Biggest Ranking Movers In 2022: Ben Shelton, Daria Saville make biggest jumps into year-end Top 100

Over the last two weekends we’ve covered this year’s win leaders, title leaders and prize money leaders, and today we have the biggest ranking jumps from the 2021 to 2022 year-end rankings.

First off, the biggest ranking jump among the ATP’s year-end Top 100 this year goes to 20-year-old American Ben Shelton, who surged 471 spots between 2021 (No. 568) and 2022 (No. 97).

Shelton’s year was highlighted by recording his first Top 10 win (he defeated No. 5-ranked Casper Ruud in Cincinnati, a few weeks before the Norwegian reached the final of the US Open) and sweeping three Challenger titles in three weeks on indoor hard courts in the U.S. in the fall. That was historic, as he was the youngest player ever to win three Challenger titles in three weeks.

BIGGEST RANKING MOVERS AMONG ATP YEAR-END TOP 100 (from Nov. 22, 2021 year-end rankings to Dec. 5, 2022 year-end rankings):
+471: Ben Shelton, USA [No. 568 to No. 97]
+217: Jack Draper, GBR [No. 259 to No. 42]
+201: Pedro Cachin, ARG [No. 258 to No. 57]
+164: Tseng Chun-hsin, TPE [No. 251 to No. 87]
+163: Nuno Borges, POR [No. 262 to No. 99]
+160: Constant Lestienne, FRA [No. 225 to No. 65]
+132: Marc-Andrea Huesler, SUI [No. 188 to No. 56]
+108: J.J. Wolf, USA [No. 174 to No. 66]
+97: Christopher O’Connell, AUS [No. 175 to No. 78]
+92: Holger Rune, DEN [No. 103 to No. 11]

~ Biggest jump into Top 10: +31, Carlos Alcaraz, ESP [No. 32 to No. 1]
~ Biggest jump into Top 20: +92, Holger Rune, DEN [No. 103 to No. 11]
~ Biggest jump into Top 50: +217, Jack Draper, GBR [No. 259 to No. 42]

The biggest ranking jump among the WTA’s year-end Top 100 this year goes to Daria Saville, formerly Daria Gavrilova, who soared 366 spots between 2021 (No. 419) and 2022 (No. 53).

Saville’s season was highlighted by a very sunny Sunshine Swing, reaching the fourth round of Indian Wells and the quarterfinals in Miami—those two results alone propelled her from No. 409 to No. 129. A former Top 20 player, the Australian also reached her fifth WTA final in Granby, Canada, the week before the US Open, and picked up the 11th and 12th Top 10 wins of her career, over Ons Jabeur (in Indian Wells) and Jessica Pegula (in Washington D.C.)

BIGGEST RANKING MOVERS AMONG WTA YEAR-END TOP 100 (from Nov. 15, 2021 year-end rankings to Nov. 8, 2022 year-end rankings):
+366: Daria Saville, AUS [No. 419 to No. 53]
+238: Yuan Yue, CHN [No. 312 to No. 74]
+226: Linda Noskova, CZE [No. 317 to No. 91]
+218: Linda Fruhvirtova, CZE [No. 296 to No. 78]
+211: Tatjana Maria, GER [No. 279 to No. 68]
+132: Ysaline Bonaventure, BEL [No. 228 to No. 96]
+118: Zheng Qinwen, CHN [No. 143 to No. 25]
+108: Julia Grabher, AUT [No. 192 to No. 84]
+91: Elisabetta Cocciaretto, ITA [No. 156 to No. 65]
+89: Lucia Bronzetti, ITA [No. 145 to No. 56]

~ Biggest jump into Top 10: +70, Caroline Garcia, FRA [No. 74 to No. 4]
~ Biggest jump into Top 20: +70, Caroline Garcia, FRA [No. 74 to No. 4]
~ Biggest jump into Top 50: +118, Zheng Qinwen, CHN [No. 143 to No. 25]