Alex de Minaur is among eight Australian men to finish the 2023 season inside the top 100 in singles, the most to achieve this feat since 1998.
Australia, 4 December 2023 | Leigh Rogers
Men’s singles
The depth in Australian men’s tennis is evident in this year’s ATP Tour year-end top-100 rankings, which feature eight Aussie players for the first time since 1998.
Alex de Minaur leads the way, ending his outstanding season at world No.12. This is the 24-year-old’s highest year-end finish.
It also marks the fifth time in the past six years that De Minaur is the Australian No.1 at season’s end.
Incredibly, 10 of Australia’s top-15 men recorded their highest year-end finish. This includes Max Purcell, Aleksandar Vukic and Rinky Hijikata, with all achieving their first top-100 year-end ranking.
Other players recording career-best finishes are Alexei Popyrin, Thanasi Kokkinakis, Chris O’Connell, Jason Kubler, Adam Walton and Tristan Schoolkate.
Australia’s top-ranked player at the end of the 2022 season was Nick Kyrgios at world No.22. The 28-year-old is now unranked, after injury restricted him to only one competitive match during 2023.
In 2022, five Australians recorded top-100 finishes. Just two featured inside the top 75, as opposed to the eight who achieved this feat in 2023.
| Player | Year-end ranking | Difference in 12 months | |
| 1 | Alex de Minaur | No.12 | +12 |
| 2 | Alexei Popyrin | No.40 | +81 |
| 3 | Max Purcell | No.45 | +168 |
| 4 | Jordan Thompson | No.55 | +29 |
| 5 | Aleksandar Vukic | No.62 | +70 |
| 6 | Thanasi Kokkinakis | No.65 | +29 |
| 7 | Chris O’Connell | No.68 | +10 |
| 8 | Rinky Hijikata | No.71 | +96 |
| 9 | Jason Kubler | No.102 | +8 |
| 10 | James Duckworth | No.116 | +41 |
| 11 | Marc Polmans | No.150 | +186 |
| 12 | Adam Walton | No.178 | +254 |
| 13 | Li Tu | No.225 | -12 |
| 14 | Dane Sweeny | No.256 | -5 |
| 15 | Tristan Schoolkate | No.260 | +116 |
> VIEW: Full ATP Tour year-end singles rankings
Men’s doubles
For the first time in his career, Matt Ebden is Australia’s year-end No.1 doubles player.
The 36-year-old Ebden is also the first Aussie to record a top-five finish since John Peers in 2017.
The enduring Peers remains a doubles force, featuring in the year-end top-40 for the ninth year in a row.
Rinky Hijikata ends his career-best season at world No.23. The 22-year-old is the second youngest player inside the world’s top 100, behind only 21-year-old American Ben Shelton at world No.95.
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