Jack Draper didn’t play any tournaments last week, but he rises from No. 7 to No. 6 on the new ATP rankings today after Casper Ruud—who didn’t play last week either—drops points from reaching the semifinals in Estoril during the same week last year, and dips from No. 6 to No. 7.
It’s a new career-high ranking for Draper, and with that, he joins a very exclusive list: he’s just the second left-handed player this century to reach the Top 6 on the ATP rankings, after Rafael Nadal.
Seems hard to believe, right?
Well, there have been plenty of left-handed players in the ATP Top 10 since the start of 2000—eight of them in total, including Nadal and Draper—but none of the others made it higher than No. 7.
Nadal, of course, spent 209 career weeks at No. 1.
LEFT-HANDED PLAYERS IN THE ATP TOP 10 THIS CENTURY:
- Marcelo Rios [ranked as high as No. 7 in 2000]
- Mariano Puerta [career-high No. 9 in 2005]
- Rafael Nadal [career-high No. 1 in 2008]
- Fernando Verdasco [career-high No. 7 in 2009]
- Jurgen Melzer [career-high No. 8 in 2011]
- Denis Shapovalov [career-high No. 10 in 2020]
- Cameron Norrie [career-high No. 8 in 2022]
- Jack Draper [career-high No. 6 in 2025]
The last time a left-handed player other than Nadal or Draper was in the Top 6 of the ATP rankings was the week of November 1st, 1999, when another Brit—Greg Rusedski—spent his last week at No. 6.
