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Novak Djokovic and Ashleigh Barty continue to dominate WTA rankings

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Novak Djokovic and Ashleigh Barty
Novak Djokovic and Ashleigh Barty

Novak Djokovic and Ashleigh Barty continue to reign the men’s and women’s rankings separately, while Alexander Zverev’s new Cincinnati win has assisted him with dislodging Rafael Nadal from the No. 4 spot.

The ATP and WTA visits distributed their most recent world rankings on Monday, with a couple of critical changes in the both records.

Novak Djokovic won the initial three Majors of the period, which is the reason he is serenely in front of the pack in spite of being down and out since his disappointing Tokyo Olympics crusade.

The Serb started his record-expanding 335th week as World No. 1 on Monday, and is presently just 43 weeks from equalling the unsurpassed record of 377 weeks which is as of now held by Steffi Graf.

Despite the fact that he sat out of the Canada and Toronto Masters, Novak Djokovic will go to the US Open as the firm top choice. The 34-year-old is wanting to turn into the principal male player since Rod Laver to win every one of the four Majors around the same time.

Novak Djokovic is trailed by Daniil Medvedev at No. 2 and Stefanos Tsitsipas at No. 3 – both of whom were crushed in the elimination rounds of the current week’s Cincinnati Masters.

Cincinnati champion Alexander Zverev, who likewise won the Olympic gold medal and is right now on a 11-match series of wins, has climbed one spot to No. 4. Zverev is presently only one bar underneath his profession best positioning of No. 3.

The past No. 4, Rafael Nadal, has been pushed to the No. 5 spot – his most reduced positioning since May 2017. Nadal is right now away from the visit and will skirt the remainder of the 2021 season because of his foot injury.

There is no adjustment of the remainder of the main 10, with Dominic Thiem (No. 6), Andrey Rublev (No. 7), Matteo Berrettini (No. 8), Roger Federer (No. 9) and Denis Shapovalov (No. 10) balancing the top 10.

Felix Auger-Aliassime climbed two points to another vocation high positioning of No. 15, while two previous top 10 players – Grigor Dimitrov and Gael Monfils – got back to the best 20. Dimitrov climbed three spots to No. 18 and Monfils climbed two positions to No. 20.

On the WTA visit, Ashleigh Barty started her 55th successive week and 90th in general at the highest point of the rankings list. Ashleigh Barty’s rule at No. 1 is now the 10th longest in women’s tennis history.

Aryna Sabalenka, in the mean time, has supplanted Naomi Osaka to arrive at another vocation high positioning of No. 2. Osaka neglected to guard her next in line points from Cincinnati last year, and will make a beeline for the New York Slam with the chance of meeting Barty before the final.

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