An action-packed first week of the 2025 tennis season is in the books, and with that, a number of players make notable moves on the first new rankings of the year today.
Let’s start with 17-year-old Mirra Andreeva, who reached the semifinals of the WTA 500 event in Brisbane before falling to the eventual champion, Aryna Sabalenka. With that result, the ultra-talented rising star breaks into the Top 15 of the WTA rankings for the first time, moving up from No. 16 to No. 15.
Andreeva first appeared on the rankings in 2022, and now—less than three years later—she’s already in the Top 15. She broke into the Top 300 in 2022, the Top 200, Top 100 and Top 50 in 2023, and made it all the way into the Top 20 by the end of 2024 after a season highlighted by her first major semifinal at Roland Garros and her first WTA title in Iasi, Romania.
And she’s not just the youngest player in the Top 15, she’s the youngest player in the Top 150. You have to go all the way down to No. 177 to find someone younger in Alina Korneeva, who was born eight weeks after Andreeva in 2007.
