Iga Swiatek now has the most ranking points for any woman since Serena Williams in 2015

Iga Swiatek continues to take her career to new heights today after winning her fourth WTA 1000 title of the year in Rome.

Having fallen in the quarterfinals in the Italian capital last year, going all the way to the title this year has bumped the world No. 1's ranking points total from 10,910 to 11,695 today.

First of all, it’s the most ranking points Swiatek has ever had at any given time. Before this her highest total was 11,085 for nine weeks between November 2022 and January 2023.

And even more impressively, it’s the most ranking points any woman has had at any given time in almost nine years.

The last woman to have that many ranking points was Serena Williams, when she had 12,721 during the two weeks of the 2015 US Open (August 31st to September 14th, 2015). After falling in the semifinals in Flushing Meadows that year while defending champion’s points, Serena left New York with 11,501 points.

Swiatek won’t be able to add any more points at Roland Garros, where she’s the defending champion, but could keep increasing her incredible total as early as the grass-court season.

Meanwhile, there are some very notable ranking moves among some of the men who went deep in Rome, including Alexander Zverev, who rises from No. 5 to No. 4 after capturing the sixth Masters 1000 title of his career in the Italian capital. The move comes just in time for a guaranteed Top 4 seed at Roland Garros.

The man Zverev beat for the title, Nicolas Jarry, jumps from No. 24 to No. 16 after reaching the first Masters 1000 final of his career, surpassing his previous career-high of No. 18. He’s now the sixth-highest-ranked Chilean in ATP rankings history, and just two spots away from his grandfather Jaime Fillol's career-high.

CHILEANS TO REACH TOP 20 ON ATP RANKINGS (since 1975):
Marcelo Rios [career-high No. 1 in 1998]
Fernando Gonzalez [career-high No. 5 in 2007]
Nicolas Massu [career-high No. 9 in 2004]
Hans Gildemeister [career-high No. 12 in 1980]
Jaime Fillol Sr. [career-high No. 14 in 1974]
Nicolas Jarry [career-high No. 16 in 2024]
Cristian Garin [career-high No. 17 in 2021]

And there could be another name added to the above list soon, as another Chilean—Alejandro Tabilo—closes in on his own Top 20 debut. He rises from No. 32 to No. 25, his Top 30 debut, after reaching the first Masters 1000 semifinal of his career in Rome, stunning No. 1-ranked Novak Djokovic along the way.

And the breakthroughs don’t end there.

French teenager Arthur Fils makes his Top 30 debut, rising from No. 34 to No. 30—he lost his opening match in Rome, but won a Challenger in Bordeaux during the second week of the event.

There are two Top 50 debuts: Luciano Darderi breaks into the ATP Top 50, rising from No. 54 to No. 47 after reaching the third round in Rome and the semifinals of a Challenger in Turin; and Diana Shnaider cracks the WTA Top 50, jumping from No. 62 to No. 47 after making it to the third round in Rome then winning a WTA 125K event in Paris, where she beat Emma Navarro in the final.

And finally, there are four Top 100 debuts this week.

On the men’s side, China’s Shang Juncheng rises from No. 105 to No. 89 after reaching the second round of Rome and the semifinals of the Challenger in Bordeaux, and Australia’s Adam Walton moves from No. 111 to No. 95 after playing a pair of Challengers during Rome, first reaching the quarterfinals in Wuxi, China and then winning a title in Taipei, Taiwan.

Shang is the first Chinese teenager to reach the ATP Top 100, and third Chinese man, period, after Wu Yibing and Zhang Zhizhen.

And over on the women’s side, Japan’s Moyuka Uchijima rises from No. 110 to No. 80 after winning back-to-back ITF titles during the two weeks of Rome, and Slovakia’s Rebecca Sramkova goes from No. 120 to No. 89 after coming through qualifying and reaching the fourth round at the Foro Italico.