Carlos Alcaraz controls his personal future within the battle for No. 1 within the Pepperstone ATP Rankings over the course of the subsequent two weeks. If the Spaniard wins the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, he’ll return to the highest spot on 20 March.
If World No. 2 Alcaraz does something lower than carry the trophy on the season’s first ATP Masters 1000 occasion, Novak Djokovic will stay World No. 1 on 20 March.
Alcaraz final September grew to become the youngest World No. 1 within the historical past of the Pepperstone ATP Rankings. The 19-year-old maintained the place for 20 weeks and completed as year-end World No. 1.
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Should Alcaraz get to No. 1 by profitable Indian Wells, holding onto prime spot received’t be straightforward. Dropping 1,000 factors coming into Miami, the Spaniard would want to efficiently defend his title at Hard Rock Stadium to stay at No. 1 on the conclusion of the ‘Sunshine Swing’.
World No. 3 Stefanos Tsitsipas can be in competition for World No. 1 in March, defending a mixed 135 factors in Indian Wells and Miami. The Greek should win one title and attain one ultimate through the swing to offer himself an opportunity of reaching prime spot for the primary time.
Former World No. 1 Daniil Medvedev fell to World No. 12 on 30 January. He has been on a tear ever since, claiming titles in Rotterdam, Doha and Dubai to surge to World No. 6.
Medvedev enters the ‘Sunshine Swing’ with a chance to proceed his fast ascent. The 27-year-old is defending simply 45 factors at Indian Wells. Since Taylor Fritz is defending 1,000 factors from final 12 months’s championship run, that places Medvedev at World No. 5 within the Pepperstone ATP Live Rankings earlier than a ball is struck.
The former World No. 1 is 1,785 factors behind Casper Ruud. However, with a most 2,000 factors up for grabs in Indian Wells and Miami, and Ruud defending 600 factors from his run to final 12 months’s ultimate, Medvedev has a chance to make a transfer.
Another Top 10 participant with a giant likelihood is Holger Rune. Last 12 months, the Danish star entered Indian Wells qualifying with out an ATP Masters 1000 most important draw win to his identify. He certified and reached the second spherical earlier than falling within the first spherical of qualifying in Miami, totaling 41 factors for the 2 occasions.
Now Rune is aware of what it takes to carry the trophy at this degree having finished so eventually 12 months’s Rolex Paris Masters. The 19-year-old is No. 6 within the Pepperstone ATP Live Rankings, 21 factors forward of Andrey Rublev.
Rafael Nadal on 20 March will drop from the Top 10 within the Pepperstone ATP Rankings for the primary time since breaking into the elite group on 25 April 2005, when he was 18. The Spaniard can have spent a document 912 consecutive weeks within the Top 10.
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