MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/. /TASS/. Russia’s top racquet Daniil Medvedev has lost another spot in the ATP’s latest (Association of Tennis Professionals) Rankings of the world’s best tennis players, according to ATP’s weekly rankings list.
Last week, Medvedev lost in Round 2 of the 2025 ATP tournament in the Netherlands’ Rotterdam. He now has 3,830 points on the ATP Ranking list, placing him 8th in the world.
In 2022, the top Russian racquet spent sixteen weeks as the number one player in the world. He is the 2021 US Open Champion and has 20 ATP tournament titles under his belt. He won five of these 20 titles in 2023. Also, in 2021, he won the Davis Cup as well as the ATP Cup playing for the Russian national team.
Medvedev’s peer and Russian comrade Andrey Rublev remained in 10th place in the ATP Rankings, sitting at 3,270 points after failing to advance past the quarterfinals round at Rotterdam.
The 2025 Rotterdam Open is an ATP 500 event. This year, it ran from February 3-9, played on indoor hard courts. Italy’s Jannik Sinner was the men's champion.
The 27-year-old Rublev has won 16 career ATP singles tournament titles in singles and four more in men’s doubles. Rublev has also appeared in numerous Grand Slam tournaments, albeit never advancing beyond the quarterfinals.
He took home the gold at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo in mixed doubles (with teammate Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova) and also won the 2021 Davis Cup as part of the Russian national team.
The newly updated ATP Rankings Top 10 is as follows: 1st Jannik Sinner (Italy, 11,830 points); 2nd Alexander Zverev (Germany, 8,135); 3rd Carlos Alcaraz (Spain, 7,510); 4th Taylor Fritz (the United States, 5,100); 5th Casper Ruud (Norway, 4,480); 6th Alex de Minaur (Australia, 4,015); 7th Novak Djokovic (Serbia, 3,900); 8th Daniil Medvedev (Russian athlete playing under a neutral status at ATP tournaments, 3,830); 9thTommy Paul (the United States, 3,445); 10th Andrey Rublev (Russian athlete playing under a neutral status at ATP tournaments, 3,270).
Russian players’ neutral status at tennis tournaments
On February 28, 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) issued recommendations to international sports federations to bar athletes from Russia and Belarus from taking part in international tournaments, citing Moscow's special military operation in Ukraine as the reason.
Following the IOC's recommendations in late February 2022, the majority of global sports federations decided to bar athletes from Russia and Belarus from all international sports tournaments.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) ruled on March 1, 2022 to suspend the membership of the Russian and Belarusian national tennis federations while also canceling all previously scheduled tennis tournaments in the two countries.
On March 14, 2022, the ITF also confirmed its prohibition on the Russian and Belarusian national tennis teams from taking part in the 2022 Davis Cup and 2022 Billie Jean King Cup.
However, the Women Tennis Association (WTA) and the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) allowed tennis players from Russia and Belarus to continue participating in WTA and ATP tournaments, but only under a neutral status.