Bianca Andreescu had never won a match at a major until she did so at this year’s Australian Open. She had never made it to a WTA Tour final until she did so this season at the ASB Classic. Finally, she had never won a Tour title until she did so yesterday at the BNP Paribas Open. At the beginning of the season, the eighteen-year-old Canadian was raked 178; after her extraordinary performance in Indian Wells, she is now at an all-time career high of twenty-four. Andreescu eliminated five seeds en route to the title, two of which are current top ten players; and two were former top ten players. Imagine just how much higher she can climb if she keeps this up. The thirty-six spot jump makes the Canadian our mover of the week.
PLAYERS | SPOTS MOVED | NEW RANKING |
Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB) | UP 35 | 95 CAREER HIGH |
Hyeon Chung (KOR) | DOWN 29 | 92 |
Feliciano Lopez (ESP) | DOWN 16 | 94 |
Sam Querrey (USA) | DOWN 17 | 68 |
Ricardas Berankis (LTU) | UP 13 | 82 |
Hugo Dellien (BOL) | UP 13 | 74 CAREER HIGH |
Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) | UP 13 | 84 CAREER HIGH |
Hubert Hurkacz (POL) | UP 13 | 54 |
Ivo Karlovic (CRO) | UP 13 | 76 |
Pablo Cuevas (URU) | DOWN 12 | 85 |
Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN) | UP 10 | 64 |
Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) | UP 10 | 45 |
Taylor Fritz (USA) | DOWN 10 | 56 |
Bianca Andreescu (CAN) | UP 36 | 24 CAREER HIGH |
Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) | UP 19 | 81 CAREER HIGH |
Petra Martic (CRO) | DOWN 14 | 52 |
Stefanie Voegele (SUI) | UP 12 | 97 |
Mona Barthel (GER) | UP 11 | 86 |
Lara Arruabarrena (ESP) | DOWN 11 | 99 |
Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) | DOWN 10 | 87 |
ATP: the top ten members remained the same; however, there were quite a bit of shuffling amongst the members. Dominic Thiem moved up four spots to #4; Juan Martin del Potro fell three spots to #8; Roger Federer and Kevin Anderson each fell one spot to #5 and #7 respectively; and Kei Nishikori moved up one spot to #6.
WTA: the top ten members remained the same; however, there were some shuffling of the members. Angelique Kerber moved up four spots to #4; Sloane Stephens and Karolina Pliskova each fell two spots to #6 and #7 respectively; Petra Kvitova and Elina Svitolina each moved up one spot to #2 and #5 respectively; and Simona Halep and Kiki Bertens each fell one spot to #3 and #8 respectively.
SOURCE OF IMAGES: Zimbio.com (Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images North America -Bianca Andreescu)