Ranking Reaction: Iga Swiatek officially rises to No. 1, Cam Norrie makes Top 10 debut

The new WTA rankings are out, and it’s official—Iga Swiatek has ascended to No. 1 on the WTA rankings, a history-making achievement in two big ways:

She’s the first player from Poland to reach No. 1 in either ATP or WTA rankings history (the previous highest-ranked player from Poland was Agnieszka Radwanska, who went as high as No. 2 on the WTA rankings in both 2012 and 2016).

She’s the first player born in the 2000s to reach No. 1 in either ATP or WTA rankings history (the 2001-born Swiatek is actually the first player born in 1998 or later to do it—the latest-born player to do it before her was 1997-born Naomi Osaka).

Swiatek has catapulted to No. 1 off of a phenomenal last six weeks, winning 17 matches in a row to capture back-to-back-to-back WTA 1000 titles at Doha, Indian Wells and Miami. At 20, she’s the youngest woman ever to win Indian Wells and Miami in the same year—otherwise known as the Sunshine Double—and the fourth woman overall after Steffi Graf (1994 and 1996), Kim Clijsters (2005) and Victoria Azarenka (2016).

And even if Ashleigh Barty hadn’t retired and removed her name from the WTA rankings today, Swiatek would have been on the verge of No. 1 anyway—Barty would have had 6,980 ranking points this week, and Swiatek now has 6,771 ranking points.

Meanwhile, No. 1 on the ATP rankings doesn’t change, with Novak Djokovic staying at the top spot—Daniil Medvedev would have returned there had he reached the semis of Miami, but he fell one round short, as Hubert Hurkacz took him out in the quarters.

With his incredible 364th career week at No. 1, Djokovic has now spent an entire seven years’ worth of weeks at No. 1 (seven years times 52 weeks per year).

Since Djokovic first rose to No. 1 on July 4th, 2011, after winning his first Wimbledon title, there have been 540 weeks of ATP rankings, and Djokovic has held the top spot in 364 of those—that’s 67.4%, or just over two thirds of the time since then.

At the other end of this week’s ATP Top 10, there’s a career milestone—Cameron Norrie rises from No. 12 to a new career-high of No. 10 today, becoming the fourth man from Great Britain ever to reach the Top 10 on the ATP rankings.

BRITISH MEN TO REACH TOP 10 ON ATP RANKINGS:
~ Greg Rusedski (career-high No. 4 in 1997)
~ Tim Henman (career-high No. 4 in 2002)
~ Andy Murray (career-high No. 1 in 2016)
~ Cameron Norrie (career-high No. 10 in 2022)

And a few of the standouts from Miami also break new ground on the new ATP rankings: Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz, who went all the way to his first Masters 1000 title in Florida, rises from No. 16 to No. 11, his Top 15 debut; and Argentina's Francisco Cerundolo, who made a surprise run to the semifinals in his Masters 1000 debut, soars from No. 103 to No. 51, shattering his previous career-high of No. 76.

There are more new career-highs on the WTA rankings this week too: Paula Badosa and Danielle Collins set new highs of No. 3 and No. 8, respectively, after reaching the quarterfinals in Miami; American Jessica Pegula sets a new personal best of No. 13 after reaching the semifinals; and Coco Gauff, who reached the fourth round before running into Swiatek, rises from No. 17 to No. 15 for her Top 15 debut.

And former No. 1 Osaka rebounds from No. 77 to No. 35 after reaching her first final since the 2021 Australian Open, where she too ran into an on-fire Swiatek.

There’s even more good news for Great Britain, as Joe Salisbury reaches No. 1 on the ATP doubles rankings this week. The 29-year-old, who’s won four majors over the last two and a half years—two in men’s doubles and two in mixed—is the second British man to reach No. 1 in ATP doubles rankings history, after Jamie Murray.