The WTA Rankings have been updated and aside from Belinda Bencic moving up 92 spots in a week, it is dominated by Aryna Sabalenka and Madison Keys who didn't even play.
Sabalenka like many of the top names on the WTA Tour didn't play this past week but joins Naomi Osaka as joint 17th overall as World No.1 all-time and will next move up to Dinara Safina. She is only 186 points ahead of Swiatek but doesn't have any points to defend in Doha unlike her rival.
Madison Keys is now World No.6 as Elena Rybakina failed to defend her points from the Abu Dhabi Open. While Belinda Bencic was the big winner of the week. She has surged up 92 spots after winning that title.
She dropped to outside the top 1000 last year after missing the WTA season due to maternity leave. Unlike others who perhaps would be given opportunities to return to the tour with wildcards, she wasn't afforded such a luxury and grinded on WTA 125k tournaments to get match practice in and get her ranking up.
She reached the Last 16 in Adelaide and fourth round at the Australian Open before going all the way to the title in Abu Dhabi. Ashlyn Krueger in finishing runner-up is up 11 spots to World No.40, while Linda Noskova climbed six spots to World No.33. Anastasia Potapova was the other big winner as she moved up albeit only one spot to World No.31 but softened the blow of losing Linz.
1 | Aryna Sabalenka | 26 | BLR | 8956 | |
2 | Iga Świątek | 23 | POL | 8770 | |
3 | Coco Gauff | 20 | USA | 6538 | |
4 | Jasmine Paolini | 29 | ITA | 5288 | |
5 | Jessica Pegula | 30 | USA | 4861 | 1 |
6 | Madison Keys | 29 | USA | 4680 | 1 |
7 | Elena Rybakina | 25 | KAZ | 4588 | -2 |
8 | Qinwen Zheng | 22 | CHN | 4095 | |
9 | Emma Navarro | 23 | USA | 3709 | |
10 | Paula Badosa | 27 | ESP | 3588 | |
11 | Danielle Collins | 31 | USA | 3122 | 1 |
12 | Daria Kasatkina | 27 | RUS | 3056 | -1 |
13 | Diana Shnaider | 20 | RUS | 2873 | |
14 | Barbora Krejčíková | 29 | CZE | 2675 | |
15 | Mirra Andreeva | 17 | RUS | 2665 | |
16 | Beatriz Haddad Maia | 28 | BRA | 2369 | |
17 | Karolína Muchová | 28 | CZE | 2344 | |
18 | Anna Kalinskaya | 26 | RUS | 2304 | |
19 | Donna Vekić | 28 | CRO | 2273 | |
20 | Yulia Putintseva | 30 | KAZ | 2093 | 1 |
21 | Marta Kostyuk | 22 | UKR | 2064 | 1 |
22 | Elina Svitolina | 30 | UKR | 1970 | 1 |
23 | Ludmilla Samsonova | 26 | RUS | 1945 | -3 |
24 | Katie Boulter | 28 | GBR | 1931 | |
25 | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 33 | RUS | 1900 | 1 |
26 | Ekaterina Alexandrova | 30 | RUS | 1888 | -1 |
27 | Leylah Fernandez | 22 | CAN | 1869 | |
28 | Magdalena Fręch | 27 | POL | 1800 | |
29 | Maria Sakkari | 29 | GRE | 1774 | |
30 | Victoria Azarenka | 35 | BLR | 1762 | |
31 | Anastasia Potapova | 23 | RUS | 1684 | 1 |
32 | Elise Mertens | 29 | BEL | 1666 | -1 |
33 | Linda Nosková | 20 | CZE | 1528 | 6 |
34 | Markéta Vondroušová | 25 | CZE | 1501 | 3 |
35 | Ons Jabeur | 30 | TUN | 1454 | -2 |
36 | Magda Linette | 32 | POL | 1424 | 2 |
37 | Jeļena Ostapenko | 27 | LAT | 1422 | -2 |
38 | Xinyu Wang | 23 | CHN | 1413 | -2 |
39 | Clara Tauson | 22 | DEN | 1413 | -5 |
40 | Ashlyn Krueger | 20 | USA | 1381 | 11 |
41 | Amanda Anisimova | 23 | USA | 1316 | -1 |
42 | Olga Danilović | 24 | SRB | 1304 | -1 |
43 | Lulu Sun | 23 | NZL | 1282 | 2 |
44 | Naomi Osaka | 27 | JPN | 1264 | -2 |
45 | Marie Bouzková | 26 | CZE | 1262 | -2 |
46 | Rebecca Šramková | 28 | SVK | 1236 | -2 |
47 | Peyton Stearns | 23 | USA | 1201 | -1 |
48 | Elina Avanesyan | 22 | ARM | 1190 | |
49 | Dayana Yastremska | 24 | UKR | 1169 | 1 |
50 | Anhelina Kalinina | 28 | UKR | 1165 | -1 |
51 | Yue Yuan | 26 | CHN | 1146 | 4 |
52 | Veronika Kudermetova | 27 | RUS | 1131 | |
53 | Kateřina Siniaková | 28 | CZE | 1130 | 1 |
54 | Camila Osorio | 23 | COL | 1085 | -1 |
55 | Mccartney Kessler | 25 | USA | 1066 | 2 |
56 | Lucia Bronzetti | 26 | ITA | 1048 | 16 |
57 | Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro | 22 | ESP | 1040 | 1 |
58 | Elisabetta Cocciaretto | 24 | ITA | 1012 | 2 |
59 | Polina Kudermetova | 21 | RUS | 999 | |
60 | Emma Raducanu | 22 | GBR | 997 | -4 |
61 | Ann Li | 24 | USA | 985 | |
62 | Viktoriya Tomova | 29 | BUL | 981 | 1 |
63 | Moyuka Uchijima | 23 | JPN | 969 | -1 |
64 | Katie Volynets | 23 | USA | 968 | 4 |
65 | Belinda Bencic | 27 | SUI | 963 | 92 |
66 | Suzan Lamens | 25 | NED | 962 | 1 |
67 | Mayar Sherif | 28 | EGY | 956 | -2 |
68 | Renata Zarazúa | 27 | MEX | 954 | -2 |
69 | Karolína Plíšková | 32 | CZE | 946 | -22 |
70 | Kamilla Rakhimova | 23 | RUS | 927 | -1 |
71 | Varvara Gracheva | 24 | FRA | 925 | -1 |
72 | Anna Blinkova | 26 | RUS | 916 | -1 |
73 | Sofia Kenin | 26 | USA | 903 | 2 |
74 | Tatjana Maria | 37 | GER | 896 | |
75 | Kimberly Birrell | 26 | AUS | 892 | 11 |
76 | Caroline Garcia | 31 | FRA | 884 | |
77 | Bernarda Pera | 30 | USA | 877 | 1 |
78 | Irina-Camelia Begu | 34 | ROU | 877 | 1 |
79 | Sorana Cîrstea | 34 | ROU | 866 | -15 |
80 | Caroline Dolehide | 26 | USA | 864 | 2 |
81 | Erika Andreeva | 20 | RUS | 850 | -4 |
82 | Laura Siegemund | 36 | GER | 846 | -2 |
83 | Taylor Townsend | 28 | USA | 844 | -2 |
84 | Caroline Wozniacki | 34 | DEN | 837 | |
85 | Sonay Kartal | 23 | GBR | 833 | 6 |
86 | Diane Parry | 22 | FRA | 830 | -1 |
87 | Jaqueline Cristian | 26 | ROU | 826 | -14 |
88 | Greet Minnen | 27 | BEL | 823 | -1 |
89 | Yafan Wang | 30 | CHN | 812 | |
90 | Alycia Parks | 24 | USA | 809 | |
91 | Eva Lys | 23 | GER | 807 | 1 |
92 | Anna Bondár | 27 | HUN | 804 | 2 |
93 | Hailey Baptiste | 23 | USA | 801 | |
94 | Zeynep Sönmez | 22 | TUR | 789 | 1 |
95 | Sara Sorribes Tormo | 28 | ESP | 784 | -12 |
96 | Arantxa Rus | 34 | NED | 776 | -8 |
97 | Xiyu Wang | 23 | CHN | 766 | |
98 | María Carlé | 25 | ARG | 758 | 1 |
99 | Olivia Gadecki | 22 | AUS | 754 | 2 |
100 | Jil Teichmann | 27 | SUI | 741 | 17 |
101 | Sloane Stephens | 31 | USA | 731 | 4 |
102 | Nadia Podoroska | 28 | ARG | 727 | 4 |
103 | Robin Montgomery | 20 | USA | 727 | 4 |
104 | Jule Niemeier | 25 | GER | 720 | -8 |
105 | Anca Todoni | 20 | ROU | 720 | 3 |
106 | Viktorija Golubic | 32 | SUI | 719 | 7 |
107 | Yulia Starodubtseva | 24 | UKR | 705 | 2 |
108 | Petra Martić | 34 | CRO | 696 | 3 |
109 | Rebecca Marino | 34 | CAN | 693 | -6 |
110 | Nuria Párrizas Díaz | 33 | ESP | 691 | -6 |
111 | Elena-Gabriela Ruse | 27 | ROU | 690 | 1 |
112 | Maya Joint | 18 | AUS | 685 | -10 |
113 | Aliaksandra Sasnovich | 30 | BLR | 678 | 15 |
114 | Ajla Tomljanović | 31 | AUS | 667 | 1 |
115 | Mananchaya Sawangkaew | 22 | THA | 666 | 6 |
116 | Cristina Bucșa | 27 | ESP | 659 | -18 |
117 | Sara Errani | 37 | ITA | 651 | -7 |
118 | Marina Stakusic | 20 | CAN | 646 | 1 |
119 | Harriet Dart | 28 | GBR | 640 | -19 |
120 | Aoi Ito | 20 | JPN | 636 | -6 |
121 | Anna Karolína Schmiedlová | 30 | SVK | 632 | -3 |
122 | Sijia Wei | 21 | CHN | 629 | -6 |
123 | Léolia Jeanjean | 29 | FRA | 589 | |
124 | Daria Saville | 30 | AUS | 588 | 1 |
125 | Varvara Lepchenko | 38 | USA | 585 | -1 |
126 | Chloé Paquet | 30 | FRA | 575 | |
127 | Xinyu Gao | 27 | CHN | 570 | 11 |
128 | Jana Fett | 28 | CRO | 568 | -1 |
129 | Ella Seidel | 19 | GER | 568 | 14 |
130 | Bianca Andreescu | 24 | CAN | 563 | |
131 | Maja Chwalińska | 23 | POL | 561 | -2 |
132 | Daria Snigur | 22 | UKR | 543 | 4 |
133 | Maddison Inglis | 27 | AUS | 543 | 12 |
134 | Martina Trevisan | 31 | ITA | 542 | -3 |
135 | Anastasia Zakharova | 23 | RUS | 541 | -2 |
136 | Talia Gibson | 20 | AUS | 530 | -4 |
137 | Nao Hibino | 30 | JPN | 529 | -3 |
138 | Clara Burel | 23 | FRA | 529 | -3 |
139 | Alexandra Eala | 19 | PHI | 528 | -2 |
140 | Elsa Jacquemot | 21 | FRA | 522 | 13 |
141 | Panna Udvardy | 26 | HUN | 521 | -1 |
142 | Antonia Ružić | 22 | CRO | 513 | -3 |
143 | Sára Bejlek | 19 | CZE | 506 | -2 |
144 | Julia Riera | 22 | ARG | 505 | -2 |
145 | Jessika Ponchet | 28 | FRA | 499 | 1 |
146 | Francesca Jones | 24 | GBR | 491 | 8 |
147 | Lesia Tsurenko | 35 | UKR | 490 | |
148 | Ena Shibahara | 26 | JPN | 490 | -4 |
149 | Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva | 19 | AND | 486 | 1 |
150 | Oksana Selekhmeteva | 22 | RUS | 482 | 1 |