ATP Rankings: Ruud Returns to Top-10 and Draper Explores His Limits

Diego Jiménez Rubio | 5 May 2025 | 09.37

Draper and Ruud Improve ATP Ranking. Photo: gettyimages.

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Frenetic weeks of tennis have been experienced at the 2025 Mutua Madrid Open, with repercussions that are already more than evident and significant in the ATP rankings. Important changes have occurred among the world's best, with positive surprises such as those of Casper Ruud and Jack Draper, and missed opportunities for some of the top players.

Tennis has no memory, and the ATP ranking system is effective both in rewarding good performance and penalizing improvable results. This is evident when observing the changes following the conclusion of the 2025 Mutua Madrid Open, a decisive tournament for the remainder of the clay court tour, where Casper Ruud and Jack Draper emerge as great beneficiaries. Let's take a detailed look at how the official ranking stands.

- Sinner maintains a huge lead in the ranking, and Draper storms into the top 5 displacing Djokovic

Logic indicated that after a three-month suspension from competing, the Italian would have relinquished the world number 1 spot this Monday, May 5th, but nothing could be further from the truth. He holds a significant margin over his pursuers, Alexander Zverev and Carlos Alcaraz, who occupy the podium of a circuit where the fourth-ranked player is light-years away from them. Taylor Fritz retains that position while Jack Draper storms into the top 5, displacing Djokovic.

- Ruud emphatically returns to the top 10, as Musetti enters the group for the first time

A glorious week for the Norwegian, whose reaction to falling out of the top ten in the world has been so decisive that he now appears in seventh place on this Monday following his title in Madrid. This is coupled with the first-time entrance of Lorenzo Musetti, who lays the groundwork for a splendid career, especially on clay courts, placing himself in the ninth position on the table. Holger Rune closes this exclusive club, with Medvedev and Paul not far behind.

- Major casualties of the week in the ATP ranking

The early exits of last year's two finalists have caused them to drop positions and lose many points in their rankings. Andrey Rublev falls from 8th place to 17th, while Félix Auger-Aliassime drops eight places from 19th to 27th. There are also bad news for Tsitsipas, who continues to struggle, now at the 19th spot globally, with his top-20 status threatened, a group from which Jiri Lehecka has distanced himself, falling from 27th to 38th place.

- What have been the most notable improvements of the week?

Highly significant is the fact that Francisco Cerúndolo achieved his best-ever ranking, now at 18th in the world, laying the groundwork for a desired climb into the top 10. Alejandro Davidovich and Brandon Nakashima (29, his best position) take an important step towards being seeded at Roland Garros. Matteo Arnaldi and Gabriel Diallo make great strides in the rankings, with the Canadian moving from 78th to 54th. Borna Coric's return to the top 100 is remarkable, now at 84th globally after winning in Aix-en-Provence, while Reilly Opelka also re-enters this club.