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The Charleston tournament, a 500, comes in a weird gap week between the “Sunshine Double” and the European clay-court season.

And so, in recent years, it has produced some surprise champions and therefore allows for some nice ranking moves.

And in Bogota, two qualifiers made the final, more opportunities to clumb in the rankings.

ATP Rankings Report – as of April 11, 2022

It will be the only rankings report for two weeks, as this coming week is a Billie Jean King Cup week. And so the next one will have two weeks’ worth of results, some of them from the lower circuits and including a $100K ITF in Florida, and a $60K in Switzerland.

(For the complete, updated WTA rankings, click here).

ON THE UPSWING

Aryna Sabalenka: No. 5 =========> No. 4 (Sabalenka was out in the third round in Charleston, but she moves up because she didn’t play it last year. So it was all gravy).

One Jabeur (TUN): No. 10 =========> No. 9 (Jabeur has had a lot of disappointments in Charleston over the last 12 months. At the same time, she’s giving herself opportunities time and again and if she said during her trophy ceremony speech that she hoped it was going to come – soon – few have any doubts).

Belinda Bencic (SUI): No. 21 =========> No. 13 (A super three weeks for Bencic, who arrived in Miami ranked No. 28 and leaves Charleston at No. 13. Nice work, and her first career title on clay).

Amanda Anisimova (USA): No. 47 =========> No. 33 (Anisimova is looking good to be seeded at Roland Garros, which likely will make the top players pretty happy).

Anhelina Kalinina (UKR): No. 42 =========> No. 36 (Already at a career high, Kalinina, who is 25, comes kind of out of nowhere and is on the rise).

Ekaterina Alexandrova: No. 54 =========> No. 40 (Alexandrova’s career high is No. 25, so she’s a ways away. But this was a positive step after making the Charleston semis).

Magda Linette (POL): No. 64 =========> No. 58 (The schedule did Linette no favours in Charleston, as she had to play her quarterfinal after a very tough doubleheader the previous day. But winning the doubles title with a first-time partner in a duo arranged shortly before the draw is definitely a nice consolation prize).

Dayana Yastremska (UKR): No. 102 =========> No. 93 (The Ukrainian’s poignant world tour after leaving her home in Odessa continues. And making the quarters in Bogotá should ensure she doesn’t have slog through the qualifying in Paris).

Kamilla Rakhimova: No. 111 =========> No. 96 (Rakhimimova, who lost a crazy, topsy-turvy match to Rebecca Marino in the final round of the Australian Open qualies, shouldn’t have to go through that again in Paris as she breaks into the top 100 for the first time with her semifinal in Bogota).

Tatjana Maria (GER): No. 237 =========> No. 114 (Maria, who has been using a protected ranking just outside the top 100 after being out to have her second child, makes nearly all of it up in one fell swoop as she goes from the qualifying to the title in Bogota).

Laura Pigossi (BRA): No. 212 =========> No. 126 (Pigossi, a 27-year-old who mostly plays doubles and medalled in Tokyo with countrywoman Luisa Stefani, goes from the qualifying to the final in Bogota and obliterates her previous career high of No. 185).

Coco Vandeweghe (USA): No. 168 =========> No. 128 (At 30, it’s been a comeback road full of bumps for the American. But she makes a nice dent in her ranking by going from lucky loser to Charleston quarterfinalist).

Elina Avanesyan: No. 170 =========> No. 146 (There are not many top-200 players Open Court has never heard of. But Avenysyan is one of them. She makes the Bogota quarters and improves her career high).

Mirjam Bjorklund (SWE): No. 183 =========> No. 159 (Once known more for being Denis Shapovalov’s better half, the 23-year-old Swede is coming into her own, and reaches a career high with her quarterfinal effort in Bogota).

Elisabetta Cocciaretto (ITA): No. 233 =========> No. 161 (The 23-year-old Italian went from the qualifying to the title at the $80K ITF in Oeiras, Portugal last week).

Linda Fruhvirtova (CZE): No. 188 =========> No. 170 (Another career high for the 16-year-old as another wild card turns into a second-round effort in Charleston. Fruhvirtova has 60 points to defend this coming week, from a quarterfinal effort at last year’s pop-up Charleston 250. Without it, she’d drop just outside the top 200).

Ipek Oz (TUR): No. 267 =========> No. 224 (The 22-year-old from Turkey qualifies and wins a round in Bogota, rising to a career high).

ON THE DOWNSWING

Maria Sakkari (GRE): No. 4 =========> No. 5 (Sakkari opted not to play Charleston this year, and she drops because of Sabalenka’s effort there).

Leylah Fernandez (CAN): No. 19 =========> No. 21 (After a brief tip into the top 20, Fernandez is down two spots and just outside of it).

Veronika Kudermetova (RUS): No. 22 =========> No. 29 (Kudermetova won Charleston a year ago; she pulled out of the event this year due to illness, after reaching the doubles final in Miami).

Sloane Stephens (USA): No. 36 =========> No. 44 (Stephens lost in the first round of Charleston, a tournament she has won in the past).

Camila Osorio (COL): No. 33 =========> No. 47 (Osorio came into her home-country event in Bogota as the defending champion. It was a win that did a lot for her ranking. And even if she respectably made the semifinals this year, she drops a fair bit).

Danka Kovinic (MNE): No. 65 =========> No. 98 (Tough blow for Kovinic’s ranking, as she drops the points from making the Charleston final as an unseeded player a year ago. She didn’t play it this year).

Storm Sanders (AUS): No. 161 =========> No. 190

Caty McNally (USA): No. 164 =========> No. 197 (It’s always a shocker to look at the number next to 20-year-old McNally’s name. So much talent, all the shots (as evidenced on the doubles court with Coco Gauff). But she still hasn’t quite put it together. It feels like she will get there, soon enough).

Kurumi Nara (JPN): No. 191 =========> No. 247 (Since losing in the first round of qualifying at the Australian Open, Nara has criss-crossed the world playing ITFs in Kazakhstan, Portugal and back to Australia in Canberra. Seven tournaments later her ranking was almost exactly where it was when she began. Nara drops points from going from the qualifying to the round of 16 a year ago in Charleston, where she had a nifty draw until running into eventual champion Kudermetova).