Mirra Andreeva, 18, breaks into Top 5 on WTA rankings, youngest since Maria Sharapova

There are a lot of movers and shakers on the new rankings today following the conclusion of the third Grand Slam event of the year at Wimbledon.

One of the most noteworthy moves comes from Mirra Andreeva, who rises from No. 7 to No. 5 on the WTA rankings—her Top 5 debut—after reaching her second straight Grand Slam quarterfinal at the grass-court major. She’s now reached the quarterfinals or better at three of the last six majors.

Having only just turned 18 in April, she becomes the youngest woman to break into the Top 5 in over 20 years, since a 17-year-old Maria Sharapova cracked the elite on November 15th, 2004, after winning the WTA Finals.

Sharapova rose from No. 6 to No. 4 that day and would ascend to No. 1 the following year, eventually spending 21 career weeks at the top spot.

That isn’t the only shake-up in the WTA Top 10—Iga Swiatek, who won her sixth Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, inches back up from No. 4 to No. 3, continuing her climb back towards the top, and the woman she defeated in the final, Amanda Anisimova, rises from No. 12 to No. 7 for her Top 10 debut.

Anisimova went as high as No. 21 in the world during the first phase of her career, which was highlighted by reaching the semifinals of Roland Garros in 2019, as a 17-year-old. After taking a mental health break in 2023, she returned to the tour in 2024 and has only reached new heights since, breaking into the Top 20—and surpassing that previous career-high—after capturing the first WTA 1000 title of her career in Doha earlier this year.

And now, she has a spot in the Top 10 after her first major final.

Anisimova is now one of four American women in the Top 8, joining No. 2 Coco Gauff, No. 4 Jessica Pegula and No. 8 Madison Keys.

There are many more WTA ranking breakthroughs following Wimbledon: Clara Tauson rises from No. 22 to No. 19, her Top 20 debut, after reaching the fourth round; former No. 4 Belinda Bencic jumps from No. 35 to No. 20, her first time back in the Top 20 as a mom, after making it all the way to the semifinals; American Hailey Baptiste rises from No. 55 to No. 48, her Top 50 debut, after a career-best third-round performance at the All England Club; and Jessica Bouzas Maneiro also cracks the Top 50, rising from No. 62 to No. 50 after reaching the fourth round of a major for the first time.

And another mother-on-tour, Tatjana Maria, who recently won her first WTA 500 title at Queen’s Club, breaks into the Top 40 for the first time in her career, rising from No. 43 to No. 36—she fell in the first round of Wimbledon, but then reached the final of the WTA 125K grass-court event in Newport, Rhode Island during the second week of the grass-court major.

The German would have broken into the Top 40 in 2022 had there been ranking points at Wimbledon, where she reached the semifinals.

Meanwhile, over on the ATP rankings, there are a few breakthroughs as well: Flavio Cobolli makes his Top 20 debut after his first major quarterfinal, rising from No. 24 to No. 19; American Alex Michelsen cracks the Top 30, rising from No. 32 to No. 30; and Brazilian teenager Joao Fonseca makes his Top 50 debut, rising from No. 54 to No. 48 after a third-round showing at SW19.