On Monday, November 10, Alcaraz will return to the top of the rankings: the points from the 2024 Turin Finals will be deducted from Sinner’s total. And at the Finals, he will be the No. 2 seed

Jannik Sinner will begin his 66th week as world No. 1 tomorrow, 54 days after losing the US Open final, which handed the top spot to Carlos Alcaraz. In the November 3 rankings, Sinner will have 11,500 points compared to the Iberian star’s 11,250. For now, unfortunately, this joy will last only seven days. On Monday, November 10, the Spaniard will return to the top of the rankings, and the South Tyrolean will drop back to second place.

Why? Simple: Jannik is, in a sense, a “victim” of his extraordinary run in 2024. Next week, in fact, the points from last year’s Turin Finals will be released—a tournament the Italian won triumphantly without losing a single match, earning him a whopping 1,500 points. Points that Sinner will temporarily lose on Monday. As a result, on November 10, Jannik will find himself with 10,000 points in the rankings compared to Alcaraz’s 11,050, who will “benefit” from last year’s disastrous Finals, when he was eliminated in the group stage after winning only one match. That success earned him 200 points, which the Spaniard will also lose next week. As a result, Alcaraz will arrive in Turin as the world number one, with a 1,050-point lead over Jannik Sinner.