Spectacular winner this Sunday of the Cincinnati Masters 1000 after an anthology final, Novak Djokovic has come a little closer to the place of world No. 1, still occupied on Monday by Carlos Alcaraz, unfortunate finalist.

In the United States, “Djoko” took his revenge on the 20-year-old Spanish phenomenon, who had stolen the title at Wimbledon a few weeks earlier. The Serb had not entered any tournament since. But to do this, it took Djokovic five match points and 3h49 of play, and while the Spaniard had won the first set, to finally win in three sets (7-5, 7-6 ( 9/7), 7-6 (7-4)).

This victory, the third in Cincinnati and the fourth of the season for the Serb, the 95th title of his career and already his 39th Masters 1000. In addition, Novak Djokovic to grab valuable points on his opponent of the evening, he is getting closer to the place of world No. 1, which he abandoned last June.

Behind, in ambush the Russian Daniil Medvedev, eliminated in the eighth by Alexander Zverev, is still third while the Dane Holger Rune climbs to 4th place in the world, at the expense of the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas who loses three places. Also beaten by Zverev in the quarter-finals, the Frenchman Adrian Mannarino nevertheless jumped nine ranks and is now 23rd, one unit from his best ranking reached in March 2018.

Gaël Monfils, Tennis: Djokovic far too strong for Monfils, Mannarino can’t be stopped in the round of 16 in Cincinnati, after advancing to the quarterfinals in Toronto the previous week, took advantage of his good career in the United States to win 48 places and return to 163rd place.

ATP Ranking published on Monday August 21:

1. Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) 9815 pts

2. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 9795

3. Daniil Medvedev (RUS) 6260

4. Holger Rune (DEN) 4790 ( 1)

5. Casper Ruud (NOR) 4715 ( 2)

6. Jannik Sinner (ITA) 4645

7. Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 4580 (-3)

8. Andrey Rublev (RUS) 4515

9. Taylor Fritz (USA) 3605

10. Frances Tiafoe (USA) 3050

11. Karen Khachanov (RUS) 2845

12. Alexander Zverev (GER) 2670 ( 5)

13. Alex De Minaur (AUS) 2595 (-1)

14. Tommy Paul (USA) 2570 (-1)

15. Félix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) 2375 (-1)

16. Cameron Norrie (GBR) 2075 (-1)

17. Hubert Hurkacz (POL) 2035 ( 3)

18. Lorenzo Musetti (ITA) 2005

19. Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) 1690

20. Francisco Cerundolo (ARG) 1600 ( 1)

…

23. Adrian Mannarino (FRA) 1445 (9)

31. Ugo Humbert (FRA) 1258 ( 2)

48. Arthur Son (FRA) 1007 (-2)

57. Richard Gasquet (FRA) 910 (-4)

60. Gregoire Barrere (FRA) 864 (-3)

65. Luca Van Assche (FRA) 831 ( 3)

69. Quentin Halys (FRA) 805 (3)

71. Corentin Moutet (FRA) 801 (6)

73. Arthur Rinderknech (FRA) 781 (-9)

85. Alexandre Muller (FRA) 697 (-1)

98. Hugo Gaston (FRA) 598 ( 2)

…

163. Gael Monfils (FRA) 387 ( 48)

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