Iga Swiatek
has taken the lead in the WTA Race, surpassing Aryna Sabalenka after her title
win at Indian Wells. The Polish player led the first week of the season, but
after the Australian Open, Sabalenka pulled ahead as the top player in the
Race. However, Sabalenka's early exit at Tennis Paradise allowed Swiatek to
rise to the top.
Swiatek
currently holds the No. 1 spot in the Race until the end of the Madrid Open,
which concludes on May 5th. This means she will reach 100 weeks at the top and
move into the ninth position among players with the most weeks at No. 1,
surpassing Lindsay Davenport.
The Race
only considers points earned from the first week of the season, and it
determines the eight players who qualify for the WTA Finals. Currently, Swiatek
has accumulated 3,030 points, followed by Sabalenka (2,465), Elena Rybakina
(2,053), Australian Open finalist Zheng Qinwen (1,730), and Coco Gauff (1,655).
With her
first title of the season, Swiatek heads into Miami as the favorite after
displaying incredible form at Indian Wells, where she only dropped 21 games in
6 matches (an average of 3.3 games per match). Additionally, Swiatek found her
best form of the season just two weeks before the start of the clay season, her
specialty, considering three of her four Grand Slam titles came at the French
Open.
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Top 50 of the WTA Race as of March 18th
| Rank | Player | Points |
| 1 | Iga Swiatek | 3020 |
| 2 | Aryna Sabalenka | 2455 |
| 3 | Elena Rybakina | 2043 |
| 4 | Zheng Qinwen | 1720 |
| 5 | Coco Gauff | 1645 |
| 6 | Jelena Ostapenko | 1488 |
| 7 | Jasmine Paolini | 1407 |
| 8 | Marta Kostyuk | 1350 |
| 9 | Anna Kalinskaya | 1302 |
| 10 | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 1082 |
| 11 | Emma Navarro | 1073 |
| 12 | Dayana Yastremska | 985 |
| 13 | Daria Kasatkina | 968 |
| 14 | Maria Sakkari | 941 |
| 15 | Karolina Pliskova | 841 |
| 16 | Linda Noskova | 835 |
| 17 | Katie Boulter | 755 |
| 18 | Victoria Azarenka | 725 |
| 19 | Ekaterina Alexandrova | 671 |
| 20 | Yue Yuan | 642 |
| 21 | Anastasia Potapova | 626 |
| 22 | Elise Mertens | 596 |
| 23 | Elina Svitolina | 588 |
| 24 | Sorana Cirstea | 585 |
| 25 | Barbora Krejcikova | 539 |
| 26 | Danielle Collins | 522 |
| 27 | Jessica Pegula | 505 |
| 28 | Donna Vekic | 493 |
| 29 | Magdalena Frech | 481 |
| 30 | Beatriz Haddad Maia | 447 |
| 31 | Katerina Siniakova | 441 |
| 32 | Marketa Vondrousova | 430 |
| 33 | Diana Shnaider | 408 |
| 34 | Oceane Dodin | 387 |
| 35 | Diane Parry | 385 |
| 36 | Elisabetta Cocciaretto | 381 |
| 37 | Leylah Fernandez | 376 |
| 38 | Lin Zhu | 374 |
| 39 | Mirra Andreeva | 368 |
| 40 | Clara Burel | 364 |
| 41 | Yafan Wang | 357 |
| 42 | Liudmila Samsonova | 347 |
| 43 | Xiyu Wang | 344 |
| 44 | Xinyu Wang | 339 |
| 45 | Anna Blinkova | 336 |
| 46 | Sloane Stephens | 333 |
| 47 | McCartney Kessler | 332 |
| 48 | Tatjana Maria | 330 |
| 49 | Naomi Osaka | 323 |
| 50 | Lesia Tsurenko | 317 |
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