The new tennis season has yet to begin: the appointment is for next January 2nd, when the United Cup will start between Sydney and Perth, the competition for mixed national teams that will keep us company until Sunday 11th January. In the meantime, the first two 250 level tournaments will also be played, all as an appetizer for the Australian Open, the first Slam of the competitive year which will be staged on the hard courts of Melbourne from 18 January to 1 February.
The ATP ranking regarding the top positions has been frozen for more than a monththat is, since the ATP Finals ended with Jannik Sinner’s victory in the final act against the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz. The aforementioned events of the first half of January will shake the balance a bit, before the shocks announced on the occasion of the first major event of 2026. In this scenario it seems almost strange that the ATP Race has actually already started!
This is the ranking that takes into consideration the player tournaments in the last twelve months starting from the conclusion of the last ATP Finals. It will therefore no longer be a calendar year ranking, but it will also be necessary to consider a very small piece of 2025, even if it does not concern the big names on the circuit and will hardly have an impact on the race towards the Turin event in November 2026 (the best eight will qualify for the next ATP Finals). For the moment it was the Challengers of late November and early December that moved itbut everything will be turned upside down in the next few weeks.
In command we find the Argentine Federico Agustin Gomez thanks to the victory in Temuco (Chile) and the quarter-finals in Guayaquil (Ecuador). The South American leads with 122 points, ahead of the British Toby Samuel (115), the Danish Elmer Moller (112), the Australians Alex Bolt and James Duckworth. There is an Italian in the top-10: 23-year-old Francesco Maestrelli occupies sixth position with 106 points, the number 137 in the ATP ranking won the Bergamo Challenger (100 points) and reached the round of 16 in Lyon (6 points).
ATP RACE RANKING (as of December 30)
1. Federico Agustin Gomez (Argentina) 122
2. Toby Samuel (Great Britain) 115
3. Elmer Moeller (Danimarca) 112
4. James Duckworth (Australia) 109
4. Alex Bolt (Australia) 109
6. Francesco Maestrelli (Italy) 106
7. Cristian Garin (Chile) 100
8. Adolfo Daniel Vallejo (Paraguay) 89
8. Gustavo Heide (Brazil) 89
10. Rei Sakamoto (Japan) 87
10. Stefan Kozlov (USA)
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