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Tennis | Rankings Report | Djokovic suffers rankings drop despite Wimbledon victory

Tony Fairbairn

Tennis

July 11, 2022

By Tony Fairbairn

Djokovic drops to seven in world rankings after ATP’s decision not to award ranking points at Wimbledon
Hurkacz, Shapovalov and Berrettini are also the biggest losers on the men’s side in the recent rankings after their results last year
Jabeur and Kerber suffer the biggest drops on the women’s side despite the Tunisian reaching Maiden Grand Slam final

LONDON, ENGLAND – Novak Djokovic is one of the biggest losers of the ATP’s decision to not award ranking points at Wimbledon despite claiming a seventh title at SW19.

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ATP Rankings and Brits Top 10

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Novak Djokovic headlines this week’s rankings update on the men’s side but for the wrong reasons after the Serb is the biggest loser from the ATP’s decision to not award ranking points at Wimbledon. Djokovic won a 21^st Grand Slam title at SW19 and a fourth Wimbledon in a row with a four set victory over Nick Kyrgios in a high-quality final. Another amazing achievement for Djokovic given the tough year he’s been through, this was an emotional victory for the Serb.

In a normal year Djokovic would collect 2000 ranking points as well as another Grand Slam title and would keep his place as world number three. However Tennis’ decision not to award players ranking points as a result of Wimbledon’s banning of Russian and Belarusian players means that the Serb has now dropped to world number seven. This could yet have further ranking implications for Djokovic as due to his vaccination status, he will not be competing at the US Open in September as it stands and is set to lose more ranking points.

Due to last year’s semi-final performances there have also been a drop in the rankings for Matteo Berrettini, Hubert Hurkacz and Denis Shapovalov. All three players would have suffered this fate given their results at Wimbledon this year with Berrettini not playing the tournament due to COVID. The Italian has slipped to 15 in the world while Hurkacz moves down two place to 12 in the world and Shapovalov moves down to 23 in the world.

Other noticeable ranking news to mention is that despite not playing the tournament, Daniil Medvedev and Alexander Zverev head into the US hard court season as the world’s top two players. Meanwhile despite reaching his first Grand Slam final, Kyrgios will drop five places to 45 in the world. Cristian Garin and Sebastian Korda will be disappointed to see they’ve dropped 13 places to 56 and 59 in the world respectively especially for Garin given he reached the quarter-finals at SW19.

Onto the Brits and it was a phenomenal tournament for Cameron Norrie as he reached his first Grand Slam semi-final. Norrie would have made the top ten if ranking points were at stake but the Brit still climbs up one place to 11 in the world as he looks to carry the momentum into the US. Meanwhile Dan Evans drops two places in the rankings, Jack Draper climbs up five places with Andy Murray keeping his place at 52 in the world.

ATP

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Daniil Medvedev (RUS) – 7,775 points
Alexander Zverev (GER) – 6,850
Rafael Nadal (ESP) – 6,165
Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) – 5,150
Casper Ruud (NOR) – 5,050
Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) – 4,845
Novak Djokovic (SRB) – 4,770
Andrey Rublev (RUS) – 3,700
Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) – 3,445
Jannik Sinner (ITA) – 3,185

ATP Brits

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Cameron Norrie (11 in the world) – 3,155 points
Dan Evans (35) – 1,128
Andy Murray (52) – 915
Jack Draper (89) – 627
Ryan Peniston (127) – 440
Liam Broady (140) – 406
Jay Clarke (160) – 338
Paul Jubb (213) – 256
Alastair Gray (280) – 173
Billy Harris (325) – 144

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WTA Rankings and Brits Top 10

Moving onto the women’s tour and Elena Rybakina claimed her first Grand Slam title with a three set victory over Ons Jabeur. The Kazakh’s fearless, hard-hitting tennis saw her claim victory and history as she became the first singles player from Kazakhstan to win a Grand Slam title. Rybakina would have moved into the world’s top 20 had ranking points been up for grabs but the Kazakh stays at world number 23.

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As for Jabeur, she produced magical tennis to take advantage of Iga Swiatek’s exit as she reached her first Grand Slam final. Despite this the Tunisian moves down three places to five in the world as she aims to reclaim her spot in the world’s top two at the US Open. The other big loser from the rankings was Angelique Kerber with last year’s semi-finalist moving down 12 places to 31 in the world.

Most of the world’s top 20 moved up a place in the world rankings despite their being no ranking points at this year’s tournament. However other noticeable changes sees Karolina Pliskova move down eight places to 15 in the world while Naomi Osaka enters the world’s top 40 and Swiatek has a 4,000 point lead over Anett Kontaveit heading into the final parts of the year.

Finally in Brits news, Emma Raducanu’s climbed into the world’s top ten despite her second round exit to Caroline Garcia while deep Wimbledon runs from Katie Boulter and Heather Watson were met with contrasting ranking results. Boulter drops 13 places in the rankings to 131 in the world while Watson moves up two places to 119 in the world. While Katie Swan plummets down 26 spots in the rankings to 210.