Novak Djokovic is the champion of Open the Australia 2023 and, consequently, also the new number one in the ATP ranking. The Serbian tennis player, back in the first Grand Slam of the season after his deportation last year, he was aiming to climb to the top of the rankings if he took the title, his tenth in Melbourneand after the final before Stefanos Tsitsipas will be crowned again as king of the circuit, succeeding Carlos Alcarazwho 20 weeks later gives up his place to Djokovic.
alcaraz He no longer had any mathematical option to continue as number one in the ATP ranking ahead of the update that will take place on Monday, because both Stefanos Tsitsipas as Novak Djokovicultimately the winner, had the squared accounts to take away his position at the top in the event of proclaiming themselves champions of the Open the Australia. Finally it was Nole, ten times king in Melbourne Park, the one that took the cat into the water in an exciting final that returns him to number one.
Djokovic returns to number one in the world and has on the horizon to increase the record of weeks leading the ranking at a historical level, which he snatched long ago from Roger Federer. However, the Serbian’s continuity at the top of the ATP ranking is in doubt for the coming months, due to the opposition of tennis players such as alcaraz, Tsitsipas o Casper Ruud, but also due to the conditions that could again separate him from the closest American tournaments (Masters 1000 in Indian Wells and Masters 1000 in Miami) due to his condition of not being vaccinated against the coronavirus.
This is how the ATP ranking remains
victory in the Open the Australia of Novak Djokovic gives him 2,000 points, all of them to be added due to his absence in the last edition. This amount allows him to rise from fifth place in the ATP ranking to number one, with 7,070 points. In second position is Carlos Alcarazwith 6,730 points and with the –remote– possibility of returning to number one in the coming months, although he defends titles in Rio, Miami, Conde de Godó and Madrid in the first half of the season.
The third drawer of the podium as far as the ATP ranking is concerned is for the finalist of this edition of the Open the Australiaand Stefanos Tsitsipas that has been left just one game away from fulfilling the double dream of winning the first Grand Slam of his sports career and also become number one. Tsitsipas he remains with 6,195, compared to 5,765 for Casper Ruud, number four, and 4,200 for Andrey Rublev, who closes a top-5 in which he is not Rafael Nadalsixth classified with 3,815 points.
