 The tennis back underway after the Australian Open. We had some big tournaments happening this week And some big names actually playing as well both for the men and the women's tours Well, let's go over look at the results because we did have five tournaments over the two tours starting on the ATP side in Dallas We had Tommy Paul beating Giron 7 6 5 7 6 3 to lift his second career trophy over in Marseille We had umbear beating Dmitriov in straight set 6 4 6 3 to lift another trophy in his backyard And on the clay the first clay court event of the year in Cordoba We had a battle of the qualifiers and Dadaeri beat Bagnus 6 1 6 4 in that qualifiers final And all those players got a big boost in the rankings because of their wins over on the WTA side We had in Romania the Transylvania Open and Pliscava getting her first win in a while beating Bogdan 6 4 6 3 to win her 17th trophy in her career and in Abu Dhabi the biggest tournament of them all WTA 500 event Rabakina wins her second trophy the year beating Kazakina in the finals 6 1 6 4 adding to the Brisbane trophy She won to start the season so Rabakina looking really good to start 2024 and heading into next week's 1,000 event She is definitely the biggest threat Let's have a look at the players outside the top 10 of the rankings and see who's gone up and down in the rankings Umbear after winning a trophy at home goes up three spots number 18 in the world Which is actually a career high for him and also becomes the highest ranked Frenchman overtaking Manorino Dadaeri he goes up 60 spots number 76 in the world another career high for him after winning Cordoba as a qualifier so huge rankings boost for him and Pliscava She goes up 19 spots number 59 in the world after winning in Romania So the winners this week really getting a boost in the rankings especially those players that were outside the top 20 Really getting a good chunk of points to their rankings plays that have dropped down in the rankings over the last week Potipova she dropped down seven spots number 34 in the world after dropping the points from last year's lintz open Bench it she goes down 14 spots to 36 in the world Of course not playing due to being pregnant She was the defending champion of Abu Dhabi so all those points disappeared and woo who won the Dallas Open last year in Dramatic fashion he goes down 109 spots to 248 in the world So that one win even though it was only 250 really affected his ranking that he wasn't able to back it up in 2024 All right, let's start with the WTA rankings for this week and not too much to speak of because we didn't have too many players playing Triantech she stays at number one with Sabalenka at number two Goffin number three, but there was a little bit of a change in the middle with Rabakina overtaking Pagula to go to number four which means that the top four players in the world are the slam Champions in the world as well So if you want to say there's a big four that is probably the big four of the WTA right now Jabir stays at number six with Zhang at number seven Rondrucifer at eight Sakurai at nine and Mukova rounds out the top ten for this week But we do have a lot of those players playing next week in the 1000 event in Qatar So we should see a few more rankings changes next week because there's so many points up for grabs over to the race of the Finals and things are starting to take a little bit of shape with no change up the top with Sabalenka at the top Zhang at second, OstaPenko staying at number three But another little change in the middle with Rabakina going up two spots to number four after winning her second trophy The year pushing Goff and Yastremska down to five and six. They didn't play or at least Goff didn't play last week Coming in number seven, Kazakina after making her second final of the year She's into the top ten for the first time in the race of the finals coming in at number seven Pushing Shriontek down to number nine and Noskova staying in the middle there at number eight Kostruc, she gets pushed down to number ten with Kalinskaya getting pushed out of the top ten Completely for the race of the finals So a lot of familiar names there that have either played the WTA finals in the past or are currently in the top ten So it's good to see we're starting to see a little bit of shape to the finals race as early as February Going over to the men's rankings now and we had no change to the top ten because there wasn't that many points up for grabs Djokovic, he stays at number one with Elkres at number two Mevvedev staying at number three with Yannik Sinner at number four and you can see there the gap between those guys And the rest of the pack is three thousand points Which is more than a slam because remember a slam is worth two thousand So those guys separated themselves from the rest Rubelev He's at number five with Zverev at number six very close in the rankings between those two Runa comes in at seven with her catcher number eight Fritz at number nine and city pass He stays at number ten for now But few of those guys are playing this week in different events Of course Rotterdam being the big one on the men's side of things Guys like Sinner, Rubelev and Runa are playing that one And then you've got guys that are playing the other smaller events like Fritz is playing in Delray beach And Elkres actually playing on the clay So we might be able to see some changes over the next week But I wouldn't expect too many massive changes until Indian Wells in March heading over to the race of the finals now and Again, no real big changes because most of the guys didn't play Sinner Still at number one with Mevvedev at number two after they made the astronaut open final, of course Zverev at three Djokovic at four Rubelev stays at number five with her catch at number six But we do have a change to the bottom part of the top 10 with Demetrov getting to the final of Marseille He goes up five spots into the top 10 for the first time coming at number seven After making his second final of the season and unfortunately couldn't win the title Not like he did in Brisbane a couple weeks ago, but great to see him back in the rankings He pushes Dimin or down to number eight Fritz down to number nine Elkres down to number 10 And Tobillo falls out of the top 10 completely and just such a shame. Hopefully he can come back We want to see Tobillo back in the top 10 It's been fun the last few weeks to see his name floating around But he has dropped out of the top 10 completely to the race of the finals So there you have it They are the rankings not too many changes of course not too many big names are playing Over the last couple of weeks post Australian open Usually a lot of those players don't play until the big events come back and of course this week We have one of the biggest events on the wta and most of the big names are playing So expect some changes because the 1000 events are worth a thousand points all of them this year on the wta And of course brought it down on the men's side the biggest tournament since the Australian open and Yannick sin is coming back So that should be fun. Let me know down in the comments below Who are you most excited to watch next week because we have a lot of the ladies are playing A few of the big names of the men are playing as well I'm so keen to see how Sinner looks because he just won his first grand slam He beats Jockoot in the process to do it. I mean, it's one of the biggest trophies It is the biggest trophy of his life. How does he now back it up as a grand slam champion? They added pressure the expectation How does he do in Rotterdam because he was the finalist last year as well? So i'm really keen to see how he does in Rotterdam But let me know down in the comments below who are you most excited to watch next week They're the rankings for this week things are starting to take shape in the race of the finals