Movers Of The Week
All tennis players look forward to the majors, they are the four biggest opportunities to boost their rankings; however, if you do poorly your ranking can remain unchanged or be drastically affected depending on what you did at that tournament the previous year. Many players will be quite happy today when they see how much they climbed up the rankings and amongst those will be Tennys Sandgren, Ons Jabeur and Sofia Kenin.
Now each must continue the hard work and play consistently at this level to maintain their ranking or improve it. Of course, they will all be trying to improve their ranking as the ultimate goals for any tennis player is to win titles and get to number one. Tennis is a demanding sport; it requires mental tenacity to fight week in and week out to win. Thus, climbing the rankings is great, but if you do nothing to keep growing, your ranking will fall again, and every tennis player knows this. The battle is to stay healthy and be consistent. The mental strength to do this week in and week out is what separates the top ten players from the rest.
Top 100 Ranking Changes
PLAYER | RANKING CHANGE | CURRENT RANK |
Tennys Sandgren (USA) | UP 44 | 56 |
Lucas Pouille (FRA) | DOWN 38 | 62 |
Frances Tiafoe (USA) | DOWN 29 | 79 |
Marton Fucsovics (HUN) | UP 14 | 53 |
Lloyd Harris (RSA) | DOWN 13 | 85 |
Tommy Paul (USA) | UP 10 | 70 CAREER HIGH |
Andreas Seppi (ITA) | DOWN 10 | 95 |
Joao Sousa (POR) | DOWN 10 | 69 |
Ons Jabeur (TUN) | UP 33 | 45 CAREER HIGH |
Danielle Collins (USA) | DOWN 25 | 50 |
Nao Hibino (JPN) | UP 19 | 84 |
Stefanie Voegele (SUI) | UP 18 | 99 |
Viktorija Golubic (SUI) | DOWN 17 | 93 |
Madison Brengle (USA) | UP 16 | 79 |
Cori Gauff (USA) | UP 16 | 51 CAREER HIGH |
Garbine Muguruza (ESP) | UP 16 | 16 |
Arantxa Rus (NED) | UP 16 | 77 CAREER HIGH |
Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP) | UP 13 | 78 |
Venus Williams (USA) | DOWN 11 | 66 |
Timea Babos (HUN) | DOWN 10 | 98 |
Zarina Diyas (KA) | UP 10 | 63 |
Jessica Pegula (USA) | DOWN 10 | 76 |
ATP Top 10 Ranking Changes
ATP: there were some minor changes in the top ten members. David Goffin is back in the top ten at #10. Dominic Thiem and Gael Monfils both moved up one spot to #4 and #9 respectively. Rafael Nadal and Daniil Medvedev both fell one spot to #2 and #5 respectively. Roger Federer, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alexander Zverev and Matteo Berrettini maintained their positions from the prior rankings. Roberto Bautista Agut fell out of the top ten. Novak Djokovic is back at #1.
WTA Top 10 Ranking Changes
WTA: there were a lot of reshuffling in the top ten members. Petra Kvitova fell out of the top ten. Naomi Osaka fell six places to #10. The new addition to the top ten is Sofia Kenin, she climbed eight spots to #7. Belinda Bencic and Kiki Bertens both moved up two spots to #5 and #8 respectively. Simona Halep and Elina Svitolina both moved up one spot to #2 and #4 respectively. Bianca Andreescu and Serena Williams maintained their exact positions at #6 and #9 respectively. The top player continues to Ashleigh Barty.
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