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
1 | Iga Świątek | 22 | POL | 10300 | |
2 | Aryna Sabalenka | 25 | BLR | 8905 | |
3 | Coco Gauff | 19 | USA | 7110 | |
4 | Elena Rybakina | 24 | KAZ | 6738 | |
5 | Jessica Pegula | 29 | USA | 5435 | |
6 | Ons Jabeur | 29 | TUN | 4183 | |
7 | Qinwen Zheng | 21 | CHN | 3885 | |
8 | Markéta Vondroušová | 24 | CZE | 3856 | |
9 | Jeļena Ostapenko | 26 | LAT | 3533 | 2 |
10 | Karolína Muchová | 27 | CZE | 3465 | |
11 | Maria Sakkari | 28 | GRE | 3455 | -2 |
12 | Barbora Krejčíková | 28 | CZE | 3134 | |
13 | Daria Kasatkina | 26 | RUS | 3063 | |
14 | Beatriz Haddad Maia | 27 | BRA | 2870 | |
15 | Ludmilla Samsonova | 25 | RUS | 2590 | |
16 | Madison Keys | 29 | USA | 2477 | |
17 | Ekaterina Alexandrova | 29 | RUS | 2475 | 2 |
18 | Petra Kvitová | 33 | CZE | 2410 | -1 |
19 | Veronika Kudermetova | 26 | RUS | 2250 | -1 |
20 | Elina Svitolina | 29 | UKR | 2212 | |
21 | Caroline Garcia | 30 | FRA | 2040 | |
22 | Sorana Cîrstea | 33 | ROU | 1893 | |
23 | Emma Navarro | 22 | USA | 1863 | |
24 | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | 32 | RUS | 1810 | 8 |
25 | Elise Mertens | 28 | BEL | 1746 | |
26 | Jasmine Paolini | 28 | ITA | 1735 | -2 |
27 | Victoria Azarenka | 34 | BLR | 1631 | 4 |
28 | Linda Nosková | 19 | CZE | 1613 | |
29 | Dayana Yastremska | 23 | UKR | 1607 | -3 |
30 | Marta Kostyuk | 21 | UKR | 1581 | -1 |
31 | Donna Vekić | 27 | CRO | 1580 | -4 |
32 | Anhelina Kalinina | 27 | UKR | 1545 | -2 |
33 | Leylah Fernandez | 21 | CAN | 1540 | 5 |
34 | Lesia Tsurenko | 34 | UKR | 1482 | 3 |
35 | Anastasia Potapova | 22 | RUS | 1467 | -1 |
36 | Karolína Plíšková | 31 | CZE | 1462 | 23 |
37 | Marie Bouzková | 25 | CZE | 1429 | -2 |
38 | Mirra Andreeva | 16 | RUS | 1408 | -5 |
39 | Kateřina Siniaková | 27 | CZE | 1393 | 3 |
40 | Anna Kalinskaya | 25 | RUS | 1323 | |
41 | Sloane Stephens | 30 | USA | 1322 | -2 |
42 | Xinyu Wang | 22 | CHN | 1321 | -1 |
43 | Arantxa Rus | 33 | NED | 1271 | |
44 | Belinda Bencic | 26 | SUI | 1267 | -8 |
45 | Caroline Dolehide | 25 | USA | 1263 | -1 |
46 | Danielle Collins | 30 | USA | 1236 | 17 |
47 | Clara Burel | 22 | FRA | 1224 | -1 |
48 | Magda Linette | 32 | POL | 1220 | 5 |
49 | Varvara Gracheva | 23 | FRA | 1218 | -2 |
50 | Katie Boulter | 27 | GBR | 1218 | -2 |
51 | Sara Sorribes Tormo | 27 | ESP | 1209 | -2 |
52 | Tatjana Maria | 36 | GER | 1205 | -2 |
53 | Anna Blinkova | 25 | RUS | 1192 | -2 |
54 | Magdalena Fręch | 26 | POL | 1190 | -2 |
55 | Sofia Kenin | 25 | USA | 1180 | -10 |
56 | Ana Bogdan | 31 | ROU | 1164 | -2 |
57 | Lin Zhu | 30 | CHN | 1152 | |
58 | Elisabetta Cocciaretto | 23 | ITA | 1148 | -3 |
59 | Lucia Bronzetti | 25 | ITA | 1139 | -3 |
60 | Martina Trevisan | 30 | ITA | 1124 | -2 |
61 | Petra Martić | 33 | CRO | 1079 | 6 |
62 | Elina Avanesyan | 21 | RUS | 1078 | -2 |
63 | Diane Parry | 21 | FRA | 1073 | -2 |
64 | Xiyu Wang | 22 | CHN | 1054 | -2 |
65 | Peyton Stearns | 22 | USA | 1041 | |
66 | Mayar Sherif | 27 | EGY | 1033 | -2 |
67 | Cristina Bucșa | 26 | ESP | 1020 | -1 |
68 | Viktoriya Tomova | 28 | BUL | 1009 | |
69 | Yue Yuan | 25 | CHN | 1006 | |
70 | Yafan Wang | 29 | CHN | 993 | |
71 | Viktorija Golubic | 31 | SUI | 978 | |
72 | Camila Giorgi | 32 | ITA | 971 | 1 |
73 | Diana Shnaider | 19 | RUS | 963 | 2 |
74 | Paula Badosa | 26 | ESP | 962 | 5 |
75 | Jaqueline Cristian | 25 | ROU | 960 | -3 |
76 | Ashlyn Krueger | 19 | USA | 936 | -2 |
77 | Yulia Putintseva | 29 | KAZ | 928 | -1 |
78 | Anna Karolína Schmiedlová | 29 | SVK | 925 | -1 |
79 | Tamara Korpatsch | 28 | GER | 918 | -1 |
80 | Greet Minnen | 26 | BEL | 906 | 5 |
81 | Océane Dodin | 27 | FRA | 888 | 1 |
82 | Taylor Townsend | 27 | USA | 882 | -1 |
83 | Bernarda Pera | 29 | USA | 877 | |
84 | Yanina Wickmayer | 34 | BEL | 869 | -4 |
85 | Zhuoxuan Bai | 21 | CHN | 858 | 3 |
86 | Nadia Podoroska | 27 | ARG | 857 | -2 |
87 | Laura Siegemund | 35 | GER | 851 | 3 |
88 | Jodie Burrage | 24 | GBR | 844 | 1 |
89 | Kayla Day | 24 | USA | 807 | 2 |
90 | Nao Hibino | 29 | JPN | 806 | 3 |
91 | Harriet Dart | 27 | GBR | 802 | 1 |
92 | Aliaksandra Sasnovich | 29 | BLR | 788 | 5 |
93 | Sara Errani | 36 | ITA | 787 | 1 |
94 | Rebeka Masarova | 24 | ESP | 785 | 2 |
95 | Clara Tauson | 21 | DEN | 781 | -9 |
96 | Emina Bektas | 30 | USA | 781 | -1 |
97 | Brenda Fruhvirtová | 16 | CZE | 774 | 1 |
98 | Kamilla Rakhimova | 22 | RUS | 773 | -11 |
99 | Erika Andreeva | 19 | RUS | 766 | 7 |
100 | Arina Rodionova | 34 | AUS | 761 | -1 |
101 | Camila Osorio | 22 | COL | 753 | -1 |
102 | Renata Zarazúa | 26 | MEX | 740 | -1 |
103 | Maria Timofeeva | 20 | RUS | 724 | -1 |
104 | Alizé Cornet | 34 | FRA | 718 | -1 |
105 | Julia Grabher | 27 | AUT | 708 | -1 |
106 | María Carlé | 24 | ARG | 695 | -1 |
107 | Marina Bassols Ribera | 24 | ESP | 686 | 3 |
108 | Kaja Juvan | 23 | SLO | 684 | |
109 | Claire Liu | 23 | USA | 682 | |
110 | Katie Volynets | 22 | USA | 682 | 1 |
111 | Tamara Zidanšek | 26 | SLO | 679 | -4 |
112 | Darja Semenistaja | 21 | LAT | 678 | |
113 | Alycia Parks | 23 | USA | 670 | |
114 | Hailey Baptiste | 22 | USA | 661 | 1 |
115 | Elizabeth Mandlik | 22 | USA | 655 | -1 |
116 | Julia Riera | 21 | ARG | 640 | |
117 | Mai Hontama | 24 | JPN | 638 | |
118 | Irina-Camelia Begu | 33 | ROU | 632 | |
119 | Emiliana Arango | 23 | COL | 617 | 1 |
120 | Anna Bondár | 26 | HUN | 612 | 1 |
121 | Nuria Párrizas Díaz | 32 | ESP | 601 | 1 |
122 | Linda Fruhvirtová | 18 | CZE | 599 | 1 |
123 | Olga Danilović | 23 | SRB | 599 | 1 |
124 | Laura Pigossi | 29 | BRA | 599 | 1 |
125 | Heather Watson | 31 | GBR | 598 | 7 |
126 | Jule Niemeier | 24 | GER | 590 | 5 |
127 | Rebecca Šramková | 27 | SVK | 588 | -8 |
128 | Storm Hunter | 29 | AUS | 586 | -2 |
129 | Jessika Ponchet | 27 | FRA | 586 | -2 |
130 | Rebecca Peterson | 28 | SWE | 583 | -2 |
131 | Alina Korneeva | 16 | RUS | 582 | -2 |
132 | Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro | 21 | ESP | 582 | 12 |
133 | Sára Bejlek | 18 | CZE | 574 | -3 |
134 | Dalma Gálfi | 25 | HUN | 564 | -1 |
135 | Yulia Starodubtseva | 24 | UKR | 554 | 2 |
136 | Anastasia Zakharova | 22 | RUS | 552 | 2 |
137 | Sachia Vickery | 28 | USA | 550 | 2 |
138 | Daria Snigur | 21 | UKR | 548 | -2 |
139 | Astra Sharma | 28 | AUS | 544 | -5 |
140 | Kimberly Birrell | 25 | AUS | 538 | |
141 | Olivia Gadecki | 21 | AUS | 534 | -6 |
142 | Fiona Ferro | 26 | FRA | 534 | |
143 | Arianne Hartono | 27 | NED | 534 | |
144 | Léolia Jeanjean | 28 | FRA | 533 | 1 |
145 | Bianca Andreescu | 23 | CAN | 529 | 2 |
146 | Lauren Davis | 30 | USA | 527 | -5 |
147 | Rebecca Marino | 33 | CAN | 525 | -1 |
148 | Moyuka Uchijima | 22 | JPN | 524 | |
149 | Daria Saville | 29 | AUS | 519 | |
150 | Anna-Lena Friedsam | 30 | GER | 507 | 1 |