Iga Swiatek earned the most ranking points since 2015
Iga Swiatek pushed her career to new heights today after winning her fourth WTA 1000 title of the year in Rome.
After losing in the quarterfinals in the Italian capital last year, she fought her way to the championship this year, increasing her total ranking points from 10,910 to 11,695.
Firstly, this is the highest ranking points Swiatek has ever achieved at any given time. Previously, her highest total was 11,085 points, held for nine weeks between November 2022 and January 2023.
Even more impressive is that this is the highest ranking points any woman has achieved in nearly nine years.
The last woman to have so many ranking points was Serena Williams, who had 12,721 points during the two weeks of the 2015 US Open (from August 31 to September 14, 2015). After losing in the semifinals at Flushing Meadows that year, the defending champion left New York with 11,501 points.
As the defending champion, Swiatek will not be able to gain more points at the French Open, but she can continue to increase her incredible total points early in the grass season.
Meanwhile, some notable ranking changes have emerged among the players who went deep into the tournament in Rome, including Alexander Zverev, who clinched his sixth career Masters 1000 title in the Italian capital, moving up from fifth to fourth in the rankings. This rise coincides with the assurance of a top-four seed at Roland Garros.
Zverev defeated Nicolás Jarry to win the title, marking Jarry’s first appearance in a Masters 1000 final. As a result, Jarry’s ranking jumped from 24th to 16th, surpassing his previous career-high ranking of 18th. He is now the sixth highest-ranked Chilean in ATP history, just two places shy of his grandfather Jaime Fillol’s career-high ranking.
Chilean players who have entered the ATP top 20 (since 1975):
– Marcelo Ríos [Career-high ranking of No. 1 in 1998]
– Fernando González [Career-high ranking of No. 5 in 2007]
– Nicolás Massú [Career-high ranking of No. 9 in 2004]
– Hans Gildemeister [Career-high ranking of No. 12 in 1980]
– Jaime Fillol Sr. [Career-high ranking of No. 14 in 1974]
– Nicolás Jarry [Career-high ranking of No. 16 in 2024]
– Cristian Garin [Career-high ranking of No. 17 in 2021]
With another Chilean, Alejandro Tabilo, on the verge of breaking into the top 20 for the first time, the above list may soon see another addition. After making it to his first Masters 1000 semi-final in Rome, his ranking has risen from 32nd to 25th, marking his first entry into the top 30, impressively defeating world No. 1 Novak Djokovic along the way.
The breakthroughs don’t stop there.
French teenager Arthur Fils has entered the top 30 for the first time, climbing from 34th to 30th place—he lost his first match in Rome, but won a Challenger event in Bordeaux in the second week.
There are two first-time entries into the top 50: Luciano Darderi has broken into the ATP top 50, rising from 54th to 47th after reaching the third round in Rome and the semifinals of the Turin Challenger; Diana Shnaider has made it into the WTA top 50, jumping from 62nd to 47th after reaching the third round in Rome, then winning the WTA 125K event in Paris, where she defeated Emma Navarro in the final.
Lastly, four newcomers have entered the top 100 this week.
On the men’s side, China’s Shang Juncheng rose from 105th to 89th after reaching the second round in Rome and the semifinals of the Bordeaux Challenger, and Australia’s Adam Walton climbed from 111th to 95th after competing in two Challenger events, reaching the quarterfinals in Wuxi, China, and winning the title in Taipei, Taiwan.
Shang is the first Chinese teenager to enter the ATP top 100 and the third Chinese male player to do so, following Wu Yibing and Zhang Zhizhen.
On the women’s side, Japan’s Moyuka Uchijima climbed from 110th to 80th after winning consecutive ITF titles in Rome over two weeks, and Slovakia’s Rebecca Sramkova rose from 120th to 89th by making it through the qualifiers and reaching the fourth round at the Foro Italico in Italy.
