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ATP Live Rankings Explained — They Move After Every Match, but Entry, Seeding and Milestones Use the Monday List

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ATP Live Rankings Explained — They Move After Every Match, but Entry, Seeding and Milestones Use the Monday List

Every time a match finishes at an ATP event, a second set of rankings moves. The PIF ATP Live Rankings recalculate in real time, adding the points a player earns during the week and removing the points he drops from the same week a year earlier. They are the numbers quoted mid-tournament, when a player is said to have climbed after a quarter-final or to be projected to fall before he has lost a match.

They are not the official ranking. According to the ATP, the live list is a predictor of where players will sit in the next published PIF ATP Rankings, and the published list is still the one that decides entry, seeding and milestones. This explainer sets out how the live numbers are built, what each column means and where they stop counting. The underlying points system is covered in our ATP rankings explainer.

What the live rankings measure

The official ranking counts a player’s best results over the previous 52 weeks. In singles the ATP’s breakdown is 18 events for every player, with the Nitto ATP Finals as a 19th for those who qualify. For a top player who plays every event he is entered in automatically, that means the four Grand Slams, the eight automatic-entry Masters 1000s and six “best other” results from the United Cup, Monte Carlo, ATP 500s, ATP 250s, Challengers and ITF events.

The live list applies the same breakdown, but updates it as matches end rather than once a week. The ATP says it reflects points dropped at the start of the week and any points added during the week that become part of a player’s breakdown.

Why the Monday list still rules

The ATP is explicit that the published PIF ATP Rankings continue to be used for tournament entry and seeding, and as the measure of milestone achievements. A player who climbs into the live Top 10 on a Thursday but is not in the Top 10 of the next published ranking is not considered a Top 10 player. The same applies at the top: a player cannot call himself world No. 1 unless he spends at least one week at No. 1 in the published rankings.

That distinction matters most in the middle of a tournament, when one player has played his quarter-final and his rival has not. The live list moves the first man up straight away and only catches up with the second a day later.

The Sunday reset and dropping points

On Sunday nights, when the official rankings are calculated, the live rankings reset to look ahead to the coming week. The reset removes the points each player earned at that week’s event 52 weeks earlier. A player defending a big result can therefore start a week well below his official total, whether or not he is playing.

The drop is not always the full amount. If a player has a result outside his counting breakdown worth more than zero, the highest of those non-countable scores moves into the breakdown when the old points fall away. The ATP’s own illustration: a player dropping 90 points with a non-countable 20 starts the week 70 points down, not 90, and his live total only rises again if he earns more than 20 that week.

Mandatory events and the rest

Where a player is competing changes how a win shows up. At mandatory events, the Grand Slams and Masters 1000s, an eligible player must count his result whether or not he plays. He drops last year’s points from that event before it begins, and they are not replaced by his best non-countable score. Every point he earns at the event therefore adds to his live total as soon as he wins a match.

At a non-mandatory event, such as an ATP 500 or 250, a win does not always move the number. The ATP says the points earned must exceed the lowest score in his non-mandatory breakdown before his live total goes up. A player whose weakest counting result is 45 points needs more than 45 that week to gain anything.

The columns on the live table

  • Live Points: the real-time breakdown, after the week’s drops and any additions.
  • Official Points: the total in the last published ranking, unchanged during the week.
  • +/- Points: the difference between the two.
  • +/- Rank arrow: the gap between the last published position and the live one, which the ATP also treats as a projection of the next ranking.
  • Next Points: the total if the player wins his next match.
  • Max Points: the total, live and in the next ranking, if he wins the tournament.

Players still in a tournament are highlighted in blue on the ATP’s table. Everyone else has either lost or is not playing that week.

What the live list leaves out

Some results wait for the reset by design, so that the live list matches the next published ranking. ITF Men’s World Tennis Tour points are added all at once when the live rankings reset, not match by match; the ATP adds ITF points to the official ranking one week after those tournaments end. Sunday main-draw matches and weekend qualifying matches belong to the following week’s ranking, so they are not included until the reset either.

The live Race is a different table

The ATP also runs a PIF ATP Live Race To Turin, which counts only the current calendar year rather than the previous 52 weeks. The two tables can disagree about who leads. The ATP’s qualification rule for the Nitto ATP Finals uses the Race: the top seven after the Paris Masters qualify, and the eighth place goes to a current-year Grand Slam champion ranked between eighth and 20th, if there is one. Why the Race also settles the year-end No. 1 is covered in our year-end No. 1 explainer, and the current table is on our Race to Turin page.

Live Rankings Snapshot — 14 October 2026

Taken from the ATP’s live singles table during the Shanghai Masters, before Wednesday’s fourth-round matches finished.

  • Jannik Sinner was live No. 1 with 10,950 points, 50 below his official 11,000, while not playing. In the Live Race, Alexander Zverev led with 8,950 to Sinner’s 7,950.
  • Felix Auger-Aliassime was live No. 6 with 3,540 points against an official 3,890, a gap of 350, one place below his official ranking.
  • Daniil Medvedev was live No. 10 with 3,310 points against an official 3,860, a gap of 550.
  • Arthur Gea, a Shanghai quarter-finalist, was live No. 44 with 1,160 points against an official 985, up 12 places.

This snapshot is dated and will change. The rules above do not.

Auger-Aliassime Stopped After 35 Minutes in Shanghai, and Ruud Now Has a Quarter-Final at Every Masters

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Auger-Aliassime Stopped After 35 Minutes in Shanghai, and Ruud Now Has a Quarter-Final at Every Masters

Felix Auger-Aliassime’s Shanghai Masters ended 35 minutes into his fourth-round match on Wednesday, when the fourth seed stopped with a knee injury trailing Casper Ruud 5-2 in the first set.

Ruud, who was on the other side of the net when it happened, put the moment early. “I think he was ready at the start and it seemed to me that he kind of twisted something over at the net in the third or fourth game,” the Norwegian said, according to the ATP Tour. The Canadian Press reported that Auger-Aliassime received treatment before deciding he could not continue. The official result, 5-2 retired, came after 35 minutes and 15 seconds on Stadium Court, according to the ATP’s match record.

Ruud’s set of nine. The retirement carries a record with it. Ruud had never reached the quarter-finals in Shanghai, and doing so completes a quarter-final at all nine Masters 1000 events. The ATP says he is the seventh active player to manage it, after Novak Djokovic, Marin Cilic, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alexander Zverev, Grigor Dimitrov and Daniil Medvedev.

He plays Rafael Jodar next. The 20-year-old Spaniard came from a set down for the third match running, beating Botic van de Zandschulp 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-2 in two hours and 30 minutes. Van de Zandschulp saved two break points in the opening set and played the tie-break cleaner, before Jodar broke early in the second. “I think I was doing the right things, but he played important points in the tie-break better than me,” Jodar said. “In the second set, I started up a break that helped me get [further] into the set in a better shape.”

The quarter-finals. The last eight in Shanghai, in draw order:

  • [1] Alexander Zverev vs [9] Alex de Minaur
  • Arthur Gea vs [25] Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
  • [12] Rafael Jodar vs [20] Casper Ruud
  • [5] Daniil Medvedev vs [15] Tommy Paul or Zizou Bergs

Medvedev beat Tsitsipas 6-4, 7-5 in the evening session. The Associated Press reported that the result makes him only the fourth player, after Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, to reach the Shanghai quarter-finals in three straight years. Gea, in his first Masters 1000 main draw, beat Jakub Mensik 7-6(4), 6-4 on Tuesday.

What it means for Turin. Auger-Aliassime arrived at Wednesday’s match 15th in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin with 2,465 points, according to the ATP. A fourth-round exit at a 96-draw Masters 1000 is worth 100 points, which he had already banked by reaching that round, so his total stays where it was. Medvedev sat eighth in the Live Race with 3,120 points before beating Tsitsipas, and the ATP’s table showed a win would take him to 3,220.

The ATP’s qualification rule is that the top seven in the Race after the Paris Masters go to the Nitto ATP Finals. The eighth place goes to a current-year Grand Slam champion ranked between eighth and 20th in the Race, if there is one; if not, it goes to the man in eighth. Jodar, by contrast, is moving the right way: the ATP had him 11th in the Live Race after Wednesday’s win, 131 points behind 10th-placed Djokovic. How a withdrawal from Turin passes a place down the list is set out in our ATP Finals alternates explainer, and the current table is on our Race to Turin page.

The rankings consequence is smaller but immediate. The Canadian Press described Auger-Aliassime as fifth-ranked; the ATP’s live rankings had him sixth before the match, 350 points below his official total because of points dropping from last year’s Shanghai.

What is not known. Neither the ATP nor Tennis Canada had published a diagnosis or a timeline for the knee at the time of writing. The Paris Masters, after which the top seven in the Race are set, is covered in our Paris Masters guide, and the rules on treatment during a match are in our medical timeouts explainer.

Chennai Open Guide — Dates, Venue, Points and Past Champions

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Chennai Open Guide — Dates, Venue, Points and Past Champions

The Chennai Open is a WTA 250 event played on outdoor hard courts at the SDAT Tennis Stadium in Chennai, India. It was first held in 2022 and returned to the calendar in 2025, according to the WTA, and its third edition runs in the first week of November, the same week as the Hong Kong Tennis Open and the week before the WTA Finals. This guide covers the dates, format, points, history and every champion.

2026 dates and format

  • Main draw: Monday 2 November to Sunday 8 November 2026
  • Venue: SDAT Tennis Stadium, Chennai
  • Surface: outdoor hard
  • Category: WTA 250
  • Singles draw: 32 players
  • Doubles draw: 16 teams
  • Total financial commitment: US$283,347, according to the WTA

The WTA’s tournament page describes the field as 32 singles players, 16 qualifiers and 16 doubles teams. [UNVERIFIED: whether “16 qualifiers” means a 16-player qualifying draw, from the WTA tournament page; confirm against the qualifying draw sheet] The 2026 qualifying dates and draw ceremony had not been published by the WTA when this guide was written. [UNVERIFIED: 2026 qualifying dates and draw ceremony time; add once the tournament confirms]

Ranking points

As a WTA 250 with a 32-player singles draw, Chennai awards the standard WTA 250 points. [UNVERIFIED: points table taken from the WTA ranking point chart published by the ITF, which is headed “2025”; confirm it applies unchanged in 2026]

  • Winner: 250
  • Finalist: 163
  • Semi-finalist: 98
  • Quarter-finalist: 54
  • Second round (last 16): 30
  • First round: 1
  • Qualifier: 18

History

The WTA Tour came to India with the first Chennai Open in September 2022. That week 17-year-old Linda Fruhvirtova came from a set down to beat No. 3 seed Magda Linette 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 for her first WTA singles title, converting three of her six break points and saving seven of the nine she faced, according to the WTA. The doubles went to top seeds Gabriela Dabrowski and Luisa Stefani.

The tournament was not played again until 2025, when it returned in a late-October slot, from 27 October to 2 November. Indonesia’s Janice Tjen beat Australia’s Kimberly Birrell 6-4, 6-3 in the final. A 13-deuce fourth game helped her to an early lead, and from 3-3 in the first set she won seven of the next eight games, the WTA reported. She became the first player from Indonesia to win a tour-level singles title in 23 years.

Later the same day Tjen won the doubles with compatriot Aldila Sutjiadi, beating top seeds Storm Hunter and Monica Niculescu 7-5, 6-4. That made her the third player of the 2025 season to win the singles and doubles titles at the same event, after Jasmine Paolini in Rome and Maya Joint in Rabat, according to the WTA.

Past champions

YearSingles championRunner-upScore
2025Janice Tjen (INA)Kimberly Birrell (AUS)6-4, 6-3
2023–2024Not held
2022Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE)Magda Linette (POL)4-6, 6-3, 6-4
YearDoubles championsRunners-upScore
2025Aldila Sutjiadi (INA) / Janice Tjen (INA)Storm Hunter (AUS) / Monica Niculescu (ROU)7-5, 6-4
2022Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) / Luisa Stefani (BRA)Anna Blinkova / Natela Dzalamidze (GEO)6-1, 6-2

Where it sits in the calendar

Chennai shares its week with the Hong Kong Tennis Open, the other WTA 250 that closes the Asian swing. The WTA Finals at Indian Wells follow in mid-November; the ATP Finals and WTA Finals guide covers the format, and WTA Finals Qualification Explained sets out how the eight-player field is decided.

Arthur Gea Profile — Three Tour-Level Wins Before Los Cabos, Then the Title

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Arthur Gea Profile — Three Tour-Level Wins Before Los Cabos, Then the Title

Arthur Gea arrived at the Mifel Tennis Open in Los Cabos in late July with three tour-level match wins to his name. He left with the trophy, beating defending champion Denis Shapovalov 6-3, 6-4 in his first ATP Tour final. Ten weeks later the 21-year-old Frenchman reached the quarter-finals of the Rolex Shanghai Masters, the first Masters 1000 event of his career, by beating Ben Shelton and Jakub Mensik in straight sets.

In between he held a match point for a Grand Slam quarter-final as a lucky loser. This profile covers his route through the French federation system, the 2026 season that took him from outside the top 100 to the edge of the top 50, and the way he plays.

Early years

Gea began playing tennis at seven and decided at around 10 or 11 that he wanted to become a professional. At 14 he left home to train with a private coach and his regional league. At 17 he moved from the south of France to Paris to train with the French Tennis Federation. He stayed until he was 20, when he chose to build his own team and practise outside France. He was a top-10 junior.

He made his ATP Tour debut as a qualifier in Marseille in 2025, losing to countryman Hugo Grenier in the first round, and spent most of that year on the Challenger circuit. His tennis idol is Rafael Nadal, and his favourite tournament is Roland Garros.

Melbourne: a first tour-level win at a major

The 2026 season started in Noumea, New Caledonia, where Gea won his first ATP Challenger title. At the Australian Open he came through qualifying without dropping a set. Then, on his Grand Slam main-draw debut, he beat 17th seed Jiri Lehecka 7-5, 7-6(1), 7-5. It was the first tour-level win of his career and extended his winning run across all levels to nine matches. “I think I’m close to the best tennis of my life,” he said afterwards.

In the second round he met Stan Wawrinka, 19 years his senior and playing his last Australian Open. Wawrinka won after about four and a half hours, the longest match of the tournament.

In February Gea reached his first ATP Tour quarter-final, in Montpellier, and by May he had climbed to a career-high No. 135. He made his Roland Garros main-draw debut as a wild card and, while ill, lost in the first round to No. 13 seed Karen Khachanov.

Los Cabos: the first title

Gea entered Los Cabos ranked No. 127. He needed three sets in each of his first three matches, against Soonwoo Kwon, Michael Zheng and third seed Francisco Cerundolo. In the second round Zheng led by a set and held two break points at 4-4 in the second. Gea then beat Coleman Wong and Shapovalov in straight sets. In the final he saved six of the seven break points he faced.

“I didn’t know how I would win this week,” Gea said at the trophy presentation. “I was really happy every day to win one more match, one more, then one more.” He became the 11th first-time ATP Tour champion of the season. He was also the sixth champion born in 2005 or later, after Joao Fonseca, Jakub Mensik, Learner Tien, Rafael Jodar and Shang Juncheng. The title took him into the top 100 for the first time.

The US Open as a lucky loser

At the US Open he lost in the final round of qualifying to Nishesh Basavareddy. Two days later Casper Ruud withdrew with a back injury and Gea entered the main draw as a lucky loser. He beat Juan Manuel Cerundolo in the first round. His third-round win over Michael Zheng made him only the second lucky loser on record to reach the US Open fourth round, after Corentin Moutet in 2022.

A win over Botic van de Zandschulp would have made him the first lucky loser of the Open Era to reach a Grand Slam quarter-final. Gea led by two sets and held a match point. He lost 3-6, 6-7(0), 7-6(7), 7-6(3), 6-4 after 5 hours and 13 minutes, the fourth-longest match in the tournament’s history.

Shanghai: a first Masters quarter-final

In Shanghai he needed three sets to beat Jaime Faria and Ugo Humbert, then beat Shelton and Mensik in straight sets. Mensik is one of the biggest servers on tour, but Gea won 80 per cent of his first-serve points (39 of 49) and out-aced the Czech 11 to six. He trailed 0-3 in the first-set tie-break and won seven of the last eight points. He then saved a break point while serving out the match at 5-4.

“I had a little revenge today, because at the US Open I stopped in this round,” Gea said. He has won 13 of his last 15 tour-level matches and is 4-1 against top-20 players. He became the eighth active Frenchman to reach a Masters 1000 quarter-final.

How he plays

Gea describes his own game plainly. “I like to play with a big serve and big forehand, and also with good defence,” he said in Melbourne. He names the forehand as his favourite shot and hard courts as his favourite surface. The serve carried him past Mensik in Shanghai. The defence beat Lehecka in Melbourne, where he absorbed pressure and extended rallies before converting 10 of the 15 break points he created.

Grand Slam best results

  • Australian Open: second round (2026)
  • Roland Garros: first round (2026)
  • Wimbledon: yet to reach the main draw
  • US Open: fourth round (2026, as a lucky loser)

Season Snapshot (as of 16 October 2026)

  • Official PIF ATP Ranking: No. 56, a career high
  • PIF ATP Live Rankings: No. 44 after the Shanghai quarter-final, with a top-50 debut guaranteed in the rankings of 19 October
  • 2026 titles: Los Cabos (ATP 250); Noumea (ATP Challenger)
  • Shanghai 2026: beat Faria, Humbert, Shelton and Mensik to reach a first Masters 1000 quarter-final on his debut at the level, then retired at 1-4 in the first set against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina with a psoas injury

This snapshot is dated and will change. The career record above does not.

Related reading

The Shanghai Masters Guide covers the event’s format, points and past champions, and the ATP Masters 1000 guide explains the tier. Denis Shapovalov, his opponent in the Los Cabos final, has his own profile.

Zheng Pulled Out of Wuhan a Day After Winning Beijing, and the Draw Now Holds Five Lucky Losers

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Zheng Pulled Out of Wuhan a Day After Winning Beijing, and the Draw Now Holds Five Lucky Losers

Zheng Qinwen saved three set points in the first set of the China Open final on Sunday and beat Mirra Andreeva 7-5, 6-4. She became the first Chinese player to win the tournament. A day later, neither finalist was in the Wuhan Open draw.

Zheng withdrew from the last WTA 1000 of the season, played in her hometown, with a right shoulder injury. Andreeva, who reached the top three of the rankings for the first time on Monday, withdrew citing a change of schedule.

“Wuhan is where my tennis dream began, and the Wuhan Open is also where I made my breakthrough at the WTA 1000 level,” Zheng said in a statement. She said she had played “a demanding stretch of tennis” since returning from injury, at the US Open, the Billie Jean King Cup and the China Open. “My body is feeling very fatigued after this intense run of matches,” she said. “I look forward to returning to the Wuhan Open next year and stepping on to the court in my best possible form.”

The draw. Iva Jovic, the No. 10 seed and the next seed eligible for a bye, moves onto Andreeva’s line and goes straight to the second round. Lucky loser Anna Bondar took Jovic’s original place and lost 6-1, 6-3 on Monday to wild card Mia Pohankova. Colombia’s Camila Osorio, also a lucky loser, replaces Zheng and plays Ann Li in the first round. The winner meets top seed Aryna Sabalenka, who has a bye.

Five out, five in. Zheng and Andreeva join three other withdrawals: No. 4 seed Linda Noskova with a left calf injury, Oleksandra Oliynykova with a right ankle injury and Anna Kalinskaya with illness. Five lucky losers have now entered the main draw: Osorio, Bondar, Ashlyn Krueger, Lanlana Tararudee and Magdalena Frech. On Monday Tararudee beat Diane Parry 6-4, 6-1 and Frech beat qualifier Mananchaya Sawangkaew 6-3, 7-6(5). Krueger plays Zhang Shuai. What Is a Lucky Loser in Tennis explains how the replacements are chosen and what a lucky loser has to do to stay eligible.

Monday’s upset. Chinese qualifier Shi Han, ranked No. 217, came from a set down to beat No. 13 seed Alexandra Eala 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in 2 hours 27 minutes. It was her first win over a top-20 player. Eala led 3-2 in the second set before Shi won seven games in a row, and Shi won 16 of 18 points over her last four service games. “I tried to be patient and play my best tennis,” Shi said. She plays Leylah Fernandez next. Elsewhere, Clara Tauson retired against Marie Bouzkova at 1-6, 0-2 with a left lower leg injury.

What it means. Andreeva has already qualified for the WTA Finals at Indian Wells, where she is next scheduled to play in mid-November. Zheng was ranked No. 160 in mid-June. She returned to the top 30 in Monday’s rankings after reaching the US Open quarterfinals and winning Beijing. She is next entered at the Japan Women’s Open in Osaka, which runs from October 19 to 25. It is the second year in a row Zheng has missed Wuhan: she pulled out of the 2025 event after returning from elbow surgery.

Who is left. Sabalenka, a three-time Wuhan champion, is the highest-ranked player in the field and the only former champion in it. No. 2 seed Jessica Pegula, last year’s finalist, also has a bye. World No. 1 Elena Rybakina, defending champion Coco Gauff, Naomi Osaka and Amanda Anisimova pulled out last week. GTN covered those withdrawals, and the draw breakdown sets out each quarter. The final is on Sunday, October 18, and the champion receives 1,000 ranking points and $665,000. The Wuhan Open Guide covers the venue, format and past champions.

Six Kings Slam Explained — A $6 Million Exhibition With No Ranking Points

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Six Kings Slam Explained — A $6 Million Exhibition With No Ranking Points

The Six Kings Slam is an invitation-only men’s exhibition staged in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It brings six of the best-known players in the sport together for three match days and pays more to its winner than any tournament on the calendar. It awards no ATP ranking points, the Associated Press has reported. That combination, the biggest cheque in tennis attached to results that count for nothing in the rankings, is the reason it needs explaining.

Format

Six players take part. In both editions so far, two players received byes into the semi-finals and the other four played quarter-finals, according to AP. The semi-finals followed the next day, then a rest day, then the final and a third-place match.

Because it is an exhibition, the organisers set the field by invitation rather than by ranking or entry list. There is no qualifying, no wild card system and no draw in the tour sense.

Prize money

The winner of the first edition in 2024 received US$6 million, AP and ANSA reported. ANSA described it as reportedly the largest prize in the history of a tennis tournament.

For 2025, AP reported that each player was guaranteed an appearance fee of reportedly US$1.5 million, and that the winner received a bonus bringing his total to four times that. The German news agency dpa gave the same breakdown: a US$4.5 million winner’s bonus on top of the US$1.5 million fee.

For comparison, AP noted that the US Open’s US$5 million payout to each singles champion was the record for a Grand Slam. The Six Kings Slam winner, playing three matches at most, earns more than that.

The players have not pretended otherwise. “The money is nothing we’re trying to hide,” Jannik Sinner said before the 2025 edition, AP reported, adding that “it would be a lie if I told you it wasn’t a motivation.” Taylor Fritz told AP: “I’d love for them to show me a tournament where you can go play three matches” and potentially make US$6 million.

Prize money for 2026 had not been published by the organisers or reported by an approved source when this explainer was written.

Results so far

2024. The first edition, played from 16 to 19 October 2024, featured Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Daniil Medvedev and Holger Rune, according to AP. Nadal and Djokovic received byes. In the semi-finals Alcaraz beat Nadal 6-3, 6-3 and Sinner beat Djokovic 6-2, 6-7(0), 6-4. Sinner won the final 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-3 against Alcaraz. Djokovic beat Nadal 6-2, 7-6(5) in the third-place match. “The last dance was an epic one,” Djokovic said, AP reported.

2025. The second edition, at ANB Arena, featured Sinner, Alcaraz, Djokovic, Fritz, Alexander Zverev and Stefanos Tsitsipas, according to AP. Alcaraz and Djokovic received byes. Alcaraz beat Fritz 6-4, 6-2 and Sinner beat Djokovic 6-4, 6-2 in the semi-finals, according to dpa, EFE and ANSA. Sinner beat Alcaraz 6-2, 6-4 in the final, PA Media and dpa reported. Djokovic retired from the third-place match after Fritz won a first set that went to a tie-break.

Sinner has won both editions, beating Alcaraz in both finals.

What the ATP rules say

The ATP rulebook limits when its leading players can take part in exhibitions, which it calls special events. Under the rule in the 2025 rulebook, which applies to players ranked in the Top 30:

  • No special event may be played during the tournament weeks of any ATP Masters 1000 event, ATP 500 event or the Nitto ATP Finals.
  • No special event may be played within 30 days and 100 miles (160 km) of those events, or in the same city market.
  • No special event may be played during an ATP 250 week if it falls within the same distance or market limits.
  • A player may not play a special event in the week of any tour event he is entered in.
  • Players may petition the ATP chief executive for an exemption. A breach counts as a Major Offense.

Both editions so far were played in mid-October. In 2026 the week after Shanghai, 19 to 25 October, carries only ATP 250 events, in Almaty, Brussels and Lyon, according to the ATP calendar. The ATP 500s in Basel and Vienna begin on 26 October.

There is a second, financial rule. The 2025 rulebook defines a “Qualified Non-Covered Event” as one that includes a Top 100 player and meets tests such as running for three or more consecutive days within a seven-day period. Playing one costs a player his Platinum Benefit eligibility, which he needs to share in the ATP 500 and Masters 1000 bonus pools. Events first held in 2023 are exempt until 31 December 2026; the Six Kings Slam began in 2024, so that exemption does not cover it. How the bonus pools work is set out in GTN’s ATP Bonus Pool explainer.

No approved source has reported whether the ATP formally sanctions the event, or how the ATP has applied either rule to it.

Where it sits in Saudi tennis

AP has reported the event as part of Saudi Arabia’s growing role in tennis, alongside the Public Investment Fund’s sponsorship of the tours’ rankings, and noted that Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova have criticised that role over LGBTQ+ and women’s rights. The Public Investment Fund is the naming partner of the PIF ATP Rankings under a partnership announced in February 2024, according to the ATP. No approved source reports that the fund finances the Six Kings Slam.

The 2026 edition

Sinner, the two-time champion, ended his 2026 season on 6 October because of a knee injury, the ATP, AP, Reuters and AFP reported. “I need a course of treatment for my knee, which means that the 2026 season is officially over,” he said, AP reported. None of those reports mentioned the Six Kings Slam.

L’Equipe reported on 6 October that organisers had named Learner Tien, the world No. 17, to replace Sinner. [UNVERIFIED: Tien replacing Sinner rests on L’Equipe, an attributed-only outlet; no wire or organiser confirmation found in an approved source]

Whoever wins in Riyadh, the result will not change the rankings. Zverev’s position as year-end No. 1, Sinner’s weekly No. 1 ranking and the race for the last places at the Nitto ATP Finals are decided only by tour events. For how those are settled, see GTN’s ATP Year-End No. 1 explainer and ATP Finals Alternates explainer.

Zizou Bergs Profile — Belgium’s First Grass-Court Champion and the Win Over Alcaraz

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Zizou Bergs Profile — Belgium’s First Grass-Court Champion and the Win Over Alcaraz

Zizou Bergs is the first Belgian man to win an ATP Tour title on grass and, since 12 October 2026, the player whose win over Carlos Alcaraz in Shanghai guaranteed Alexander Zverev the year-end No. 1 ranking. He did not reach the Top 100 until he was 25. Most of what he has built came through the ATP Challenger Tour and qualifying.

Early years

Bergs was born on 3 June 1999 in Lommel, Belgium, according to the ATP Tour. His first name comes from the nickname of the French footballer Zinedine Zidane, and he speaks Dutch, French and English.

He began playing at three with his father, Koen, moved to a tennis academy at eight and to the Flemish Federation’s training centre at 15, according to his ATP biography. He credits former coaches Bertrand Tinck, Tom Devries and Johan Van Herck. His idols growing up were Andy Roddick and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. He names the serve as his favourite shot, indoor hard as his favourite surface and Antwerp as his favourite tournament. He plays piano and guitar, and works with a sports psychologist on visualization, mindfulness and breathing.

He was ranked as high as No. 12 in the juniors and turned professional in 2018. He stands 1.85 metres (6 ft 1 in), is right-handed and hits a two-handed backhand. His coach is Jan De Witt. “He really understands me as a person, but also as an athlete,” Bergs said of De Witt in Shanghai in 2025, in remarks published by the tournament.

The Challenger years

Bergs broke into the Top 200 in July 2021 and won three Challenger titles that season, two of them as a qualifier: St. Petersburg and Lille, then Almaty. In 2022 he won the Ilkley Challenger as a qualifier, beating former World No. 8 Jack Sock, and the result earned him a wild card into Wimbledon. He added Challenger titles in Tallahassee in 2023 and 2024, and in Drummondville and Yokkaichi in 2023.

His first deep run at a major came at Roland Garros in 2024. He came through qualifying and reached the third round, where 10th seed Grigor Dimitrov beat him 6-3, 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-4 in three hours and 57 minutes on Court Philippe-Chatrier, according to Roland Garros. He entered the Top 100 that June.

Breakthrough in 2025

Bergs opened 2025 with his first tour-level final in Auckland, losing 6-3, 6-4 to Gael Monfils. He reached a second final in ‘s-Hertogenbosch in June, losing 7-5, 7-6(8) to Gabriel Diallo, who was winning his first title, according to the ATP.

His first win over a Top 10 player came at the Miami Open, where he beat No. 9 Andrey Rublev 7-5, 6-4. He reached the third round of the US Open after Jack Draper withdrew before their second-round match and lost there to Jaume Munar 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.

In Shanghai he reached his first ATP Masters 1000 quarter-final, saving two match points in the deciding tie-break against Diallo before winning 3-6, 7-5, 7-6(8). Novak Djokovic beat him 6-3, 6-4 in the quarter-finals. Bergs finished 2025 with 31 tour-level wins, a personal best, according to the ATP.

Eastbourne and the grass

The 2026 season began with the best week of his career to that point. At the United Cup in Sydney he beat World No. 5 Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4, 6-2, the first United Cup match won by a Belgian man, according to the event. He added wins over Jakub Mensik and Stan Wawrinka as Belgium reached the semi-finals, which they lost to Switzerland in the deciding mixed doubles.

Bergs arrived in Eastbourne in June on a six-match tour-level losing streak, according to the ATP. He beat Jan Choinski, Daniel Altmaier and Jaume Munar, then came from a set down to beat British lucky loser Toby Samuel 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-2 in the semi-finals. The final against Ugo Humbert was stopped by rain after three games on the Saturday. Bergs finished it on Sunday 28 June, again from a set down, winning 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, according to the ATP and Reuters.

It was his first ATP Tour title and the first by a Belgian man on grass. “If the results are not there, we keep focusing on improving, and that’s why we’re here today standing with the trophy,” he said, the ATP reported. He rose to a career-high No. 33 in August.

At Wimbledon he beat Humbert again in five sets in the first round and Jaime Faria in the second, according to ATP results. There he lost to Arthur Fery 6-2, 5-7, 6-2, 6-7(3), 6-7 in a match of more than four and a half hours, decided by a 10-5 final-set tie-break, PA Media reported. The LTA reported that Bergs led by a double break at 4-1 in the fourth set and served 14 double faults.

He reached the US Open third round for a second straight year, losing in five sets to Botic van de Zandschulp in four hours and 29 minutes, according to the ATP.

Beating Alcaraz in Shanghai

Alcaraz won their first meeting 6-4, 6-3 in Tokyo in 2025. Their second, in the third round in Shanghai on 12 October 2026, went to Bergs 7-5, 7-6(4). He broke Alcaraz three times, won 79 per cent of his first-serve points, and recovered from being broken while serving for the match at 5-4 to win the tie-break from 4/4, according to the ATP.

Because Ben Shelton had already lost, Alcaraz’s defeat meant Zverev could no longer be caught for the year-end No. 1 ranking. Bergs said afterwards that respect for the biggest names had held him back. “I feel like now I really can win against these guys,” he told the ATP. “Not just I can play against them, but I can win against them.”

How he plays

Bergs builds his game from the serve, the shot he names as his favourite, and he ties his return game to it. “I have a good return, and if I serve well, I can utilise this even more,” he said in Shanghai. His only tour-level title came on grass, and his biggest win came on a Shanghai court the ATP described as fast.

Grand Slam best results

  • Australian Open: first round (2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)
  • Roland Garros: third round (2024, as a qualifier)
  • Wimbledon: third round (2026)
  • US Open: third round (2025, 2026)

Season Snapshot — as of 12 October 2026

  • PIF ATP Ranking: No. 39 (career high No. 33, 10 August 2026)
  • Coach: Jan De Witt
  • 2026 title: Eastbourne (grass), his first ATP Tour title
  • 2026 record: 20-21 before the Rolex Shanghai Masters, according to the ATP; he has since won three matches in Shanghai
  • 2026 Grand Slams: Australian Open first round, Roland Garros first round, Wimbledon third round, US Open third round
  • Rolex Shanghai Masters: in the fourth round after beating Vit Kopriva, Ignacio Buse and Carlos Alcaraz; next opponent Valentin Vacherot or Tommy Paul
  • Davis Cup: won his opening rubber against Lukas Neumayer in Vienna in September but lost the deciding rubber to Jurij Rodionov as Austria qualified for the Final 8
  • Head-to-head with Carlos Alcaraz: 1-1

This snapshot is dated and will change. The career record above does not.

Hong Kong Tennis Open Guide — Dates, Venue, Points and Past Champions

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Hong Kong Tennis Open Guide — Dates, Venue, Points and Past Champions

The Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open is a WTA 250 event played on outdoor hard courts at Victoria Park Tennis Stadium. It closes the WTA’s Asian swing: in 2026 it runs the week after the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo and the Guangzhou Open, and the week before the WTA Finals. This guide covers the dates, format, points, history and every champion since the event returned in 2014.

2026 dates and format

  • Main draw: Monday 2 November to Sunday 8 November 2026
  • Draw ceremony: Saturday 31 October
  • Finals: singles and doubles on Sunday 8 November
  • Venue: Victoria Park Tennis Stadium, Hong Kong
  • Surface: outdoor hard
  • Category: WTA 250
  • Singles draw: 32 players, made up of 23 direct entries, four qualifiers, four wild cards and one special exempt; the top four seeds receive byes into the second round
  • Doubles draw: 16 teams
  • Total financial commitment: US$283,347, according to the WTA

The 2026 qualifying dates had not been published by the WTA when this guide was written. [UNVERIFIED: 2026 qualifying dates, not published by the WTA; add once the tournament confirms]

The same week, the WTA 250 Chennai Open runs in India. The WTA Finals at Indian Wells begin on 8 November, the day of the Hong Kong final, according to the WTA.

Ranking points

As a WTA 250 with a 32-player singles draw, Hong Kong awards the standard WTA 250 points. [UNVERIFIED: points table taken from the WTA ranking point chart published by the ITF, which is headed “2025”; confirm it applies unchanged in 2026]

  • Winner: 250
  • Finalist: 163
  • Semi-finalist: 98
  • Quarter-finalist: 54
  • Second round (last 16): 30
  • First round: 1
  • Qualifier: 18

History

The tournament was first played in 1980. It was held from 1980 to 1982 and once more in 1993, then returned to the WTA calendar in 2014, according to the WTA. Five editions followed, from 2014 to 2018.

The 2019 edition, scheduled for October, was postponed indefinitely in September 2019 during the protests in Hong Kong. Organisers said at the time that “a smooth running of the tournament can be better assured at a later time,” the Associated Press reported. The event was not held again until 2023, when the WTA described it as being staged for the first time since 2018. It has been played every year since.

Past champions

YearChampionRunner-upScore
2025Victoria Mboko (CAN)Cristina Bucsa (ESP)7-5, 6-7(9), 6-2
2024Diana ShnaiderKatie Boulter (GBR)6-1, 6-2
2023Leylah Fernandez (CAN)Katerina Siniakova (CZE)3-6, 6-4, 6-4
2019–2022Not held
2018Dayana Yastremska (UKR)Wang Qiang (CHN)6-2, 6-1
2017Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaDaria Gavrilova (AUS)5-7, 6-3, 7-6(3)
2016Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)6-1, 6-7(4), 6-2
2015Jelena Jankovic (SRB)Angelique Kerber (GER)3-6, 7-6(4), 6-1
2014Sabine Lisicki (GER)Karolina Pliskova (CZE)7-5, 6-3

Champions are taken from the WTA’s past-winners list. Scores are from WTA match reports and, for 2014 to 2016, from AP and Reuters reports of the finals.

Mboko won the 2025 final in two hours and 49 minutes, the longest tour-level final of the season, according to the WTA and Tennis Canada. It was her second title of 2025 after Montreal, and she was 19. Bucsa was the runner-up.

Shnaider’s 2024 win was her fourth title of that season; she beat the defending champion, Fernandez, 6-4, 6-2 in the semi-finals. Yastremska won the 2018 title as an 18-year-old ranked No. 102, her first on the WTA Tour.

Records and notes

  • No player has won the singles title twice since the tournament returned in 2014.
  • Latisha Chan and Hao-Ching Chan won the doubles in 2016 and 2017, the only repeat champions on the modern list.
  • Fernandez won her first eight matches at the event, taking the 2023 title, and reached the semi-finals in 2024 and 2025, according to the WTA.
  • Canadians have won two of the last three titles, through Fernandez in 2023 and Mboko in 2025.
  • In 2025, wild card Eudice Chong beat Suzan Lamens 6-3, 6-4. The WTA reported it was the first WTA main-draw match won by a player from Hong Kong since Zhang Ling at Guangzhou in 2014, and the first win by a home player at this tournament since Suzie Holm reached the second round in 1980.

The 2026 field

The WTA’s entry list, published on 8 October, is headed by 2024 champion Diana Shnaider, Sorana Cirstea, Alexandra Eala and Jasmine Paolini. Fernandez, the 2023 champion, and Bucsa, the 2025 runner-up, are both entered, as are Zheng Qinwen, Maria Sakkari, Paula Badosa, Ann Li, Kimberly Birrell and 2024 finalist Katie Boulter.

Defending champion Victoria Mboko is not on the entry list. The WTA said she had been out of action since June, when she retired at Queen’s with a knee injury and then withdrew from Wimbledon. Wild cards had not been announced when this guide was written. GTN’s report on the 2026 Hong Kong entry list has the full list and alternates.

How to watch

No 2026 broadcast partners had been published by the WTA or the tournament when this guide was written. The WTA lists broadcasters by country on its where-to-watch page, which is updated before each event.

For how the Hong Kong week fits the end of the season, see GTN’s Asian swing explainer and the guides to the Toray Pan Pacific Open and Guangzhou Open, which are played the week before.

Bergs Beat Alcaraz in Shanghai and Zverev Will Finish 2026 as Year-End No. 1

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Bergs Beat Alcaraz in Shanghai and Zverev Will Finish 2026 as Year-End No. 1

Zizou Bergs had already served for the match once and been broken. A Shanghai crowd that wanted more of Carlos Alcaraz was getting it. Then, from 4/4 in the second-set tie-break, the Belgian took the last three points.

That closed a 7-5, 7-6(4) win over the second seed in the third round of the Rolex Shanghai Masters on Monday evening. By ranking, it is the biggest win of Bergs’ career, according to the ATP Tour. It took two hours and three minutes inside Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena, and it settled more than a place in the last 16: with Alcaraz out, Alexander Zverev will finish 2026 as the ATP’s year-end No. 1.

How it turned. Bergs, ranked No. 39, broke the World No. 3 three times on what the ATP described as fast court conditions. He served well enough to make those breaks count. He won 37 of 47 points behind his first serve, 79 per cent, according to Infosys ATP Stats.

AFP reported that Bergs broke first, for 3-2 in the opening set, and that Alcaraz broke straight back but kept sending balls into the net. A double fault in the 11th game handed Bergs a break point, and Alcaraz lost the set on a volley that fell short, AFP reported.

Alcaraz was visibly frustrated through the second set, venting at his corner after a run of missed shots, and won no points in the fourth and eighth games, according to AFP. Bergs still had to get through his own wobble. Serving for the match at 5-4, his level dropped and Alcaraz, roared on by the crowd, broke to force the tie-break, the ATP reported.

Bergs led that tie-break 3/1 and then double-faulted to let Alcaraz back in. From 4/4 he won three points in a row, and he converted his first match point.

What Bergs said. Bergs has spent most of his career losing to the names at the top of the draw, and he said the problem had been his own deference.

“I often have too much respect for these guys, which is part of my culture and I’m proud of that. But it gets a little bit in the way when you have to play them,” he told the ATP. “To have this moment, for me it is a little bit of a relief. I feel like now I really can win against these guys. Not just I can play against them, but I can win against them.”

On the game that nearly cost him the match, he said: “It’s never easy to get broken when you are serving for the match, but to get back in the tie-break and play those key moments, serve big, I’m very happy with that one especially.”

He credited the serve. “The percentages have been really high in the past few matches because we really worked on it, and this gave me a little bit of breathing room. I have a good return, and if I serve well, I can utilise this even more.”

The win levelled their head-to-head at 1-1. Alcaraz won their first meeting 6-4, 6-3 at the 2025 Japan Open in Tokyo, according to the ATP and AP.

Alcaraz’s swing. Alcaraz arrived in Shanghai with a 32-4 record for the season and a place at the Nitto ATP Finals already secured, according to the ATP. AFP described his return after months out injured as in-form until Monday. Before the tournament he had warned that this part of the year had rarely suited him. “If we see a couple years back, probably this swing or this part of the season, it’s never been my best one,” he said in his pre-tournament press conference, the ATP reported. No post-match comment from Alcaraz was available from an approved source when this was filed.

What it means for No. 1. The ATP set out before the tournament that Zverev would clinch year-end No. 1 in Shanghai in either of two ways: by reaching the semi-finals himself, or if both Alcaraz and Ben Shelton lost at any point. Shelton, the third seed, lost to Arthur Gea 7-6(5), 7-6(3) on Sunday. Alcaraz followed on Monday.

Zverev went into Shanghai 4,200 points clear of Alcaraz and 4,320 clear of Shelton in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin, according to the ATP. Jannik Sinner, second in the Race, ended his season on 6 October with a knee injury. The ATP said Zverev will become the first German to finish a season as year-end No. 1.

The weekly ranking is a separate matter. Zverev holds 9,720 points in the PIF ATP Live Rankings, 1,230 behind Sinner, and the ATP said he will not pass Sinner when the rankings are re-run after Shanghai whatever happens this week. His earliest route to the weekly No. 1 is 2 November: by winning Shanghai and reaching the Vienna semi-finals, or reaching the Shanghai final and winning Vienna. That would make him only the second German to hold the top ranking after Boris Becker in 1991. Why the two can differ is set out in GTN’s ATP Year-End No. 1 explainer.

Zverev reached the last 16 on Sunday with a 6-4, 6-7(8), 6-3 win over Quentin Halys, his 60th tour-level win of 2026, according to the ATP. He let two match points go in the second-set tie-break but did not face a break point. He plays 19th seed Alexander Bublik next.

Next for Bergs. Bergs reached his first Masters 1000 quarter-final in Shanghai a year ago, saving two match points against Gabriel Diallo before losing to Novak Djokovic. To match that he must beat defending champion Valentin Vacherot or Tommy Paul. He reached Monday’s match by beating Vit Kopriva 6-3, 6-1 and 32nd seed Ignacio Buse 6-0, 6-3, according to ATP results.

For the full background on the race GTN has followed since Sinner withdrew, see Zverev’s path to No. 1, Sinner’s season-ending injury and the complete list of ATP World No. 1s.

WTA Year-End No. 1 Explained — The Ranking After the WTA Finals Decides It, Not the Race

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WTA Year-End No. 1 Explained — The Ranking After the WTA Finals Decides It, Not the Race

The WTA year-end No. 1 is the player at the top of the WTA Rankings published immediately after the WTA Finals. It is not the leader of the Race to the WTA Finals, and it is not decided until the season’s last ranking points are in. The Race decides who plays at the Finals. The 52-week ranking decides who finishes the year at No. 1.

That distinction matters this autumn. Elena Rybakina became world No. 1 on 14 September after beating Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 in the US Open final. Sabalenka has finished the last two seasons at No. 1. Rybakina is missing the Wuhan Open this week with a foot injury, and Sabalenka is the top seed there.

The rule

The 2026 WTA Official Rulebook defines the year-end ranking in a single line: “Year End Ranking (ranking immediately following the WTA Finals).” The WTA’s ranking rules say the year-end rankings are processed immediately after the Finals. In 2026 the WTA Finals are at Indian Wells from 8 to 15 November, so the year-end No. 1 is whoever leads the list that follows the final there.

What the ranking counts

The WTA Rankings are a rolling 52-week list, computed and published weekly. A player’s ranking counts a maximum of 18 tournaments, and points from the WTA Finals count as an additional 19th result, according to the WTA’s rankings explainer. The Grand Slams and the mandatory WTA 1000 events count whether a player enters them or not.

The 2026 rulebook says a player receives “a zero (0) ranking point result for each Commitment Tournament she does not play, which must count on her WTA Singles Ranking. GTN’s WTA rankings explainer covers the weekly list in more detail.

What the Race does

The Race to the WTA Finals is a separate points table with a separate job: it picks the Finals field. Under the WTA’s Race qualification rules, Race points are earned from tournaments starting the week before the previous year’s WTA Finals through tournaments starting two weeks before the upcoming Finals.

The Race counts 18 results, excludes WTA 125 and ITF events, and does not include the previous year’s Finals. The top seven on the Race leaderboard qualify, plus the highest-ranked current-year Grand Slam champion ranked between 8 and 20 who is not already in. For 2026, the WTA says Tokyo and Guangzhou are the last events that count. The details are in GTN’s WTA Finals qualification explainer.

Nothing in the Race rules mentions the year-end No. 1. A player can lead the Race and still finish the year at No. 2.

Why the two lists differ

The main difference is last year’s WTA Finals. In the 52-week ranking, points earned at a WTA Finals stay on a player’s total until the Monday after the last tournament before the next Finals. [UNVERIFIED: drop-off timing taken from the WTA’s 2025 ranking rules, Section VIII.A.3.e; the 2026 wording was not read.] The Race never includes them. Ranking points also have to be defended from the season before, the WTA has noted, while Race points start from zero each year.

Rybakina is the clearest example in 2026. She won the 2025 WTA Finals unbeaten, and she is defending 1,500 points from that title, according to the WTA. Those points help her ranking now and leave it after the last tournament before Indian Wells. Whatever she earns at Indian Wells then counts in their place. Because the Finals sit inside the ranking but outside the Race, the year-end No. 1 can still change hands in the last week of the season.

When it can be clinched

The year-end No. 1 is often settled before the Finals end, once no rival can catch the leader with the points left. Recent seasons show how it can go.

  • 2017: Simona Halep was assured of finishing the year at No. 1 before the Finals had ended, according to the WTA.
  • 2023: Iga Swiatek took No. 1 back from Sabalenka by winning the WTA Finals. The WTA said it was the first time since 2009 that No. 1 changed hands at the year-end championships.
  • 2024: Sabalenka clinched the year-end No. 1 during the Finals in Riyadh without playing, when Coco Gauff beat Swiatek 6-3, 6-4, The Canadian Press reported.
  • 2025: The WTA announced on 1 November in Riyadh that Sabalenka had earned the year-end No. 1 ranking again, with an on-court ceremony.

Year-end No. 1s since 2016

  • 2016: Angelique Kerber
  • 2017, 2018: Simona Halep
  • 2019, 2020, 2021: Ashleigh Barty
  • 2022, 2023: Iga Swiatek
  • 2024, 2025: Aryna Sabalenka

When Barty finished a third straight year on top in 2021, the WTA said she joined Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova, Serena Williams and Chris Evert as the only players to finish at No. 1 for three consecutive years. Sabalenka would join that group if she finishes 2026 on top. For every woman who has held the weekly No. 1 ranking, see GTN’s list of WTA world No. 1s.

How the ATP does it

The men’s tour handles the same question differently. GTN’s ATP year-end No. 1 explainer covers how the ATP Race and the weekly ranking relate at the end of the men’s season.

Season Snapshot (as of 11 October 2026)

Rybakina is world No. 1 and Sabalenka is No. 2. Rybakina has withdrawn from Wuhan with a foot injury; Sabalenka is the top seed there, and the Wuhan champion earns 1,000 ranking points. Mirra Andreeva and Linda Noskova have qualified for the WTA Finals at Indian Wells, according to the WTA, and Andreeva rises to a career-high No. 3 on Monday. Noskova withdrew from Wuhan on Sunday with a left calf injury.

This snapshot is dated and will change. The rules above do not.

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