How Alcaraz prolonged lead in battle for World No. 1 with Sinner

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How Alcaraz prolonged lead in battle for World No. 1 with Sinner

Find out how a lot the battle swung in Alcaraz’s favour

February 06, 2026

Carlos Alcaraz’s Australian Open victory was essential for extra than simply the second. Together with his triumph at Melbourne Park, Alcaraz crucially prolonged his lead over Jannik Sinner within the battle for World No. 1.

Alcaraz, who on Sunday lifted the Australian Open trophy for the primary time, at present leads the PIF ATP Rankings with 13,650 factors, 3,350 factors greater than World No. 2 Sinner.

With simply 400 quarter-final factors to defend in Melbourne, Alcaraz had room to achieve and he did so by leaving with the trophy and a couple of,000 factors.

In the meantime Sinner, the 2024 and 2025 champion, was defending 2,000 factors from final yr’s title run. The Italian reached the semi-finals on this yr’s version, incomes 800 factors. Due to that, he departed Australia with 1,200 fewer factors than he entered with.

Alcaraz entered the season’s first main with only a 550-point benefit over his rival. However due to Alcaraz’s achieve and Sinner’s loss, the battle swung 2,800 factors in Alcaraz’s favour. 

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With that stated, it’s nonetheless early within the season and there are numerous factors up for grabs within the coming weeks and months. Sinner loved a 65-week debut reign atop the PIF ATP Rankings, which ended after the Italian fell to Alcaraz in final yr’s US Open closing. The back-and-forth battle continued as Sinner reclaimed the honour for one week after successful the Rolex Paris Masters in November, earlier than Alcaraz secured ATP 12 months-Finish No. 1 introduced by PIF honours for the second time in Turin.

Whereas Sinner’s 66 weeks as World No. 1 locations him twelfth among the many 29 ATP No. 1 Membership members, Alcaraz shouldn’t be far behind at 57 weeks (14th in PIF ATP Rankings historical past). Throughout each section of their Lexus ATP Head2Head rivalry, Alcaraz and Sinner have remained in shut pursuit of each other.

By triumphing in Melbourne, Alcaraz captured his seventh main trophy and accomplished the Profession Grand Slam — a feat that Sinner can have his probability of conquering at Roland Garros.