WTA Rankings Update: Aryna Sabalenka emulates Sharapova and Austin as Keys, Joint and Kessler make moves

The second week of the season saw some changes to the WTA Rankings ahead of the 2025 Australian Open with the Adelaide International and Hobart International providing moves for Madison Keys, Maya Joint and McCartney Kessler. While Aryna Sabalenka has emulated two legends.

Kessler in winning Hobart has cracked the top 50 for the first time. She jumps 20 spots to World No.47. She has gone from 948 to 231 to 68 in the past two years and now is in the top 50. She won Cleveland last year and is a player who is on a continued rapid rise.

Keys climbs to World No.14 after winning in Adelaide. She has not been as high since last August. While after runs in Hobart, Maya Joint and Emerson Jones climb. The former heads towards the top 100. Albeit she lost to Jessica Pegula this morning comfortably at the Australian Open so any form from the semi-final in Hobart is perhaps short lived.

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While Jones the current Junior No.1 lost to Daria Kasatkina in the second round but moves up 78 spots to enter the top 300 for the first time. Speaking of Pegula, she moves up to World No.6 after reaching the final in Adelaide.

Karolina Muchova moves up into the top 20 too after Ostapenko fell in the rankings as Liudmila Samsonova also closed in on the top 20 after reaching the semi-finals.

Aryna Sabalenka remains World No.1 and has now spent as many weeks as World No.1 as Maria Sharapova and Tracy Austin. She sits 18th all time for most weeks as World No.1 and will move ahead next week as there are no ranking updates during the tournament. She will have a fight to remain top with Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff fighting hard for World No.1 but currently she is knocking off other records.

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WTA Rankings as of 13 Jan 2025

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