The big guns will only begin their Monte Carlo Masters campaigns in the second round, but do you know how many points they are defending at this week\u2019s ATP Masters event?<\/p>\n
World No 1 Jannik Sinner<\/a> will of course once again be absent as he continues to serve his three-month ban. The Italian will also miss the Madrid Open and Barcelona Open before finally returning at the Italian Open in early May.<\/p>\n Despite not featuring in Monte Carlo this year, the Italian will still drop points from his 2024 results so he will lose out, but not by too much.<\/p>\n He is currently on 10,330 points, but will remain top after the tournament as Alexander Zverev is too far adrift in second place.<\/p>\n Unlike the Sunshine Double, the Indian Wells Open and Miami Open which are 96-player single draws, the Monte Carlo event is a 56-player draw, which means there is a change in the points being awarded as it starts at the round of 64 and not the round of 128.<\/p>\n So it is first round, second round, the round of 16, quarter-final, semi-final and final.<\/p>\n Winner: 1000 points Let\u2019s start with the top five in the ATP Rankings and Jannik Sinner will drop 400 points after reaching the semi-final last year. It means he will be on 9,930 points after the tournament as he will not be able to add to his tally.<\/p>\n Zverev \u2013 who is 2,685 points behind the Italian \u2013 lost in the third round last year so he will drop only 50 points and a decent performance this time around will help him to edge closer to Sinner.<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz is in an even better position as he didn\u2019t play last year due to injury so he will not have any points to defend and could overtake Zverev if he wins the title and the German falls in the second round.<\/p>\n Novak Djokovic makes history, Carlos Alcaraz resurgence, Alexander Zverev struggles: Monte Carlo Predictions<\/a><\/p>\n ATP Rankings: Jannik Sinner still dominant, Jenson Brooksby +335, Flavio Cobolli +9<\/a><\/p>\n World No 4 Taylor Fritz lost in the first round in 2024, but won\u2019t compete this year while 24-time Grand Slam winner Djokovic reached the last four last year so will drop 400 points.<\/p>\n Casper Ruud and Stefanos Tsitsipas were the finalists in 2024 and the former will also drop 650 points while Tsitsipas is defending 1,000 points as he won the title last year.<\/p>\n As a result, Ruud has slipped four places to No 11 in the Live Rankings while Tsitispas is down nine places to No 17. Both, of course, can work their way back up with a couple of victories this week.<\/p>\n Alex de Minaur, Ugo Hubert, Karen Khachanov and Holger Rune fell at the quarter-final stage last year so will drop 200 points.<\/p>\n 1. Jannik Sinner \u2013 9,330 points The top eight seeds have byes into the second round and their 10 points for a first-round victory have already been added to their tallies above.<\/p>\n The post ATP Rankings: Points being dropped by Sinner, Zverev, Djokovic, Tsitsipas in Monte Carlo<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The big guns will only begin their Monte Carlo Masters campaigns in the second round, but do you know how many points they are defending at this week\u2019s ATP Masters event? World No 1 Jannik Sinner will of course once again be absent as he continues to serve his three-month ban. The Italian will also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Monte Carlo Ranking Points Breakdown<\/h4>\n
\nFinalist: 650 points
\nSemi-finalists: 400 points
\nQuarter-finalists: 200 points
\nRound of 16: 100 points
\nRound of 32: 50 points
\nFirst of 64: 10 points<\/p>\nATP News<\/h3>\n
Live Rankings After Points Dropped<\/h4>\n
\n2. Alexander Zverev \u2013 7,595
\n3. Carlos Alcaraz \u2013 6,730
\n4. Taylor Fritz \u2013 5,280
\n5. Novak Djokovic \u2013 4,120
\n6. Jack Draper \u2013 3,780
\n7. Andrey Rublev \u2013 3,440
\n8. Daniil Medvedev \u2013 3,200
\n9. Tommy Paul \u2013 3,160
\n10. Alex de Minaur \u2013 3,145
\n11. Casper Ruud \u2013 3,125
\n12. Holger Rune \u2013 3,080
\n13. Ben Shelton \u2013 2,700
\n14. Arthur Fils \u2013 2,630
\n15. Lorenzo Musetti \u2013 2,600
\n16. Frances Tiafoe \u2013 2,525
\n17. Stefanos Tsitsipas \u2013 2,455
\n18. Felix Auger-Aliassime \u2013 2,415
\n19. Grigor Dimitrov \u2013 2,405
\n20. Tomas Machac \u2013 2,210<\/p>\n