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MONTREAL – A Masters 1000 tournament with plenty of upsets means plenty of big moves in the next week’s rankings.

And this one, the Omnium Banque Nationale, was no exception.

Champion Pablo Carreño Busta is back into the top 15, and Nick Kyrgios is back into the top 30 and should be seeded in New York.

Among the career highs are Tommy Paul, Jack Draper, Roman Safiullin and Bernabe Zapata Miralles.

WTA Rankings Report – As of Aug. 15, 2022

(For the full, updated ATP Tour rankings, click here).

ON THE UPSWING

Casper Ruud (NOR): No. 7 =========> No. 5 (Ruud, who reached the semifinals, leaps past the idle Novak Djokovic and also Stefanos Tsitsipas, who was out early to qualifier Jack Draper)

Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP): No. 23 =========> No. 14 (The Omnium Banque National champion, a well-deserved title, puts Carreño Busta back where he has been much of the last few years – the top 20, more specifically No. 14. He has some points to defend this week in Cincinnati and might not stay there, but if he falls it won’t be far).

Daniel Evans (GBR): No. 39 =========> No. 23 (Evans is now one off his career best, reached last September, after a great effort to get to the Montreal semis).

Nick Kyrgios (AUS): No. 37 =========> No. 28 (Kyrgios is back into the top 30 with his quarterfinal effort. If he had the points from Wimbledon, he’d nearly double his point total and be at about No. 14. But it is what it is. He faces Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the first round in Cincinnati and also is playing doubles with Thanasi Kokkinakis).

Tommy Paul (USA): No. 34 =========> No. 31 (Paul made a lot of new fans in Montreal, who discovered his fast, smooth, powerful game – most evident in his win over No. 2 seed Carlos Alcaraz. He’s at a new career high and should be seeded in New York. Meanwhile, he gets fellow young American Jenson Brooksby in the first round in Cincy).

Jack Draper (GBR): No. 82 =========> No. 55 (A career high for the 20-year-old qualifier, who impressed with his win over Stefanos Tsitsipas, among others, in Montreal. One to watch in the future).

Bernabe Zapata Miralles (ESP): No. 89 =========> No. 74 (The hard-working Spaniard hits a career high as he stays on clay in Europe and wins the Challenger in Meerbusch over a fairly pedestrian field, but with the loss of just one set).

Camilo Ugo Carabelli (ARG): No. 121 =========> No. 96 (Carabelli, 23, leaps into the top 100 for the first time as he wins the clay-court Challenger in Lima, Peru. It’s too late for main-draw entry into the US Open. But it’s a big deal nonetheless. Carabelli wasn’t really on the radar until he qualified at Roland Garros, and upset Aslan Karatsev in a fifth-set match tiebreak in the first round).

Roman Safiullin: No. 122 =========> No. 97 (The 25-year-old Russian looked as though he might be this year’s Karatsev, when he won matches against some solid players at ATP Cup in January and then went from the qualifying to the semis in Marseille the following month. It didn’t quite work out that way. But he breaks into the top 100 and a career high, after beginning the season at No. 167, by winning his second Challenger in the last three weeks in Chicago).

Ben Shelton (USA): No. 282 =========> No. 229 (Another big leap in the rankings for the 19-year-old Shelton, who reached the final at the Chicago Challenger. He has a wild card into Cincinati this week, and will play qualifier Lorenzo Sonego in Cincinnati).

Stan Wawrinka (SUI): No. 322 =========> No. 306 (Wawrinka isn’t having a ton of luck with draws in his comeback, despite moving up 16 spots with the 10 points he earned for playing Montreal (a three-set opening loss to Emil Ruusuvuori). He got Carreño Busta in the first round in Bastad, and Jannik Sinner in the first round of Wimbledon. And he gets Andy Murray in the first round of Cincinnati, after Murray squeezed in when countryman Draper didn’t make the cut for the special exempt spot).

*(Photo: Tennis Canada/Patrice Lapointe)*

Gabriel Diallo (CAN): No. 669 =========> No. 553 (A nifty win over James Duckworth in the first round of Montreal qualifying is worth more than 100 spots in the rankings for the 20-year-old Canadian).

ON THE DOWNSWING

Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE): No. 5 =========> No. 7 (Tsitsipas, who was out in his opening match against qualifier Jack Draper, also is defending semifinal points this week in Cincinnati).

Reilly Opelka (USA): No. 17 =========> No. 26 (Opelka was a finalist a year ago in Toronto, but pulled out shortly after the Montreal draw with a heel injury and isn’t played Cincinnati either).

Holger Rune (DEN): No. 26 =========> No. 29 (Rune drops some points, but should still be seeded in New York. Of bigger concern is that he hasn’t won back-to-back matches since making the Roland Garros quarterfinals. He was winless on grass, and winless in the three clay-court tournament he played after Wimbledon. He won a match in D.C. (Paire) and another in Montreal (Fognini) before losing to Carreño Busta and winning just three games in that one).

Lorenzo Musetti (ITA): No. 30 =========> No. 33 (Musetti likely will still be seeded in New York. And on the plus side he qualified in Cincinnati so might make a move there, as he has a winnable match against Borna Coric in the first round).

Nikoloz Basilashvili (GEO): No. 29 =========> No. 34 (Basilashvili drops some points from last year in Toronto. And he was trounced with the gain of just one game by Mackenzie McDonald in his first round match in Cincinnati Sunday night. It’s not going great).

John Isner (USA): No. 33 =========> No. 50 (It’s been awhile since Isner was down this low in the rankings – Sept. 2009, to be exact. He drops semifinal points from last year in Toronto, as he didn’t play Montreal this eyar and also has third-round points to defend in Cincinnati. He faces Benjamin Bonzi in the first round there).

James Duckworth (AUS): No. 62 =========> No. 82 (The Aussie drops 115 points from last year, when he qualified, defeated Taylor Fritz and Jannik Sinner, and made the third round in Toronto. Duckworth was dispatched in the first round of qualifying by unknown Canadian Gabriel Diallo this year. No wonder he was so chapped he fractured several racquets after the defeat).

Dusan Lajovic (SRB): No. 68 =========> No. 87 (Lajovic didn’t come over for qualifying in Montreal, with his ranking much lower than it was a year ago in Toronto, when he squeezed into the main draw at No. 44. He made the third round, too, beating Ruusuvuori in the first round and Félix Auger-Aliassime in the second round. It’s his lowest ranking in four years, and he lost in the final round of qualifying in Cincinnati to Musetti).

Benoit Paire (FRA): No. 104 =========> No. 110 (Paire qualified in Montreal, lost and went the tequila and golf route – and then lost in qualifying Sunday in Cincinnati on a retirement. Kind of how he’s rolling these days.).

Juan Manuel Cerundolo (ARG): No. 99 =========> No. 120 (Since his shocker of a win at the ATP event in Cordoba a year and a half ago, Cerundolo has struggled with injury a whole lot and has exited the top 100. He made the third round in Miami, but mostly has been on the Challenger circuit since then – when he has played).

Ricardas Berankis (LTU): No. 98 =========> No. 124 (Berankis lost in the first round of qualifying in Montreal, after making the cut in Toronto last year).

Kei Nishikori (JPN): No. 299 =========> No. 366 (He’s coming back, apparently. We’re just not sure when).

Feliciano Lopez (ESP): No. 330 =========> No. 369 (Lopez, 40, has continued to play quite a bit this year. But the reality of that ranking will make that more difficult going forward).

DOUBLES MOVES

John Peers (AUS): No. 13 =========> No. 9 (Back in the top 10 after a finals effort with Dan Evans in Montreal).

Nick Kyrgios (AUS): No. 22 =========> No. 20 (Into the top 20 in doubles for the first time).

Hubert Hurkacz (POL): No. 38 =========> No. 33 (A late-night semifinal in Montreal Saturday might have hurt him for the singles final on Sunday. But a good effort nonetheless and one no doubt appreciated by his Polish partner Jan Zielinski. who moves into the top 50 in the rankings at No. 46).

Daniel Evans (GBR): No. 172 =========> No. 98 (A great run to the final in Montreal).