Stan Wawrinka becomes first 40-something to be ranked in ATP Top 100 since Roger Federer

After announcing that this would be his last year on the tour, Stan Wawrinka has made a strong start to 2026, already winning five matches—which is more than he won the entire year in 2025.

Today, after reaching the second round at the ATP 500 event in Rotterdam, he’s rewarded with a return to the Top 100 for the first time since 2024, rising from No. 106 to No. 98 on the ATP rankings.

And that’s not all.

At 40 years young, Wawrinka is the first 40-something to be ranked in the Top 100 of the ATP rankings since none other than Roger Federer in 2022, during Wimbledon that year.

Federer, who was also 40 at the time, was ranked No. 97 during the weeks of June 27th and July 4th, 2022. He was already retired, but he fell out of the Top 100 for the last time—and off the rankings completely—on July 11th, 2022, when his points from reaching the quarterfinals of Wimbledon the year before dropped off.

The last 40-something in the elite before Federer was Ivo Karlovic, who was also 40 when he was No. 95 the week of December 30th, 2019. He fell out for the last time on January 6th, 2020.

And Feliciano Lopez almost achieved the feat in 2021, but he fell out of the Top 100 for the last time on September 13th of that year, exactly one week before his 40th birthday (September 20th, 2021).

Wawrinka isn’t the only Grand Slam champion and former No. 3 bouncing back up the ATP rankings this week, as Marin Cilic jumps from No. 61 to No. 43 after reaching the semifinals in Rotterdam.

It’s the 2014 US Open winner's first time in the Top 50 since returning from multiple knee surgeries, in 2023 and 2024, which caused him to miss most of both of those seasons—and to actually fall off the rankings completely for a few weeks in early 2024.

Speaking of surgery, former No. 8 Karolina Muchova is now at her highest ranking since returning in the summer of 2024 after undergoing wrist surgery, rising from No. 19 to No. 11 after winning the biggest title of her career at the WTA 1000 event in Doha.

And Maria Sakkari, a former No. 3 whose ranking dropped after missing the entire fall season in 2024 due to a shoulder injury, is now at her highest ranking in almost a year after reaching the semifinals in Doha, jumping from No. 52 to No. 34 today.

Last but certainly not least, a breakthrough we reported on last week when it was secured: Victoria Mboko has broken into the WTA Top 10, rising from No. 13 to No. 10 after her run to the final in Doha.

At 19, she’s the seventh Canadian player, male or female, to break into the Top 10 in either ATP or WTA rankings history, and the third-youngest of the group, after Carling Bassett-Seguso (who was 17 when she did it) and Bianca Andreescu (who was a younger 19).

Mboko was set to play her first-round match in Dubai on Monday but withdrew from the tournament with a right elbow injury.