WTA Ranking update: Caroline Garcia returns to top 20 following Cincinnati triumph

Caroline Garcia finished up another excellent week of tennis with another trophy, her 3rd in just as many months and she's back inside the top 20.

Garcia was ranked in the top 10 in 2017 when she won back-to-back Masters events in Beijing and Wuhan. She was never been able to get back to that form but she's coming fairly close this year after having secured another WTA 1000 trophy. The victory propelled her 18 spots on the rankings to number 17.

We also saw some changes in the top 10 as Aryna Sabalenka finally moved up the rankings after sliding for weeks. The Belarussian played a decent week of tennis losing in the semi-finals but she overtook Simona Halep for number 6. Emma Raducanu had some good wins and she's back up to 11 after that.

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Madison Keys had a strong run as well and she's back inside the top 20 just in time for the US Open where she once played in the final. Several players have new career-high rankings and they are Haddad Maia at 15, Zheng at 40, Bouzkova at 41, Bronzetti at 59, Kalinskaya at 61, Udvardy at 78, Noskova at 87, Rakhimova at 90, Tomova at 95 and Cocciaretto at 100.

WTA Rankings (August 22nd)

Rank Player Age T Plyd Points

1 IGA SWIATEK 21 17 8605

2 ANETT KONTAVEIT 26 21 4580

3 MARIA SAKKARI 27 21 4190

4 PAULA BADOSA 24 24 3980

5 ONS JABEUR 27 19 3920

6 ARYNA SABALENKA 24 20 3470

7 SIMONA HALEP 30 19 3255

8 JESSICA PEGULA 28 17 3201

9 GARBIÑE MUGURUZA 28 19 2886

10 DARIA KASATKINA 25 21 2795

11 EMMA RADUCANU 19 22 2756

12 COCO GAUFF 18 17 2687

13 BELINDA BENCIC 25 20 2635

14 LEYLAH FERNANDEZ 19 17 2540

15 BEATRIZ HADDAD MAIA 26 36 2317

16 JELENA OSTAPENKO 25 18 2316

17 CAROLINE GARCIA 28 23 2220

18 VERONIKA KUDERMETOVA 25 22 2206

19 DANIELLE COLLINS 28 14 2167

20 MADISON KEYS 27 18 2128

21 PETRA KVITOVA 32 19 2077

22 KAROLINA PLISKOVA 30 17 2007

23 BARBORA KREJCIKOVA 26 19 1974

24 AMANDA ANISIMOVA 20 17 1900

25 ELENA RYBAKINA 23 22 1850

26 VICTORIA AZARENKA 33 14 1841

27 MARTINA TREVISAN 28 32 1761

28 EKATERINA ALEXANDROVA 27 21 1750

29 ALISON RISKE-AMRITRAJ 32 23 1525

30 JIL TEICHMANN 25 21 1517

31 SHELBY ROGERS 29 24 1516

32 ELISE MERTENS 26 22 1435

33 KAIA KANEPI 37 24 1433

34 IRINA-CAMELIA BEGU 31 20 1384

35 SHUAI ZHANG 33 34 1360

36 ALIAKSANDRA SASNOVICH 28 22 1341

37 ALIZÉ CORNET 32 24 1330

38 SORANA CIRSTEA 32 23 1330

39 YULIA PUTINTSEVA 27 20 1295

40 QINWEN ZHENG 19 28 1268

41 MARIE BOUZKOVA 24 18 1252

42 ALISON VAN UYTVANCK 28 24 1235

43 ELINA SVITOLINA 27 14 1199

44 NAOMI OSAKA 24 12 1187

45 LIUDMILA SAMSONOVA 23 22 1162

46 SARA SORRIBES TORMO 25 22 1136

47 MARKETA VONDROUSOVA 23 15 1112

48 AJLA TOMLJANOVIC 29 23 1100

49 ANHELINA KALININA 25 31 1091

50 BIANCA ANDREESCU 22 12 1082