After completing century, Federer rises in rankings

By : AFP

Date: 10 March 2019 5:06am WAT

(FILES) This file photo taken on July 8, 2016 shows Switzerland's Roger Federer celebrating breaking Canada's Milos Raonic during their men's semi-final match on the twelfth day of the 2016 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London. Twelve months after shutting down his season in the wake of a devastating semi-final defeat, Roger Federer returns to Wimbledon as favourite to capture a record-breaking eighth title and become the tournament's oldest champion. The evergreen Swiss superstar, who turns 36 in August, has stunned the critics who wrote him off as yesterday's man when he went down to Milos Raonic in five gruelling sets on Centre Court in 2016. The loss forced him off tour for the remainder of the year to rest a knee injury, leaving his Grand Slam title count on 17 where it had been since 2012. / AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL

(FILES) Roger Federer / AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL

Roger Federer’s 100th title lifted him three places to fourth in the ATP rankings on Monday.

Stefanos Tsitsipas, the beaten finalist as Federer made history in Dubai also inched up. The Greek climbed one place into the top 10.

Gael Monfils, a beaten semi-finalist, jumped four places and back into the top 20 at 19.

The biggest mover in the men’s rankings was mercurial Australian Nick Kyrgios who beat two top three players, No. 2 Rafael Nadal and No. 3 Alexander Zverev as well as No. 9 John Isner on his way to winning in Acapulco. Kyrgios leaped 39 places to 33rd.

Novak Djokovic took the week off but remains a long way clear at the top, though both Nadal and Zverev gained a handful of points in Mexico.

Guido Pella, who won his first ATP title in Sao Paulo on Sunday also moved up. The Argentine has the same number of points as Kyrgios but is ranked one spot lower at 34.

ATP top 20:

1. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 10,955 pts

2. Rafael Nadal (ESP) 8,365

3. Alexander Zverev (GER) 6,595

4. Roger Federer (SUI) 4,600 (+3)

5. Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) 4,585 (-1)

6. Kevin Anderson (RSA) 4,295 (-1)

7. Kei Nishikori (JPN) 4,190 (-1)

8. Dominic Thiem (AUT) 3,800

9. John Isner (USA) 3,405