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We've got a slew of movers and milestones on the rankings this week, and first up is a milestone on the ATP rankings, as four-time Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz is spending his 150th week in the Top 10.

That’s career and consecutive.

He made his Top 10 debut as an 18-year-old on April 25th, 2022 and hasn’t left the elite since, not even for a week. He’s the youngest man to spend 150 straight weeks in the Top 10 since Rafael Nadal, who was just a month younger when he reached that milestone in 2008.

Even more impressively, the now-21-year-old Alcaraz has spent the majority of those weeks—130 out of 150—inside the Top 3.

ALCARAZ'S 150 TOP 10 WEEKS BY RANKING:

No. 1: 36 weeks
No. 2: 52 weeks
No. 3: 42 weeks
No. 4: 6 weeks
No. 5: 1 week
No. 6: 6 weeks
No. 7: 5 weeks
No. 8: 0 weeks
No. 9: 2 weeks
No. 10: 0 weeks

Alcaraz is currently No. 3 on the ATP rankings after Jannik Sinner and Alexander Zverev.

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Next up is a milestone on the WTA rankings, as Aryna Sabalenka is spending her 250th week in the Top 10 this week.

That’s career, not consecutive—the first 25 weeks came in three separate stints in 2019, then she returned to the elite on November 16th, 2020, and this is her 225th straight week since then.

And like Alcaraz, Sabalenka’s career weeks in the Top 10 have been concentrated near the top, as almost half of them—119 of 250—have been in the Top 2. This is her 28th career week at No. 1.

SABALENKA'S 250 TOP 10 WEEKS BY RANKING:

No. 1: 28 weeks
No. 2: 91 weeks
No. 3: 27 weeks
No. 4: 14 weeks
No. 5: 19 week
No. 6: 13 weeks
No. 7: 18 weeks
No. 8: 7 weeks
No. 9: 11 weeks
No. 10: 22 weeks

Sabalenka will spend her 28th and 29th career weeks at No. 1 during the two weeks of Indian Wells.

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And finally, we have some big movers from some of the 500-level events that took place last week, beginning with Tomas Machac, who rises from No. 25 to No. 20—his Top 20 debut—after capturing the first ATP title of his career at the ATP 500 event in Acapulco.

He’s the first Czech man in the Top 20 since Tomas Berdych in 2018.

Meanwhile, there are several big movers coming out of the WTA 500 event in Merida: Armenia’s Elina Avanesyan, who reached the semis there, makes her Top 40 debut, rising from No. 45 to No. 39; Australian teenager Maya Joint, who made the quarters there, makes her Top 100 debut, jumping from No. 103 to No. 85; and Colombia’s Emiliana Arango, who reached the first WTA semifinal and final of her career there, also makes her Top 100 debut, soaring from No. 133 to No. 80.

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