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

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.

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.