Carlos Alcaraz has sealed a significant jump in the ATP Rankings after rallying from a set down to beat Lorenzo Musetti in the Monte Carlo Masters final.<\/p>\n
In an intriguing contest, second seed Alcaraz<\/a> claimed his sixth Masters 1000 title and first Monte Carlo title with a rallying 3-6, 6-1, 6-0 triumph over a tiring and hampered\u00a0Musetti<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n It is Alcaraz\u2019s second title of 2025, following his victory at the Rotterdam Open back in February, and is his first Masters 1000 title since winning in Indian Wells back in March 2024.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not the way that I would have wanted to win a match,\u201d reflected Alcaraz.<\/p>\n \u201cThinking about Lorenzo, I think he\u2019s had a really tough week, really long and intense matches, so I just feel really sorry for him to end [like this].<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the best results he has done and ending like this, it\u2019s not easy, so I just wanted to say hopefully it\u2019s nothing serious and hopefully he\u2019s going to be 100% really soon.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m just really happy to have won Monte Carlo for the first time. It\u2019s been a really difficult week with a lot of difficult situations that I\u2019m really proud of myself, how I dealt with everything.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a really difficult month for me outside and on the court, so coming here and seeing how the hard work paid off, I\u2019m really happy.\u201d<\/p>\n Victory for Alcaraz has significant rankings implications right at the very top of the sport, with the Spaniard now set to overtake Alexander Zverev as the world No 2.<\/p>\n The 21-year-old will move to 7,720 ranking points on Monday, with Zverev \u2013 who was beaten in round two \u2013 dropping to 7,595 points.<\/p>\n Alcaraz has also closed the gap to world No 1 Jannik Sinner, earning a full 1,000 ranking points in Monte Carlo after missing the event 12 months ago.<\/p>\n Sinner will drop 400 semi-final points after missing Monte Carlo due to his ongoing suspension, though the Italian will still hold 9,930 points on Monday \u2013 a cushion of 2,210 points over Alcaraz.<\/p>\n All eyes will now be on whether Alcaraz can close the gap towards Sinner, and hold off Zverev as the world No 2.<\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz told he\u2019s \u2018making tennis sublime\u2019 in stunning verdict from Justine Henin<\/a><\/p>\n Carlos Alcaraz makes brutally honest Jannik Sinner confession as he reaches Monte Carlo final<\/a><\/p>\n Both Alcaraz and Zverev are in action on home soil this coming week, with the Spaniard competing at the ATP 500 Barcelona Open, and German Zverev competing at the ATP 500 Munich Open.<\/p>\n Two-time Barcelona champion Alcaraz has no points to defend after missing the event in 2024, while Zverev has 50 quarter-finalist points to defend in Munich.<\/p>\n Both men will also be in action at the Masters 1000 event in Madrid before Sinner returns next month.<\/p>\n Despite defeat, there is also good news for Musetti from an ATP Rankings perspective.<\/p>\n A run to a first Masters 1000 final will see the Italian dramatically eclipse his previous career-high of world No 15, with the 23-year-old set to be ranked 11th come Monday.<\/p>\n Read Next<\/strong>:\u00a0ATP Rankings Winners & Losers Monte Carlo: Alcaraz close to No 2, Djokovic No 5, Tsitsipas -8, Musetti rises<\/a><\/p>\n The post Carlos Alcaraz seals major rankings boost with Monte Carlo Masters triumph<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Alcaraz has sealed a significant jump in the ATP Rankings after rallying from a set down to beat Lorenzo Musetti in the Monte Carlo Masters final. In an intriguing contest, second seed Alcaraz claimed his sixth Masters 1000 title and first Monte Carlo title with a rallying 3-6, 6-1, 6-0 triumph over a tiring […]<\/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-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Monte Carlo Masters News<\/h2>\n