Rankings Watch: Parks, Zhu, Noskova post career highs

With the 2023 season just over a month old, Zhu Lin, Linda Noskova

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Zhu Lin (+13, from No.54 to No.41): One week ago, Zhu posted a new career-high ranking of No.54, and she has already bettered that peak again. Zhu moves to the cusp of the Top 40 after she won the first WTA singles title of her career, in Hua Hin.

Zhu, who started the season ranked No.84, considered retiring earlier in her career, but she continued on and is being rewarded with her best season yet. 

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The 29-year-old is 10-3 so far this year, including her Grand Slam breakthrough at the Australian Open, where she beat Maria Sakkari

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Linda Noskova

View Profile (+6, from No.56 to No.50): Noskova makes her Top 50 debut after her run to the quarterfinals as a qualifier in Lyon, where she took down former World No.1 Garbiñe Muguruza in the opening round.

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Noskova, 18, started the year just outside the Top 100, but she has already halved her ranking since the beginning of the year. Her rise was bolstered by making the WTA 500 Adelaide International 1 final, also as a qualifier, in the first week of this season.

Noskova beat two Top 10 players that week in Adelaide, No.2 Ons Jabeur

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Alycia Parks

View Profile (+28, from No.79 to No.51): The biggest rankings jump of the week belongs to 22-year-old American Parks, who swept to her first WTA singles title last week in Lyon.

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Parks started the year at a career-high ranking of No.75 after winning back-to-back WTA 125 titles in Andorra and Angers, France, in December.

An early loss in Australian Open qualifying did not dent her momentum, and Parks swiftly moved on to Lyon, where she reached her first tour-level semifinal and final.

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Parks capped off her week with a victory against Caroline Garcia

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