Is Jannik Sinner already one of the top 10 players of the ATP rankings area? If the main criteria is number of weeks at No. 1, the answer is “yes.”
Sinner continues to hold the top spot in the PIF ATP Rankings after winning his second consecutive Wimbledon title this past weekend. Sinner has a lead of around 5,000 ranking points over new No. 2 Alexander Zverev – a comfortable margin, though not yet enough to declare victory in the race for year-end No. 1.
Sinner now has 80 total weeks at No. 1. That’s tied with Lleyton Hewitt for 10th on the all-time list, a tie Sinner will break next week. That's ahead of players with more major titles, such as Mats Wilander, Boris Becker, and Stefan Edberg.
ATP winners and losers from the grass-court season
Sinner has also spent markedly more time at No. 1 than his contemporary rival, Carlos Alcaraz. Sinner will likely pass Andre Agassi for ninth place before the year is over and Bjorn Borg soon after that.
Who moved up the ATP rankings during the grass-court season?
After a “Fery” tale run as a wild card to the semifinals at Wimbledon, Arthur Fery moved up more than 100 spots to No. 36. Jan Lennard Struff also benefited from good form on grass. Struff moved up 36 spots to No. 41 after reaching the quarterfinals at the All-England Club.
Frances Tiafoe had the biggest rise within the top 30. He’s now No. 17 after winning the pre-Wimbledon tune-up in Halle and a couple of matches at the All-England Club. He was No. 26 at the start of the grass-court season.
Who moved down?
Karen Khachanov suffered the biggest slide among the top 30, dropping from No. 15 at the start of the grass-court season to No. 26. He won just two matches during grass-court tournaments this summer. He won eight matches on the lawns in 2025.
Who could rise?
No. 9 Flavio Cobolli is mathematically positioned to continue his climb after deep runs at the French Open and Wimbledon, though he will need to show more hard-court acumen than he has to this point in his career.
And you may have heard this before, but if No. 8 Daniil Medvedev can just live up to his seeding at the U.S. Open, he’ll probably climb back into the top five. Medvedev has struggled in majors in recent years, but his week-to-week results are a solid foundation for a top-five ranking.
Who could fall?
Current No. 6 Ben Shelton, who must defend the points he earned by winning the ATP Masters 1000 event in Canada last summer, needs a good result or two to be assured of keeping his spot in the top 10. He missed a chance to build a ranking points buffer by losing his first match at Wimbledon.
There aren’t many ranking points separating the players ranked in the latter half of the top 25. Therefore, the players in that range with the most ranking points at stake – particularly No. 12 Jiri Lehecka, No. 14 Lorenzo Musetti, No. 16 Andrey Rublev and No. 18 Luciano Darderi – will slide quickly without some summer success.
35 years ago this happened
A runner-up finish at Wimbledon was enough to boost Boris Becker to No. 1 for the second – and final – time in his career. Becker held the No. 1 spot for the next nine weeks and finished with a total of 12 weeks at the top spot. He’s still the only men’s player from Germany to reach No. 1.
