Ranking Reaction: Holger Rune breaks into Top 10 just a week after breaking into Top 20

Just a week after making his Top 20 debut, Holger Rune makes his Top 10 debut on the ATP rankings today, jumping from No. 18 to No. 10 after winning the first Masters 1000 title of his career in Paris.

After fighting off three match points to beat former No. 3 Stan Wawrinka in the first round, Rune defeated No. 10 Hubert Hurkacz, No. 9 Andrey Rublev, No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz, No. 8 Felix Auger-Aliassime and No. 7 Novak Djokovic to capture the title, becoming the first man since ATP rankings began in 1973 to defeat five Top 10 players at a tour-level event outside of the ATP Finals.

He beat those five Top 10 players in five consecutive days, too.

And now, he’s the first Danish Top 10 player in ATP rankings history.

“I hope it’s going to change—it already changed a little bit since I went into Top 30, there is more focus on tennis in Denmark in general,” Rune said. “We obviously had Wozniacki, but I’m kind of the first male player on the tour. It’s great, you know, more focus in Danish tennis is great. It’s good to hear the young kids can start playing more, going to more tournaments, traveling more.

“I just want to say to them: Just keep believing in yourself. They can always ask me some advice if they want.”

The 19-year-old Rune is one of only 21 teenagers ever to reach the ATP Top 10, and the 17th-youngest of the group.

TEENAGERS TO REACH TOP 10 ON ATP RANKINGS (in order of age):

• 17 years, 0 months: Aaron Krickstein (USA) [on August 13, 1984]
• 17 years, 3 months: Michael Chang (USA) [on June 12, 1989]
• 17 years, 7 months: Boris Becker (GER) [on July 8, 1985]
• 17 years, 10 months: Mats Wilander (SWE) [on July 12, 1982]
• 17 years, 11 months: Bjorn Borg (SWE) [on June 3, 1974]
• 18 years, 1 month: Andre Agassi (USA) [on June 6, 1988]
• 18 years, 9 months: Andrei Medvedev (UKR) [June 7, 1993]
• 18 years, 10 months: Rafael Nadal (ESP) [April 25, 2005]
• 18 years, 11 months: Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) [April 25, 2022]
• 18 years, 11 months: Jimmy Arias (USA) [August 8, 1983]
• 19 years, 0 months: Goran Ivanisevic (CRO) [September 24, 1990]
• 19 years, 0 months: Pete Sampras (USA) [September 10, 1990]
• 19 years, 1 month: Stefan Edberg (SWE) [February 18, 1985]
• 19 years, 2 months: Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) [May 15, 2000]
• 19 years, 3 months: Pat Cash (AUS) [September 10, 1984]
• 19 years, 5 months: Kent Carsson (SWE) [June 15, 1987]
• 19 years, 6 months: Holger Rune (DEN) [November 7, 2022]
• 19 years, 7 months: John McEnroe (USA) [October 2, 1978]
• 19 years, 9 months: Novak Djokovic (SRB) [March 19, 2007]
• 19 years, 11 months: Andy Murray (GBR) [April 16, 2007]
• 19 years, 11 months: Andy Roddick (USA) [August 5, 2002]

There are a few more notable moves up the Top 10 this week, starting with Stefanos Tsitsipas, who rises from No. 5 back to his career-high of No. 3 after reaching the semifinals in Paris, becoming the first man to record 60 wins this year along the way before falling to Djokovic in a third set tie-break.

And then there’s the red-hot Auger-Aliassime, who moves up from No. 8 to a new career-high of No. 6 after also reaching the semis in Paris, extending his winning streak to 16 matches in a row before falling to Rune. The Canadian went into the French capital on a 13-match run that took him to three ATP titles in as many weeks in Florence, Antwerp and Basel, the only man to do that this year.

Auger-Aliassime is the second-highest-ranked Canadian man in ATP rankings history, and the fourth-highest-ranked Canadian player, male or female, in either ATP or WTA rankings history.

CANADIANS TO REACH TOP 10 ON ATP OR WTA RANKINGS:

• Milos Raonic (career-high No. 3 in 2016)
• Bianca Andreescu (career-high No. 4 in 2019)
• Eugenie Bouchard (career-high No. 5 in 2014)
• Felix Auger-Aliassime (career-high No. 6 in 2022)
• Carling Bassett-Seguso (career-high No. 8 in 1985)
• Denis Shapovalov (career-high No. 10 in 2020)

There’s also a new No. 1 on the ATP doubles rankings, as Dutchman Wesley Koolhof rises to the top spot for the first time after capturing his seventh ATP doubles title of the year alongside Great Britain’s Neal Skupski—and Skupski rises to a new career-high of No. 2.