The 29-year-old from Porto climbed one place in the weekly update of the ATP hierarchy, returning to a position that a Portuguese player had never occupied before, with his partner, the Austrian Lucas Miedler, rising to 21st place.

In the singles ranking, Nuno Borges dropped one position and is now 49th in the world, while Jaime Faria fell to 163rd place and Henrique Rocha rose to 169th.

Carlos Alcaraz on world top

Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz maintained his number one ranking in the world, ahead of Italian Jannik Sinner and Serbian Novak Djokovic, second and third respectively, in a week that also saw no changes in the women’s top 3, with Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka in the lead, followed by Polish Iga Swiatek and Kazakh Elena Rybakina.

Among the Portuguese players, Francisca Jorge remains the highest-ranked, climbing seven places this week to occupy the 191st position.