The 2018 French Open: Promotions, Demotions, and Other Stats

2018 French Open Winners:

• Rafael Nadal (Dai-Yokozuna)

• Simona Halep (Sekiwake, ex-Ozeki)

New Career Sanyaku Rank:

• Sloane Stephens, the 39th Female Ozeki of the Open Era

• Madison Keys, the 40st Female Ozeki of the Open Era

• Dominic Thiem, the 74th Male Sekiwake of the Open Era

• Diego Schwartzman, the 87th Male Komusubi of the Open Era

• Marco Cecchinato, the 88th Male Komusubi of the Open Era

Sanyaku Rank Changes

Player (career rank if different)	To	From
Promotions
Simona Halep	Ozeki	Sekiwake
Garbine Muguruza	Ozeki	Sekiwake
Madison Keys	Ozeki	Sekiwake
Sloane Stephens (ex-Sekiwake)	Ozeki	Komusubi
Angelique Kerber (ex-Ozeki)	Sekiwake	Komusubi
Juan Martin del Potro (ex-Ozeki)	Sekiwake	Maegashira
Dominic Thiem	Sekiwake	Maegashira
Diego Schwartzman	Komusubi	Maegashira
Marco Cecchinato	Komusubi	Maegashira
Demotions
Jelena Ostapenko	Komusubi	Sekiwake
Caroline Wozniacki	Komusubi	Sekiwake
Stan Wawrikna (ex-Ozeki)	Maegashira	Komusubi
Sam Querrey (ex-Sekiwake)	Maegashira	Komusubi
Kevin Anderson (ex-Sekiwake)	Maegashira	Komusubi
Tomas Berdych (ex-Ozeki)	Maegashira	Komusubi
Kyle Edmund	Maegashira	Komusubi
Chung Hyeon	Maegashira	Komusubi
Coco Vandeweghe (ex-Sekiwake)	Maegashira	Komusubi
Elise Mertens	Maegashira	Komusubi


Kinboshi:
("gold star" - prize awarded to a non-sanyaku ranked competitor for beating an active Yokozuna):

• Marco Cecchinato - for beating Dai-Yokozuna Novak Djkokovic in the quarterfinals.

Other noteworthy developments:

• Andy Murray loses active Yokozuna status after less then 2 years due to injury that forced him to sit out the last three Grand Slam tournaments. He is scheduled to be back for Wimbledon; a semifinal or two quarterfinals in the next four slams would restore Murray to an active Yokozuna.
• Dai-Yokozuna Novak Djokokovic preserved active Yokozuna status by reaching the quarterfinals, he will need to repeat this feat at Wimbledon to remain active.
• In the ladies' game, Dai-Yokozuna Serena Williams and Yokozuna Maria Sharapova both fell short of restoring active Yokozuna status, Sharapova by just one match. This makes Serena's sister Venus Williams the only active female Yokozuna at this stage.
• Ozeki Marin Cilic held rank with a quarterfinal participation.
• Sekiwake and Australian Open Champion Caroline Wozniacki exited in the fourth round and missed a first-time Ozeki promotion by just one win. Instead of Ozeki it is Komusubi now for Wozinacki. A semifinal participation at Wimbledon would still elevate Wozniacki to the second highest rank, however.
• Also demoted to Komusubi gets last year's French Open champion and ex-Ozeki Jelena Ostapenko, who loses rank protection as a result.

Sanyaku Ranks Following the 2018 French Open

Men

Career rank 1/	East	Current Rank	West	Career rank 1/
High Sanyaku (Senior Champion Ranks)
Dai-Y	Rafael Nadal	Y1	Novak Djokovic	Dai-Y
Dai-Y	Roger Federer	Y2	-	-
O	Marin Cilic	O	-	-
Lower Sanyaku (Junior Champion Ranks)
S	Dominic Thiem	S	Juan Martin del Potro	O
K	Marco Cecchinato	K	Diego Schwartzman	K

Women

Career rank 1/	East	Current Rank	West	Career rank 1/
High Sanyaku (Senior Champion Ranks)
Y	Venus Williams	Y	-	-
O	Simona Halep	O1	Sloane Stephens	O
O	Garbine Muguruza	O2	Madison Keys	O
O	Karolina Pliskova (k)	O3	-	-
Lower Sanyaku (Junior Champion Ranks)
O	Angelique Kerber	S	-	-
O	Jelena Ostapenko	K	Caroline Wozniacki	S

1/ Highest sanyaku rank achieved in a player's career

Inactive Yokozuna: Serena Williams (Dai-Y), Andy Murray, Maria Sharapova
(k): kadoban Ozeki

Madison Keys and Sloane Stephens, Ozeki

Keys

Madison Keys and Sloane Stephens became the 39th and 40st female Ozeki (=Champion) of the open era today by reaching the semifinals at the 2018 French open, following on their successes at the 2017 US Open (Stephens: Title, Keys: final) and the 2018 Australian Open (Keys: quarterfinals) - a rare double promotion at the same tournament (the Ozeki list will be updated once the tournament has been completed). Keys and Stephens will meet in tomorrow's semifinal, as they did in the final of the 2017 US Open.

Stephens

In other developments, both Garbine Muguruza and Simona Halep will return to Ozeki after also reaching the semifinals - hence four active female Ozeki will enter the 2018 Wimbledon tournament. By contrast, Caroline Wozniacki - by career stats already one of the most accomplished female Sekiwake (= Junior champion I) of the open era - failed again more to put an Ozeki run together by exiting in round 4 - a quarterfinal would have sufficed, after her triumph at the 2018 Australian Open. Maria Sharapova fell one win short of re-activating Yokozuna status, after losing in the quarterfinals to Halep.

In the mens' game, Andy Murray missed the third consecutive slam and will lose active Yokozuna status after this tournament.