Albeit a quiet week with only the DC Open and Prague Open taking place, the latter now concluding means it is WTA Ranking Update time.

Despite only a few tournaments taking place, it has gleamed multiple changes in the top 20 with points falling off players rankings heading into the US Open hard court swing.

Jessica Pegula lost to Maria Sakkari in the semi-finals of DC Open, but finds herself back up to her previous career high of third meaning the Big Three at least for now has been muscled in on.

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Elena Rybakina falls down to 4th, but won't face any challenge for that spot at least. Ons Jabeur won't play in Montreal this next week giving a perfect opportunity for Rybakina to build her lead.

Caroline Garcia could go back into the top five too only just under 100 points off Jabeur on 4685 compared to 4747. Coco Gauff in winning the title did not move up but did build up a slight gap on Maria Sakkari who moved back up into 8th at the expense of Petra Kvitova.

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Other changes include Barbora Krejcikova and Beatriz Haddad Maia back into 11th and 12th and Belinda Bencic into 13th up two spots. Daria Kasatkina is down three to 14th.

Veronika Kudermetova also fell two spots to 16th allowing Madison Keys also into the top 15.

This cluster of players all the way down realistically to Karolina Muchova in 17th could easily all get mixed around again after Montreal due to the close-knit nature of them.

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Kostyuk, Gracheva and Blinkova rise to new heights as Hibino up 52 spots in Prague win

New career highs also for Marta Kostyuk (32nd), Anna Blinkova (34th), Varvara Gracheva (41) and despite losing early in Washington, Bianca Andreescu heads back towards the top 40.

Many of this is down to Paula Badosa falling 12 spots down to 45th, Katerina Siniakova down nine to 46th. But rise wise, Linda Noskova went up 19 spots to 52nd with the 18-year-old reaching the Prague final.

Simona Halep will lose the last of her points in the coming weeks and is down to 58th. Nao Hibino too in winning Prague will go onto an ITF event instead of Montreal but is up 52 spots to 84th after winning in Czech Republic.

WTA Ranking - 07-08-2023

1 Iga Świątek 22 POL 9490

2 Aryna Sabalenka 25 BLR 8746

3 Jessica Pegula 29 USA 5480 1

4 Elena Rybakina 24 KAZ 5465 -1

5 Ons Jabeur 28 TUN 4747

6 Caroline Garcia 29 FRA 4685

7 Coco Gauff 19 USA 3760

8 Maria Sakkari 28 GRE 3585 1

9 Petra Kvitová 33 CZE 3341 -1

10 Markéta Vondroušová 24 CZE 3106

11 Barbora Krejčíková 27 CZE 2840 1

12 Beatriz Haddad Maia 27 BRA 2745 1

13 Belinda Bencic 26 SUI 2605 2

14 Daria Kasatkina 26 RUS 2600 -3

15 Madison Keys 28 USA 2580 1

16 Veronika Kudermetova 26 RUS 2485 -2

17 Karolína Muchová 26 CZE 2333

18 Ludmilla Samsonova 24 RUS 2220

19 Victoria Azarenka 34 BLR 2176

20 Jeļena Ostapenko 26 LAT 2165

21 Ekaterina Alexandrova 28 RUS 2125

22 Donna Vekić 27 CRO 2075

23 Karolína Plíšková 31 CZE 2010

24 Qinwen Zheng 20 CHN 1903

25 Magda Linette 31 POL 1805

26 Elina Svitolina 28 UKR 1678 1

27 Anastasia Potapova 22 RUS 1635 -1

28 Anhelina Kalinina 26 UKR 1567

29 Elise Mertens 27 BEL 1479

30 Elisabetta Cocciaretto 22 ITA 1420

31 Sorana Cîrstea 33 ROU 1370 1

32 Marta Kostyuk 21 UKR 1345 2

33 Mayar Sherif 27 EGY 1326 -2

34 Anna Blinkova 24 RUS 1253 1

35 Petra Martić 32 CRO 1233 1

36 Lin Zhu 29 CHN 1227 2

37 Marie Bouzková 25 CZE 1218 2

38 Sloane Stephens 30 USA 1210 2

39 Irina-Camelia Begu 32 ROU 1197 2

40 Varvara Gracheva 23 FRA 1158 3

41 Bianca Andreescu 23 CAN 1156 3

42 Arantxa Rus 32 NED 1131

43 Shuai Zhang 34 CHN 1124 2

44 Lesia Tsurenko 34 UKR 1122 2

45 Paula Badosa 25 ESP 1118 -12

46 Kateřina Siniaková 27 CZE 1089 -9

47 Alycia Parks 22 USA 1083 1

48 Danielle Collins 29 USA 1082 1

49 Jasmine Paolini 27 ITA 1070 1

50 Lauren Davis 29 USA 1064 4

51 Camila Giorgi 31 ITA 1058

52 Linda Nosková 18 CZE 1054 19

53 Bernarda Pera 28 USA 1011

54 Emma Navarro 22 USA 1008 1

55 Linda Fruhvirtová 18 CZE 984 2

56 Tatjana Maria 35 GER 980 2

57 Peyton Stearns 21 USA 975 2

58 Simona Halep 31 ROU 970 -2

59 Ana Bogdan 30 ROU 952 -12

60 Alizé Cornet 33 FRA 940 5

61 Yulia Putintseva 28 KAZ 937 -1

62 Clara Burel 22 FRA 932 -1

63 Julia Grabher 27 AUT 929

64 Martina Trevisan 29 ITA 906 2

65 Elina Avanesyan 20 RUS 901 3

66 Nadia Podoroska 26 ARG 893 4

67 Camila Osorio 21 COL 892 2

68 Ajla Tomljanović 30 AUS 882 -4

69 Lucia Bronzetti 24 ITA 882 3

70 Mirra Andreeva 16 RUS 879 -8

71 Xinyu Wang 21 CHN 873 2

72 Katie Boulter 27 GBR 867 4

73 Anna Karolína Schmiedlová 28 SVK 865 9

74 Caty McNally 21 USA 865

75 Rebeka Masarova 24 ESP 853

76 Aliaksandra Sasnovich 29 BLR 849 1

77 Diane Parry 20 FRA 847 2

78 Anna Kalinskaya 24 RUS 844 -11

79 Magdalena Fręch 25 POL 838 1

80 Tamara Korpatsch 28 GER 833 19

81 Leylah Fernandez 20 CAN 819 7

82 Kamilla Rakhimova 21 RUS 817 1

83 Claire Liu 23 USA 814 -5

84 Nao Hibino 28 JPN 814 52

85 Cristina Bucșa 25 ESP 796 -1

86 Sara Sorribes Tormo 26 ESP 794 -1

87 Diana Shnaider 19 RUS 785 -1

88 Kateryna Baindl 29 UKR 783 10

89 Rebecca Peterson 28 SWE 780 -2

90 Yanina Wickmayer 33 BEL 770 3

91 Clara Tauson 20 DEN 764 -2

92 Anna-Lena Friedsam 29 GER 753 -1

93 Shelby Rogers 30 USA 750 -41

94 Jule Niemeier 23 GER 748 7

95 Xiyu Wang 22 CHN 745 -14

96 Sofia Kenin 24 USA 737 -1

97 Danka Kovinić 28 MNE 737 -1

98 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 32 RUS 719 2

99 Rebecca Marino 32 CAN 719 -9

100 Lucrezia Stefanini 25 ITA 714 2