Rublev and the Pole Hubert Hurkacz, who this week surpasses the American Taylor Fritz, close this week the Top-10 of the ATP ranking.

This week’s ATP rankings also leave us with exciting news: Dominic Thiem’s ​​return to the Top 100who continues to try to leave behind him the ordeal of injuries of the last two years and who closes this week appears in position 100 of the classification with the illusion of continuing to climb positions to be in the main tournaments of the circuit.

ATP Ranking as of October 31, 2022

1. Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) 6,730

2. Rafael Nadal (ESP) 5,810

3. Daniel Medvedev 5,655

4. Casper Ruud (NOR) 5,510

5. Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 5,035

6. Alexander Zverev (EFA) 4,360

7. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 4,320

8. Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) 3,725

9. Andrei Rublev 3,685

10. Hubert Hurkacz (POL) 3,220

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14. Pablo Carreno (ESP) 2,450

20. Roberto Bautista (ESP) 1,940

32. Alexander Davidovich (ESP) 1,300

39. Albert Ramos (ESP) 1,085

56. Jaume Munar (ESP) 839

60. Pedro Martinez (ESP) 785

78. Bernabé Zapata (ESP) 696

79. Roberto Carballes (ESP) 695

100. Dominic Thiem (AUT) 561

Medvedev secures his ticket to the final with Alcaraz, Nadal and Djokovic

The dispute over the Basel and Vienna tournaments has left us with a sixth ranked tennis player for the Nitto ATP Finals: Daniil Medvedev. The Russian, champion of the ATP Finals in 2020, added 500 points in Vienna which guarantee him to be in Turin. Medvedev is thus the sixth ranked tennis player for the final after Carlos Alcaraz, Rafa Nadal, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Casper Ruud and Novak Djokovic.

With Medvedev’s classification, There are only two places left for the Nitto ATP Finals, which will be decided according to the results of the Masters 1000 in Paris. Some places which, provisionally, correspond to Felix Auger-Aliassime and Andrey Rublev as sixth and seventh ranked in the Rece, but the two tennis players cannot lose each other as Taylor Fritz and Hubert Hurkacz still have options to secure one of the two remaining tickets to the final.

Race in Turin on October 31, 2022

1. Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) 6,650*

2. Rafael Nadal (ESP) 5,820*

3. Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 5,000*

4. Casper Ruud (NOR) 4,940*

5. Daniel Medvedev 4,065*

6. Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) 3,645

7. Andrei Rublev 3,450

8. Taylor Fritz (USA) 2,920

9. Hubert Hurkacz (POL) 2,870

10. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 2,730*

*Tennis players have qualified for the Nitto ATP Finals 2022. In the case of Novak Djokovic, he is ranked Wimbledon champion after finishing in the top 20 of the year (ATP did not add the 2 000 champion points to the Serbian in London).