The WTA Ranking has been updated today, Monday, August 28, with world No. 1 Iga Swiatek holding onto the top spot as Sofia Kenin drops out of the top 100.

The WTA Rankings have been updated on the same day as the US Open kicks off, although this will not affect players' seeding for the tournament. At the top is Iga Swiatek, who is entering her 74th week as No. 1. However, world No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka, currently 1,209 points behind Swiatek, will have another opportunity to usurp the 22-year-old in New York.

All the Belarusian has to do is to match or better Swiatek at the tournament, although this will probably be harder than it looks as the Polish player is the defending champion.

In terms of ranking points, this means that Swiatek has 2,000 points to maintain, while Sabalenka has 780 to defend after reaching last year's semi-finals.

Elsewhere, much has remained the same. The only major developments include Ekaterina Alexandrova re-entering the top 20 after finishing runner-up at Tennis in the Land, a WTA 250 event in Cleveland.

Meanwhile, the Tennis in the Land champion Sara Sorribes Tomo has jumped up 40 places to No. 55 following her victory.

In terms of the top 100, Viktoriya Tomova has re-joined the group at No. 82 after she won the Chicago 125K title. Meanwhile, Sofia Kenin, who achieved a shock victory over world No. 6 Coco Gauff in the first round of this year's Wimbledon, has found herself falling out of the top 100 after missing all of the US Open series with a thigh injury.

Nevertheless, she is planning on competing at the Grand Slam, where she will hope to gain back some points after going out in the first round in 2022.

Meanwhile, Simona Halep, who has been provisionally suspended due to a positive doping test since last October, is now outside the top 1000 with just 10 ranking points left. The Romanian player will lose these points at the end of the US Open as she awaits the verdict from the tribunal examining her case.

1 Iga Świątek 22 POL 9955

2 Aryna Sabalenka 25 BLR 8746

3 Jessica Pegula 29 USA 5945

4 Elena Rybakina 24 KAZ 5670

5 Ons Jabeur 29 TUN 4831

6 Coco Gauff 19 USA 4595

7 Caroline Garcia 29 FRA 3820

8 Maria Sakkari 28 GRE 3585

9 Markéta Vondroušová 24 CZE 3401

10 Karolína Muchová 27 CZE 2995

11 Petra Kvitová 33 CZE 2920

12 Barbora Krejčíková 27 CZE 2811

13 Belinda Bencic 26 SUI 2605 2

14 Daria Kasatkina 26 RUS 2560 -1

15 Ludmilla Samsonova 24 RUS 2525 -1

16 Veronika Kudermetova 26 RUS 2480

17 Madison Keys 28 USA 2290

18 Victoria Azarenka 34 BLR 2235

19 Beatriz Haddad Maia 27 BRA 2220

20 Ekaterina Alexandrova 28 RUS 2190 2

21 Jeļena Ostapenko 26 LAT 2160 -1

22 Donna Vekić 27 CRO 2125 -1

23 Qinwen Zheng 20 CHN 1823

24 Magda Linette 31 POL 1756

25 Karolína Plíšková 31 CZE 1685

26 Elina Svitolina 28 UKR 1679

27 Anastasia Potapova 22 RUS 1675

28 Anhelina Kalinina 26 UKR 1597

29 Elisabetta Cocciaretto 22 ITA 1420

30 Sorana Cîrstea 33 ROU 1400

31 Marie Bouzková 25 CZE 1393

32 Elise Mertens 27 BEL 1389

33 Mayar Sherif 27 EGY 1385

34 Danielle Collins 29 USA 1362

35 Jasmine Paolini 27 ITA 1330

36 Sloane Stephens 30 USA 1325 2

37 Petra Martić 32 CRO 1323 -1

38 Anna Blinkova 24 RUS 1283 1

39 Marta Kostyuk 21 UKR 1230 -2

40 Varvara Gracheva 23 FRA 1196 1

41 Linda Nosková 18 CZE 1174 1

42 Alycia Parks 22 USA 1171 1

43 Irina-Camelia Begu 33 ROU 1168 -3

44 Lin Zhu 29 CHN 1168 4

45 Arantxa Rus 32 NED 1152 -1

46 Lesia Tsurenko 34 UKR 1151 -1

47 Tatjana Maria 36 GER 1125 2

48 Paula Badosa 25 ESP 1117 -2

49 Kateřina Siniaková 27 CZE 1089 -2

50 Lauren Davis 29 USA 1064

51 Bianca Andreescu 23 CAN 1052

52 Camila Giorgi 31 ITA 1043

53 Xinyu Wang 21 CHN 1031 3

54 Julia Grabher 27 AUT 1004

55 Sara Sorribes Tormo 26 ESP 996 40

56 Linda Fruhvirtová 18 CZE 984 -1

57 Emma Navarro 22 USA 981

58 Martina Trevisan 29 ITA 977 -5

59 Peyton Stearns 21 USA 956 -1

60 Ana Bogdan 30 ROU 952 -1

61 Katie Boulter 27 GBR 947 -1

62 Clara Burel 22 FRA 935

63 Mirra Andreeva 16 RUS 909 4

64 Anna Karolína Schmiedlová 28 SVK 907 -1

65 Cristina Bucșa 25 ESP 905 5

66 Elina Avanesyan 20 RUS 901 -2

67 Leylah Fernandez 20 CAN 895 5

68 Camila Osorio 21 COL 892 -2

69 Claire Liu 23 USA 879 12

70 Nadia Podoroska 26 ARG 866 1

71 Rebeka Masarova 24 ESP 862 3

72 Kamilla Rakhimova 22 RUS 846 6

73 Bernarda Pera 28 USA 844 -12

74 Caty McNally 21 USA 834 2

75 Tamara Korpatsch 28 GER 833 2

76 Lucia Bronzetti 24 ITA 830 6

77 Magdalena Fręch 25 POL 828 -2

78 Yulia Putintseva 28 KAZ 827 1

79 Alizé Cornet 33 FRA 819 -14

80 Shuai Zhang 34 CHN 817 -11

81 Nao Hibino 28 JPN 814 -1

82 Viktoriya Tomova 28 BUL 802 22

83 Kateryna Baindl 29 UKR 800

84 Diana Shnaider 19 RUS 772 1

85 Yanina Wickmayer 33 BEL 770 1

86 Rebecca Peterson 28 SWE 766 6

87 Clara Tauson 20 DEN 760 3

88 Diane Parry 20 FRA 757 -15

89 Anna Kalinskaya 24 RUS 755 -2

90 Anna-Lena Friedsam 29 GER 753 -2

91 Jule Niemeier 24 GER 748 -2

92 Aliaksandra Sasnovich 29 BLR 746 -24

93 Kayla Day 23 USA 741 -2

94 Danka Kovinić 28 MNE 737

95 Xiyu Wang 22 CHN 732 -11

96 Jodie Burrage 24 GBR 726

97 Greet Minnen 26 BEL 721 1

98 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 32 RUS 720 1

99 Jaqueline Cristian 25 ROU 711 1

100 Yue Yuan 24 CHN 693 2