Alexei Popyrin’s first ATP Masters 1000 title delivered an enormous rankings enhance, whereas Jordan Thompson gained a brand new career-high doubles mark.
Melbourne, Australia, 15 August 2024 | Dan Imhoff
Males’s singles
Alexei Popyrin’s watershed ATP Masters 1000 triumph in Montreal has delivered a major rankings soar and boosted hopes Australia might finish a 24-year Grand Slam wait.
The 25-year-old leapt 39 locations to a career-best world No.23 after he defeated 5 straight prime 20 opponents for the largest of his three profession titles.
He turned the primary Australian since Lleyton Hewitt at Indian Wells in 2003 to say an ATP Masters 1000 title.
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With Alex de Minaur at world No.10 and Jordan Thompson at No.32 and on the verge of a maiden prime 32 seeding for the US Open, Australia might have three gamers seeded at a Grand Slam match for the primary time since Wimbledon 2000.
Rinky Hijikata and James Duckworth have been additionally rewarded with rankings boosts after each emerged from qualifying and received a spherical in Montreal.
| AUSSIE TOP 10 | ||
| Participant | Rank | Transfer |
| Alex de Minaur | No.10 | -3 |
| Alexei Popyrin | No.23 | +39 |
| Jordan Thompson | No.32 | -2 |
| Rinky Hijikata | No.65 | +9 |
| James Duckworth | No.67 | +13 |
| Max Purcell | No.68 | -9 |
| Thanasi Kokkinakis | No.81 | 0 |
| Chris O’Connell | No.86 | +2 |
| Adam Walton | No.95 | -9 |
| Aleksandar Vukic | No.97 | -14 |
Ladies’s singles
Olivia Gadecki wasted no time discovering her ft on arduous court docket after the Paris Olympics when she reached her largest profession ultimate on the W100 ITF occasion at Landisville in the US.
The 22-year-old reeled off 4 straight wins earlier than she fell to American fifth seed McCartney Kessler. It lifted her 17 locations again as much as No.155, 35 locations shy of her career-high mark.
Maya Joint crept up one spot to a brand new career-best of world No.139 after successful a spherical in opposition to compatriot Astra Sharma on the W100 Landisville ITF occasion.
| AUSSIE TOP 10 | ||
| Participant | Rank | Transfer |
| Daria Saville | No.92 | -1 |
| Arina Rodionova | No.119 | -1 |
| Ajla Tomljanovic | No.123 | 0 |
| Maya Joint | No.139 | +1 |
| Taylah Preston | No.146 | +2 |
| Kimberly Birrell | No.148 | -4 |
| Astra Sharma | No.150 | -1 |
| Olivia Gadecki | No.155 | +17 |
| Storm Hunter | No.162 | +2 |
| Talia Gibson | No.170 | -3 |
Males’s doubles
Per week after cracking the highest 30 in singles and prime 20 in doubles for the primary time, Jordan Thompson broke additional floor.
Thompson and compatriot Max Purcell fell to Italy’s Australian Open finalists Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori within the spherical of 16 in Montreal, nevertheless it was sufficient for the 30-year-old to inch up two spots to a career-high doubles rating of world No.16.
Matthew Romios turned the seventh Australian man within the prime 100 after he partnered Italian Marco Bortolotti for his fourth ATP Challenger doubles title in Cordenons on clay.
| AUSSIE TOP 10 | ||
| Participant | Rank | Transfer |
| Matt Ebden | No.3 | 0 |
| Jordan Thompson | No.16 | +3 |
| Max Purcell | No.21 | -2 |
| Rinky Hijikata | No.51 | 0 |
| John Friends | No.53 | +4 |
| John-Patrick Smith | No.64 | 0 |
| Matthew Romios | No.96 | +11 |
| Luke Saville | No.133 | +1 |
| Calum Puttergill | No.149 | -4 |
| Thomas Fancutt | No.152 | -1 |
Ladies’s doubles
Maddison Inglis closed to inside seven locations of her career-high doubles rating after successful a spherical with compatriot Talia Gibson on the W100 ITF occasion at Gifu, Japan.
Inglis climbed seven spots to world No.184. Ellen Perez held regular because the top-ranked Australian ladies’s doubles participant at No.9.
| AUSSIE TOP 10 | ||
| Participant | Rank | Transfer |
| Ellen Perez | No.9 | 0 |
| Storm Hunter | No.11 | -3 |
| Olivia Gadecki | No.69 | -4 |
| Destanee Aiava | No.139 | -6 |
| Daria Saville | No.151 | +4 |
| Kimberly Birrell | No.165 | +5 |
| Maddison Inglis | No.184 | +7 |
| Talia Gibson | No.224 | -11 |
| Alana Parnaby | No.246 | -4 |
| Kaylah McPhee | No.257 | -1 |
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