WTA RANKINGS UPDATE: Iga SWIATEK extends World No.1 lead, Jelena OSTAPENKO returns to top 10 as Sakkari drops

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Monday, 19 February 2024 at 09:00
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The WTA Rankings have been updated post Qatar Open with Iga Swiatek building her World No.1 lead again after retaining the title for a third year, while Jelena Ostapenko has benefited from Maria Sakkari's demise as the Greek leaves the top 10 after two and a half years.
Ostapenko is up to her highest ranking since May 2018, a lull of nearly six years and is perhaps deserved given that she has only less wins than recent Abu Dhabi champion and Doha finalist, Elena Rybakina to lead the tour this season. She is 14-3 so far with two titles and her only losses have came against Victoria Azarenka.
She benefits from Maria Sakkari falling out of the top 10 for the first time in nearly three years. Staying power at the top despite only having two WTA titles to her name, the Greek has been ultra consistent up until recent months heralding her slide and has just split with coach Tom Hill as she aims for a new impetus.
While Iga Swiatek has increased her lead at the top. She finds herself with 1,395 points ahead of Aryna Sabalenka albeit defending 1,000 next week so that lead could soon drop. But she has opened up a gap again that wouldn't have been there had the Belarusian played Doha. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Naomi Osaka are also the big movers this week. The former was outside the top 800 last February after knee surgery, but now finds herself on the verge of the top 20 going from 32nd to 24th and she reached consecutive semi-finals as her return to form continues.
While Naomi Osaka is up nearly 500 places. She goes up to 286th and could've even been back inside the top 70 in winning the title in Doha. A lot to be happy about for the former World No.1.

WTA Rankings - 19-02-2024

1Iga Świątek22POL10300
2Aryna Sabalenka25BLR8905
3Coco Gauff19USA7110
4Elena Rybakina24KAZ6738
5Jessica Pegula29USA5435
6Ons Jabeur29TUN4183
7Qinwen Zheng21CHN3885
8Markéta Vondroušová24CZE3856
9Jeļena Ostapenko26LAT35332
10Karolína Muchová27CZE3465
11Maria Sakkari28GRE3455-2
12Barbora Krejčíková28CZE3134
13Daria Kasatkina26RUS3063
14Beatriz Haddad Maia27BRA2870
15Ludmilla Samsonova25RUS2590
16Madison Keys29USA2477
17Ekaterina Alexandrova29RUS24752
18Petra Kvitová33CZE2410-1
19Veronika Kudermetova26RUS2250-1
20Elina Svitolina29UKR2212
21Caroline Garcia30FRA2040
22Sorana Cîrstea33ROU1893
23Emma Navarro22USA1863
24Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova32RUS18108
25Elise Mertens28BEL1746
26Jasmine Paolini28ITA1735-2
27Victoria Azarenka34BLR16314
28Linda Nosková19CZE1613
29Dayana Yastremska23UKR1607-3
30Marta Kostyuk21UKR1581-1
31Donna Vekić27CRO1580-4
32Anhelina Kalinina27UKR1545-2
33Leylah Fernandez21CAN15405
34Lesia Tsurenko34UKR14823
35Anastasia Potapova22RUS1467-1
36Karolína Plíšková31CZE146223
37Marie Bouzková25CZE1429-2
38Mirra Andreeva16RUS1408-5
39Kateřina Siniaková27CZE13933
40Anna Kalinskaya25RUS1323
41Sloane Stephens30USA1322-2
42Xinyu Wang22CHN1321-1
43Arantxa Rus33NED1271
44Belinda Bencic26SUI1267-8
45Caroline Dolehide25USA1263-1
46Danielle Collins30USA123617
47Clara Burel22FRA1224-1
48Magda Linette32POL12205
49Varvara Gracheva23FRA1218-2
50Katie Boulter27GBR1218-2
51Sara Sorribes Tormo27ESP1209-2
52Tatjana Maria36GER1205-2
53Anna Blinkova25RUS1192-2
54Magdalena Fręch26POL1190-2
55Sofia Kenin25USA1180-10
56Ana Bogdan31ROU1164-2
57Lin Zhu30CHN1152
58Elisabetta Cocciaretto23ITA1148-3
59Lucia Bronzetti25ITA1139-3
60Martina Trevisan30ITA1124-2
61Petra Martić33CRO10796
62Elina Avanesyan21RUS1078-2
63Diane Parry21FRA1073-2
64Xiyu Wang22CHN1054-2
65Peyton Stearns22USA1041
66Mayar Sherif27EGY1033-2
67Cristina Bucșa26ESP1020-1
68Viktoriya Tomova28BUL1009
69Yue Yuan25CHN1006
70Yafan Wang29CHN993
71Viktorija Golubic31SUI978
72Camila Giorgi32ITA9711
73Diana Shnaider19RUS9632
74Paula Badosa26ESP9625
75Jaqueline Cristian25ROU960-3
76Ashlyn Krueger19USA936-2
77Yulia Putintseva29KAZ928-1
78Anna Karolína Schmiedlová29SVK925-1
79Tamara Korpatsch28GER918-1
80Greet Minnen26BEL9065
81Océane Dodin27FRA8881
82Taylor Townsend27USA882-1
83Bernarda Pera29USA877
84Yanina Wickmayer34BEL869-4
85Zhuoxuan Bai21CHN8583
86Nadia Podoroska27ARG857-2
87Laura Siegemund35GER8513
88Jodie Burrage24GBR8441
89Kayla Day24USA8072
90Nao Hibino29JPN8063
91Harriet Dart27GBR8021
92Aliaksandra Sasnovich29BLR7885
93Sara Errani36ITA7871
94Rebeka Masarova24ESP7852
95Clara Tauson21DEN781-9
96Emina Bektas30USA781-1
97Brenda Fruhvirtová16CZE7741
98Kamilla Rakhimova22RUS773-11
99Erika Andreeva19RUS7667
100Arina Rodionova34AUS761-1
101Camila Osorio22COL753-1
102Renata Zarazúa26MEX740-1
103Maria Timofeeva20RUS724-1
104Alizé Cornet34FRA718-1
105Julia Grabher27AUT708-1
106María Carlé24ARG695-1
107Marina Bassols Ribera24ESP6863
108Kaja Juvan23SLO684
109Claire Liu23USA682
110Katie Volynets22USA6821
111Tamara Zidanšek26SLO679-4
112Darja Semenistaja21LAT678
113Alycia Parks23USA670
114Hailey Baptiste22USA6611
115Elizabeth Mandlik22USA655-1
116Julia Riera21ARG640
117Mai Hontama24JPN638
118Irina-Camelia Begu33ROU632
119Emiliana Arango23COL6171
120Anna Bondár26HUN6121
121Nuria Párrizas Díaz32ESP6011
122Linda Fruhvirtová18CZE5991
123Olga Danilović23SRB5991
124Laura Pigossi29BRA5991
125Heather Watson31GBR5987
126Jule Niemeier24GER5905
127Rebecca Šramková27SVK588-8
128Storm Hunter29AUS586-2
129Jessika Ponchet27FRA586-2
130Rebecca Peterson28SWE583-2
131Alina Korneeva16RUS582-2
132Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro21ESP58212
133Sára Bejlek18CZE574-3
134Dalma Gálfi25HUN564-1
135Yulia Starodubtseva24UKR5542
136Anastasia Zakharova22RUS5522
137Sachia Vickery28USA5502
138Daria Snigur21UKR548-2
139Astra Sharma28AUS544-5
140Kimberly Birrell25AUS538
141Olivia Gadecki21AUS534-6
142Fiona Ferro26FRA534
143Arianne Hartono27NED534
144Léolia Jeanjean28FRA5331
145Bianca Andreescu23CAN5292
146Lauren Davis30USA527-5
147Rebecca Marino33CAN525-1
148Moyuka Uchijima22JPN524
149Daria Saville29AUS519
150Anna-Lena Friedsam30GER5071

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