WTA Ranking Update: Champion Swiatek moves up by 37 places to TOP 20

WTA Ranking saw many changes after an eventful 2020 Roland Garros as the women's champion Iga Swiatek recorded a jump by 37 places.

The 2020 Roland Garros brought a lot of action in the women's field an da lot of unexpected runs. That resulted in a lot of moves and career-highs in the newest edition of the WTA Rankings. While the champion Iga Swiatek moved up by 37 places to reach her career-high 17th place, runner-up, Sofia Kenin levelled her career-high 4th place and closed Naomi Osaka to only 20 points.

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However, the two best women from the clay-court Grand Slam were not the only two to record a move in the WTA Ranking. One of the semifinalists, Nadia Podoroska entered Roland Garros as a qualifier from 131st place. After the tournament, she has moved up by 83 positions to the place no. 48. Marta Trevisan, who was also a qualifier in France, moved up by 76 places to reach her career-high 83rd place.

WTA Ranking as of October 12th, 2020:

1 Ashleigh Barty 8717

2 Simona Halep 7255

3 Naomi Osaka 5780

4 Sofia Kenin 5760

5 Elina Svitolina 5260

6 Karolína Plíšková 5205

7 Bianca Andreescu 4555

8 Petra Kvitová 4516

9 Kiki Bertens 4505

10 Serena Williams 4080

12 Aryna Sabalenka 3675

13 Johanna Konta 3152

14 Victoria Azarenka 3122

15 Garbiñe Muguruza 3016

16 Madison Keys 2962

17 Iga Świątek 2960

18 Petra Martić 2850

19 Elena Rybakina 2696

20 Markéta Vondroušová 2538

21 Elise Mertens 2490

22 Anett Kontaveit 2330

23 Maria Sakkari 2300

24 Angelique Kerber 2271

25 Alison Riske 2256

26 Jennifer Brady 2165

27 Yulia Putintseva 2015

28 Karolína Muchová 1982

29 Dayana Yastremska 1925

30 Amanda Anisimova 1905

31 Donna Vekić 1880

32 Ons Jabeur 1803

33 Ekaterina Alexandrova 1775

34 Qiang Wang 1706

35 Shuai Zhang 1693

36 Svetlana Kuznetsova 1631

37 Barbora Strýcová 1630

38 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 1630

39 Sloane Stephens 1573

40 Magda Linette 1573

41 Saisai Zheng 1510

42 Fiona Ferro 1497

43 Caroline Garcia 1495

44 Jeļena Ostapenko 1485

45 Julia Görges 1483

46 Danielle Collins 1475

47 Veronika Kudermetova 1388

48 Nadia Podoroska 1356

49 Kristina Mladenovic 1335

50 Laura Siegemund 1331

51 Marie Bouzková 1314

52 Polona Hercog 1310

53 Alizé Cornet 1290

54 Anastasija Sevastova 1288

55 Cori Gauff 1284

56 Rebecca Peterson 1255

57 Patricia Maria Țig 1229

58 Jil Teichmann 1214

59 Shelby Rogers 1133

60 Heather Watson 1130

61 Anna Blinkova 1114

62 Bernarda Pera 1105

63 Jessica Pegula 1103

64 Alison Van Uytvanck 1095

65 Kateřina Siniaková 1075

66 Paula Badosa Gibert 1036

67 Su-wei Hsieh 1035

68 Ajla Tomljanović 1035

69 Kristýna Plíšková 1020

70 Arantxa Rus 979

71 Nao Hibino 973

72 Lauren Davis 967

73 Sara Sorribes Tormo 945

74 Danka Kovinić 940

75 Daria Kasatkina 935

76 Irina-Camelia Begu 932

77 Camila Giorgi 930

78 Venus Williams 929

79 Zarina Diyas 928

80 Christina McHale 925

81 Madison Brengle 906

82 Carla Suárez Navarro 881

83 Martina Trevisan 879

84 Kirsten Flipkens 878

85 Barbora Krejčíková 868

86 Misaki Doi 863

87 Tamara Zidanšek 840

88 Sorana Cîrstea 839

89 Leylah Fernandez 838

90 Taylor Townsend 835

91 Lin Zhu 830

92 Ana Bogdan 805

93 Aliaksandra Sasnovich 798

94 Yafan Wang 795

95 Jasmine Paolini 785

96 Varvara Gracheva 778

97 Viktória Kužmová 775

98 Nina Stojanović 761

99 Anastasia Potapova 759

100 Andrea Petković 750