WTA Race to Riyadh: Pegula and Navarro shake up the top 10 - Four Americans and Keys leading

Monday, 03 March 2025 at 21:20

The first two months of the year have concluded, and the WTA Race is beginning to take shape ahead of the Sunshine Double in Indian Wells. Madison Keys, Aryna Sabalenka, and Iga Swiatek remain at the top, while several players took advantage of the first week of North American tournaments to climb the standings.

The biggest winner of the week was Emma Navarro, who delivered an outstanding campaign in Mérida to claim her first WTA 500 title. This achievement allows her to break into the WTA Race top 10 for the first time this year, alongside Jessica Pegula—the ATX Open champion—who now sits at No. 10.

Madison Keys holds firm at No. 1 as Race heats up

There were no changes in the top five of the WTA Race this week, with Australian Open champion Madison Keys holding onto the top spot. The American also won the Adelaide International, bringing her total to 2,554 points. The Middle East Swing’s WTA 1000 events offered Sabalenka and Swiatek the chance to challenge for the No. 1 spot, but neither managed strong results.

Madison Keys remains at the top despite no tournaments in the last month

Neither the Belarusian nor the Pole competed this week, yet they remain in second and third place, respectively. Sabalenka used this time to prepare for the upcoming Sunshine Double after a disappointing Middle East Swing, where she managed only one win and two losses, failing to advance past the round of 16 in Doha or Dubai despite being the top seed. She holds 1,930 points, while Swiatek follows in third with 1,710 points.

Seventeen-year-old rising star Mirra Andreeva (1,500 points) sits in fourth place after winning the WTA 1000 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. Like Sabalenka and Swiatek, she did not compete last week. Dubai finalist Clara Tauson (1,235 points) remains in fifth place, while Elena Rybakina holds sixth place with 1,190 points.

New faces in the Top 10

Emma Navarro (7th – 1,169 points) joins the top 10 after winning her first WTA 500 title at the Mérida Open, where she defeated surprise finalist Emiliana Arango 6-0, 6-0. She is now the second-highest-ranked American in the Race. Meanwhile, compatriot Jessica Pegula secured the WTA 250 ATX Open title, climbing to No. 10 in the Race.

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Other top-10 names include Amanda Anisimova (8th, Qatar Open champion) and Paula Badosa (9th, Australian Open semifinalist).

The top 20 features other notable players such as Coco Gauff (12th), Belinda Bencic (13th), Karolina Muchova (14th), Jelena Ostapenko (15th), Ons Jabeur (18th), and McCartney Kessler (19th). Check out the full WTA Race standings below.

#	Player	Age	Country	Pts	+/-
Last Update: Monday, March 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
1	Madison Keys	30	USA	2554
2	Aryna Sabalenka	26	BLR	1930
3	Iga Świątek	23	POL	1710
4	Mirra Andreeva	17	RUS	1500
5	Clara Tauson	22	DEN	1235
6	Elena Rybakina	25	KAZ	1190
7	Emma Navarro	23	USA	1169
8	Amanda Anisimova	23	USA	1135
9	Paula Badosa	27	ESP	1135
10	Jessica Pegula	31	USA	1040
11	Ekaterina Alexandrova	30	RUS	971
12	Coco Gauff	20	USA	950
13	Belinda Bencic	27	SUI	922
14	Karolína Muchová	28	CZE	763
15	Jeļena Ostapenko	27	LAT	732
16	Elise Mertens	29	BEL	668
17	Dayana Yastremska	24	UKR	640
18	Ons Jabeur	30	TUN	631
19	Mccartney Kessler	25	USA	610
20	Linda Nosková	20	CZE	601
21	Diana Shnaider	20	RUS	594
22	Ashlyn Krueger	20	USA	594
23	Elina Svitolina	30	UKR	561
24	Anastasia Potapova	23	RUS	553
25	Daria Kasatkina	27	RUS	539
26	Rebecca Šramková	28	SVK	534
27	Leylah Fernandez	22	CAN	523
28	Polina Kudermetova	21	RUS	511
29	Sofia Kenin	26	USA	508
30	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	33	RUS	501
31	Elina Avanesyan	22	ARM	498
32	Veronika Kudermetova	27	RUS	493
33	Yulia Putintseva	30	KAZ	461
34	Jasmine Paolini	29	ITA	460
35	Zeynep Sönmez	22	TUR	431	+2
36	Ann Li	24	USA	416
37	Marta Kostyuk	22	UKR	413
38	Ludmilla Samsonova	26	RUS	397
39	Eva Lys	23	GER	387	+20
40	Viktorija Golubic	32	SUI	365	+20
41	Emiliana Arango	24	COL	365
42	Anna Blinkova	26	RUS	354
43	Sorana Cîrstea	34	ROU	341
44	Anhelina Kalinina	28	UKR	340
45	Magda Linette	33	POL	339
46	Maya Joint	18	AUS	324	+2
47	Katie Boulter	28	GBR	323
48	Cristina Bucșa	27	ESP	310	+20
49	Suzan Lamens	25	NED	299
50	Laura Siegemund	36	GER	296	+2
51	Alycia Parks	24	USA	293
52	Naomi Osaka	27	JPN	293
53	Peyton Stearns	23	USA	283
54	Olga Danilović	24	SRB	271
55	Daria Saville	30	AUS	270	+2
56	Maria Sakkari	29	GRE	268
57	Kimberly Birrell	26	AUS	264	+2
58	Donna Vekić	28	CRO	263
59	Petra Martić	34	CRO	251	+2
60	Lucia Bronzetti	26	ITA	250
61	Renata Zarazúa	27	MEX	246
62	Markéta Vondroušová	25	CZE	243
63	Jaqueline Cristian	26	ROU	242
64	Marie Bouzková	26	CZE	241
65	Greet Minnen	27	BEL	231	+2
66	Moyuka Uchijima	23	JPN	213
67	Sara Sorribes Tormo	28	ESP	210	+20
68	Magdalena Fręch	27	POL	209
69	Emma Raducanu	22	GBR	207
70	Ajla Tomljanović	31	AUS	202	+2
71	Yue Yuan	26	CHN	201
72	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	30	BLR	199	+2
73	Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro	22	ESP	195
74	Katie Volynets	23	USA	181
75	Mananchaya Sawangkaew	22	THA	178	+2
76	Kateřina Siniaková	28	CZE	164
77	Jodie Burrage	25	GBR	159	+2
78	Jil Teichmann	27	SUI	158	+2
79	Caroline Dolehide	26	USA	155
80	Xinyu Wang	23	CHN	155
81	Camila Osorio	23	COL	154
82	Beatriz Haddad Maia	28	BRA	153
83	Anastasia Zakharova	23	RUS	153	+2
84	Varvara Gracheva	24	FRA	152
85	Victoria Azarenka	35	BLR	145
86	Elena-Gabriela Ruse	27	ROU	143
87	Bernarda Pera	30	USA	141
88	Nao Hibino	30	JPN	135	+2
89	Tatjana Maria	37	GER	132
90	Danielle Collins	31	USA	131
91	Xinyu Gao	27	CHN	128
92	Viktoriya Tomova	30	BUL	128
93	Francesca Jones	24	GBR	123
94	Xiyu Wang	23	CHN	120
95	Anna Kalinskaya	26	RUS	120
96	Robin Montgomery	20	USA	119
97	Antonia Ružić	22	CRO	117
98	Anca Todoni	20	ROU	113	+2
99	Anna Bondár	27	HUN	112	+2
100	Destanee Aiava	24	AUS	110
101	Jule Niemeier	25	GER	109	+20
102	Sijia Wei	21	CHN	108	+2
103	Ella Seidel	20	GER	106
104	Erika Andreeva	20	RUS	105
105	Harriet Dart	28	GBR	102
106	Kamilla Rakhimova	23	RUS	102
107	Maja Chwalińska	23	POL	100
108	Alina Korneeva	17	RUS	100
109	Hailey Baptiste	23	USA	99	+2
110	Lulu Sun	23	NZL	94
111	Varvara Lepchenko	38	USA	93	+20
112	Shuai Zhang	36	CHN	92
113	Qinwen Zheng	22	CHN	90
114	Maddison Inglis	27	AUS	87	+20
115	Caroline Garcia	31	FRA	86
116	Aoi Ito	20	JPN	85	+20
117	Léolia Jeanjean	29	FRA	85	+20
118	Wakana Sonobe	17	JPN	85
119	Nina Stojanović	28	SRB	84
120	Marina Stakusic	20	CAN	83	+2
121	Arantxa Rus	34	NED	82
122	Ena Shibahara	27	JPN	77	+2
123	Sonay Kartal	23	GBR	75	+20
124	Priscilla Hon	26	AUS	75
125	María Carlé	25	ARG	74	+2
126	Talia Gibson	20	AUS	72
127	Yafan Wang	30	CHN	71
128	Danka Kovinić	30	MNE	70
128	Iva Jovic	17	USA	70
130	Emerson Jones	16	AUS	70
131	Elisabetta Cocciaretto	24	ITA	67
132	Sára Bejlek	19	CZE	65
133	Tamara Korpatsch	29	GER	63
134	Maria Timofeeva	21	RUS	62
135	Nuria Párrizas Díaz	33	ESP	62	+2
136	Daria Snigur	22	UKR	60	+2
137	Tamara Zidanšek	27	SLO	58
138	Ana Bogdan	32	ROU	58
139	Saisai Zheng	31	CHN	56
139	Rebecca Marino	34	CAN	56	+2
141	Irina-Camelia Begu	34	ROU	54
142	Martina Trevisan	31	ITA	54
143	Rebeka Masarova	25	SUI	52
144	Lucrezia Stefanini	26	ITA	51
145	Han Shi	19	CHN	50
145	Dominika Šálková	20	CZE	50
145	Simona Waltert	24	SUI	50
148	Sinja Kraus	22	AUT	45
149	Olivia Gadecki	22	AUS	45	+2
150	Séléna Janicijevic	22	FRA	43

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