Ashleigh Barty will fly into Tokyo for the
Olympic Games as the best WTA player ahead of
Naomi Osaka and
Aryna Sabalenka.
After a week of the tour shifting back largely to the clay season, Ashleigh Barty is still number one on the rankings. The Australian has solidified herself as the best player in the world after a strong title run at Wimbledon. She holds a comfortable lead ahead of Osaka and Sabalenka who are number 2 and 3 respectively.
The only change in the top 10 was Garbine Muguruza climbing up to number 9 with Simona Halep on the brink of exiting the top 10. Halep has not played in a long time following a leg injury sustained prior to the French Open. Barbora Krejcikova won Prague Open which will serve as a great warm-up for Tokyo.
The Czech player bulldozed everyone on the hard court and jumped up to number 11 on the rankings. Putintseva and Zidansekg were the two other winners last week and both jumped up in the rankings. Putintseva is now 35th while Zidansek is 37th. In total six-player have new career-high rankings and they are as follows Krejcikova at 11, Zidansek at 37, Samsonova at 54, Martincova at 67, Kalinina at 81, and Burel at 99.
WTA Rankings as of July 19th:
1 Ashleigh Barty 9635
2 Naomi Osaka 7336
3 Aryna Sabalenka 6965
4 Sofia Kenin 5640
5 Bianca Andreescu 5331
6 Elina Svitolina 5125
7 Karolína Plíšková 4975
8 Iga Świątek 4695
9 Garbiñe Muguruza 4165
10 Simona Halep 4115
11 Barbora Krejčíková 4113
12 Belinda Bencic 4085
13 Petra Kvitová 3985
14 Victoria Azarenka 3845
15 Jennifer Brady 3830
16 Serena Williams 3641
17 Elise Mertens 3575
18 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 3420
19 Maria Sakkari 3420
20 Elena Rybakina 3083
21 Kiki Bertens 2975
22 Angelique Kerber 2950
23 Ons Jabeur 2930
24 Karolína Muchová 2876
25 Cori Gauff 2765
26 Madison Keys 2575
27 Jessica Pegula 2470
28 Anett Kontaveit 2385
29 Paula Badosa Gibert 2260
30 Jeļena Ostapenko 2170
31 Daria Kasatkina 2090
32 Petra Martić 2060
33 Veronika Kudermetova 2040
34 Ekaterina Alexandrova 2000
36 Alison Riske 1815
37 Tamara Zidanšek 1780
38 Nadia Podoroska 1762
39 Sorana Cîrstea 1734
40 Johanna Konta 1728
41 Markéta Vondroušová 1717
42 Shelby Rogers 1698
43 Svetlana Kuznetsova 1693
44 Danielle Collins 1630
45 Magda Linette 1628
46 Dayana Yastremska 1580
47 Donna Vekić 1550
48 Sara Sorribes Tormo 1550
49 Qiang Wang 1545
50 Viktorija Golubic 1531
51 Ajla Tomljanović 1470
52 Saisai Zheng 1450
53 Anastasija Sevastova 1448
54 Ludmilla Samsonova 1431
55 Jil Teichmann 1429
56 Marie Bouzková 1363
57 Camila Giorgi 1360
58 Shuai Zhang 1353
59 Rebecca Peterson 1332
60 Kateřina Siniaková 1325
61 Laura Siegemund 1318
62 Alison Van Uytvanck 1295
63 Kristina Mladenovic 1260
64 Fiona Ferro 1248
65 Marta Kostyuk 1241
66 Alizé Cornet 1235
67 Tereza Martincová 1212
68 Heather Watson 1166
69 Danka Kovinić 1160
70 Sloane Stephens 1156
71 Ann Li 1152
72 Leylah Fernandez 1151
73 Caroline Garcia 1150
74 Patricia Maria Țig 1096
75 Irina-Camelia Begu 1094
76 Su-wei Hsieh 1069
77 Bernarda Pera 1060
78 Nao Hibino 1050
79 Madison Brengle 1045
80 María Camila Osorio Serrano 1029
81 Anhelina Kalinina 1023
82 Kaia Kanepi 988
83 Anna Blinkova 985
84 Amanda Anisimova 980
85 Arantxa Rus 961
86 Anastasia Potapova 953
87 Aliaksandra Sasnovich 938
88 Polona Hercog 936
89 Varvara Gracheva 928
90 Nina Stojanović 928
91 Vera Zvonareva 922
92 Jasmine Paolini 920
93 Lin Zhu 891
94 Misaki Doi 871
95 Lauren Davis 870
96 Ana Bogdan 856
97 Clara Tauson 855
98 Andrea Petković 850
99 Clara Burel 850
100 Zarina Diyas 846