The French Ugo Humbert and the Argentinean Sebastián Páezthis weekend’s winners of the Dubai and Santiago de Chile tournaments, They occupy the best positions of their careers in the new ATP classification14th and 19th, respectively.
In a table dominated by Novak Djokovic for another week, ahead of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, Humbert climbed four steps and at 25 years old is closer than ever to the top ten on the list. This season he has won two of the six tournaments that appear on his resume, Marseille and Dubai.
Sebastián Báez, 23 years old, improves two positions, up to 19th. He started the year in 28th place, but after reaching the round of 32 at the Australian Open, the semi-finals in Córdoba, the quarter-finals in Buenos Aires and wins in Rio and Santiago, his progress was not prevented.
On top of the table, The three on the podium are followed by Russians Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublevthe German Alexander Zverev, the Danish Holger Rune and the Polish Hubert Hurkacz.
Norwegian Casper Ruud moved up two places to ninth and down one, to tenth, Australian Alex de Minaur.
Along with Alcaraz, the other Spaniards in the leading road are Alejandro Davidovich (23, +1), Roberto Carballés (64, -2), Jaume Munar (75, -5)Pedro Martínez (89, +12), who returned to these three groups to reach the semifinals in Santiago, and Roberto Bautista (98).
Rafael Nadalwho played this Sunday and lost in an exhibition in Las Vegas against Carlos Alcaraz, in 652awaiting his reappearance in Indian Wells.
Source: La Verdad
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