Ranking Reaction: Holger Rune rises to new career-high No. 7 after reaching Monte Carlo final

Holger Rune may have just missed out on his second Masters 1000 title in Monte Carlo, but there's a silver lining—he's now at a new career-high, rising from No. 9 to No. 7 (jumping over his previous high of No. 8).

On this day a year ago, Rune was No. 79—but he’s had a meteoric rise over the last 12 months, highlighted by winning his first three ATP titles (Munich, Stockholm and the Masters 1000 in Paris last year), reaching another three finals (Sofia and Basel last year and another Masters 1000 event in Monte Carlo last week) and compiling a 53-24 win-loss record, which includes an impressive 11-6 mark against Top 10 players.

He also reached the first Grand Slam quarterfinal of his career last year at Roland Garros, and after falling to Andrey Rublev in Monaco on Sunday—in a match where he was up 4-1 in the third set—he made it clear he’s already setting his sights on the clay-court major again.

“I was definitely in control in the third set, and also I would say mostly in the first set as well, but again, didn’t manage to close it out—disappointing, but again, it’s part of tennis,” he said. “Just got to see what I did wrong, what I can do better and move on, because the most important tournament of the clay season is the French Open, so if I can prepare myself as best as possible for that one, that’s what matters.”

Rune has a lot of opportunity to move up the rankings ahead of Roland Garros, too—from now until then he’s only defending a total of 340 points, 250 for winning his first ATP title in Munich last year and 90 for reaching the semifinals of Lyon right before Paris last year.

He didn’t play Madrid last year, and he fell in qualifying in Rome.

There are a few more notable movers: Sebastian Baez rises from No. 32 to No. 30, his Top 30 debut; Mikael Ymer rises from No. 51 to No. 50, his Top 50 debut; and Alexander Shevchenko makes his Top 100 debut after winning a Challenger in Madrid, rising from No. 107 to No. 98.

There are no major moves on the WTA rankings as there were no WTA events last week due to the Billie Jean King Cup Qualifiers. There could be some major shake-ups this week as eight of the Top 10—and 16 of the Top 20—are in action at the WTA 500 clay-court stop in Stuttgart.