PARIS: Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz climbed another place to number 4 in the ATP world ranking on Monday, just behind his legendary compatriot Rafael Nadal.

In spite of losing in three sets on Sunday to Jannik Sinner on the clay final in Umag, where he was defending champion, 19-year-old Alcaraz leapfrogs the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas who slips back to fifth.

Sinner remains 10th in the rankings which are still dominated by the Russian Daniil Medvedev.

Novak Djokovic moved up one place to sixth while Cameron Norrie also edged up one slot to 12th.

SWIATEK STAYS ON TOP

Meanwhile, French Open champion Iga Swiatek rema­ined firmly at the head of the latest WTA rankings, in spite of her shock exit in her home Poland Open last week.

Swiatek had not lost on clay in over a year before going down 6-1, 1-6, 6-4 to France’s Caroline Garcia in the quarter-finals in Warsaw.

The Pole, who has held the top spot since the surprise retirement of Australian Ashleigh Barty at the end of March, remains more than 4,000 points ahead of number two Anett Kontaveit.

With no changes at all in the top 20, the biggest jump was by Garcia whose victory over Ana Bogdan in the final in Warsaw took her from 45th to number 32.

Published in Dawn, August 2nd, 2022

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