Quebec’s Félix Auger-Aliassime is back at sixth in the men’s tennis world rankings after moving up four places in Monday’s update.
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“FAA” thus reached its personal career high, which it held at the beginning of the calendar year.
Lost to the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, the new number 1 in the ATP circuit, in the quarterfinals of the Indian Wells tournament on Friday with 3415 points.
With that, the 7420 of the new leader who passed Novak Djokovic is dormant in California due to his vaccination status, which prevented him from competing.
Stefanos Tsitsipas and Casper Ruud stayed in third and fourth, while Daniil Medvedev moved up a position and finished in the top five.
Also, Rafael Nadal is now 13th, four notches down.
The last time the Mallorcan was kept out of the world’s top 10 group was in April 2005.
Canadian Denis Shapovalov retained 30th place.
In the women’s, Quebec’s Leylah Annie Fernandez dropped four places to finish in 53rd place.
His compatriot Bianca Andreescu is 31 thanks to a progression of five levels. The WTA hierarchy is still dominated by the Pole Iga Swiatek.