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But Spain's Rafa Nadal, beaten in the quarter-finals, has
dropped to 10th, his lowest position for 10 years.
Wawrinka described his four-set victory in the Paris final over
world number one Novak Djokovic as "the match of my life".
It enabled the 30-year-old Swiss to shoot up from number nine,
while Nadal tumbled the other way after going out at the
quarter-final stage to Djokovic in a tournament he has won nine
times.
Maria Sharapova dropped two places in the WTA rankings to number
four following her fourth-round defeat at Roland Garros, with
the Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova replacing her at number two
ahead of Simona Halep.
Kvitova's compatriot Lucie Safarova, the runner-up in Paris to
number one Serena Williams, rose six places to a career-best
seventh.
(Reporting by Steve Tongue, editing by Ed Osmond)
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