{"id":447147,"date":"2026-02-03T20:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/447147\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T20:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:07:10","slug":"djokovic-moves-up-to-no-3-sabalenka-stays-top-ranked-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/447147\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic moves up to No. 3; Sabalenka stays top-ranked woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

MELBOURNE, Australia — Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> completed a career Grand Slam<\/a> of singles victories with his Australian Open title, but there was some solace for the man he defeated, 24-time Grand Slam singles champion Novak Djokovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Alcaraz maintained his No. 1 ranking on the ATP tour ahead of Jannik Sinner<\/a>, Djokovic, who beat Sinner in the semifinals at Melbourne Park, moved up one place to No. 3. It is the first time the 38-year-old Djokovic has been inside the top three since August 2024.<\/p>\n

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On the WTA Tour, Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> maintained her top ranking despite her loss in the final to Elena Rybakina<\/a>, who moved up two places to third in the rankings, with Iga Swiatek<\/a> in between at No. 2.<\/p>\n

Three Americans followed in the WTA rankings — No. 4 Amanda Anisimova<\/a>, No. 5 Coco Gauff<\/a> and Australian Open semifinalist Jessica Pegula<\/a> at No. 6. Elina Svitolina<\/a> moved up two places to No. 10 after her semifinal loss to Sabalenka at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n

American Learner Tien<\/a> moved up five places on the ATP Tour to No. 24, a career high. The 20-year-old Tien, who lost to now No. 4-ranked Alexander Zverev<\/a> in the quarterfinals, became the youngest American man to reach the final eight of a major since 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MELBOURNE, Australia — Carlos Alcaraz completed a career Grand Slam of singles victories with his Australian Open title,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-447147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447147","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=447147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}