Beaten by Benjamin Bonzi in the final of the Challenger tournament in Saint-Brieuc on Sunday, Lucas Pouille returned to the Top 100 this Monday, the objective he had set for the end of the season. Gaël Monfils, resting since Shanghai, leaves the top fifty in the world. The French veteran falls eleven places.
Lucas Pouille has not lost everything. Corrected Sunday (6-2, 6-3) in the final of the Challenger tournament in Saint-Brieuc by a once again unstoppable Benjamin Bonzi who lifted his second trophy in the category in two weeks after his title last weekend in Roanne ( Editor’s note: His tenth on the Challenger circuit for the one who now has eleven on his record) and against whom he has still not won in three confrontations, the Northerner consoles himself this Monday by returning to the Top 100 in the world.
For a time disappearing from the radar and falling into the depths of the ranking, the former member of the Top 10 (Editor’s note: He had been 10th in the world in March 2018, his best ranking to date) winner two weeks ago of the Mouilleron tournament- le-Captif shortly after having already reached the final in Saint-Tropez (defeat against Brouwer) is rewarded with his return to the forefront by climbing five ranks. This allows him to occupy 96th place in the world one week before the Rolex Paris Masters, where it is rumored that tournament director Cédric Pioline could reserve an invitation for him.
Pouille was convinced of it
The former semi-finalist of the event (in 2019) dreams above all of being able to participate in the next Australian Open without having to go through qualifying, just as he wants to return to the main circuit as quickly as possible. For the moment, things seem to be going well for the man who said last February that he was “convinced (that he was) going to get back into the hundred” and made it his primary objective at the end of the season.
Bonzi, his tormentor on Sunday during a final that Pouille played, slightly diminished by pain in his wrist, could quickly become one of the top hundred in the world again. Especially if the Gardois manages this week in Brest (where he will start against Hugo Gaston, number 1 seed) to keep his trophy. Competing in Vienna, where he will start on Tuesday against another Frenchman Quentin Halys (90th), Gaël Monfils will approach the Austrian tournament as 52nd in the world. The French veteran who was still part of the Top 50 last Monday fell eleven places. The Parisian has not played again since his defeat against Carlos Alcaraz in Shanghai at the beginning of the month.
Tennis / ATP RANKING
Ranking as of Monday October 21, 2024
1- Jannik Sinner (ITA) 11,920 points
2- Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) 7 120
3- Alexander Zverev (ALL) 6 795
4- Novak Djokovic (SER) 6 210
5- Daniil Medvedev (RUS) 5,530
6- Taylor Fritz (USA) 4 380
7- Andrey Rublev (RUS) 4 150
8- Casper Ruud (NOR) 3 890
9- Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) 3,735 (+1)
10- Alex de Minaur (AUS) 3 570 (-1)
…
16- Ugo Humbert (FRA) 2,515
20- Arthur Fils (FRA) 2,090
50- Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (FRA) 1 026 (-2)
52- Gaël Monfils (FRA) 1,010 (-11)
57- Adrian Mannarino (FRA) 929 (-1)
61- Arthur
Rinderknech (FRA) 872 (+1)
68-
Alexandre Muller (FRA) 797 (+2)
70- Corentin Moutet (FRA) 764 (+1)
73- Hugo Gaston (FRA) 748 (+4)
80- Arthur Cazaux (FRA) 698 (+7)
90- Quentin Halys (FRA) 628 (+5)
96- Lucas Pouille (FRA) 616 (+5)
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