WEEK: 05.09.2016
American Louisa Chirico is the mover of the week. Her excellent performance at the Mutua Madrid Open last week was rewarded in a major rise in her ranking this week. Chirico got all the way to the semifinals before losing to an in-form Dominika Cibulkova. It was not her best performance of the tournament, perhaps she was a tad overwhelmed by what she had accomplished and the whole experience of being in her first significant WTA singles semifinal. Nevertheless, I was quite impressed with her game and I am happy to see a young American showing some skill on the red clay. I hope she will build on this performance going forward and hope to see her go deep at Roland Garros.
| PLAYERS (within the top 100) | SPOTS MOVED | NEW RANK |
| Robin Haase (NED) | DOWN 18 | 83 |
| Flip Krajinovic (SRB) | UP 16 | 98 |
| Denis Istomin (UZB) | UP 15 | 64 |
| Hyeon Chung (KOR) | DOWN 13 | 95 |
| Daniel Evans (GBR) | UP 11 | 86 |
| Dudi Sela (ISR) | UP 11 | 63 |
| Evgeny Donskoy (RUS) | DOWN 11 | 79 |
| Aljaz Bedene (GBR) | DOWN 10 | 69 |
| Louisa Chirico (USA) | UP 54 | 76 |
| Sorana Cirstea (ROU) | UP 28 | 99 |
| Magda Linette (POL) | UP 21 | 81 |
| Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) | UP 12 | 26 |
| Carina Witthoeft (GER) | DOWN 12 | 97 |
| Saisai Zheng (CHN) | DOWN 11 | 82 |
All top ten members on the ATP Tour remained the same; however, Roger Federer and Andy Murray swapped positions.
There were lots of changes in positions on the WTA Tour; however, Serena Williams is holding steady at number. There is a new top ten player this week: Timea Bacsinszky moved up to the number ten spot.
