Alex de Minaur: Australia's top-ranked man for fourth consecutive year

Alex de Minaur has ended the season as Australia's top-ranked men's singles player for a fourth consecutive year.

The 22-year-old, who won two ATP singles titles and achieved a career-high ranking at world No.15 in June, finishes the 2021 season at world No.34.

De Minaur is one of six Australian men in the year-end top 100 rankings, which the ATP Tour published this week.

Consistent performers John Millman and Jordan Thompson both recorded their sixth year-end top 100 finishes, with Nick Kyrgios finishing inside the world's top 100 for an eighth straight year.

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James Duckworth ends his career-best year as Australia's No.2-ranked man. The 29-year-old's year-end ranking of world No.49 is much higher than his previous best of No.100, achieved in 2019.

Alexei Popyrin has recorded his best year-end ranking too at world No.71. This betters the 22-year-old's previous highest at No.97 in 2019.

Alex Bolt, Aleksandar Vukic, Max Purcell and Rinky Hijikata all recorded career-best year-end rankings as well, while Thanasi Kokkinakis has achieved his best year-end ranking in three years.

> VIEW: Full year-end ATP Tour men's singles rankings

Men's singlesAustralian top 20
	Player	Age	Year-end ranking	Ranking points
1	Alex de Minaur	22	No.34	1561
2	James Duckworth	29	No.49	1176
3	Alexei Popyrin	22	No.61	1000
4	John Millman	32	No.72	875
5	Jordan Thompson	27	No.77	860
6	Nick Kyrgios	26	No.92	793
7	Alex Bolt	28	No.135	506
8	Aleksandar Vukic	25	No.156	440
9	Thanasi Kokkinakis	25	No.172	394
10	Chris O'Connell	27	No.175	388
11	Max Purcell	23	No.176	386
12	Marc Polmans	24	No.194	343
13	Jason Kubler	28	No.201	320
14	Matthew Ebden	33	No.232	266
15	Bernard Tomic	29	No.253	231
16	Akira Santillan	24	No.330	144
17	Rinky Hijikata	20	No.369	113
18	Andrew Harris	27	No.375	111
19	John-Patrick Smith	32	No.390	106
20	Dayne Kelly	30	No.428	89