WTA Rankings Update: Barty retains No. 1 while Swiatek continues to rise after Adelaide win

The WTA calendar is shorter by another week and following her Adelaide title run Iga Swiatek continued her climb on the rankings while Barty remained No. 1.

Not many top 10 WT stars played in the past week so naturally, there was not much movement in the rankings but Iga Swiatek continued her climb. She had an amazing week in Adelaide where she won her 2nd career trophy which allowed her to jump 3 spots to number 15. On top, Barty stayed the highest-ranked WTA player with Osaka and Halep positioned as 2nd and 3rd.

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Cori Gauff had a good week as well which allowed her to jump 14 spots as she is now World Number 38. No player endured a huge drop in the rankings as not many players played overall but that should change in the next rankings with high-profile events in Doha and Lyon this week.

WTA Rankings as of March 1st, 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 4255

13 Jennifer Brady 3765

14 Victoria Azarenka 3535

15 Iga Świątek 3483

16 Garbiñe Muguruza 3320

17 Johanna Konta 3206

18 Elise Mertens 3060

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 1760

36 Danielle Collins 1720

37 Shuai Zhang 1693

38 Cori Gauff 1632

39 Svetlana Kuznetsova 1631

40 Barbora Strýcová 1630

41 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 1630

42 Sloane Stephens 1573

43 Magda Linette 1573

44 Jessica Pegula 1558

45 Nadia Podoroska 1557

46 Fiona Ferro 1557

47 Caroline Garcia 1520

48 Saisai Zheng 1510

49 Shelby Rogers 1508

50 Marie Bouzková 1499

51 Jeļena Ostapenko 1485

52 Su-wei Hsieh 1455

53 Kristina Mladenovic 1455

54 Jil Teichmann 1393

55 Anastasija Sevastova 1387

56 Laura Siegemund 1356

57 Polona Hercog 1335

58 Daria Kasatkina 1295

59 Alizé Cornet 1290

60 Rebecca Peterson 1285

61 Patricia Maria Țig 1254

62 Kaia Kanepi 1228

63 Barbora Krejčíková 1184

64 Heather Watson 1176

65 Bernarda Pera 1165

66 Alison Van Uytvanck 1155

67 Sorana Cîrstea 1139

68 Anna Blinkova 1138

69 Kateřina Siniaková 1135

70 Sara Sorribes Tormo 1110

71 Ann Li 1079

72 Irina-Camelia Begu 1054

73 Paula Badosa Gibert 1044

74 Kristýna Plíšková 1044

75 Ajla Tomljanović 1035

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 Misaki Doi 954

84 Danka Kovinić 952

85 Zarina Diyas 928

86 Christina McHale 909

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 Nina Stojanović 854

96 Aliaksandra Sasnovich 838

97 Taylor Townsend 836

98 Jasmine Paolini 831

99 Lin Zhu 830

100 Ana Bogdan 820