With his victory in Rome, Rafael Nadal has returned to the top of the ATP world rankings and overtook Roger Federer. Alexander Zverev remains in third place, but has taken the lead in the annual ranking.
Nadal scored 820 points over last year’s quarter-final loss to Dominic Thiem – and now leads the ranking with 8,770 points. Roger Federer (8,670), Alexander Zverev (5,615) and Marin Cilic (4,950) follow. Dominic Thiem is eighth with 3,195 points.
New top positions include Diego Schwartzman (12th), Kyle Edmund (17th) and Denis Shapovalov (26th). Philipp Kohlschreiber also made up four places and is now world ranked 24th, the same jump made Peter Gojowczyk, who is back on his career high of 49th place. Rudi Molleker shot up 197 places after his sensational victory in Heilbronn and is now in 300th position – higher than ever before.
After the Rome final Alexander Zverev leads the ATP Race to London with 3,135 points ahead of Roger Federer (3,110) and Nadal (3,040). Thiem is sixth (1,625 points).
The men’s ranking at a glance
In the top ten, little has changed: Simona Halep is number one with 7,270 points ahead of Caroline Wozniacki with 6,935 points, Garbine Muguruza with 6,010 points and Rome winner Elina Svitolina with 5,505, only Jelena Ostapenko (rank 6) and Karolina Pliskova (rank 7) have changed places.
Best German remains Julia Görges in 11th place ahead of Angelique Kerber in 12th place, best Austrian Barbara Haas in 195th place.
The ranking of the ladies at a glance