Carlos Alcaraz secures world No. 1 spot, Jannik Sinner in pursuit | ATP Tour
PIF ATP Ranking Update
How Alcaraz expands lead in world No. 1 battle with Sinner
Find out how much the fight went in Alcaraz’s favor
February 6, 2026
Peter Staples/ATP Tour
Carlos Alcaraz tops the PIF ATP rankings with 13,650 points.
Written by ATP Staff
Carlos Alcaraz’s victory at the Australian Open was more than significant. With victory at Melbourne Park, Alcaraz crucially extended his lead over Jannik Sinner in the battle for world number one.
Alcaraz, who lifted the Australian Open trophy for the first time on Sunday, currently leads the PIF ATP rankings with 13,650 points, 3,350 points more than world number two Sinner.
In Melbourne, with just 400 points remaining in the quarterfinals, Alcaraz still had room for improvement and walked away with the trophy and 2,000 points.
Meanwhile, Sinner, the 2024 and 2025 champion, is defending his 2,000 points from last year’s title. The Italian reached the semi-finals of this year’s competition, scoring 800 points. Therefore, he left Australia with 1,200 fewer points than when he entered.
Alcaraz enters his first major of the season just 550 points ahead of his opponents. But with Alcaraz winning and Sinner losing, the battle ended with 2,800 points in Alcaraz’s favor.
PIF ATP Ranking
Having said that, it’s still early in the season and there are plenty of points up for grabs in the coming weeks and months. Sinner spent 65 consecutive weeks at the top of the PIF ATP Rankings when she debuted, but that reign ended when she lost to Alcaraz in last year’s U.S. Open final. The back-and-forth battle continued, with Sinner regaining the honor a week after winning the Rolex Paris Masters in November, before Alcaraz claimed his second ATP year-end No. 1 ranking by the PIF in Turin.
Sinner has been ranked No. 1 in the world for 66 consecutive weeks and is ranked 12th among the 29 ATP-ranked club members, while Alcaraz is not far behind with 57 weeks (14th in PIF ATP Ranking history). Alcaraz and Sinner were in hot pursuit at every stage of the Lexus ATP Head2Head competition.
With victory in Melbourne, Alcaraz won his seventh Grand Slam trophy and completed a career Grand Slam – a feat that Sinner will have the opportunity to conquer at Roland Garros.
