WTA Ranking Update: Elena Rybakina back to World Number Four as top 10 shifts, Leylah Fernandez and Katerina Siniakova among movers of the week

The WTA Ranking has been updated today, Monday, October 23, with Elena Rybakina re-entering the Top 4 while Leylah Fernandez and Katerina Siniakova both rose substantially.

2022 Wimbledon champion Rybakina has returned to the Top 4 after she previously dropped to No. 5 earlier in the season. The Kazakhstani player did not compete this week but had a successful run to the semi-finals of the China Open two weeks ago and now has 5955 points.

She switched places with Jessica Pegula who went down to fifth with 4895 points despite winning the WTA 250 Korea Open last week.

Meanwhile, Maria Sakkari has dropped three places to No. 9. The Greek player appeared to be on the rise a few weeks ago when she won the WTA 1000 Guadalajara Open, but a first-round defeat to Qinwen Zheng at the Zhengzhou Open last week has caused her to drop slightly.

Elsewhere in the Top 10, Marketa Vondrousova rose two places to No. 6 while her compatriot Karolina Muchova went up one spot to No. 8. However, the biggest change was Caroline Garcia falling ten places to No. 20. This not only meant that she exited the Top 10 but that she now also risks leaving the Top 20 at the end of what has been a difficult season for the French player.

In her place, Barbora Krejcikova rose three places to No. 10 while Daria Kasatkina fell six places to No. 17.

Outside of the top 20, Fernandez rose eight places to re-enter the Top 40 at No. 35. The Canadian player has been on a roll over the last couple of weeks, winning her first title in eighteen months at the Hong Kong Open before reaching the semi-final of the Jiangxi Open on Saturday.

Moreover, the newly-crowned Jiangxi Open champion Siniakova, who has a career-best ranking of No. 31, rose fourteen places to re-enter the Top 50 at No. 46.

2017 US Open champion Sloane Stephens risks falling out of the Top 50 after she dropped ten places to No. 49, while the 2019 champion Bianca Andreescu, who has not competed since August due to a back injury, fell fourteen places to No. 92.

The biggest mover in the Top 100 was Tamara Korpatsch, whose victory at the Winners Open this week saw her rise 34 places to re-enter the Top 100 at No. 71.

1 Aryna Sabalenka 25 BLR 8425

2 Iga Świątek 22 POL 7795

3 Coco Gauff 19 USA 5955

4 Elena Rybakina 24 KAZ 5865 1

5 Jessica Pegula 29 USA 4895 -1

6 Markéta Vondroušová 24 CZE 3839 2

7 Ons Jabeur 29 TUN 3695

8 Karolína Muchová 27 CZE 3663 1

9 Maria Sakkari 28 GRE 3245 -3

10 Barbora Krejčíková 27 CZE 2775 3

11 Madison Keys 28 USA 2737 1

12 Petra Kvitová 33 CZE 2660 3

13 Jeļena Ostapenko 26 LAT 2615 1

14 Belinda Bencic 26 SUI 2570 2

15 Ludmilla Samsonova 24 RUS 2545 2

16 Veronika Kudermetova 26 RUS 2460 2

17 Daria Kasatkina 26 RUS 2410 -6

18 Qinwen Zheng 21 CHN 2275 1

19 Beatriz Haddad Maia 27 BRA 2210 2

20 Caroline Garcia 30 FRA 2035 -10

21 Ekaterina Alexandrova 28 RUS 2035 1

22 Victoria Azarenka 34 BLR 1905 -2

23 Magda Linette 31 POL 1876

24 Donna Vekić 27 CRO 1815

25 Elina Svitolina 29 UKR 1809

26 Sorana Cîrstea 33 ROU 1765

27 Anhelina Kalinina 26 UKR 1677

28 Anastasia Potapova 22 RUS 1588

29 Jasmine Paolini 27 ITA 1515 1

30 Elise Mertens 27 BEL 1514 6

31 Lesia Tsurenko 34 UKR 1432 3

32 Sofia Kenin 24 USA 1391 -1

33 Xinyu Wang 22 CHN 1388 -1

34 Marie Bouzková 25 CZE 1325 -5

35 Leylah Fernandez 21 CAN 1325 8

36 Karolína Plíšková 31 CZE 1285 1

37 Lin Zhu 29 CHN 1272 -2

38 Elisabetta Cocciaretto 22 ITA 1271 -5

39 Marta Kostyuk 21 UKR 1260 1

40 Petra Martić 32 CRO 1253 1

41 Linda Nosková 18 CZE 1247 1

42 Emma Navarro 22 USA 1198 4

43 Caroline Dolehide 25 USA 1191 1

44 Martina Trevisan 29 ITA 1187 -6

45 Varvara Gracheva 23 FRA 1186

46 Kateřina Siniaková 27 CZE 1179 14

47 Mirra Andreeva 16 RUS 1158 2

48 Peyton Stearns 22 USA 1146

49 Sloane Stephens 30 USA 1135 -10

50 Mayar Sherif 27 EGY 1135

51 Sara Sorribes Tormo 27 ESP 1125 4

52 Arantxa Rus 32 NED 1124 -1

53 Anna Blinkova 25 RUS 1110 -1

54 Alycia Parks 22 USA 1103

55 Katie Boulter 27 GBR 1099 -2

56 Danielle Collins 29 USA 1088 -9

57 Camila Giorgi 31 ITA 1087 -1

58 Tatjana Maria 36 GER 1080 -1

59 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 32 RUS 1044 -1

60 Diana Shnaider 19 RUS 1021 12

61 Clara Burel 22 FRA 990 13

62 Greet Minnen 26 BEL 990 -3

63 Lucia Bronzetti 24 ITA 968 -1

64 Anna Karolína Schmiedlová 29 SVK 967 -3

65 Rebeka Masarova 24 ESP 967 2

66 Taylor Townsend 27 USA 954 14

67 Paula Badosa 25 ESP 947 -3

68 Ana Bogdan 30 ROU 942 5

69 Bernarda Pera 28 USA 941 -4

70 Yulia Putintseva 28 KAZ 937 -4

71 Tamara Korpatsch 28 GER 937 34

72 Lauren Davis 30 USA 933 -9

73 Xiyu Wang 22 CHN 926 -3

74 Yanina Wickmayer 34 BEL 921 -3

75 Elina Avanesyan 21 RUS 915 -7

76 Irina-Camelia Begu 33 ROU 888 -1

77 Nadia Podoroska 26 ARG 880

78 Camila Osorio 21 COL 874 -2

79 Magdalena Fręch 25 POL 864 -10

80 Ashlyn Krueger 19 USA 863 -1

81 Clara Tauson 20 DEN 852 1

82 Cristina Bucșa 25 ESP 843 -1

83 Viktorija Golubic 31 SUI 834 4

84 Laura Siegemund 35 GER 814 7

85 Aliaksandra Sasnovich 29 BLR 803 5

86 Kateryna Baindl 29 UKR 803

87 Linda Fruhvirtová 18 CZE 788 -2

88 Nao Hibino 28 JPN 788 5

89 Kamilla Rakhimova 22 RUS 781 -5

90 Julia Grabher 27 AUT 772 -2

91 Jodie Burrage 24 GBR 768 -2

92 Bianca Andreescu 23 CAN 764 -14

93 Claire Liu 23 USA 759 -1

94 Kayla Day 24 USA 746 1

95 Yue Yuan 25 CHN 740 11

96 Yafan Wang 29 CHN 737 -2

97 Jaqueline Cristian 25 ROU 735

98 Tamara Zidanšek 25 SLO 725 -2

99 Viktoriya Tomova 28 BUL 716 -1

100 Kimberly Birrell 25 AUS 712 2