Madison Keys breaks into top-6, joins Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula in historic U.S ranking feat
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For the first time in 20 years, three American women are ranked in the top-6 after Madison Keys reached her best-ever ranking at No. 6. She joins Coco Gauff (No. 3) and Jessica Pegual (No. 5) in a great moment for U.S. women's representatives.
While Keys did not play any tournaments this week, Elena Rybakina lost points after falling in the semifinals of the Abu Dhabi Open (she had reached the final last season). This moved Keys up to No. 6 just one week shy of her 30th birthday.
The American made a surprise at the Australian Open to win her first major title, more than 7 years after her first Grand Slam final at US Open 2017 against Sloane Stephens. This time she beat world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the final.
The world No. 6 is on a 12-0 run at the start of 2025 after winning the WTA 500 Adelaide International and conquering Melbourne.
The last time three players were this high was in early March 2004 - even before the birth of Coco Gauff. At that time Lindsay Daveport (No. 4), Jennifer Capriati (No. 5) and Serena Williams (No. 6) were the only American representatives. She joins Chanda Rubin who was at world No. 9 at the time.
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WTA Top-10 the week March 1 - 2004
No. 1 Justine Henin (BEL).
No. 2 Kim Clijsters (BEL).
No. 3 Amelie Mauresmo (FRA).
No. 4 Lindsay Davenport (USA).
No. 5 Jennifer Capriati (USA).
No. 6 Serena Williams (USA).
No. 7 Anastasia Myskina (RUS).
No. 8 Elena Dementieva (RUS).
No. 9 Chanda Rubin (USA).
No. 10 Ai Sugiyama (JPN)
WTA Top-10 the week February 10 - 2025
1. Aryna Sabalenka (BLR)
2. Iga Swiatek (POL)
3. Coco Gauff (USA)
4. Jasmine Paolini (ITA)
5. Jessica Pegula (USA)
6. Madison Keys (USA)
7. Elena Rybakina (KAZ)
8. Qinwen Zheng (CHN)
9. Emma Navarro (USA)
10. Paula Badosa (ESP)
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Sueiyin04-02-2025 - "If Novak did this, he would be defaulted for life. WTF." 🤣 WTF sounds like What Tennis Fury?! What Tennis Flurry??! I mean, se-rious-ly, it was actually the unfairness of the silly umpire's decision that is the issue here! Further, how come it was Gurin & his team who got disqualified? If this kind of thing happens in soccer, it would be the other guy getting the yellow or red card! Because after all, it was the Belgian who's foul it was so why then penalize the opponents for something they didn't instigate? Fouls in both basketball and soccer are read as a hinderance that has been caused by the player who INITIALLY instigated the hinderance. In this case, okay, it is tennis, but while the precise rules are different to either soccer or basketball, the same type of recognition as to whoever instigates a hinderance should apply, and in this case, it was the Belgian player.Sueiyin04-02-2025
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