Two of the best Croatian tennis players, Marin Čilić and Dino Prižmić, advanced in the new ATP ranking, so Čilić is currently the 47th player in the world, while Prižmić is in 79th place.
At the last tournament, the clay Masters 1000 in Madrid, Čilić beat Zizou Bergs at the start, and then due to food poisoning handed the match to Brazilian Joao Fonseca.
This saw him move up four places in the rankings and is now back in the top 50 in the world.
Prizmić played an excellent tournament in Madrid, where he beat the Italian Matteo Berrettini in the first round, and then the American Ben Shelton, the sixth player in the world.
That’s why he took nine steps forward on the new scale and now he is 79. player in the world.
From other Croatian tennis players Borna Gojo experienced a drop of 27 places and is currently 177th, while among the top 200 is also Luka Mikrut in 198th place.
There was only one change among the top ten. Russian tennis player Danill Medvedev came from tenth to ninth place, and the Italian took one step back Lorenzo Musetti which is now the tenth.
Madrid winner Italian Jannik Sinner he further increased the advantage at the very top. Now he has as many as 1390 points more than the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, who is second. In Madrid, Sinner won the fifth Masters 1000 tournament in a row, as the first tennis player in history. He previously celebrated at the end of last year in Paris and then this year in Indian Wells, Miami and Monte Carlo.
The finalist of Madrid, the German Alexander Zverev, remained third, while behind him are the fourth Serbian Novak Djokovic and the fifth Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime.
ATP ranking (May 4):
(1) Jannik Sinner (Ita) 14,350 points
2. (2) Carlos Alcaraz (Spain) 12.960
3. (3) Alexander Zverev (Nem) 5805
4. (4) Novak Djokovic (Serb) 4700
5. (5) Felix Auger-Aliassime (Cannes) 4050
6. (6) Ben Shelton (USA) 4030
7. (7) Taylor Fritz (USA) 3770
8. (8) Alex de Minaur (Aus) 3755
9. (10) Danil Medvjedev 3460
10. (9) Lorenzo Musetti (Ita) 3415…
47. (51) Marin Čilić (Croatian) 980
79. (87) Dino Prižmić (Croatian) 740
177. (150) Borna Gojo (Croatian) 348
198. (189) Luka Mikrut (Croatian) 295
201. (206) Matej Dodig (Croatian) 285
288. (283) Duje Ajduković (Croatian) 183
302. (313) Mili Poljicak (Croatian) 172…
(Hina | Photo: X)
