Its Monday again and you know what that means! The ATP rankings are out!
The obvious big mover of the week is ATP Toronto Masters finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas.
The Greek player who turned 20 years old yesterday breaks into the ATP top 20 for the first time this week zooming up 12 places to ATP 15th. Only a few months ago Stefanos was ranked outside of the top 50 and really has built his confidence with his run at Wimbledon and now in Canada. Can he finish 2018 inside the top 10?
Juan Martin Del Potro moves up to ATP 3rd for the first time in his career as Alexander Zverev failed to defend all of his Toronto 2017 points. Delpo is one of the most popular players on the tour and is now only approx 1000 points from Roger Federer in 2nd place! Let the battle commence
22 year old Russian Karen Khachanov reached the semi finals in Toronto giving Rafa Nadal a big fight. He is rewarded by moving up to ATP 27th a new career high. Top 20 will be his next target.
Another Russian Daniil Medvedev is also rising back up the rankings to 56th and having just qualified for the Cincinnati Masters this weekend this rise looks set to be boosted further.
Further down the ATP rankings we have a new PB ranking for Belarus player Ilya Ivashka up 25 places to 100th after a good performance in Toronto. He is inexperienced at this level but his confidence will surely be boosted with wins over Sugita and Harrison last week before giving Kevin Anderson a good fight.
Another notable rise this week go to South African Lloyd Harris who continues his form on the ATP Challenger circuit and enters the ATP top 150 for the first time at 146th
Stan Wawrinka rises 44 places back up to ATP 151st and looks to be building his level of play again after struggles with injuries. Wont be long until he is back top 20.
Thanasi Kokkinakis wins the ATP Aptos Challenger and returns to the ATP top 200 up 69 places to 199th. Another Aussie Alex Popyrin wins the Jinan Challenger and the 19 year old powers up 99 places to ATP 211th.
James Ward who has been having success in Asian Challengers reached the final in Jinan and rises back up 53 places to ATP 252nd
Cincinnati Masters this week so expect more big ranking movements next week!
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