Alcaraz benefited from winning the Masters 1,000 in Rome on 18 May, beating Sinner in the final by 7-6 (7-5) and 6-1, allowing him to overtake Alexander Zverev and relegate the German to third place in the ATP rankings.

Zverev, who had won the tournament in the Italian capital in 2024 and was eliminated this year in the quarter-finals, lost a lot of points to Alcaraz, unlike Sinner, returning to a final on the circuit after serving a three-month suspension for doping, whose losses were minimal.

Despite missing out on the chance to become the first Italian tennis player in almost 50 years to win the Roman tournament, Sinner remains at the top of the rankings, whose “top 10” also saw a change of places between Italian Lorenzo Musetti (eighth) and Australian Alex de Minaur (ninth).

In the women's rankings, Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka remained in the lead, ahead of Americans Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula, the new second and third respectively, following Polish player Iga Swiatek's fall to fifth place, having also been overtaken by Italian Jasmine Paolini, Sunday's winner in Rome.