On April 25, Beijing time, ATP officially announced the latest edition of the world rankings. Last week' ATP Tour consisted of two Open tournaments in Barcelona and Serbia, with Alcaraz and Rublev successfully lifting the trophy. Since the tournament points are not high, there is not much change from this week's ranking compared to the previous edition.
Djokovic, who regretted missing out on the title in his hometown of Belgrade, continued to rank first in the world this week. It was the 367th week of Djokovic's career and he continued to set new records held by himself. The same unchanged places from 2nd to 8th places remained Medvedev, Zverev, Nadal, Tsitsipas, Beretini, Rud and Rublev.
It is worth mentioning that on Monday Nadal's consecutive world top ten has accumulated to exactly 17 years. On 25 April 2005, Nadal made his first top 10 finish in the world, and he has never fallen out of the top 10 since. This week Nadal has accumulated the number of consecutive world top ten weeks to 866 weeks.
The biggest surprise of the week came from Spain's talented teenager Alcaraz, who ranked the 18-year-old in the top ten in the world for the first time after winning the Barcelona Open last week. Coincidentally, on the same day 17 years ago, Nadal was among the TOP10 for the first time with Barcelona's championship-winning performance.
There are two players in the world's top 100 who have risen more than 10 places this week, and Italian veteran Fognini reached the final four in Serbia, and after scoring 90 points, he improved his ranking by 12 places, and was latest ranked 50th in the world. The other is Rusuvoeri, who reached the round of 16 in Barcelona last week and rose 10 places this week to 63rd in the world.
The biggest drop this week was the former clay prince Tim, who suffered a round trip at last week's Serbia Open, and after deducting 500 points from Barcelona in 2019, Thiem plummeted 39 places, and this week he has reached 93rd in the world.