Montreal tennis standout Gabriel Diallo climbs 11 spots to 44th in ATP rankings

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Canada's Gabriel Diallo jumped 11 spots to a career-high No. 44 successful the ATP satellite men's tennis rankings aft winning his archetypal ATP Tour rubric implicit the weekend.

Auger-Aliassime, Shapovalov besides wrong apical 50; Fernandez 30th connected women's side

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 16, 2025 11:23 AM EDT | Last Updated: 44 minutes ago

Canadian men’s tennis subordinate    Gabriel Diallo holds his trophy aft  winning the Libema Open connected  June 15, 2025 successful  the Netherlands.

Canada's Gabriel Diallo eliminated 20th-ranked Ugo Humbert of France successful the Libema Open semifinals and 22nd-ranked Karen Khachanov of Russia successful the quarterfinals. (Sander Koning/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Canada's Gabriel Diallo jumped 11 spots to a career-high No. 44 successful the ATP satellite men's tennis rankings aft winning his archetypal ATP Tour rubric implicit the weekend.

Diallo defeated Belgium's Zizou Bergs 7-5, 7-6 (8) successful Sunday's last astatine the Libema Open, an ATP 250-level tourney successful 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

The 23-year-old from Montreal eliminated 20th-ranked Ugo Humbert of France successful the semifinals and 22nd-ranked Karen Khachanov of Russia successful the quarterfinals.

Diallo joined chap Canadians Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov successful the apical 50 of the rankings released Monday.

Auger-Aliassime, from Montreal, roseate 2 spots to No. 27 portion Shapovalov, from Richmond Hill, Ont., slipped 1 presumption to No. 31.

On the WTA Tour, 30th-ranked Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., was the lone Canadian successful the apical 50.

WATCH | Diallo takes 2nd-set tiebreaker to headdress Libema Open rubric win:

Canada's Diallo captures 1st vocation ATP Tour title

Gabriel Diallo of Montreal defeated Zizou Bergs of Belgium 7-5, 7-6 (8) Sunday astatine Libema Open to assertion his archetypal vocation ATP Tour title.

U.S. boasts trio successful apical 10

Ben Shelton roseate 2 spots to No. 10 successful the ATP rankings, joining No. 4 Taylor Fritz and No. 8 Tommy Paul to springiness the United States 3 men successful the apical 10 for the archetypal clip successful astir 20 years.

In April 2006, Andy Roddick was No. 4, James Blake was No. 7, and Andre Agassi was No. 10.

The 22-year-old Shelton, who won the 2022 NCAA singles rubric for the University of Florida, is lone successful his 3rd afloat play connected tour. He'd ne'er traveled retired of the U.S. until 2023.

Shelton is simply a two-time Grand Slam semifinalist, making it that acold astatine the U.S. Open successful 2023 and the Australian Open this January.

Fritz moved up 3 spots to lucifer his vocation precocious aft winning a grass-court rubric astatine Stuttgart, Germany, connected Sunday. The apical 3 men remained the same: No. 1 Jannik Sinner, No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz and No. 3 Alexander Zverev, the runner-up to Fritz successful Stuttgart.

There are 4 American women successful the WTA's apical 10 this week again, and 5 successful the apical 13: No. 2 Coco Gauff, No. 3 Jessica Pegula, No. 6 Madison Keys, No. 9 Emma Navarro and No. 13 Amanda Anisimova.

Aryna Sabalenka remains astatine No. 1, a spot she took implicit successful October from Iga Swiatek, who dropped to No. 8 connected Monday.

Tatjana Maria, a 37-year-old German, roseate 43 spots to No. 43 connected Monday by winning the Queen's Club rubric arsenic a qualifier.

With files from The Associated Press

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