WTA Race to Guadalajara: Badosa jumps to No. 8 as Gauff and Raducanu slide down

The WTA Finals are a very prestigious event with a lot of players still fighting for a place at the event. Four have officially qualified and they are Barty, Sabalenka, Pliskova and Krejcikova albeit the participation of Ashleigh Barty is still up in the air. She has neither confirmed nor denied her participation yet most reports mention her leaning towards not participating.

Number 5 is currently Iga Swiatek, Maria Sakkari is 6th, Muguruza is 7th with Paula Badosa now occupying number 8. The Spanish player jumped 11 spots to sit at number 8 which would send her to Mexico. Ons Jabeur is at 9 all four of those players are within 250 points of each other making this race a particularly tight one.

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Points are scarce and any major result in the remaining events will be a huge step forward towards qualification. Several players are slowly dropping out of the race. Svitolina is far back with only 2500 points as is Coco Gauff who was 2380 and Emma Raducanu 2292. All three have had bad showings in the desert.

Porsche WTA Race to Guadalajara as of October 18th:

1 BARTY, ASHLEIGH AUS 6,411

2 SABALENKA, ARYNA BLR 4,669

3 KREJCIKOVA, BARBORA CZE 4,518

4 PLISKOVA, KAROLINA CZE 4,036

5 SWIATEK, IGA POL 3,226

6 SAKKARI, MARIA GRE 3,157

7 MUGURUZA, GARBIÑE ESP 3,150

8 BADOSA, PAULA ESP 3,112

9 JABEUR, ONS TUN 3,020

10 OSAKA, NAOMI JPN 2,771

11 SVITOLINA, ELINA UKR 2,501

12 PEGULA, JESSICA USA 2,500

13 PAVLYUCHENKOVA, ANASTASIA RUS 2,449

14 MERTENS, ELISE BEL 2,447

15 KONTAVEIT, ANETT EST 2,441

16 KERBER, ANGELIQUE GER 2,387

17 GAUFF, CORI USA 2,380

18 RADUCANU, EMMA GBR 2,292

19 BENCIC, BELINDA SUI 2,195

20 AZARENKA, VICTORIA BLR 2,165

21 KASATKINA, DARIA RUS 2,096

22 FERNANDEZ, LEYLAH CAN 2,030

23 KVITOVA, PETRA CZE 2,010

24 OSTAPENKO, JELENA LAT 1,950

25 COLLINS, DANIELLE USA 1,901

Doubles:

1 KREJCIKOVA, BARBORA / SINIAKOVA, KATERINA 6,450

2 AOYAMA, SHUKO / SHIBAHARA, ENA 5,070

3 HSIEH, SU-WEI / MERTENS, ELISE 3,892

4 MELICHAR-MARTINEZ, NICOLE / SCHUURS, DEMI 3,440

5 STOSUR, SAMANTHA / ZHANG, SHUAI 2,911

6 MCNALLY, CATHERINE / GAUFF, CORI 2,770

7 GUARACHI, ALEXA / KRAWCZYK, DESIRAE 2,695

8 JURAK, DARIJA / KLEPAC, ANDREJA 2,600

9 DABROWSKI, GABRIELA / STEFANI, LUISA 2,570

10 FICHMAN, SHARON / OLMOS, GIULIANA 2,491

11 MERTENS, ELISE / SABALENKA, ARYNA 2,201

12 MATTEK-SANDS, BETHANIE / SWIATEK, IGA 2,120

13 HRADECKA, LUCIE / BOUZKOVA, MARIE 2,056

14 OLARU, RALUCA / KICHENOK, NADIIA 2,015

15 CARTER, HAYLEY / STEFANI, LUISA 1,872

16 CHAN, LATISHA / CHAN, HAO-CHING 1,660

17 LINETTE, MAGDA / PERA, BERNARDA 1,446

18 SANDERS, STORM / DOLEHIDE, CAROLINE 1,390

19 VESNINA, ELENA / KUDERMETOVA, VERONIKA 1,311

20 MARTIC, PETRA / ROGERS, SHELBY 1,126

21 KUDERMETOVA, VERONIKA / RYBAKINA, ELENA 1,105

22 KICHENOK, LYUDMYLA / OSTAPENKO, JELENA 1,038

23 XU, YIFAN / YANG, ZHAOXUAN 1,010

24 JURAK, DARIJA / STOJANOVIC, NINA 955

25 JURAK, DARIJA / GUARACHI, ALEXA 901