Croatia’s Borna Coric made a huge jump in the ATP rankings by winning the Cincinnati 1000 Masters Tournament by beating Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-6 (7-0) 6-2 on Sunday.
Coric competed in the American Games and is ranked 152nd in the world rankings after a shoulder operation that sidelined him for about a year, but he surprised everyone by taking the title and moving up to 29th in the classification published in Monday.
Horvath played his first final since Saint Petersburg in Russia in 2020.
On the other hand, Tsitsipas moved up two places to fifth, thanks to the Norwegian Kasper Ruud, who paid the price for an early exit from the second round in the American session.
In the women’s category, Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia moved up 18 places to 17th after she became the 1000th session champion in Cincinnati, beating Czech veteran Petra Kvitova 6-2, 6-4.
The Frenchwoman became the first player in the history of these tournaments to become a champion after qualifying, knowing that she had eliminated three players from the top ten seeded women on her way to the title, and it was Greece’s Maria Sakkari, who came in third. , American Jessica Pegula, eighth, and Belarusian Arina Sobolenko, seventh.
Rating of the top ten players:
1. Daniil Medvedev (Russia) 6885 points
2. Alexander Zverev (Germany) 5760
3. Rafael Nadal (Spain) 5630
4. Carlos Alcaraz (Spain) 5190
5. Stefanos Tsisipas (Greece) 4890 (+2)
6. Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 4770
7. Kasper Ruud (Norway) 4695 (-2)
8. Felix Auger-Aliassime (Canada) 3625 (+1)
9. Cameron Norrie (Great Britain) 3415 (+2)
10. Hubert Gurkacz (Poland) 3355
Rating of the top ten players:
1. IGA شفيeventek (Poland) 8605 points
2. Annette Kontaveit (Estonia) 4580
3. Maria Sakkari (Greece) 4190
4. Paula Padusa (Spain) 3980
5. Anas Jaber (Tunisia) 3920
6. Arina Sobolenko (Belarus) 3470 (+1)
7. Simona Halep (Romania) 3255 (-1)
8. Jessica Pegula (USA) 3201
9. Garbine Mugurosa (Spain) 2886
10. Daria Kasatkina (Russia) 2795
Source: AFP