The 2019 French Open: Promotions, Demotions, and Other Stats

2019 French Open Champions:

• Rafael Nadal (Dai-Yokozuna)

• Ashleigh Barty (Maegashira)

New Career Sanyaku Rank:

• Ashleigh Barty, the 41st Female Ozeki of the Open Era

• Marketa Vondrousova, the 46th Female Sekiwake of the Open Era

• Amanda Anisimova, the 67th Female Komusubi of the Open Era

Sanyaku Rank Changes

Player (career rank if different)	To	From
Promotions
Ashleigh Barty	Ozeki	Maegashira
Dominic Thiem	Sekiwake	Komusubi
Marketa Vondrousova	Sekiwake	Maegashira
Johanna Konta	Komusubi	Maegashira
Amanda Anisimova	Komusubi	Maegashira
Demotions
Marin Cilic	Sekiwake	Ozeki
Juan Martin del Potro	Sekiwake	Ozeki
Karolina Pliskova (ex-Ozeki)	Komusubi	Sekiwake
Angelique Kerber (ex-Ozeki)	Komusubi	Sekiwake
Petra Kvitova (ex-Ozeki)	Komusubi	Sekiwake
John Isner (ex-Sekiwake)	Maegashira	Komusubi
Stefanos Tsitsipas	Maegashira	Komusubi
Garbine Muguruza (ex-Ozeki)	Maegashira	Komusubi
Danielle Collins	Maegashira	Komusubi


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

• Sofian Kenin - for beating Dai-Yokozuna Serena Williams in Round 3
• Katerina Siniakova - for beating Yokozuna Naomi Osaka in Round 3

Other noteworthy developments:

• Roger Federer regains active (Dai-)Yokozuna status by making the semifinals.
• Sloane Stephens and Madison Keys - both kadoban (=at risk of demotion) before the tournament - hold Ozeki rank by making the quarterfinals.
• Kei Nishikori, holds Sekiwake rank with a quarterfinal participation, ex-Ozeki and defending French Open champion Simona Halep holds Komusubi rank (with the same result).
• A banzuke curiosity: going into the 2019 Wimbledon tournament, there are no Ozeki and no Komusubi on the men's side - while there are no less than six Komusubi in the ladies' game. This attests of the relatively greater consistency of the top players in the mens' game, at this juncture.

Sanyaku Ranks Following the 2019 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	-	-
Lower Sanyaku (Junior Champion Ranks)
S	Kei Nishikori	S1	Marin Cilic (o)	O
O	Juan Martin del Potro (o)	S2	Dominic Thiem	S
-	-	K	-	-

Women

Career rank 1/	East	Current Rank	West	Career rank 1/
High Sanyaku (Senior Champion Ranks)
Dai-Y	Serena Williams	Y	Naomi Osaka	Y
O	Madison Keys	O1	Sloane Stephens	O
O	Ashleigh Barty	O2	-	-
Lower Sanyaku (Junior Champion Ranks)
S	Marketa Vondrousova	S	-	-
O	Simona Halep	K1	Karolina Pliskova	O
O	Angelique Kerber	K2	Petra Kvitova	O
K	Amanda Anisimova	K3	Johanna Konta	K

1/ Highest sanyaku rank achieved in a player's career
Inactive Yokozuna: Andy Murray, Venus Williams, Maria Sharapova
(o): Sekiwake-Ozeki

Ashleigh Barty, Ozeki

Ashleigh Barty became the 41st female Ozeki (=Champion) of the open era today winning the 2019 French Open. Together with reaching the quarterfinals at the 2019 Australian Open, this suffices to clear the ‘big hurdle’ (the meaning of ‘Ozeki’ in Japanese). The Australian was thus far better known as a doubles specialist - and as a professional cricket player, a passion for which she once interrupted her tennis career - but put herself firmly on the map now as an elite singles contestant.

Her opponent in the final, Marketa Vondrousova, will be promoted to Sekiwake (=Junior Champion 1), and there is also a new Komusubi (=Junior Champion 2) in semi-finalist Amanda Anisimova. Both Vondrousava and Asiminova are teenagers - the face of ladies' tennis appears to be changing rapidly, even though recently crowned Yokzouna (=Grand Champion) Naomi Osaka - herself only 21 years old - exited in round 3 this time.

In the mens' game, Dai-Yokozuna (=Great Grand Champion) Rafael Nadal and Komusubi (and ex-Sekiwake) Dominik Thiem will contest the final, in a repeat of last year.