Biggest ranking jumps in 2025: Amanda Anisimova makes biggest leap into Top 10

This week on TENNIS.com, we're bringing you five stories—one a day—that highlight the leaderboards of one statistic from 2025.

So far, we've brought you this season's ace leaders, with Elena Rybakina and Taylor Fritz finishing on top, and this year's title leaders, starring Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka.

Today, we go from lifting trophies to jumping up the rankings...

Last year, Amanda Anisimova made the biggest jump into the Top 50 between the 2023 and 2024 year-end rankings—on either tour—soaring 323 spots from No. 359 to No. 36.

This year, her momentum didn’t stop.

Anisimova made the biggest jump into the Top 10 between the 2024 and 2025 year-end rankings, again on either the men's or women's tour, jumping 32 spots from No. 36 to No. 4.

And it’s no surprise given her results this year, which included capturing the first two WTA 1000 titles of her career in Doha and Beijing, as well as reaching her first two Grand Slam finals at Wimbledon and the US Open. She made her Top 20 debut after Doha, her Top 10 debut after Wimbledon and her Top 5 debut after the US Open—the only player on either tour to break into the Top 20, Top 10 and Top 5 for the first time this year.

No. 36 to No. 4 is also the biggest year-on-year jump into the Top 10 on the WTA rankings since Caroline Garcia went from year-end No. 74 in 2021 to year-end No. 4 in 2022.

Meanwhile, Belinda Bencic made the biggest year-on-year jump into the WTA Top 20, Top 30, Top 50 and Top 100.

After playing her first two tournaments back as a mom last fall, Bencic finished 2024 at No. 913—but after an incredible full comeback season in 2025, highlighted by a pair of WTA 500 titles in Abu Dhabi and Tokyo and reaching the second Grand Slam semifinal of her career at Wimbledon, she soared 902 spots all the way back up to No. 11 by year-end.

BIGGEST YEAR-ON-YEAR RANKING JUMPS IN WTA TOP 100 (from November 11, 2024 year-end rankings to November 10, 2025 year-end rankings):

• +902: Belinda Bencic [No. 913 to No. 11]
• +736: Caty McNally [No. 817 to No. 81]
• +525: Janice Tjen [No. 578 to No. 53]
• +501: Kaja Juvan [No. 599 to No. 98]
• +431: Julia Grabher [No. 523 to No. 92]
• +332: Victoria Mboko [No. 350 to No. 18]
• +205: Tereza Valentova [No. 261 to No. 56]
• +171: Iva Jovic [No. 206 to No. 35]
• +152: Lois Boisson [No. 188 to No. 36]
• +132: Emiliana Arango [No. 180 to No. 48]

The only other triple-digit jump came from Alexandra Eala, who went from No. 158 to No. 50. This year she became the first player from the Philippines to not only break into the Top 100 in WTA rankings history, but more recently into the Top 50.

While Anisimova made the biggest year-on-year jump into the Top 10 on the women’s side, Felix Auger-Aliassime did the same on the men’s side, jumping 24 spots from No. 29 to No. 5.

The Canadian’s year was highlighted by three titles in Adelaide, Montpellier and Brussels, as well as reaching two of the biggest semifinals of the year at the US Open and the ATP Finals.

The biggest jump into the...
... ATP Top 10: Felix Auger-Aliassime, 24 spots (No. 29 to No. 5)
... ATP Top 20: Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, 47 spots (No. 61 to No. 14)
... ATP Top 30: Joao Fonseca, 121 spots (No. 145 to No. 24)
... ATP Top 50: Reilly Opelka, 243 spots (No. 293 to No. 50)
... ATP Top 100: Jenson Brooksby, infinite (unranked to No. 53)

BIGGEST YEAR-ON-YEAR RANKING JUMPS IN ATP TOP 100 (from December 2, 2024 year-end rankings to November 17, 2025 year-end rankings):

• infinite: Jenson Brooksby [unranked to No. 53]
• +243: Reilly Opelka [No. 293 to No. 50]
• +242: Filip Misolic [No. 321 to No. 79]
• +140: Shintaro Mochizuki [No. 234 to No. 94]
• +137: Eliot Spizzirri [No. 228 to No. 91]
• +135: Dalibor Svrcina [No. 225 to No. 90]
• +133: Ethan Quinn [No. 203 to No. 70]
• +128: Valentin Royer [No. 186 to No. 58]
• +125: Emilio Nava [No. 213 to No. 88]
• +121: Joao Fonseca [No. 145 to No. 24]

Three other men made triple-digit jumps: Shanghai champion Valentin Vacherot, who rose from No. 140 to No. 31; former Top 10 player Pablo Carreno Busta, who went from No. 197 to No. 89; and former No. 3 Marin Cilic, who jumped from No. 180 to No. 75.