ATP and WTA Tennis Rankings

The ATP and WTA singles rankings, updated every Monday morning when the two tours publish. Both tables show the current top 20 with points and the change from the previous week.

ATP rankings

What moved: week of 14 September 2026

Alexander Zverev’s US Open title, his second major of the season after Roland Garros, added 1,900 points and cut Jannik Sinner’s lead at the top to 1,810. Sinner missed Flushing Meadows with a knee injury and dropped the 1,300 points he had banked as runner-up a year ago, so the gap closed from both directions. Zverev is the first man born in the 1990s to win multiple majors.

Ben Shelton’s run to a first Grand Slam final moved him five places to a career-high No. 4, past Auger-Aliassime, Medvedev, Cobolli and de Minaur in one week. He beat defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in a quarter-final that finished at 3:33 a.m., the latest finish in US Open history.

Novak Djokovic fell seven places to No. 12. It is the first time since October 2002 that neither he nor the retired Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal appears in the top 10 of the ATP rankings.

Frances Tiafoe rose four places to a career-high No. 8 after his third US Open semi-final in five years, returning to the top 10 for the first time since 2023. Karen Khachanov, the other semi-finalist, was the week’s biggest mover inside the top 30, climbing 24 places to No. 26.

WTA rankings

What moved: week of 14 September 2026

Elena Rybakina is the 30th world No. 1 in WTA history. She secured the ranking by reaching the semi-finals, then beat Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka in consecutive three-setters to take the title, her third major and second of 2026 after the Australian Open. She has now beaten Sabalenka in both hard-court major finals this year.

The result ends Sabalenka’s 99-week run at No. 1, which began in October 2024. She drops to No. 2 after falling one match short of a third consecutive US Open title.

Marta Kostyuk makes her top-10 debut at No. 10, climbing one place after a second US Open fourth round. She is the second Ukrainian in the Open Era to reach the top 10, after Elina Svitolina, who is up two places to No. 7 this week. Kostyuk is the third player to debut in the top 10 in 2026, following Victoria Mboko and Linda Noskóvá.

How the rankings work

Both tours run a rolling 52-week system. A player’s total is the points earned over the previous twelve months, and results drop off the total on the anniversary of the tournament they were won at. That is why a player can lose ground in a week they did not play, and why the Monday after a Grand Slam produces the largest movement of any week in the calendar.

A Grand Slam title is worth 2,000 points on both tours, with 1,300 for the runner-up. Below that the ATP pays 1,000 for a Masters 1000 title and 500 for an ATP 500; the WTA pays 1,000 for a WTA 1000 and 500 for a WTA 500. The ATP counts a player’s best 19 results and the WTA the best 18, so two players on similar points can be carrying very different workloads.

The race rankings are a separate table counting only results from the current calendar year, and they decide qualification for the ATP Finals in Turin and the WTA Finals.

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