Australian Open Champions Won’t See Change In Rankings. Sinner To Stay At No. 4, Sabalenka No. 2 – News18

MELBOURNE, Australia: Australian Open champions Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka will keep the place they’re when the brand new rankings are launched on Monday.

Sinner consolidates his maintain on a profession-finest No. 4 spot within the ATP rankings, and former high-ranked Sabalenka stays at No. 2 within the WTA rankings.

Sinner rallied from two units all the way down to beat Daniil Medvedev 3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 to win the Australian Open closing on Sunday for his first Grand Slam title. Sabalenka clinched again-to-again Australian Open titles with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Zheng Qinwen on Saturday.

In the lads’s rankings, Novak Djokovic will keep high regardless of a uncommon defeat within the semifinals at Melbourne Park, the place he’s a ten-time champion. Medvedev missed the chance to maneuver previous No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz with a win in opposition to Sinner. He stays at No. 3.

Andrey Rublev is at No. 5 and Australian Open semifinalist Alexander Zverev is sixth. Holger Rune, Hubert Hurkacz, Taylor Fritz and Stefanos Tsitsipas are within the Nos. 7-10 spots.

Despite her third-spherical exit at Melbourne Park, Iga Swiatek holds on to the highest rating, forward of Sabalenka.

Elena Rybakina falls two positions to No. 5 after failing to defend the rating factors she gained for her run to the ultimate ultimately 12 months’s occasion.

The 19-12 months-outdated Coco Gauff rises to equal her profession-excessive at No. 3 and her fellow American Jessica Pegula strikes up one spot to No. 4.

Zheng Qinwen, who made her first look in a significant closing at Melbourne Park this 12 months, breaks into the highest 10 for the primary time, up from No. 15 to No. 7, behind Ons Jabeur.

Markéta Vondroušová is at No. 8, Maria Sakkari at No. 9 and Karolína Muchová rounds out the ladies’s high ten.

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