Rome, 24 Feb (LaPresse) – Italy is the nation with the most players in the world's top 40 this week, along with the United States. As many as six Italians in the top 40 positions of the PIF ATP Rankings, the ATP ranking based on the best placings in the last 52 weeks. Jannik Sinner still leads, sure to remain world number 1 at least until the Monte-Carlo Masters 1000. The Italian number 2 remains Lorenzo Musetti (17), who will also have to miss the Acapulco tournament due to injury (in his place Mattia Bellucci has been selected as a lucky loser).Thanks to the quarter-final in Doha, Matteo Berrettini (30, +5), who has never been this high in the rankings since June 2023, has risen to the Top 30. He is followed by Matteo Arnaldi (33, +1), Lorenzo Sonego (35, +1) and Flavio Cobolli (39, +1).Italy is the leading nation in this week's ATP ranking even if you look at the presence of players in the Top 70: eight, like France and the USA.Behind them, however, Italy has no players between world number 101 and 200 this week. Matteo Gigante, in fact, lost the title points he won at last year's Tenerife-2 Challenger and did not replace them as he did not play last week. Therefore he slipped back to position no. 201.ATP ranking, the week's movements As for the Top 10, there is only one change from last week: Andrey Rublev thanks to the title in Doha overtakes Tommy Paul and rises to position no. 9. Finalist Jack Draper celebrates a new best ranking at number 12 (+4). The one who gains the most positions of all this week is Taiwanese Chung-Hsin Tseng who returns to the Top 100 thanks to his quarter-final at the ATP 500 in Rio (99, +26). Portugal's Jaime Faria, who defeated Luciano Darderi in the first round in Santiago (87, +20), enters the world's top 100 for the first time.19 places were also gained by two other protagonists of the Brazilian tournament: Alexandre Muller, the first French finalist in the tournament's history, who reached the Top 50 for the first time (41 +19); and Argentinean Francisco Comesana, who eliminated world no. 2 Alexander Zverev as a lucky loser, reaching the Top 50 for the first time (41 +19). of the world Alexander Zverev, reached the semifinals and thus celebrated his new best ranking (69, +19).
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