WTA Race to Riyadh: Madison Keys holds firm at No. 1 without playing, Belinda Bencic climbs after Abu Dhabi title
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Madison Keys remains at the top of the WTA Race without playing, while Belinda Bencic moves up after an impressive run at the Abu Dhabi Open. Unlike the official WTA Ranking, which accounts for the past 52 weeks, the WTA Race only considers points earned in 2025. By the end of the season, the top eight players will qualify for the WTA Finals.
At the moment, the Australian Open champion leads the standings, with Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek completing the podium. American players are making a strong impact this year, with four representatives in the top 11.
Keys stays on top, Bencic breaks into the top ranks
Keys sits atop the leaderboard with 2,554 points, courtesy of her titles at the Australian Open and Adelaide International, boasting a perfect 12-0 record this season. She is followed by Melbourne runner-up Aryna Sabalenka, who holds second place with 1,810 points, enjoying a comfortable lead over the rest of the contenders.
Iga Swiatek (1,225) occupies third place after reaching the Australian Open semifinals and making a strong run to the United Cup final. The mixed-team event has been the main source of points for Coco Gauff (940), who currently sits in fourth place after falling in the Australian Open quarterfinals.
Spain’s Paula Badosa (907) holds sixth place, just behind newly crowned Abu Dhabi Open champion Belinda Bencic. The Swiss player defeated Ashlyn Krueger (10th, 574 points), arguably the most surprising name in the top 10. Not far behind is Emma Navarro in 11th place (549 points), completing four Americans in the top 11.
Rounding out the top spots are Ekaterina Alexandrova (7th, 636 points), Elena Rybakina (8th, 595 points), and Clara Tauson (9th, 585 points).
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WTA Race – February 10
| Player | Points | |
| 1 | Madison Keys | 2554 |
| 2 | Aryna Sabalenka | 1810 |
| 3 | Iga Swiatek | 1225 |
| 4 | Coco Gauff | 940 |
| 5 | Paula Badosa | 907 |
| 6 | Belinda Bencic | 857 |
| 7 | Ekaterina Alexandrova | 636 |
| 8 | Elena Rybakina | 595 |
| 9 | Clara Tauson | 585 |
| 10 | Ashlyn Krueger | 574 |
| 11 | Emma Navarro | 549 |
| 12 | Elise Mertens | 548 |
| 13 | Dayana Yastremska | 520 |
| 14 | Leylah Fernandez | 513 |
| 15 | Polina Kudermetova | 509 |
| 16 | Mirra Andreeva | 500 |
| 17 | Diana Shnaider | 499 |
| 18 | Elina Svitolina | 496 |
| 19 | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 491 |
| 20 | Anastasia Potapova | 488 |
| 21 | Daria Kasatkina | 474 |
| 22 | Ons Jabeur | 471 |
| 23 | Jessica Pegula | 465 |
| 24 | Yulia Putintseva | 451 |
| 25 | Ann Li | 414 |
| 26 | Veronika Kudermetova | 398 |
| 27 | Karolína Muchová | 373 |
| 28 | Rebecca Šramková | 361 |
| 29 | Viktorija Golubic | 333 |
| 30 | Ludmilla Samsonova | 332 |
| 31 | Linda Nosková | 331 |
| 32 | Mccartney Kessler | 327 |
| 33 | Katie Boulter | 323 |
| 34 | Zeynep Sönmez | 321 |
| 35 | Anna Blinkova | 300 |
| 36 | Laura Siegemund | 293 |
| 37 | Naomi Osaka | 293 |
| 38 | Elina Avanesyan | 293 |
| 39 | Eva Lys | 272 |
| 40 | Olga Danilović | 271 |
| 41 | Anhelina Kalinina | 270 |
| 42 | Maria Sakkari | 257 |
| 43 | Donna Vekić | 252 |
| 44 | Lucia Bronzetti | 248 |
| 45 | Renata Zarazúa | 244 |
| 46 | Marie Bouzková | 241 |
| 47 | Cristina Bucșa | 240 |
| 48 | Suzan Lamens | 239 |
| 49 | Sofia Kenin | 238 |
| 50 | Kimberly Birrell | 232 |
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- "Intensified" ??? Yeah, right. Nothing has changed... nothing has "intensidfied"; only continued.
mandoist10-02-2025 - Bencic is all business right now. If Rybakina is the ice queen, then Bencic is Antarctica—colder, sharper, and seemingly unstoppable. 🔥❄️MrAndreeva07-02-2025
- Creepy.mandoist07-02-2025
- Ouch!!mandoist07-02-2025
- they need to change the rules on the WTA to limit wildcards more effectively like they have on the ATPSososo06-02-2025
- This is just getting beyond ridiculous!! Not to mention unsportsmanlike and unfair to serious up & coming contenders.mandoist06-02-2025
- No, writer, we were not "stunned". If you knew your business you would have been aware of her statement last weekend re: her knee and retirement. The main take-away here is that Simona went out on her own terms. She surely wanted to play again after WTA & ITIA screwed her out of her final productive seasons. Personally, I believed she was going to make this announcement when I saw the President and his family in their box seats. Good for Simone -- now she can move on to other things as she said she would.mandoist04-02-2025
- It sounds seriously absurd that in Davis Cup, (unlike Grand Slams such as the Aus Open), medical time outs off court with the medical staff are not allowed?? I mean, if this was an Aus Open match, and the same thing happened to Gurin then, he would have been able to go off court for official medical time out and make an informed decision whether to resume the match or retire. How come such conditions do not apply in Davis Cup?? I mean, there with Davis Cup, it is even more like a soccer match or basketball game in that teams are playing. And so as with those, it ought to be the case in tennis that if a player needs serious medical time out, then one of the other team mates ought to substitute and each team needs to have stand-ins or understudies in case substitution is needed which will be rare but as we can see here, this kind of circumstance fits. But even if the teams do not go down the road of subbing other team mates in, in case of a health issue like the one which played out here, at least, as in the Aus Open and other Grand Slams, there ought to be time-outs with the health professionals and at the conclusion of these time-outs, the particular decision that has been reached between them and the player needs to be taken on board by the umpire. PERIOD.
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
- Medvedev talking to his form here. "Some actual deep problem." 🤣😂🤣MrAndreeva03-02-2025
