After his crushing Wimbledon defeat to Flavio Cobolli, life has picked up for Alex de Minaur, who was in despair after final week’s fourth-round loss.
On Monday morning AEST, whereas Jannik Sinner was beating Alexander Zverev within the males’s last, he married British quantity two Katie Boulter close to the English midlands village during which she grew up, and on Tuesday he reached a career-best fifth on the earth rankings.
He’s the primary Australian man to make the highest 5 in 17 years and the seventh in whole following Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, John Newcombe, Pat Money, Pat Rafter and Lleyton Hewitt. The present Davis Cup captain, who had beforehand reached primary, was final within the prime 5 in January 2009.
Affirmation got here on Monday with the discharge of the ATP’s rating record, during which Wimbledon champ Sinner remained clear on the peak, Zverev overtook injured Carlos Alcaraz in second, and quarterfinalist Felix Auger-Aliassime stayed fourth.
Then got here de Minaur, who had moved above Ben Shelton.
Shelton’s first-round Wimbledon exit didn’t simply open up a transparent path to the semifinal for de Minaur, which made his defeat so painful, it additionally hit the American’s rating. Having been a quarterfinalist in 2025, he had 400 factors to defend (factors final for a 12 months). He earned 10.
De Minaur, having additionally misplaced within the fourth spherical final 12 months, to Novak Djokovic, broke even, successful as many factors as he gave up.
Djokovic may have climbed above de Minaur had he reached the ultimate, however he misplaced within the semis to Sinner so stayed seventh.
Novak Djokovic stays in seventh on the lads’s rankings after a Wimbledon semifinal exit. (Getty Photographs: Adam Davy/PA Photographs)
Final 12 months, de Minaur started and ended Wimbledon eleventh so this represented a 12 months of actual progress even when it didn’t at all times really feel prefer it, given he additionally reached quarterfinals in Melbourne and New York and the third spherical in Paris.
That, nevertheless, is a minor enchancment on the earlier 12 months in grand slams (two quarterfinals and a second-round Paris exit in 2025) and he additionally reached 4 Masters quarterfinals, received ATP 500 occasions in Washington and Rotterdam and made the final 4 on the ATP Finals.
So there’s lots to rejoice as de Minaur and Boulter take pleasure in a while collectively earlier than the North American hardcourt swing begins for the duo.
It’s, nevertheless, a great distance down the rankings to search out Australia’s quantity two, James Duckworth, up 5 locations to 74th, having additionally misplaced to Cobolli at Wimbledon.
Adam Walton (up six to 79th) and Rinky Hijikata (down 15 to 97th) are the opposite Australians within the prime 100.
Within the WTA rankings, main Australian Talia Gibson stays at 58. Additionally within the prime 100 are Daria Kasatkina (up two to 63), Kim Birrell (up seven to 65), Maya Joint (up 10 to 77) and Ajla Tomljanovic (up two to 92).
Boulter, by the way, is 67th.
The large mover in both chart is Briton Arthur Fery, the Wimbledon wildcard whose run to the semifinal thrilled the house viewers. He has vaulted 78 locations to 36, by far his profession excessive.
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