Last week, Carlos Alcaraz had just been in China to attend Shanghai Masters. With Novak Djokovic's absence, Alcaraz has a great chance to win the championship, thereby narrow the gap with Nole on the rankings. However, he was disappointed when he was eliminated in the third round against Grigor Dimitrov.
With this result, Djokovic still holds the No. 1 position on the ATP rankings. Last Monday, the Serbian tennis player reached 395 weeks on the top of the world. Thus, in just 5 weeks, Nole will reach the historical number – 400 weeks.
Currently, Djokovic has 11.045 points, while Alcaraz ranked second with 8,805 points. Next week, Alcaraz will play at Swiss Indoors in Basel before meeting Nole in Paris Masters in late October. To continue to consolidate the world's No. 1, Djokovic needs to cross the 20 -year -old tennis player in France.
The race for the No. 1 ATP and 1 ATP position at the end of the year is expected to be delineated at ATP Finals. This year, the tournament will be held in Turin (Italy) from November 13-19.
At Shanghai Masters recently, Daniil Medvedev was also eliminated in the third round, thereby missing the opportunity to narrow the gap with Alcaraz at No. 2.
