WTA Rankings Update: Barty retains No. 1 while Osaka jumps to No. 2

After winning the Australian Open title Naomi Osaka climbed to No. 2 in the rankings while Ashleigh Barty retained the No. 1 spot for now.

It was a strong showing from Naomi Osaka who won her 2nd Australian Open title on Saturday and 4th Grand Slam title overall allowing her to jump to number two in the world on today's rankings. Ashleigh Barty retained the number one spot despite a disappointing run at the Australian Open that saw her fall short of the final. A run to the semifinal allowed Serena Williams to climb back into the top 10 after a long time being ranked as number 7 currently.

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American duo Pegula and Brady had strong showings in Australia as well being one the biggest climbers this week as Brady jumped 11 spots to number 13 in the world while Pegula jumped 18 spots to number 43 in the world. Su-Wei Hsieh lost her number one doubles ranking to Aryna Sabaleka this week but also jumped 21 spots to world number 50 in singles.

WTA Rankings as of February 22nd, 2021:

1 Ashleigh Barty 9186

2 Naomi Osaka 7835

3 Simona Halep 7255

4 Sofia Kenin 5760

5 Elina Svitolina 5370

6 Karolína Plíšková 5205

7 Serena Williams 4915

8 Aryna Sabalenka 4810

9 Bianca Andreescu 4735

10 Petra Kvitová 4571

11 Kiki Bertens 4505

12 Belinda Bencic 4010

13 Jennifer Brady 3765

14 Victoria Azarenka 3535

15 Garbiñe Muguruza 3320

16 Johanna Konta 3206

17 Elise Mertens 3060

18 Iga Świątek 3014

19 Madison Keys 2962

20 Markéta Vondroušová 2952

21 Petra Martić 2850

22 Karolína Muchová 2845

23 Elena Rybakina 2718

24 Anett Kontaveit 2575

25 Maria Sakkari 2570

26 Angelique Kerber 2370

27 Alison Riske 2256

28 Yulia Putintseva 2015

29 Donna Vekić 1990

30 Dayana Yastremska 1925

31 Ons Jabeur 1915

32 Amanda Anisimova 1905

33 Ekaterina Alexandrova 1900

34 Veronika Kudermetova 1800

35 Qiang Wang 1789

36 Shuai Zhang 1693

37 Danielle Collins 1675

38 Svetlana Kuznetsova 1631

39 Barbora Strýcová 1630

40 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 1630

41 Sloane Stephens 1573

42 Magda Linette 1573

43 Jessica Pegula 1558

44 Nadia Podoroska 1557

45 Fiona Ferro 1557

46 Caroline Garcia 1520

47 Saisai Zheng 1510

48 Marie Bouzková 1499

49 Jeļena Ostapenko 1485

50 Shelby Rogers 1463

51 Su-wei Hsieh 1455

52 Kristina Mladenovic 1455

53 Cori Gauff 1447

54 Anastasija Sevastova 1371

55 Laura Siegemund 1356

56 Polona Hercog 1335

57 Daria Kasatkina 1295

58 Alizé Cornet 1290

59 Rebecca Peterson 1285

60 Patricia Maria Țig 1254

61 Jil Teichmann 1237

62 Kaia Kanepi 1228

63 Barbora Krejčíková 1183

64 Heather Watson 1176

65 Bernarda Pera 1165

66 Alison Van Uytvanck 1155

67 Sorana Cîrstea 1139

68 Kateřina Siniaková 1135

69 Anna Blinkova 1114

70 Sara Sorribes Tormo 1110

71 Ann Li 1079

72 Irina-Camelia Begu 1054

73 Paula Badosa Gibert 1044

74 Ajla Tomljanović 1035

75 Kristýna Plíšková 1020

76 Venus Williams 1018

77 Madison Brengle 981

78 Nao Hibino 973

79 Arantxa Rus 971

80 Marta Kostyuk 971

81 Camila Giorgi 970

82 Lauren Davis 967

83 Danka Kovinić 952

84 Zarina Diyas 928

85 Christina McHale 909

86 Misaki Doi 906

87 Leylah Fernandez 904

88 Anastasia Potapova 891

89 Carla Suárez Navarro 881

90 Martina Trevisan 879

91 Kaja Juvan 878

92 Kirsten Flipkens 878

93 Tamara Zidanšek 865

94 Varvara Gracheva 858

95 Jasmine Paolini 850

96 Nina Stojanović 839

97 Aliaksandra Sasnovich 838

98 Taylor Townsend 836

99 Lin Zhu 830

100 Ana Bogdan 820