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WTA Race to Riyadh Update: Iga Swiatek and Elena Rybakina continue to lead, Coco Gauff up to fifth after Stuttgart
WTAMonday, 22 April 2024 at 23:00
Iga
Swiatek and Elena Rybakina remain the leaders of the WTA Race to Riyadh
following the conclusion of the WTA 500 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, where
Rybakina claimed the trophy, ending Swiatek's streak of two consecutive titles
in Stuttgart. Both players continue to be the top point earners in 2024, with
identical records of 26-4.
Swiatek
leads with 3,345 points, thanks to her titles at the Doha Open and Indian
Wells, along with semifinal appearances at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis
Championships and Stuttgart. In second place is Rybakina with 3,203 points,
earning three titles in five finals contested this year. The 2022 Wimbledon
champion emerged victorious in the first clay swing challenge, especially
significant as eight top-10 players made their clay debut this year in
Stuttgart.
Sabalenka drifts away from the leaders, while Gauff and Collins remain ahead.
Aryna
Sabalenka has slipped in the Race standings. The 2-times Australian Open
champion was the outright leader after claiming the trophy in Melbourne but has
not achieved significant results since then, allowing her main rivals to gain
an advantage. Sabalenka suffered a defeat in her Dubai debut, reached the round
of 16 in Indian Wells, exited in the third round of the Miami Open, and was
eliminated in the quarterfinals of Stuttgart, placing her third in the Race
with 2,638 points.
Further
behind Sabalenka are Americans Danielle Collins and Coco Gauff. The 30-year-old
Collins remarkably secured her first WTA 1000 title in Miami and now holds the
4th position in the Race with 2,032 points, slightly ahead of Coco Gauff with
1,883.
Swiatek ended her 10-0 streak in Stuttgart after being eliminated in the semifinals by Rybakina, losing 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
Following
Gauff are 21-year-olds Zheng Qinwen, finalist in the recent Australian Open,
and Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, finalist this week at the Porsche Tennis Grand
Prix and a month earlier at the San Diego Open. Occupying the eighth spot is
Italian and WTA 1000 Qatar Open champion Jasmine Paolini, who would currently
be the last qualifier for the Finals in Riyadh.
You
can find the updated WTA Race standings as of April 22, 2024, here:
| NAME | AGE | COUNTRY | POINTS | |
| 1 | Iga Świątek | 22 | POL | 3345 |
| 2 | Elena Rybakina | 24 | KAZ | 3203 |
| 3 | Aryna Sabalenka | 25 | BLR | 2638 |
| 4 | Danielle Collins | 30 | USA | 2032 |
| 5 | Coco Gauff | 20 | USA | 1883 |
| 6 | Qinwen Zheng | 21 | CHN | 1855 |
| 7 | Marta Kostyuk | 21 | UKR | 1685 |
| 8 | Jasmine Paolini | 28 | ITA | 1590 |
| 9 | Jeļena Ostapenko | 26 | LAT | 1564 |
| 10 | Anna Kalinskaya | 25 | RUS | 1445 |
| 11 | Daria Kasatkina | 26 | RUS | 1368 |
| 12 | Maria Sakkari | 28 | GRE | 1361 |
| 13 | Emma Navarro | 22 | USA | 1263 |
| 14 | Victoria Azarenka | 34 | BLR | 1233 |
| 15 | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 32 | RUS | 1187 |
| 16 | Ekaterina Alexandrova | 29 | RUS | 1073 |
| 17 | Dayana Yastremska | 23 | UKR | 1061 |
| 18 | Linda Nosková | 19 | CZE | 970 |
| 19 | Jessica Pegula | 30 | USA | 915 |
| 20 | Katie Boulter | 27 | GBR | 885 |
| 21 | Karolína Plíšková | 32 | CZE | 881 |
| 22 | Elise Mertens | 28 | BEL | 784 |
| 23 | Yue Yuan | 25 | CHN | 741 |
| 24 | Sorana Cîrstea | 34 | ROU | 716 |
| 25 | Anastasia Potapova | 23 | RUS | 706 |
| 26 | Sloane Stephens | 31 | USA | 688 |
| 27 | Elina Svitolina | 29 | UKR | 668 |
| 28 | Markéta Vondroušová | 24 | CZE | 635 |
| 29 | Caroline Garcia | 30 | FRA | 634 |
| 30 | Beatriz Haddad Maia | 27 | BRA | 582 |
| 31 | Barbora Krejčíková | 28 | CZE | 550 |
| 32 | Anhelina Kalinina | 27 | UKR | 543 |
| 33 | Donna Vekić | 27 | CRO | 539 |
| 34 | Yulia Putintseva | 29 | KAZ | 505 |
| 35 | Magdalena Fręch | 26 | POL | 502 |
| 36 | Kateřina Siniaková | 27 | CZE | 486 |
| 37 | Magda Linette | 32 | POL | 460 |
| 38 | Veronika Kudermetova | 26 | RUS | 459 |
| 39 | Leylah Fernandez | 21 | CAN | 452 |
| 40 | Mirra Andreeva | 16 | RUS | 432 |
| 41 | Diane Parry | 21 | FRA | 421 |
| 42 | Lin Zhu | 30 | CHN | 418 |
| 43 | Clara Burel | 23 | FRA | 414 |
| 44 | Xinyu Wang | 22 | CHN | 414 |
| 45 | Daria Saville | 30 | AUS | 408 |
| 46 | Tatjana Maria | 36 | GER | 405 |
| 47 | Naomi Osaka | 26 | JPN | 399 |
| 48 | Diana Shnaider | 20 | RUS | 397 |
| 49 | Xiyu Wang | 23 | CHN | 389 |
| 50 | Camila Osorio | 22 | COL | 380 |
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