WTA RANKINGS Update: Iga SWIATEK holds firm as World No.1 as Jasmine PAOLINI and Anna KALINSKAYA star with new career high

Monday, 26 February 2024 at 08:57

The WTA Rankings have been updated for another week after the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships with finalists Jasmine Paolini and Anna Kalinskaya reaching new career highs as Iga Swiatek continues her reign and widens the gap as World No.1.

Paolini won in Dubai defeating Maria Sakkari, Beatriz Haddad Maia and Sorana Cirstea before defeating Kalinskaya. She jumped up 14 spots from World No.28 into the top 15 as she reached World No.14 and the ever improving Italian especially with players around her on the slide will see an opportunity to head towards the top 10 in short order.

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While Kalinskaya who dropped like a stone down the rankings due to injury was perhaps the star of the week dumping out Iga Swiatek and coming from qualifying to reach the final where she just ran out of steam. She jumped up to World No.24 from World No.40 though to march towards the top 20.

Iga Swiatek dropped 200 points, but still maintains a healthy lead over Aryna Sabalenka who will have to defend a final at Indian Wells in the coming weeks. Marketa Vondrousova who made the Quarter-Finals in Dubai replaced Zheng Qinwen as World No.7. Maria Sakkari after a week away saw off Karolina Muchova to return to the top 10, while Jelena Ostapenko rounds out the higher echelons of the rankings.

Donna Vekic has moved up three spots to World No.28, while Magdalena Frech makes her top 50 debut going up 11 spots to World No.42. Barbora Krejcikova plummeted though down to World No.21 down nine spots after failing to defend any points from Dubai.

WTA Ranking - 26/02/2024

1	Iga Świątek	22	POL	10105
2	Aryna Sabalenka	25	BLR	8725
3	Coco Gauff	19	USA	6975
4	Elena Rybakina	24	KAZ	6848
5	Jessica Pegula	30	USA	5050
6	Ons Jabeur	29	TUN	4173
7	Markéta Vondroušová	24	CZE	4070	1
8	Qinwen Zheng	21	CHN	4040	-1
9	Maria Sakkari	28	GRE	3565	2
10	Jeļena Ostapenko	26	LAT	3548	-1
11	Karolína Muchová	27	CZE	3275	-1
12	Daria Kasatkina	26	RUS	3063	1
13	Beatriz Haddad Maia	27	BRA	2870	1
14	Jasmine Paolini	28	ITA	2700	12
15	Liudmila Samsonova	25	RUS	2605
16	Ekaterina Alexandrova	29	RUS	2475	1
17	Elina Svitolina	29	UKR	2332	3
18	Petra Kvitová	33	CZE	2305
19	Veronika Kudermetova	26	RUS	2305
20	Madison Keys	29	USA	2287	-4
21	Barbora Krejčíková	28	CZE	2233	-9
22	Sorana Cîrstea	33	ROU	2223
23	Caroline Garcia	30	FRA	2040	-2
24	Anna Kalinskaya	25	RUS	2002	16
25	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	32	RUS	1874	-1
26	Emma Navarro	22	USA	1868	-3
27	Elise Mertens	28	BEL	1746	-2
28	Donna Vekić	27	CRO	1690	3
29	Linda Nosková	19	CZE	1613	-1
30	Victoria Azarenka	34	BLR	1591	-3
31	Anastasia Potapova	22	RUS	1586	4
32	Leylah Fernandez	21	CAN	1545	1
33	Dayana Yastremska	23	UKR	1532	-4
34	Marta Kostyuk	21	UKR	1521	-4
35	Anhelina Kalinina	27	UKR	1470	-3
36	Lesia Tsurenko	34	UKR	1464	-2
37	Mirra Andreeva	16	RUS	1418	1
38	Karolína Plíšková	31	CZE	1392	-2
39	Marie Bouzková	25	CZE	1379	-2
40	Sloane Stephens	30	USA	1327	1
41	Xinyu Wang	22	CHN	1316	1
42	Magdalena Fręch	26	POL	1315	11
43	Kateřina Siniaková	27	CZE	1293	-4
44	Arantxa Rus	33	NED	1271	-1
45	Caroline Dolehide	25	USA	1263
46	Clara Burel	22	FRA	1253	1
47	Tatjana Maria	36	GER	1240	7
48	Danielle Collins	30	USA	1236	-2
49	Katie Boulter	27	GBR	1218	1
50	Sara Sorribes Tormo	27	ESP	1209	1
51	Anna Blinkova	25	RUS	1192	1
52	Lucia Bronzetti	25	ITA	1192	8
53	Magda Linette	32	POL	1190	-5
54	Sofia Kenin	25	USA	1189	1
55	Varvara Gracheva	23	FRA	1186	-6
56	Elisabetta Cocciaretto	23	ITA	1173	2
57	Belinda Bencic	26	SUI	1162	-13
58	Lin Zhu	30	CHN	1152	-1
59	Petra Martić	33	CRO	1143	2
60	Martina Trevisan	30	ITA	1125	-1
61	Peyton Stearns	22	USA	1096	4
62	Diane Parry	21	FRA	1073	1
63	Elina Avanesyan	21	RUS	1061	-1
64	Xiyu Wang	22	CHN	1054
65	Ana Bogdan	31	ROU	1044	-9
66	Mayar Sherif	27	EGY	1033
67	Cristina Bucșa	26	ESP	1020
68	Yue Yuan	25	CHN	1006	1
69	Yafan Wang	29	CHN	993	1
70	Ashlyn Krueger	19	USA	986	6
71	Viktorija Golubic	31	SUI	978
72	Paula Badosa	26	ESP	971	2
73	Diana Shnaider	19	RUS	963
74	Viktoriya Tomova	29	BUL	949	-6
75	Jaqueline Cristian	25	ROU	949
76	Anna Karolína Schmiedlová	29	SVK	925	2
77	Tamara Korpatsch	28	GER	918	2
78	Greet Minnen	26	BEL	907	2
79	Bernarda Pera	29	USA	906	4
80	Yulia Putintseva	29	KAZ	898	-3
81	Nao Hibino	29	JPN	888	9
82	Océane Dodin	27	FRA	883	-1
83	Taylor Townsend	27	USA	882	-1
84	Zhuoxuan Bai	21	CHN	858	1
85	Nadia Podoroska	27	ARG	852	1
86	Jodie Burrage	24	GBR	843	2
87	Yanina Wickmayer	34	BEL	828	-3
88	Laura Siegemund	35	GER	823	-1
89	Kayla Day	24	USA	807
90	Sara Errani	36	ITA	794	4
91	Harriet Dart	27	GBR	791
92	Clara Tauson	21	DEN	781	3
93	Emina Bektas	30	USA	781	3
94	Kamilla Rakhimova	22	RUS	778	4
95	Brenda Fruhvirtová	16	CZE	774	2
96	Erika Andreeva	19	RUS	766	3
97	Rebeka Masarova	24	ESP	757	-4
98	Camila Osorio	22	COL	753	2
99	Arina Rodionova	34	AUS	745	2
100	Aliaksandra Sasnovich	29	BLR	743	-8
101	María Carlé	24	ARG	731	5
102	Renata Zarazúa	26	MEX	726
103	Maria Timofeeva	20	RUS	725
104	Alizé Cornet	34	FRA	718
105	Camila Giorgi	32	ITA	692	-33
106	Hailey Baptiste	22	USA	692	8
107	Marina Bassols Ribera	24	ESP	689
108	Kaja Juvan	23	SLO	684
109	Julia Grabher	27	AUT	679	-4
110	Claire Liu	23	USA	677	-1
111	Anna Bondár	26	HUN	675	9
112	Katie Volynets	22	USA	662
113	Elizabeth Mandlik	22	USA	655	2
114	Tamara Zidanšek	26	SLO	655	-4
115	Darja Semenistaja	21	LAT	654	-4
116	Julia Riera	21	ARG	646
117	Alycia Parks	23	USA	642	-4
118	Irina-Camelia Begu	33	ROU	631	-1
119	Mai Hontama	24	JPN	627	-1
120	Mccartney Kessler	24	USA	618	33
121	Emiliana Arango	23	COL	617	-2
122	Storm Hunter	29	AUS	616	6
123	Laura Pigossi	29	BRA	607	1
124	Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro	21	ESP	605	8
125	Olga Danilović	23	SRB	598	-2
126	Jule Niemeier	24	GER	590
127	Rebecca Šramková	27	SVK	588
128	Alina Korneeva	16	RUS	582	3
129	Nuria Párrizas Díaz	32	ESP	580	-8
130	Yulia Starodubtseva	24	UKR	579	5
131	Heather Watson	31	GBR	569	-6
132	Sára Bejlek	18	CZE	566	1
133	Dalma Gálfi	25	HUN	564	1
134	Sachia Vickery	28	USA	556	3
135	Daria Snigur	21	UKR	555	3
136	Anastasia Zakharova	22	RUS	552
137	Linda Fruhvirtová	18	CZE	551	-15
138	Astra Sharma	28	AUS	544	1
139	Arianne Hartono	27	NED	530	3
140	Léolia Jeanjean	28	FRA	529	7
141	Fiona Ferro	26	FRA	529
142	Bianca Andreescu	23	CAN	528	1
143	Olivia Gadecki	21	AUS	528	1
144	Eva Lys	22	GER	523	7
145	Anna-Lena Friedsam	30	GER	521	5
146	Jessika Ponchet	27	FRA	521	-17
147	Rebecca Marino	33	CAN	520	-1
148	Daria Saville	29	AUS	519
149	Moyuka Uchijima	22	JPN	518
150	Chloé Paquet	29	FRA	499	4

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