what's going on everybody welcome back to the weekly ranking show where we go through all the ATP and WTA changes in the rankings this week and also the race of the finals of course the ATP finals in Turin and the WTA finals in Shenzhen we're talking about those as well because there are some changes in those. Let's start with the winners from last week because we had six tournaments on last week and some really surprised winners and they got rewarded in the rankings as well. So let's start with the Hamburg Open we had Karina Buster he defeated Kryanovich in straight sets now that is an ATP 500 event so it's worth a lot of points for the winners so Karina Buster he won that one. We also had the Newport Open which was an ATP 250 event with Kevin Anderson beating the unseeded Brooksby in straight sets 7 6 6 4 and then on the clay courts we had Imbeshtad Kasparud he is on fire on clay this year and he wins another tournament defeating Koriya in straight set 6 3 6 3 over to the women's side of things and we have the Budapest Open another clay court event a WTA 250 event we're putting Seba the number one seed she defeated the unseeded Kalanina in straight sets 6 4 6 love then over to Switzerland another clay court event the WTA 250 event where Zed and Shek won her first title defeating Burrell in a very close final three setter 4 6 7 6 6 1 and then over to the Prague Open which was a hard court event with the French Open champion Krejkova defeating country woman Martin Kova in a very convincing final straight sets win there 6 2 6 love so some huge results there from some of the players that are pushing towards the top 10 okay let's go start with the top 10 for the women this week and no real big changes Ash Barty she stays at number one Naomi Osaka still number two followed closely by Irina Sabalenko at number three Safiya Kenan she's at number four with Bianca Andrescu very close behind at number five and Alina Svetalina very close behind Andrescu at number six Karolina Pliskov is at number seven Egas Fiontek is at number eight and we do have a change at the very bottom of the top 10 with Simona Halep going down a spot to number 10 and Muga Ruta going up to number nine and that's because Halep did not play the Prague Open last week where she was the champion from last year so she lost some points because she didn't play that tournament having a look at the race to the finals now the race of the WTA finals in Shenzhen Ash Barty she stays at number one of course having just won Wimbledon a couple weeks ago but Sabalenko she drops down to number three with Krejkova going up to number two again after winning last week in Prague so she gets a lot of points for that and of course Sabalenko didn't play so there was a change there Svetalina comes in at number four with Pliskov at number five Osaka at number six Muga Ruta at seven Pavlo Cenkava at number eight followed very closely by Onstjabor at number nine and Koko Goff rounds out the top 10 having a look at some of the players that went up in the rankings this week speaking of Krejkova she's at a career high ranking now she's gone up two spots to number 11 and she is knocking on the door of that top 10 career high ranking for her and Zedinsek after winning her first title of her career she's gone up 13 spots to a career high 37 in the world and she's having a great season on the clay courts especially caps it off with a title and a career high ranking some of the players that have dropped down in the rankings this week we have Ferro she's dropped down 12 spots at number 64 so she's dropped down because she failed to defend the points that she got two years ago from winning the WTA 250 event in Switzerland so she couldn't back that up so she lost a lot of points and Jeanne Bouchard she's gone down 11 spots down to 129 in the world still recovering from shoulder surgery that she got a couple of weeks ago all right let's jump over the top 10 for the men this week and no big changes at all because most of those players didn't play with the exception of Stefano Siddi Pass so Novak Djokovic stays at number one Daniel Medvedev still at number two with Rafa Nadal at number three followed closely behind by Stefano Siddi Pass but because he didn't play that well at Hamburg he had the chance to go to number three but couldn't take it so he stays at number four this week with Zverev at number five followed extremely closely behind by Dominic Teem at number six Rublev's at number seven Baratini at number eight Federer at number nine and Dennis Shapovalov rounds out the top 10 for this week having a look at the race to the finals the race to Turin and again no real big changes with Novak Djokovic staying at number one Stefano Siddi Pass still at number two Baratini staying at number three followed by Rublev at number four very closely followed by Zverev at number five Medvedev stays at number six Rafa Nadal is just behind Medvedev at number seven with her catch at number eight Karatsovic at number nine and Dennis Shapovalov he's dropped out of the top 10 with Kasparov jumping back in after winning a tournament last week on the clay all right let's have a look at the players that have gone up in the rankings this week and Kryanovic after having a great week in Hamburg beating Siddi Pass made the final he's gone up 10 spots number 34 in the world so he is reaching his career high ranking again and Kevin Anderson he won the Newport Open last week so he's gone up in the rankings 39 spots back into the top 100 to 74 in the world had a really good week last week on the grass court so Kevin Anderson won a title and he's back in the top 100 some of the players that dropped down in the rankings John Isner he's gone down five spots to number 39 in the world after failing to defend the points that he won at the Newport Open two years ago so is this dropped down five and but still actually he's gone down 13 spots to number 42 in the world again after failing to defend the points that he made at the Hamburg Open two years ago so two players that didn't back up their form from a couple of years ago in events that happened last week have both dropped down in the rankings so there it is the rankings for the week no big changes this week not too many of the players that we're used to seeing play during week to week played this week but this week some of the players are playing like Shapovalov he's in action this week so we'll keep an eye on him maybe he might be able to go up the rankings if he has a good week this week but let me know down in the comments below who do you think should be in the top 10 maybe for the race to the finals because the race to the finals we're only halfway there through the season and we're missing some big names you know Dominic team he's not in the top eight for the finals and Serena Williams she's also missing from the finals race on the women's side so let me know down in the comments below who are you seeing that's a surprise it's missing or who are you shocked it's actually in the race to the finals because remember the ATP and the WTA finals at the end of the year the best eight players of the season play against each other so doesn't necessarily mean you have to be in the top 10 of the actual rankings it's only what happened during the year so let me know down in the comments below who are you most shocked about seeing in or out of those rankings so not too many changes this week in the rankings but next week in the week after big tournaments are coming


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Hello everybody. I hope you're enjoying the HBCU foreign policy conference so far. My name is Jay Nathan Bland and I am a diplomat in residence for the Central South region which includes Louisiana, my home state, Mississippi, and Arkansas. We have 16 of us DIRs scattered all throughout the country and our role as DIRs are to try to reach out to students like yourselves and young professionals to let you all know about our careers and our student programs at the U.S. Department of State. The goal ultimately is to get you excited about careers and diplomacy and to let you know how to get there if you're at all interested. I'm based at Tulane University in New Orleans but as I mentioned I'm a resource for the whole region for Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas so any student here can contact me instead of appointments and we can talk about your interests. One of our main goals also is just to increase the diversity within the U.S. diplomatic corps. In the past as you may well know most of the diplomats came from the northeast, most were white males and so now we really want the U.S. diplomatic corps to reflect all of America you know so that's why we're in small town Louisiana, small town Alabama, small town Colorado, Oklahoma trying to get that ethnic and racial diversity trying to get that geographic diversity, socioeconomic diversity, gender diversity you know because we want when we're abroad we want to represent all of America you know so all of its richness. One of the things that we like to tell students about obviously these are student programs I'm sure you must have heard about at least I hope you've heard about the Pickering and the Wango fellowships which are amazing fellowships they pay for two years of graduate school they provide two internships paid internships one domestic and one abroad and they bring you into the foreign service for a five-year commitment afterwards but have you also heard about the FATE fellowship the foreign affairs information technology fellowship which pretty much does the same thing but it does it for IT related majors in case for two years of schooling either your junior and senior year so you can apply as a sophomore or two years of grad school so you can apply as a senior as well and it provides the two paid internships and it brings you into the foreign service as a foreign service information management specialist. We also have study abroad programs like the critical language scholarship or the Gilman scholarship which is available now in fact applications are due in March those are fellowships that actually pay for you to go study abroad and if you want to study a language you can actually offer you a bit more money to go study a language abroad I remember when I was in undergrad I wanted to study abroad I went to London to study abroad and to paperwork my mom was out there doing fundraisers in our church in our community to help people these these scholarships and these fellowships help to paper those types of things I know there are plenty of HBCUs in my district so I hope you all reach out to me as I mentioned my name is Jay Nathan Bland my email address is dircentralsouthatstate.gov but for everybody for all of you you can easily find your DIR your diplomatic residence you go to our website careers.state.gov and at the top little box on the right there's something that says connect or connect with us and you um you find the diplomatic residence link you'll find a map and click on your state your region and you'll find the DIR for that region so please do please do reach out to us you can schedule appointments for one-on-one meetings we do career fairs we do info sessions for schools and everything right now is being done virtually due to the pandemic which um has its ups and downs it allows us to travel around and see all of you um much easier than before you know we we don't have to physically get out and go we just set a book with tele-meeting on Zoom or something and it's done so please do reach out to us either me or your DIR um and good luck with your studies good luck with everything you want to do I hope you are interested in our careers and I hope to hear from you soon thanks