Donaldson’s Amazing Miami Run

The mover of the week is Jared Donaldson, who made it all the way to his first Masters 1000 quarterfinals in Miami.  He fought off elimination in the first round and from there he only got better. Unfortunately, Milos Raonic was forced to withdraw from the tournament due to a persistent hamstring injury and Donaldson was propelled into the quarterfinals.  He came up short against his red-hot countryman, Jack Sock.  He lost pretty easily, perhaps because he was so anxious at the occasion; however, he will learn from the experience and build up his arsenal for such future opportunities. He came away from the tournament with valuable ranking points and is now at a career high of 75.

 

PLAYERS (within  the top 100) SPOTS MOVED NEW RANK
Jared Donaldson (USA) UP  20 75              (CAREER HIGH)
Ernesto Escobedo (USA) UP  13 95              (CAREER HIGH)
Fabio Fognini (ITA) UP  12 28
Frances Tiafoe (USA) UP  12 89              (CAREER HIGH)
Horacio Zeballos (ARG) DOWN  11 86
Risa Ozaki (JPN) UP  15 72              (CAREER HIGH)
Madison Brengle (USA) DOWN  14 100
Jana Cepelova (SVK) UP  11 94
Saisai Zheng (CHN) UP  11 89
Varvara Lepchenko (USA) UP  10 73
Patricia Maria Tig (ROU) UP  10 85              (CAREER HIGH)
Magda Linette (POL) DOWN  10 83
Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) DOWN  10 45

ATP Tour: There were no changes in the top ten members. TOP 4: Andy Murray; Novak Djokovic; Stan Wawrinka; and Roger Federer. There was a little re-shuffling of the members from #5 to #9.  Jo-Wilfried Tsonga remained at #10.

WTA Tour-TOP 4: Angelique Kerber; Serena Williams; Karolina Pliskova; and Dominika Cibulkova. Svetlana Kuznetsova moved down to #9. Johanna Konta is back in at #7 and so is Venus Williams at #10.  Madison Keys and Elina Svitolina fell out of the top 10. The remaining members remained the same and maintained their positions.

 

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