World rankings: Halle champ Ugo Humbert celebrates career high
Halle winner Ugo Humbert is higher than ever in today's newly published world rankings. In the women's category, Berlin winner Liudmila Samsonova made a big leap forward.
by Florian Goosmann
last edit: Jun 21, 2021, 01:19 pm
Ugo Humbert is in 25th place in the current ATP world rankings - a new record for the French, who was 29th as his personal best. Queen's finalist Cameron Norrie also continues to climb, now ranked 34th for the first time in the top 40 in the world.
At the top there is nothing new: Novak Djokovic leads relaxed with 12,113 points ahead of Daniil Medvedev (10,053 points) and Rafael Nadal (8,630 points). This is followed by Stefanos Tsitsipas , Dominic Thiem and Alexander Zverev . Roger Federer remains in 8th place.
Best German players after Zverev: Jan-Lennard Struff (45th), Dominik Koepfer (63rd) and Yannick Hanfmann (99th). Philipp Kohlschreiber will join the Top 100 again: After the last strong weeks and the quarter-finals in Halle, he made up 13 places and was in 113th place.
In Austria, Dennis Novak remains number 2 after Dominic Thiem. Even if he is down 12 places this week - Novak is now in 122nd place.
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Berlin winner Samsonova makes up 43 places
Liudmila Samsonova made by far the biggest jump among women: Thanks to her run in Berlin - from qualifying to the title - she made up 43 places, cracked the Top 100 for the first time and is now 63rd in the world. Strong!
Ashleigh Barty is still at the front, ahead of Naomi Osaka and Simona Halep . Thanks to her Berlin finals, Belinda Bencic made up a place and, as eleventh in the world rankings, sniffed the top ten again.
From a German point of view, Angelique Kerber remains the best player in 28th place, ahead of Laura Siegemund in 55th place.
In Austria, Barbara Haas is still listed at number 157, ahead of Julia Grabher at number 189.