Top five ATP players with zero titles

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This past weekend, Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime won his first ATP title at the Rotterdam Open in the Netherlands. Previously at number 11 in the world, Auger-Aliassime was the highest ranked player in the world without an ATP title. Here are now the top five players in the world who have not yet won a men’s singles tennis tournament.

5) Botic van de Zandschulp–Netherlands–Ranked 50th in the world, van de Zandschulp made tennis headlines in 2021 when he reached the quarterfinals of the 2021 U.S. Open as a qualifier before losing to Daniil Medvedev of Russia in four sets. At the 2021 U.S. Open, van de Zandschulp stunned the eighth seed Casper Ruud of Norway in the second round and the 11th seed Diego Schwartzman of Argentina in the fourth round.

4) Alejandro Davidovich Fokina–Spain–Ranked 47th in the world, Davidovich Fokina also reached a grand slam quarterfinal in 2021, as he made the final eight of the French Open. There he lost to Alexander Zverev of Germany in straight sets. Interestingly at the 2021 French Open, Davidovich Fokina beat van de Zandschulp in the second round, and Ruud in the third round. Davidovich Fokina also reached the fourth round of the 202o U.S. Open where he beat Wimbledon semifinalist Hubert Hurkacz of Poland in the second round and reigning Indian Wells champion Cameron Norrie of Great Britain in the third round.

3) Jenson Brooksby–United States–The 21 year-old from Sacramento is currently ranked 45th in the world. He has reached two ATP Finals so far, losing to Kevin Anderson of South Africa in Rhode Island in July of 2021, and then fellow American Reilly Opelka in Dallas this past weekend. Brooksby reached the fourth round of the 2021 U.S. Open where he beat Taylor Fritz of the United States in the second round and Aslan Karatsev of Russia in the third round.

2) Filip Krajinovic–Serbia–Ranked 44th in the world, Krajinovic has reached four ATP finals, but has not yet been victorious. He made the last two of the 2017 Paris Masters (lost to American Jack Sock), the 2019 Hungarian Open (lost to Matteo Berrettini of Italy), the 2019 Stockholm Open (lost to Canada’s Denis Shapovalov), and the 2021 European Open (lost to Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain). Among the players Krajinovic have beaten in his career are superstars Novak Djokovic, Dominic Thiem and Stefanos Tsitsipas.

1) Lloyd Harris–South Africa–Ranked 35th in the world, Harris has made the final of the 2020 Adelaide International (lost to Andrey Rublev of Russia) and the 2021 Dubai Championship (lost to Aslan Karatsev of Russia). Over the last two years, Harris has beaten many household tennis names including Rafael Nadal, Stanislas Wawrinka, Grigor Dimitrov, Dominic Thiem, Gael Monfils, Gilles Simon, Karen Khachanov, Denis Shapoovalov, and Pablo Carreno Busta. In 2021, Harris reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open.

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