{"id":142392,"date":"2025-09-08T20:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/142392\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T20:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:14:07","slug":"alcaraz-replaces-sinner-at-no-1-in-rankings-after-winning-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/142392\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcaraz replaces Sinner at No. 1 in rankings after winning US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> officially returned to No. 1 in the ATP rankings for the first time in two years on Monday, replacing Jannik Sinner<\/a> after beating him in the US Open men’s final, and Amanda Anisimova<\/a> jumped five spots to a career-best No. 4 in the WTA after finishing as the runner-up to Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“When you achieve the goals you set up [for] yourself at the beginning of the year, it feels amazing,” Alcaraz said after winning his second title at Flushing Meadows and his sixth Grand Slam trophy.<\/p>\n

“For me,” he added, “[to] achieve that once again … is a dream.”<\/p>\n

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Alcaraz moved up from No. 2 and swapped places with Sinner by virtue of a 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 victory over him in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Sinner had held No. 1 since making his debut there in June 2024, a 65-week stay.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz first reached that spot in September 2022 at age 19 — making him the youngest No. 1 in ATP history — by claiming his first major championship at that year’s US Open. He relinquished that ranking in September 2023.<\/p>\n

Alexander Zverev<\/a> stayed at No. 3 on Monday, while Novak Djokovic<\/a>, the 24-time major champion who lost to Alcaraz in Friday’s semifinals, went up three spots from No. 7 to No. 4.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka was assured of remaining at No. 1 by getting to the quarterfinals in New York, then wound up collecting her second US Open title in a row with a 6-3, 7-6 (3) win Saturday over Anisimova, a 24-year-old American.<\/p>\n

Anisimova’s second consecutive runner-up run at a major — she lost to Iga Swiatek<\/a> in the Wimbledon final in July — allowed her to climb five spots from No. 9, part of a remarkable surge from outside the top 350 when she returned last season from a mental health break.<\/p>\n

Swiatek, eliminated in the US Open quarterfinals by Anisimova, stayed at No. 2, followed by Coco Gauff<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jessica Pegula<\/a> slid from No. 4 to No. 7. She exited against Sabalenka in the semifinals last week, a year after losing to her in the US Open final.<\/p>\n

Naomi Osaka<\/a>‘s first Grand Slam semifinal since the 2021 Australian Open — she lost Thursday to Anisimova in that round — carried her from No. 24 to No. 14. The four-time major champion and former No. 1 hadn’t been in the top 20 since January 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — Carlos Alcaraz officially returned to No. 1 in the ATP rankings for the first time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-142392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}