LONDON, May 19. /TASS/. Russians Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev remained in their previous positions in Monday’s newly-published Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings, still on the outside looking in at the Top-10.
Playing under a neutral status last week at the 2025 Italian Open in Rome, Medvedev lost in the quarterfinals of the tournament, while Rublev was sent packing in Round 2.
Thus, Medvedev and Rublev kept their spots from last week's rankings, holding the 11th (3,290 points) and 17th (2,540 points) positions respectively.
This week’s ATP Top-10 Rankings is as follows: 1st Jannik Sinner (Italy; 10,380); 2nd Carlos Alcaraz (Spain; 8,850); 3rd Alexander Zverev (Germany; 7,285); 4th Taylor Fritz (the United States; 4,625); 5th Jack Draper (the United Kingdom; 4,610); 6th Novak Djokovic (Serbia; 4,080); 7th Casper Ruud (Norway; 3,905); 8th Lorenzo Musetti (Italy; 3,860); 9th Alex de Minaur (Australia; 3,635) and 10th Holger Rune (Denmark, 3,440).
The 2025 Italian Open tennis tournament is an ATP 1000 event. Played on outdoor clay courts, the tourney took place at Rome’s Foro Italico sports complex on May 6-18. Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz won this year's title after defeating Italian Jannik Sinner on Sunday.
Medvedev, 29, 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.
Rublev, 27, has won 17 career ATP singles tournament titles 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.
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.