| LEADER | *Display of player rankings in competitive events |
| SHADOWS | Dogs a daughter displayed in competitive events (7) |
| TOURNAMENTS | Entrust man with ball, playing in competitive events |
| ATP | Org. that publishes weekly player rankings |
| HANDICAP | Applause I limit in competitive event (8) |
| TOURNEY | Trip, getting urge to withdraw in competitive event |
| TOUGHIE | Difficult problem Hugo resolved in competitive event (7) |
| MEETS | Competitive events in track and field athletics (5) |
| LEE | Golfer Westwood who replaced Tiger Woods as #1 in the rankings in 2010 |
| SYSTEMIC | Hawken says don't worry so much about the rankings in the graph, we need to think at a ... level. Halfway between your sister, a stem and that mic you use in karaoke. (8) |
| RYANFOX | Kiwi golfer who rose to a career-high 23rd in the world rankings in September 2023 (4,3) |
| MEET | The congregation of riders and hounds before a hunt; a competitive event in track-and-field athletics or swimming; or, in mathematics, the intersection of two lines (4) |
| AIRRACES | Highly competitive events (3,5) |
| SCAR | Wound up competitive events to save energy (4) |
| TRIALS | Competitive events for gundogs perhaps followed by tribulations? (6) |
| AUCTIONS | Gold Coast sides, and Lions initially lost competitive events |
| RACES | Competitive events (5) |
| UNTIED | Having no strings attached, not even in competitive event? (6) |
| ELINASVITOLINA | The first Ukrainian woman to break into the top 10 rankings in tennis |
| IVANLENDL | Reaching No.1 ranking in 1986, which tennis player's earnings that year were the highest ever in men's tennis? (4,5) |
