By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday May 8, 2023

Carlos Alcaraz is about to make a return to No.1 within the ATP rankings for the third time – simply not this week.

The Spaniard, who efficiently defended his Madrid title on Sunday with a three-set victory over Jan-Lennard Struff pulls inside 5 factors of Novak Djokovic within the ATP rankings this week.

But he's assured to cross Djokovic after Rome, offered that he takes the court docket for his second spherical match (after a bye) in Rome. That’s as a result of Djokovic is defending 1000 factors in Rome and might’t make up any floor. Meanwhile, Alcaraz, even when he loses in his second spherical, will choose up the factors required to cross Djokovic.

All the Spaniard has to do is … play!

That means Alcaraz will start his twenty third week at No.1 on Monday May 22, and take that rating into Roland-Garros.

Djokovic, in the meantime, is starting his 386th week at No.1 this week. As the all-time report holder for weeks at No.1 – male or feminine – he's closing in on 400 weeks at No.1, however there may be nonetheless work to be completed.

Djokovic and Alcaraz might meet within the last at Rome this subsequent week. The draw for males’s singles was launched earlier on Monday.

Here is the official @atptour males's singles predominant draw

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