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Sinner finishes as No. 1 of the year; Zverev and Alcaraz complete the Top 3 and the former #NextGenATP shine
Sinner is the first Italian No. 1 in history
December 02, 2024
Corinne Dubreuil/ATP Tour
Jannik Sinner celebrated his title as ATP Year-End No. 1 presented by PIF (No. 1 at the end of 2024) in Turin.
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The ATP today published the PIF ATP Rankings at the end of the year 2024 on ATPTour.com, with Jannik Sinner as ATP Year-End No. 1 presented by PIF (No. 1 at the end of the year) for the first time.
The Italian began the season by winning his first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open, which served as a springboard. In June, he became the first player from his country to reach No. 1 in the history of the PIF ATP Rankings (since 1973) and has remained at the top ever since.
Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev have put pressure on the 23-year-old Italian throughout the season, but Sinner has held his own. He won eight titles this season, including his first two Grand Slams (Australian Open and US Open), as well as the Nitto ATP Finals, in a great end to the year.
Sinner began the 2024 season as No. 4 in the world and with 10 titles under his belt. In a single year he almost doubled that number of trophies, also winning three ATP Masters 1000 (Miami, Cincinnati and Shanghai), as well as two ATP 500 tournaments (Rotterdam and Halle).
The Italian has accumulated 26 weeks as world No. 1, which places him 17th among the 29 players who are part of the prestigious No. 1 club. Novak Djokovic, who finished last season as ATP Year-End No. 1 presented by PIF, retained the top position until June, when Sinner stormed the throne.
Djokovic extended his record of weeks at the top to 428. This is the Serbian’s seventeenth presence in the Top 10 of the PIF ATP Rankings at the end of the year, leaving him in third position only surpassed by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal (18 each). .
No. 3 Alcaraz is the third player to finish in the Top 3 three times before turning 22. The other two players who achieved it were Bjorn Borg (1974-77) and Nadal (2005-07). The Spaniard won Roland Garros and Wimbledon to become the youngest to win in a Grand Slam on all three surfaces: hard court, clay and grass.
No. 1 Sinner, No. 2 Zverev and No. 4 Taylor Fritz finished at the highest position of their careers in the PIF ATP Rankings at the end of a year. Zverev became the third German to finish in the Top 2, along with Boris Becker and Michael Stich.
For Fritz it was also a season in which he broke barriers, being the first American to finish in the Top 4 since James Blake did so in 2006 in that same position. Fritz appeared in his first Grand Slam final at the US Open and reached the final round at the Nitto ATP Finals for the first time.
For his part, No. 5 Daniil Medvedev has managed to finish in the Top 5 in five of the last six seasons. He was a finalist at the Australian Open, marking his fourth consecutive year reaching a Grand Slam final.
Alex de Minaur is the only new face in the Top 10 at the end of the year, after rising to a career-high position of No. 6 in July. He became the first Australian to break into the Top 10 of the PIF ATP Rankings since Lleyton Hewitt did so in 2000. It is the second year in a row that there has only been one player finishing in the Top 10 for the first time (Frances Tiafoe in 2023).
Two players returned to the Top 10 at the end of the season: No. 6 Casper Ruud (third time) and No. 10 Grigor Dimitrov (second time). The seven-year gap between Dimitrov’s first and last appearance marks the longest period of time in the year-end Top 10 in the history of the PIF ATP Rankings.
Seventeen players who finished the year in the Top 20 have qualified or competed in the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF. Two of the Top 3, world No. 1 Sinner (2019) and world No. 3 Alcaraz (2021) won the title.
TOP 10 OF THE PIF ATP RANKINGS AT THE END OF 2024
1) Jannik Sensesr – Becomes the first Italian to win the ATP Year-End No. 1 presented by PIF. He has not left the first position since he reached it on June 10.
2) Alexander Zverev – Finished the year in the Top 2 for the first time, becoming the first German to do so since Michael Stich in 1993.
3) Carlos Alcaraz – Finished the year in the Top 3 for the third consecutive season.
4) Taylor Fritz – He rose to No. 4 as his highest position, becoming the fifth American of the century to finish in the Top 5. He joins his name with those of Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick and James Blake.
5) Daniil Medvedev – Finishes as Top 5 for the fifth time since 2019.
6) Casper Ruud – Returns to the Top 10 at the end of the year, after finishing 2023 at No. 11.
7) Novak Djokovic – He has finished in the Top 10 for 17 years, in a season in which he won the Olympic gold medal in Paris. At 37 years old, he is the third oldest player to finish in the Top 10, after Ken Rosewall (1973-75) and Federer (2019-20).
8) Andrey Rublev – Maintains its consistency, finishing in the Top 10 for the fifth year in a row.
9) Alex de Miñaur – Enters the Top 10 for the first time at the end of the year, being the first Australian to do so since Lleyton Hewitt was No. 4 in 2005.
10) Grigor Dimitrov – Returns to the Top 10 at the end of the year for the first time since 2017, when he was No. 3 in the world.
Curious facts about the PIF ATP Rankings at the end of the year 2024
• Jacob Fearnley made the biggest jump in the Top 100, moving up 539 spots from No. 638 to No. 99.
• Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard secured the biggest rise in the Top 50, going from No. 206 to No. 31, or in other words, rising 175 positions.
• Gael Monfils, at 38 years old, is the oldest player in the Top 100 at the end of the year at No. 55. The Frenchman finished 2023 at No. 74.
• There were two players under the age of 20 who finished in the Top 100: both Jakub Mensik and Shang Juncheng, at 19, will debut at the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF in Jeddah from December 18 to 22. Mensik, the youngest at 19 years and three months, debuted in his first ATP Tour final in Doha and finished the year as No. 48, while Shang (19 years and 10 months), became the second Chinese player to win an ATP Tour title in Chengdu and finishes at No. 50.
• Five players rose at least 100 positions to finish the year in the Top 100: Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (+175), Jakub Mensik (+118), Shang Juncheng (+135), Buyunchaokete (+103) and Jacob Fearnley (+540 ).
• 15 players aged 22 or younger finished in the Top 100. It is the ninth consecutive season in which there are at least a dozen players of this age who achieve it.
• 12 players from France finished the year in the Top 100, being the country with the most representatives. Two of them finished in the Top 20: No. 14 Ugo Humbert and No. 20 Arthur Fils.
The 2025 ATP Tour season begins on December 27, 2024 with the United Cup, which will take place in the Australian cities of Perth and Sydney.
Consult the complete PIF ATP Rankings at the end of the year 2024
Source: https://www.atptour.com/es/news/year-end-pif-atp-rankings-2024-release
