WTA Rankings Update: Barty reigns supreme ahead of Osaka and Sabalenka

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.

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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

35 Yulia Putintseva 1865

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