 With the US Open Series well underway and the first hard-court matches of the second half of the season getting underway We had some big winners last week and some big results as well Not so many changes in the top 10, but we did have changes outside the top 10 Let's go see who won last week starting on the WTA We had a couple of clay court events one of the last clay court events in Switzerland with Chocchi Redo getting the win over Boral 7 5 4 6 6 4 over the Hamburg open We had Ruse winning her first title 6 loves 7 6 against Noah Akuj and then at the Poland open the first hard-court Tennis tournament since Miami all the way back in March and Igor Shryontek Starting her title defense at the US Open with some good form 6 loves 6 1 against Sigmund in that final winning her first 250 event of her career as well and of course winning her first title at home as well in front of the Polish crowd So those are the winners on the WTA this week on the men's side of things We also had three tournaments starting in Umar with Poprin taking out Vavrenka 6 7 6 3 6 4 to lift his second trophy and beating a great like Stan on clay is a massive massive win over in Atlanta The first hard-court event since Miami. We had Taylor Fritz 7 5 6 7 6 4 beating Vukic in the final So he's getting his US Open campaign off to a good start and then the biggest tournament of the week the Hamburg open on the clay Sasha's Vera getting the win over Jera 7 5 6 3 winning his 20th title and his first title since being injured from last year's Roland Garros So good to see his very back on the winners list and he got a big boost in the rankings because of that 500 points that he gained in Hamburg having a look at the players outside the top 10 that went up in the rankings this week Ruse went up 18 spots into number 42 a career high for her and her first ever title on the WTA She has been playing for a while So career high ranking after getting her first trophy Alexander's Vera He's gone up three spots number 16 in the world after winning his first trophy coming back from injury and Poprin He's gone up 33 spots number 57, which is a career high for him after winning a new mark So the winners of last week getting a big boost in the rankings players that have gone down the rankings was Kovac She's gone down 10 spots number 39 in the world after losing points from the Prague open last year But she can make that up this week if she does end up winning the tournament Roberto But his to regu also went down 7 spots to number 32 in the world after failing to defend the points that he made in kids Last year, but of course that's happening this week So maybe he can make those up Brandon Nakashima He's gone down 12 spots number 70 in the world after losing points from last year's Atlanta open that he wasn't able to Replicate this year making the quarterfinals So a few players there that have gone down the rankings after losing a lot of points Let's start with the WTA rankings now and as I said at the start not too many changes with Shriyantek extending her lead against Sabalenka after winning this week in Poland Sabalenka staying at number two with Rebacca at three Gula just behind number four We do have a change in the middle with Garcia dropping down to number six and on striberg going up to number five And that's because Garcia won the Poland open last year didn't play this year lost a lot of points and drops down the rankings because of it Gov comes in at number seven with Caviteva at eight Sakari at nine and von Druseva rounding up the top 10 for this week having with the race of the finals now and still only the two players qualified with Sabalenka and Shriyantek Qualified for the WTA finals Rebacca is not too far behind with a couple of good weeks on the hardcore She could qualify before the U.S. Open the Gula stays at number four with von Druseva at five Jabara at six Caviteva at seven Mukava at number eight Gov at nine and Benchich rounds at the top 10 But a lot of those players are playing next week in Washington, which is a WTA 500 event So expect some changes because there's a lot of points up for grabs next week Jump over the men's side of the rankings now and again No changes to the top 10 with Elkera staying at number one dropping points though because he didn't play Hamburg where he made the final last year So he did drop some points closing that gap with Djokovic at number two Mehvedev at three with Rude at number four since he passed comes in at five with Runa at six Rubelev just behind at number seven with Sinner at eight Fritz at nine despite winning the Atlanta Open He's still a little bit far away from Sinner and Ciafo rounds at the top 10 for this week Looking at the race the finals and still only Elkera has qualified based on points Of course Djokovic is qualified because of the Grand Slam rule But he's only about a hundred points away from qualifying on his own So by the time we get to Cincinnati, he would have qualified on his points Mehvedev comes in at three with Rubelev at number four since he passed at five with Sinner at six Runa at seven Rude at eight with Fritz at number nine and Alexander Zverev He jumps into the top 10 after winning in Hamburg pushing Hashinov out of the top 10 down to number 11 So Zverev winning one of the biggest trophies in recent memory for him and getting into that race the finals And he has won a couple of ATP finals as well So he might be able to sneak in there If he has some good American hardcore season and get himself qualified eventually for the ATP finals Which would be really fun to see Zverev back in that spot So not too much to talk about with the rankings I mean some good stories with you know Zverev winning his first title from coming back from injury and getting a lot of points for that and Putting himself in the finals race But next week we've got Washington for the men of the women That's a massive tournament for both of them 500 events for both And then of course Canada and Cincinnati coming up after that So a lot of points up for grabs over the next couple weeks and the changes of the rankings Will be a lot more over the next couple of weeks, especially for the US Open But let me know down in the comments below What are you most interested to see in the rankings this week Or who are you most scared for in the coming weeks Because of course Elkara's hanging on to that number one spot Jokovic has no points to defend because he didn't play in America last year So can Elkara stay number one? I think that's the biggest concern and Kinshviontek Stay number one before the US Open or Sabal, I think you're going to be able to take her over So number one rankings are still a little bit shaky But the other rankings for this week nothing really big to report on