WTA Rankings after Australian Open: Champion Madison Keys equals career high as Aryna Sabalenka remains World No.1

Monday, 27 January 2025 at 08:45

Madison Keys with the Australian Open trophy

The WTA Rankings have been updated after the 2025 Australian Open with Madison Keys as champion standing out as a riser as Aryna Sabalenka remains World No.1.

Sabalenka nearly lost the World No.1 to Iga Swiatek but she survived when ironically Keys who defeated her in the final of the 2025 Australian Open quelled her chagre in the semi-finals.

As a result, the Belarusian leaves the Australian Open with a 186 point lead and a silver lining as she starts her 23rd week as World No.1. She only has 185 points to defend in February while Swiatek has 1,390 points so the likelihood is that the gap will increase again.

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Coco Gauff remains comfortably third with Jasmine Paolini more than 1,000 points behind. Also she will need to defend Dubai too or her points will drop off. Elena Rybakina who was poor last year at the Australian Open got further this year so rose up the rankings two spots back into the top five.

But it was Keys who performed the best equalling her career high of World No.7 climbing seven spots after winning her maiden Grand Slam title. It is her highest position since 2019.

Paula Badosa in reaching the semi-finals is back in the top 10 for the first time in three years. While Barbora Krejcikova who missed AO25 drops five places to World No.14 in the WTA Rankings.

Despite a final loss, Aryna Sabalenka averts the drop.

Ons Jabeur is starting to rise again up five spots to World No.35, Naomi Osaka is up to World No.42 up eight while Emma Raducanu moves four spots to World No.56.

Further down though it is Belinda Bencic and Eva Lys who standout. The former returned for the first time since giving birth to a main tour event and rose 137 spots to World No.157 after reaching the fourth round. While Lys after her Lucky Loser run moves up 38 spots to World No.91 after reaching the fourth round. The rising German is not in the position to not have to go through qualifying for tournaments yet but is getting closer.

WTA Rankings as of 27 January 2025 (as per LiveTennis)

1	Aryna Sabalenka	26	BLR	8956
2	Iga Świątek	23	POL	8770
3	Coco Gauff	20	USA	6538
4	Jasmine Paolini	29	ITA	5289
5	Elena Rybakina	25	KAZ	4893	2
6	Jessica Pegula	30	USA	4861
7	Madison Keys	29	USA	4680	7
8	Qinwen Zheng	22	CHN	4095	-3
9	Emma Navarro	23	USA	3709	-1
10	Paula Badosa	27	ESP	3608	2
11	Daria Kasatkina	27	RUS	3321	-1
12	Danielle Collins	31	USA	3207	-1
13	Diana Shnaider	20	RUS	3015
14	Barbora Krejčíková	29	CZE	2783	-5
15	Mirra Andreeva	17	RUS	2665
16	Beatriz Haddad Maia	28	BRA	2554	1
17	Donna Vekić	28	CRO	2458	2
18	Anna Kalinskaya	26	RUS	2207	-2
19	Karolína Muchová	28	CZE	2149	1
20	Yulia Putintseva	30	KAZ	2137	3
21	Ludmilla Samsonova	26	RUS	2130
22	Marta Kostyuk	22	UKR	2064	-4
23	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	33	RUS	2035	9
24	Elina Svitolina	30	UKR	1969	3
25	Katie Boulter	28	GBR	1931
26	Jeļena Ostapenko	27	LAT	1921	-4
27	Leylah Fernandez	22	CAN	1815	2
28	Magdalena Fręch	27	POL	1800	-2
29	Victoria Azarenka	35	BLR	1762	-5
30	Ekaterina Alexandrova	30	RUS	1713	1
31	Maria Sakkari	29	GRE	1667	-1
32	Elise Mertens	29	BEL	1524	2
33	Anastasia Potapova	23	RUS	1494	3
34	Ons Jabeur	30	TUN	1454	5
35	Xinyu Wang	23	CHN	1413	2
36	Markéta Vondroušová	25	CZE	1393	2
37	Magda Linette	32	POL	1376	3
38	Linda Nosková	20	CZE	1358	-10
39	Clara Tauson	22	DEN	1331	3
40	Amanda Anisimova	23	USA	1316	-5
41	Olga Danilović	24	SRB	1275	14
42	Naomi Osaka	27	JPN	1265	9
43	Marie Bouzková	26	CZE	1262
44	Rebecca Šramková	28	SVK	1226	5
45	Lulu Sun	23	NZL	1223	-1
46	Peyton Stearns	23	USA	1198
47	Karolína Plíšková	32	CZE	1196	-2
48	Anhelina Kalinina	27	UKR	1171
49	Elina Avanesyan	22	ARM	1160	-8
50	Ashlyn Krueger	20	USA	1141	2
51	Veronika Kudermetova	27	RUS	1118	24
52	Mccartney Kessler	25	USA	1116	-5
53	Kateřina Siniaková	28	CZE	1092	-3
54	Yue Yuan	26	CHN	1086	-1
55	Camila Osorio	23	COL	1061	4
56	Emma Raducanu	22	GBR	1055	5
57	Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro	22	ESP	1052	-3
58	Polina Kudermetova	21	RUS	1046	-1
59	Elisabetta Cocciaretto	24	ITA	988	-3
60	Moyuka Uchijima	23	JPN	983	3
61	Jaqueline Cristian	26	ROU	967	21
62	Katie Volynets	23	USA	966	-2
63	Mayar Sherif	28	EGY	955	2
64	Viktoriya Tomova	29	BUL	953	-6
65	Renata Zarazúa	27	MEX	950	5
66	Lucia Bronzetti	26	ITA	945	10
67	Suzan Lamens	25	NED	943	10
68	Kamilla Rakhimova	23	RUS	927	-6
69	Varvara Gracheva	24	FRA	925
70	Sorana Cîrstea	34	ROU	913	1
71	Yafan Wang	30	CHN	909	-7
72	Dayana Yastremska	24	UKR	904	-39
73	Tatjana Maria	37	GER	896	17
74	Sofia Kenin	26	USA	892
75	Erika Andreeva	20	RUS	888	11
76	Caroline Garcia	31	FRA	884	-9
77	Bernarda Pera	30	USA	877	1
78	Irina-Camelia Begu	34	ROU	876	2
79	Jule Niemeier	25	GER	867	14
80	Laura Siegemund	36	GER	846	17
81	Caroline Dolehide	26	USA	844	2
82	Taylor Townsend	28	USA	843	3
83	Anna Blinkova	26	RUS	838	-10
84	Caroline Wozniacki	34	DEN	837	-12
85	Ann Li	24	USA	834	-1
86	Diane Parry	22	FRA	830	-20
87	Greet Minnen	27	BEL	823	4
88	Arantxa Rus	34	NED	814	-9
89	Sonay Kartal	23	GBR	808	-2
90	Alycia Parks	24	USA	807	-22
91	Eva Lys	23	GER	806	37
92	Anna Bondár	27	HUN	801
93	Hailey Baptiste	23	USA	800	-5
94	Zeynep Sönmez	22	TUR	787
95	Kimberly Birrell	26	AUS	780	6
96	Xiyu Wang	23	CHN	766	12
97	María Carlé	24	ARG	764	-8
98	Harriet Dart	28	GBR	755	14
99	Sara Sorribes Tormo	28	ESP	754	3
100	Nuria Párrizas Díaz	33	ESP	754	-1
101	Cristina Bucșa	27	ESP	750	9
102	Rebecca Marino	34	CAN	744	-4
103	Robin Montgomery	20	USA	741	1
104	Sloane Stephens	31	USA	731	-23
105	Sara Errani	37	ITA	727	2
106	Nadia Podoroska	27	ARG	727	-10
107	Olivia Gadecki	22	AUS	725	-1
108	Anca Todoni	20	ROU	719	3
109	Maya Joint	18	AUS	714	-4
110	Viktorija Golubic	32	SUI	707	-15
111	Yulia Starodubtseva	24	UKR	705	-11
112	Aoi Ito	20	JPN	696	-3
113	Elena-Gabriela Ruse	27	ROU	690	12
114	Ajla Tomljanović	31	AUS	667
115	Anna Karolína Schmiedlová	30	SVK	647	1
116	Sijia Wei	21	CHN	640	1
117	Clara Burel	23	FRA	637	-14
118	Marina Stakusic	20	CAN	600	3
119	Ana Bogdan	32	ROU	597	1
120	Chloé Paquet	30	FRA	592	2
121	Darja Semenistaja	22	LAT	590	-3
122	Daria Saville	30	AUS	587	2
123	Varvara Lepchenko	38	USA	585	4
124	Jana Fett	28	CRO	583	9
125	Petra Martić	34	CRO	576	6

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