A change of 10 spots or greater in the rankings amongst the top 100 on the ATP and WTA Tours.
WEEK: 08.21.2017 American Sloane Stephens gets the mover of the week honors. Four tournaments played since her return from foot surgery and the American is making noise. In her first two tournaments, she lost in the first round; however, she made it to the semifinals in the last two tournaments. She will take a break…
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WEEK: 08.14.2017 It was a week of highs for Denis Shapovalov; he got to his first semifinals of an ATP Tour event, which just happened to be a Masters 1000 event, Coupe Rogers. If that was not impressive enough, he knocked out the number two ranked player on Tour, Rafael Nadal, en route to accomplishing this…
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WEEK: 08.07.2017 The mover of the week honors goes to Ying-Ying Duan; sadly it was not due to an improvement in her ranking position. She was the defending champion at the JiangXi Open in Nanchang; however, she could not get past her first round opponent, Arina Rodionova, this year. It’s always exciting to win a…
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WEEK: 07.31.2017 Leonardo Mayer is our mover of the week. For the second consecutive week, a lucky loser won a title, and this week it was his turn. He defeated Florian Mayer in Hamburg to win the German Open title, which catapulted his ranking back into the top fifty. Although it is still not at…
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WEEK: 07.24.2017 The mover of the week honors go to the Russian teenager, Andrey Rublev. Rublev turned professional in 2014 and three years later he has won his first career singles title at the age of nineteen. He beat three top-tier clay-court specialists to accomplish that feat. He out hit his opponents and completely outplayed…
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WEEK: 07.17.2017 Magdalena Rybarikova rockets up the rankings with her impressive semifinal run at Wimbledon; she is now two places shy of her career high of thirty-one, which was achieved in 2013. Injuries have interrupted Rybarikova’s career. Her last tournament in 2016 was Wimbledon and she just returned to the Tour in February after having knee…
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