In the race for the places for the season finale in London there are still some decisions to be made.In the official world ranking Dominic Thiem has reached a new career high.
Basically, it is nuances that make the current rankings more important: Marin Cilic, for example, with his semi-final participation in Shanghai, has approached Dominic Thiem with almost 200 points, not to mention in the annual ranking.Both players will be at the start of the season finale in London, although the participation of the Croatian could still be prevented.Grigor Dimitrov was overtaken by Cilic, but in sixth place the Bulgarian has an excellent chance to make his debut in the O2 Arena.
What is important is that the annual score plus points scored in London is taken into the short winter break, which has a significant influence on the seed list at the Australian Open.Rafael Nadal is likely to lead the match unless the Spaniard misses a ball in 2017 and Roger Federer hits everyone.And that’s something like the Shanghai final.
Alexander Zverev will be the third bus to London – and there he will try to secure this position.The distance to Federer is too great at the top, and the German enjoys a comfortable cushion on Thiem.He will meet him again at the Erste Bank Open 500 in Vienna.
With sixth place in the regular world rankings, Austria’s number one has reached a new career high, Novak Djokovic is slowly falling behind due to his absence.Juan Martin del Potro is once again a member of the world’s top 20 pros, the semi-final round in Shanghai lifted the Argentinean to 19th place.
From a German point of view, Mischa Zverev and Philipp Kohlschreiber follow in places 30 and 32, Maximilian Torterer finishes in the top 100.
Austria’s number two remains Sebastian Ofner as 135th, Gerald Melzer has made up 14 places with the semi-final at the Challenger in Buenos Aires, the Lower Austrian is now in 142nd place.
Here is the current ATP world ranking list