Canada's newest member of the top-10, Denis Shapovalov, is having an incredible season since tennis returned from hiatus. A first major quarter-final at the US Open and then a semifinal appearance in Rome last week propelled him up the rankings becoming the second ever Canadian men’s player to reach that milestone. Wins in the Italian capital over the rising Ugo Humbert and Grigor Dimitrov sent him to the final four where he was narrowly defeated in a third set tiebreak by Diego Schwartzman.
330 in August, but she improved that significantly by making the quarter-finals in Prague and an impressive result in Istanbul where she made her seventh career WTA final . What was even more impressive about her run in Turkey is that she had to go through qualifying and won six matches in six days, upsetting the No. 1 seed Svetlana Kuznetsova along the way. Bouchard's ranking skyrocketed all the way up to No. 168 in the world as she heads into her first grand slam appearance in over a year.
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