Diana Shnaider on the cusp of the Top 10 after winning fourth title of the year in Hong Kong

It’s been a breakthrough year for Diana Shnaider, and she’s now on the brink of her Top 10 debut after capturing the title in Hong Kong.

It was the fourth WTA title of her career, and they’ve all come this year—in Hua Hin, Thailand in February (a WTA 250 on hard), Bad Homburg, Germany in June (a WTA 500 on grass), Budapest, Hungary in July (a WTA 250 on clay) and now Hong Kong (a WTA 250 on hard).

Her latest triumph moves her from No. 14 to a new career-high of No. 12, and she’s within just a few hundred points of the Top 10 now, which is an incredible rise for someone who was ranked No. 108 in February.

She’s one of only three women to win four or more tour-level titles this year, and she’s in some pretty good company—the other two are the Top 2 players on the WTA rankings, Aryna Sabalenka (who has four titles this year) and Iga Swiatek (who has five titles this year).

The 20-year-old Shnaider is the currently the second-youngest woman in the Top 20, after 17-year-old Mirra Andreeva. She’s three weeks younger than the current world No. 3, Coco Gauff.

The woman Shnaider defeated for the title in Hong Kong, Katie Boulter, rises from No. 29 to No. 23, surpassing her previous career-high of No. 27 and coming within just a few spots of her Top 20 debut.

The winners of the other two WTA events this past week make big moves: Switzerland’s Viktorija Golubic, a former Top 40 player who has one of the few one-handed backhands on the women’s tour, soars from No. 168 to No. 105 after conquering Jiujiang, China; and Turkey’s Zeynep Sonmez jumps from No. 127 to No. 91, her Top 100 debut, after winning her first WTA title in Merida, Mexico.

Sonmez is the second Turkish woman to win a WTA title and break into the Top 100, after Cagla Buyukakcay, who achieved both feats in 2016, winning Istanbul and then cracking the Top 100.

Meanwhile, there are some shifts on the ATP rankings after the last Masters 1000 event of the year in Paris: Alexander Zverev rises from No. 3 back to his career-high of No. 2 after winning the title in the French capital, switching spots with Carlos Alcaraz, who dips from No. 2 to No. 3; and French newcomer Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard makes his Top 30 debut, moving up from No. 31 to No. 30.

This week coming up, the battle for the year-end No. 1 ranking on the women’s side will play out at the WTA Finals in Riyadh between Sabalenka and Swiatek. Check out all of the scenarios here.