Waiting for the start of the new season, the last ranking of 2021 is practically a photocopy of the previous one (only one variation in the top 300 in the ranking published between Christmas and New Year), with the satisfaction for Italtennis to greet the year with two its exponents in the elite of world tennis.
At the top is Novak Djokovic, who finishes on the throne for the seventh time of the year (a record): the 34-year-old Serbian, who became world number 1 for the first time on 4 July 2011 and in his fifth period at the top of the ranking , after snatching Roger Federer's all-time record, brings his overall number 1 weeks to 353.
There are 2900 points of advantage over the Russian Daniil Medvedev, in turn followed by the German Alexander Zverev, who after the triumph at the ATP Finals in Turin is 800 points from the second seat, where he has never sat before. Then in fourth place the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, who operated on his right elbow last month, preceding the Russian Andrey Rublev, then the Spanish Rafa Nadal (in turn extends the record streak to 849 consecutive weeks in the top ten), the last two results positive at Covid after the exhibition in Abu Dhabi.
Then, stable in seventh position, Matteo Berrettini - who entered the top ten in November 2019 -, 307 points behind Manacor's southpaw. In eighth place (408 points from the blue) the Norwegian Casper Ruud, semifinalist in Turin, followed by the Polish Hubert Hurkacz, with Jannik Sinner closing the elite of the world circuit, crowning a year as a protagonist - also in Davis - for the 20 year old from Sesto Pusteria. The rest of the men's ranking is also practically frozen as only a few tournaments of the ITF circuit have been played while the ATP activity, including the challengers, resumes next week, the first of January.
Top 10 ranking: 1 Djokovic, Novak (SRB) 11,540 points 2 Medvedev, Daniil (RUS) 8,640 3 Zverev, Alexander (GER) 7,840 4 Tsitsipas, Stefanos (GRE) 6,540 5 Rublev, Andrey (RUS) 5,150 6 Nadal, Rafael ( ESP) 4,875 7 BERRETTINI, Matteo (ITA) 4,568 8 Ruud, Casper (NOR) 4,160 9 Hurkacz, Hubert (POL) 3,706 10 SINNER, Jannik (ITA) 3,350.