Kei Nishikori didn’t quite accomplish his dream of reaching the ATP’s’ Top 10 with his win at Barcelona on Sunday, but he’s mighty close.

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Nishikori rose five spots to No. 12 with the victory over Santiago Giraldo, and is only 115 points behind current No. 10 John Isner. If Nishikori cracks the top ten, he'll become the first Japanese player in tennis history to do so.

Giraldo was the biggest mover in the Top 50, rising 18 spots from 65th to 47th. The final was just the second of his career, having previously reached the finals at Santiago in 2011.

Nicolas Almagro may have notched his first win over a reigning world No. 1 when he defeated Rafael Nadal in the Barcelona quarterfinals, but his loss in the semis meant he didn't defend his final points from last year, so the Spaniard drops out of the top 20 to No. 24.

Outside the top 50, 20-year-old Austrian Dominic Thiem rose 10 spots to a career-high ranking of 70 on the strength of his round-of-16 appearance in Barcelona. Thiem, a blossoming young talent who is generating a lot of buzz these days, took out world No. 41 Radek Stepanek and world No. 31 Marcel Granollers before falling to Giraldo in Barcelona.

Outside the top 100, red-hot Nick Kyrgios celebrated his 19th birthday by winning his tenth consecutive challenger match in the Savannah final (the Aussie took out American Jack Sock in three sets in the final). Kyrgios, the only teenager in the top 200, rises 19 spots to No. 152 in the world for his efforts.