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Danish teenager Holger Rune has had a meteoric rise up the rankings this year, and that rise has only accelerated during the indoor season—he made his Top 20 debut last week, rising from No. 25 to No. 18 after reaching his first ATP 500 final in Basel, and he makes his Top 10 debut this week, jumping from No. 18 to No. 10 after winning the first Masters 1000 title of his career in Paris.

At just seven days, Rune just made the fastest jump between Top 20 and Top 10 debuts since Stan Wawrinka broke into the Top 20 and the Top 10 all on the same day in 2008.

A 23-year-old Wawrinka cracked both ranking classes at the same time on May 12, 2008, soaring from No. 24 to No. 10 after reaching his first Masters 1000 final in Rome, where he took out a slew of huge names—Marat Safin, Andy Murray, Juan Carlos Ferrero, James Blake and Andy Roddick—before ultimately falling to Novak Djokovic in the final, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

In an even-more-impressive run, 19-year-old Rune fought off three match points in the first round in Paris against none other than Wawrinka, winning that dramatic encounter, 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (3), before taking out five Top 10 players in five days en route to the title, defeating No. 10 Hubert Hurkacz, No. 9 Andrey Rublev, No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz, No. 8 Felix Auger-Aliassime and No. 7 Djokovic.

Rune battled back from a set down to beat Djokovic, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5.

Until Rune just did it in seven days, the fastest jump between Top 20 and Top 10 debuts on the ATP rankings since Wawrinka in May 2008 actually came later in 2008, as Juan Martin del Potro took only 56 days (Top 20 debut in August, Top 10 debut in October). Carlos Alcaraz came pretty close to that earlier this year, doing it in 63 days (Top 20 debut in February, Top 10 debut in April).