ATP: The race to London is getting tougher

While almost everything is clear for the women in terms of the participants in the season finale, there are still some decisions to be made in the men’s singles.

Strictly speaking, David Goffin is still 150 points short of a place in the ATP tour finals in London: Although the Belgian is still in 13th place in the “Race to London” after his triumph in Shenzhen, the first tournament victory since 2014 in Metz, the annual ranking still leads Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka ahead of Goffin.And Andy Murray, too.With Djokovic and Wawrinka the situation is clear, they will not serve in 2017.Whether the Scottish Olympic champion will return is open.Sam Querrey would be the last player to qualify at the moment – and the US player has a 150-point advantage over Goffin.

Greater clarity could already emerge after this week, most of the London aspirants are either in Tokyo (as with the Austrian number one, Dominic Thiem) or in Beijing (such as Alexander Zverev), with a maximum of 500 points available for both events.

In the “regular” ATP world rankings, there have been no changes among the top ten players, Goffin has only equal points to the tenth place, Pablo Carreno Busta, and Alexandr Dolgopolov, the final loser of Shenzhen, has made up nine places and the Ukrainian is now number 44.Denis Istomin, winner in Chengdu, improved by 25 places to 53rd position.

Also successful in Shenzhen: Alexander Peya.The 37-year-old Austrian had doubled at Rajeev Ram’s side – and worked his way up the world rankings by 17 places.Peya is now number 54 in the world.

Here is the current ATP world ranking list in detail

Here is the current ATP world ranking list in doubles