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ATPWorldTour.com looks at the top Movers of the Week in the Top 100 of the ATP Rankings, as of Monday, 8 January 2018

No. 57 Gilles Simon, +32
The 33-year-old Frenchman got off to a strong start in 2018 with his first ATP World Tour title for almost three years (2015 Open 13 Marseille) after he defeated Kevin Anderson 7-6(4), 6-2 at he Tata Open Maharashtra. Simon, who started the week at No. 89 in the ATP Rankings, finished last year outside of the Top 50 for the first time since 2005. His 32-place rise to No. 57 was the biggest jump in the Top 100. Anderson, up three spots to No. 11, is back at his highest position since 19 October 2015 (No. 11). More & Watch Highlights

No. 17 Nick Kyrgios, +4
The 22-year-old Australian returned to his highest position in the ATP Rankings since 28 August 2017 after he lifted his fourth ATP World Tour title – and his first on home soil – at the Brisbane International presented by Suncorp. Kyrgios rose four spots after he defeated American Ryan Harrison 6-4, 6-2 in 73 minutes. Now 4-3 in ATP World Tour finals, it was Kyrgios' first trophy since October 2016 at the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships (d. Goffin). More & Watch Highlights

No. 39 Gael Monfils, +7
The French wild card captured his seventh ATP World Tour title at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open in Doha, with a 6-2, 6-3 win over #NextGenATP Russian Andrey Rublev in 61 minutes. The 31-year-old, who is returning following a four-month absence due to a right knee injury, returns to the Top 40 for the first time since 2 October 2017 (No. 35) and is now 7-20 in ATP World Tour finals. The Doha crown marks Monfils' first title since July 2016 at the Citi Open in Washington D.C. (d. Karlovic). He had previously finished as the Doha runner-up in 2006 (l. to Federer), 2012 (l. to Tsonga) and 2014 (l. to Nadal). Rublev, last year’s Next Gen ATP Finals runner-up, rose seven position to a career-high No. 32 in the ATP Rankings. More & Watch Highlights

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Other Notable Top 100 Movers This Week
No. 56 Guido Pella, +8
No. 68 Mikhail Kukushkin, +6
No. 73 Pierre-Hugues Herbert, +8
No. 80 Stefanos Tsitsipas, +11
No. 92 Taylor Fritz, +12

Sandgren will experience big jumps next week

The very top will remain unchanged, but the upsets and breakthroughs of the 2018 Australian Open will shake up other sections of the ATP Rankings when the new rankings are released on Monday, 29 January.

At the top of the movers: South Korea's Hyeon Chung, who before this week had never beaten a Top 10 player and has since beaten fourth seed Alexander Zverev and former World No. 1 Novak Djokovic to reach his first Grand Slam quarter-final.

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Chung, who is the first South Korean – male or female – to reach a Grand Slam quarter-final, is currently No. 58 but is expected to break the Top 50 no matter what happens when he faces Tennys Sandgren of the U.S. in the quarter-finals.

If Chung improves to 2-0 against Sandgren in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series and makes the semi-final, the 21-year-old will enter the Top 30 for the first time and become the fifth highest Asian in the history of the ATP Rankings (since 1973).

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Highest-Ranked Asians in ATP Rankings

Name


Country


Career-High


Date

Kei Nishikori


Japan


4


3/2/15

Paradorn Srichaphan


Thailand


9


5/12/03

Vijay Amritraj


India


16


7/7/80

Ramesh Krishnan


India


23


1/28/85

Andrey Golubev


Kazakhstan


33


10/4/10

Denis Istomin


Uzbekistan


33


8/13/12

Yen-Hsun Lu


Chinese Taipei


33


11/1/10

Chung has kept up his impressive play since last November, when he won his maiden ATP World Tour title at the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan. “I really had a good finish [to] the season after Milan... [It meant] I could start, really happy, this season with confidence and comfort,” Chung said after beating Djokovic 7-6(4), 7-5, 7-6(3) in the fourth round.

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Should Sandgren continue his career-best tournament and beat Chung – the Tennessee native is also playing in his first Grand Slam quarter-final – he will reach the Top 40. Sandgren is projected to crack the Top 55, which would be a new career-high, win or lose against Chung.

“Obviously the first three matches were more than I expected. This one was about as hard-fought as I've ever had a match before,” Sandgren said after beating fifth seed Dominic Thiem in five sets in the fourth round.

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Brit Kyle Edmund also is projected to reach a new career-high in the ATP Rankings. The 23-year-old, who faces Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov on Tuesday for a spot in the semi-finals, should reach the Top 35 and surpass his current career-high of No. 40. If Edmund can overturn his 0-2 record in his FedEx ATP Head2Head series against Dimitrov, he will reach the Top 30.

Czech Tomas Berdych will near the Top 15 after making his seventh Australian Open quarter-final. The man he faces in the semi-finals, however, won't be going anywhere. Second seed Roger Federer will stay at No. 2 in the ATP Rankings regardless of how he does during the remainder of the Aussie fortnight.

Marin Cilic is guaranteed to reach No. 5 and could climb to No. 4 if he makes his first Australian Open final. But his quarter-final opponent, Rafael Nadal, also isn't going anywhere; the World No. 1 will remain No. 1.

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