Melbourne, VIC, 25 June 2019 | tennis.com.au

Alexei Popyrin rose two places this week to set a career-high ranking of No.99 – becoming the sixth Aussie in the ATP top 100.

Popyrin’s ascent saw the 19-year-old Aussie achieve a goal he had set at the start of the 2019 season.

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“At the start of the year the goal was to crack the top 100 has quickly as possible – took me half a year,” he laughed when chatting with tennis.com.au.

“But now my team and I are going to set new goals and we’ll try and crack those.

“(I’d been) just outside top 100 for a couple of months already. So to get into the top 100 was definitely a relief. It just shows how I work hard and I kept positive and I kept just grinding away and trying to get that goal that I set at the start of the year.”

It was another notable rankings achievement on a week where Ash Barty became the first Aussie women in more than 40 years to rise to world No.1.

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Also making a big move this week in the ATP rankings was Aleksandar Vukic, who jumped 17 places crack the top 300 for the first time.

The Sydneysider is now at a career-high ranking of No.292 after reaching the quarterfinals of the ATP Challenger tournament in Fergana, Uzbekistan.

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