WTA Rankings Update: Halep Rome trophy not enough to dethrone Barty as #1

Simona Halep won the Internazionali BNL d'Italia trophy but that wasn't enough to dethrone Ashleigh Barty as world number 1.

Simona had an amazing week in Rome which ended with her first Internazionali BNL d'Italia trophy but that wasn't enough to unseat Ashleigh Barty as world number one. The Australian who decided not to leave Australia during the pandemic retained her place for now but that might soon change as the French Open is near and she won't defend her title.

Besides that, we saw other movements in the Top 10 as well as Kenin and Svitolina switched places with the Ukrainian now being #5. The biggest jump in the top 100 was made by Danka Kovinic who played very well in Rome. The Montenegrin player jumped 13 spots to become world number 73. Several players dropped in rankings over the week with notably Donna Vekic continuing her slip in the rankings sitting at number 30. Yulia Putintseva continued to climb the rankings as her solid form continued in Rome. She is now sitting firmly at number 27.

WTA Rankings as of September 21st, 2020:

1 Ashleigh Barty 8717
2 Simona Halep 7255
3 Naomi Osaka 5780
4 Karolína Plíšková 5205
5 Elina Svitolina 4740
6 Sofia Kenin 4700
7 Bianca Andreescu 4555
8 Kiki Bertens 4335
9 Serena Williams 4080
10 Belinda Bencic 4010
11 Petra Kvitová 3736
12 Aryna Sabalenka 3615
13 Johanna Konta 3152
14 Victoria Azarenka 3122
15 Garbiñe Muguruza 3016
16 Madison Keys 2962
17 Petra Martić 2850
18 Elena Rybakina 2546
19 Markéta Vondroušová 2538
20 Elise Mertens 2490
21 Anett Kontaveit 2330
22 Angelique Kerber 2271
23 Alison Riske 2256
24 Maria Sakkari 2240
25 Jennifer Brady 2165
26 Karolína Muchová 1982
27 Yulia Putintseva 1955
28 Dayana Yastremska 1925
29 Amanda Anisimova 1905
30 Donna Vekić 1880
31 Ekaterina Alexandrova 1775
32 Qiang Wang 1706
33 Svetlana Kuznetsova 1631
34 Magda Linette 1602
35 Sloane Stephens 1573
36 Ons Jabeur 1573
37 Barbora Strýcová 1570
38 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 1570
39 Shuai Zhang 1516
40 Saisai Zheng 1510
41 Julia Görges 1423
42 Veronika Kudermetova 1388
43 Jeļena Ostapenko 1360
44 Kristina Mladenovic 1335
45 Caroline Garcia 1325
46 Marie Bouzková 1314
47 Polona Hercog 1310
48 Anastasija Sevastova 1288
49 Fiona Ferro 1267
50 Rebecca Peterson 1255
51 Cori Gauff 1234
52 Alizé Cornet 1230
53 Iga Świątek 1200
54 Jil Teichmann 1176
55 Shelby Rogers 1133
56 Heather Watson 1130
57 Danielle Collins 1115
58 Anna Blinkova 1114
59 Patricia Maria Țig 1105
60 Jessica Pegula 1103
61 Bernarda Pera 1075
62 Kateřina Siniaková 1045
63 Su-wei Hsieh 1035
64 Ajla Tomljanović 1035
65 Alison Van Uytvanck 1035
66 Laura Siegemund 971
67 Arantxa Rus 971
68 Lauren Davis 967
69 Kristýna Plíšková 960
70 Sara Sorribes Tormo 945
71 Daria Kasatkina 935
72 Irina-Camelia Begu 932
73 Danka Kovinić 932
74 Camila Giorgi 930
75 Venus Williams 929
76 Zarina Diyas 928
77 Madison Brengle 906
78 Carla Suárez Navarro 881
79 Kirsten Flipkens 878
80 Misaki Doi 863
81 Christina McHale 857
82 Nao Hibino 853
83 Tamara Zidanšek 840
84 Sorana Cîrstea 839
85 Taylor Townsend 835
86 Lin Zhu 830
87 Paula Badosa Gibert 798
88 Yafan Wang 795
89 Varvara Gracheva 778
90 Viktória Kužmová 775
91 Nina Stojanović 761
92 Anastasia Potapova 759
93 Ana Bogdan 755
94 Jasmine Paolini 755
95 Andrea Petković 750
96 Aliaksandra Sasnovich 738
97 Aliona Bolsova Zadoinov 726
98 Mónica Puig 722
99 Kateryna Kozlova 718
100 Leylah Fernandez 714
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