Sinner seizes year-end No. 1; Zverev, Alcaraz round out top three & #NextGenATP alumni shine

  • Posted: Dec 02, 2024

The ATP today published the 2024 year-end PIF ATP Rankings on ATPTour.com with Jannik Sinner finishing as ATP Year-End No. 1 presented by PIF for the first time.

The Italian began his season by winning his first major title at the Australian Open and never looked back. In June he became the first player from his country to reach World No. 1 in the history of the PIF ATP Rankings (since 1973) and has not relinquished it since.

The likes of Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev pushed the 23-year-old throughout the season, but Sinner remained undeterred. He claimed eight tour-level titles — including his first two majors (Australian Open and US Open) and the Nitto ATP Finals trophy — en route to a dominant year-end finish.

Sinner entered the 2024 season at World No. 4 and with 10 titles to his name. He nearly doubled that total in one season with his Tour-leading eight crowns, earning three ATP Masters 1000 triumphs (Miami, Cincinnati and Shanghai), and emerging victorious at two ATP 500 events (Rotterdam and Halle).

This is Sinner’s 26th week at World No. 1, which places him 17th among the 29 players who have joined the prestigious ATP No. 1 Club. Last season’s ATP Year-End No. 1 presented by PIF, Novak Djokovic, was World No. 1 until Sinner took the mantle in June.

Djokovic extended his record for weeks at the top to 428. This is the Serbian’s 17th appearance in the Top 10 of the year-end PIF ATP Rankings, putting him third behind only Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal (18 each).

No. 3 Alcaraz is the third player to finish in the top three on three occasions before turning 22. The other two are Bjorn Borg (1974-77) and Nadal (2005-07). The Spaniard won Roland Garros and Wimbledon to become the youngest man to claim major glory on all three surfaces (hard, clay and grass).

No. 1 Sinner, No. 2 Zverev and No. 4 Taylor Fritz all finished at a career-high year-end PIF ATP Ranking. Zverev became just the third German to end a season in the top two, joining Boris Becker and Michael Stich.

It was a season of breakthroughs for Fritz, who is the first American to finish in the top four since James Blake ended the 2006 season in the same spot. Fritz reached his maiden major final at the US Open and advanced to the championship match at the Nitto ATP Finals for the first time.

No. 5 Daniil Medvedev has earned a top five finish in five of the past six seasons. He reached the Australian Open final, marking the fourth straight year in which he has advanced to a Grand Slam championship match.

Alex de Minaur is the lone new face in the year-end Top 10 after climbing to a career-high No. 6 in July. He became the first Australian player to crack the Top 10 in the PIF ATP Rankings since Lleyton Hewitt did so in 2000. It is the second straight year in which only one player has broken into the Top 10 for the first time (Frances Tiafoe in 2023).

Two players returned to the year-end Top 10: No. 6 Casper Ruud (third appearance) and No. 10 Grigor Dimitrov (second appearance). The seven years between Dimitrov’s appearances (2017 to 2024) marks the biggest gap between year-end Top 10 finishes in PIF ATP Rankings history.

Seventeen players in the year-end Top 20 have qualified for or competed in the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF in their careers. Two of the top three, World No. 1 Sinner (2019) and World No. 3 Alcaraz (2021), won the title.

2024 YEAR-END PIF ATP RANKINGS TOP 10
1) Jannik Sinner – Becomes first Italian to earn ATP Year-End No. 1 presented by PIF honours. Has not relinquished top spot since claiming it on 10 June.
2) Alexander Zverev – Finishes in the year-end Top 2 for the first time, becoming the first German to do so since Michael Stich in 1993.
3) Carlos Alcaraz – Finishes in year-end Top 3 for the third consecutive season.
4) Taylor Fritz – Climbs to career-high No. 4, becoming the fifth American this century to end a season in the top five. He joined Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick and James Blake on the list.
5) Daniil Medvedev – Secures fifth year-end Top 5 placement, with them all coming since 2019.
6) Casper Ruud – Returns to year-end Top 10 after ending 2023 at No. 11.
7) Novak Djokovic – Claims 17th year-end Top 10 finish, secures Olympic gold medal at Paris Olympics. The 37-year-old is the third-oldest player to finish in the Top 10 behind Ken Rosewall (1973-75) and Federer (2019-20).
8) Andrey Rublev – Maintains consistency, ending season in Top 10 for fifth consecutive year.
9) Alex de Minaur – Cracks the year-end Top 10, first Australian to do so since Lleyton Hewitt was No. 4 in 2005.
10) Grigor Dimitrov – Returns to the year-end Top 10 for the first time since 2017, when he was No. 3.

2024 Year-End PIF ATP Rankings Quick Facts

  • Jacob Fearnley jumped the most spots into the Top 100 of any player, surging 539 places from No. 638 to No. 99.
  • Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard secured the biggest leap into the Top 50, ascending 175 spots from No. 206 to No. 31.
  • 38-year-old Gael Monfils is the oldest player in the year-end Top 100 at No. 55. The Frenchman finished 2023 at No. 74.
  • There were two teens who finished inside the year-end Top 100: 19-year-olds Jakub Mensik and Shang Juncheng, both of whom will make their debut at the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF in Jeddah from 18-22 December. Mensik, the youngest at 19 years and three months, made his first ATP Tour final in Doha and ended the year at No. 48, while Shang (19 years, 10 months) became the second Chinese ATP Tour titlist in history with his triumph in Chengdu and finished No. 50.
  • Five players climbed at least 100 places to finish in the year-end Top 100: Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (+175), Jakub Mensik (+118), Shang Juncheng (+135), Buyunchaokete (+103) and Jacob Fearnley (+539).
  • 15 players 22-and-under finished in the Top 100. This is the ninth consecutive season in which at least a dozen 22-and-under players have achieved the feat.
  • 12 players from France in the year-end Top 100, the most of any country. Two of the players, No. 14 Ugo Humbert and No. 20 Arthur Fils, finished in the Top 20.

The 2025 ATP Tour season begins on 27 December 2024 with the 18-country United Cup, which will take place across Australia in Perth and Sydney.

View Full 2024 Year-End PIF ATP Rankings

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