WTA Rankings Update: Maja Chwalinska makes mammoth rise towards top 10 after Wuhan title with Sonay Kartal rises 120 spots in one week

Monday, 19 October 2026 at 12:42

The WTA Rankings have been updated after a big week on the women's tour, with Maja Chwalinska showing that her run at Roland Garros was not a flash in the pan as she surges towards the top 10 after winning the title in Wuhan.

On a completely different surface too in this case, as Chwalinska shone, and this has had huge consequences. In the top 10, there were no changes despite Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina, and others losing early. But Chwalinska has jumped 11 spots, and the queue for the top 10 at that.

Iva Jovic seemed the next likely candidate for a top 10 debut after a terrific season for the 18-year-old, but she has been jumped by Chwalinska, albeit it will take some running for her to make the top 10 yet at least and then further head into it. Chwalinska is on 3,031 points. But it sits around 800 points behind Marta Kostyuk, meaning that it is likely Chwalinska has to win another title to make her debut or a player has to drop off ahead of her.

But feasibly we could be looking at a situation where, given Swiatek is ninth, we could get a new Polish number one in the next few months. Very much unheralded, given that Chwalinska up until Roland Garros languished outside the top 100.

Sonay Kartal the star of this week.

But in a similar vein to others before her, such as Amanda Anisimova, she has put it together this season, and while the backing it up next year now as a result is a different scenario, for now she has emerged as one of the best on the tour in terms of a stark rise over the course of the year.

Kartal one of the biggest rises as Andreescu and Stephens rise again

However, not only was there the great story with Chwalinska, but also Sonay Kartal rose again. The Brit has been an unfortunate injury casualty for most of the past year after showing such promise at Wimbledon on home soil. But now she is back in the higher echelons after only returning in recent weeks.

She has gone a staggering 120 spots to return to the top 50. Other rises include Jelena Ostapenko up 10 to the 24th and Ann Li after her run-up six to the 25th.

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Outside of the bubble of the Asian hard court swing, former US Open champions also won titles, with Bianca Andreescu and Sloane Stephens succeeding.

Andreescu won the Rovereto Open Città della Pace WTA 125 in Italy. She climbs to World No. 132, up 36 spots, her highest position since April. While in Edmond, Oklahoma, Sloane Stephens beat the prodigious 16-year-old Kristina Liutova to win the ITF W100 title. Her first overall since Rouen in 2024. She rises to World No. 118, up 15 spots, after being out of the top 1000 to start the year.

WTA Rankings (as of 19-10-2026)

(as of livetennis.eu)

#	Player	Age	Ctry	Pts	+/-
1	Elena Rybakina	27	KAZ	9196
2	Aryna Sabalenka	28	BLR	7550
3	Mirra Andreeva	19	RUS	6306
4	Jessica Pegula	32	USA	6235
5	Coco Gauff	22	USA	5974
6	Elina Svitolina	32	UKR	5229
7	Karolína Muchová	30	CZE	4833
8	Linda Nosková	21	CZE	4678
9	Iga Świątek	25	POL	4389
10	Marta Kostyuk	24	UKR	3920
11	Maja Chwalińska	25	POL	3031	+11
12	Iva Jovic	18	USA	2931	-1
13	Diana Shnaider	22	RUS	2663
14	Belinda Bencic	29	SUI	2662	-2
15	Elise Mertens	30	BEL	2540	-1
16	Victoria Mboko	20	CAN	2501	-1
17	Sorana Cîrstea	36	ROU	2380	-1
18	Amanda Anisimova	25	USA	2363	-1
19	Naomi Osaka	29	JPN	2297	-1
20	Alexandra Eala	21	PHI	2241	-1
21	Madison Keys	31	USA	2029	-1
22	Qinwen Zheng	24	CHN	2018	+1
23	Anna Kalinskaya	27	RUS	1989	-2
24	Jeļena Ostapenko	29	LAT	1916	+10
25	Ann Li	26	USA	1833	+6
26	Marie Bouzková	28	CZE	1818	+2
27	Anastasia Potapova	25	AUT	1814	-1
28	Emma Navarro	25	USA	1794	-1
29	Nikola Bartůňková	20	CZE	1711
30	Leylah Fernandez	24	CAN	1709	-5
31	Maria Sakkari	31	GRE	1706	+4
32	Sára Bejlek	20	CZE	1650	-2
33	Ekaterina Alexandrova	31	RUS	1591	-9
34	Diane Parry	24	FRA	1549	-2
35	Jasmine Paolini	30	ITA	1453	-2
36	Donna Vekić	30	CRO	1333
37	Peyton Stearns	25	USA	1316
38	Cristina Bucșa	28	ESP	1294
39	Xinyu Wang	25	CHN	1288
40	Daria Snigur	24	UKR	1280	+2
41	Kimberly Birrell	28	AUS	1280	-1
42	Talia Gibson	22	AUS	1273	-1
43	Ludmilla Samsonova	27	RUS	1234
44	Hailey Baptiste	24	USA	1154	+1
45	Barbora Krejčíková	30	CZE	1133	+1
46	Janice Tjen	24	INA	1120	+1
47	Magdalena Fręch	28	POL	1110	+9
48	Karolína Plíšková	34	CZE	1105	+1
49	Sonay Kartal	24	GBR	1097	+121
50	Yulia Starodubtseva	26	UKR	1090	-6
51	Anhelina Kalinina	29	UKR	1087	-3
52	Mayar Sherif	30	EGY	1085
53	Lanlana Tararudee	22	THA	1080	+7
54	Clara Tauson	23	DEN	1074	-1
55	Ashlyn Krueger	22	USA	1072	+13
56	Tamara Korpatsch	31	GER	1070	-6
57	Lilli Tagger	18	AUT	1052	-2
58	Katie Boulter	30	GBR	1042	-4
59	Caty McNally	24	USA	1035	+11
60	Elena-Gabriela Ruse	28	ROU	1033	-3
61	Paula Badosa	28	ESP	1023	-3
62	Oleksandra Oliynykova	25	UKR	1022	-11
63	Zeynep Sönmez	24	TUR	987	-4
64	Alycia Parks	25	USA	985
65	Elisabetta Cocciaretto	25	ITA	975
66	Yulia Putintseva	31	KAZ	969	+13
67	Kamilla Rakhimova	25	UZB	966	+2
68	Camila Osorio	24	COL	963	-1
69	Tatjana Maria	39	GER	945	+2
70	Maria Timofeeva	22	UZB	931	-7
71	Jaqueline Cristian	28	ROU	928	-10
72	Anna Blinkova	28	FRA	921	+1
73	Katie Volynets	24	USA	919	+15
74	Daria Kasatkina	29	AUS	913	+8
75	Anna Bondár	29	HUN	913	-9
76	Sinja Kraus	24	AUT	910	-1
77	Magda Linette	34	POL	908
78	Petra Marčinko	20	CRO	905
79	Kaitlin Quevedo	20	ESP	902	-3
80	Alina Korneeva	19	RUS	900	-6
81	Xiyu Wang	25	CHN	899	+10
82	Viktorija Golubic	34	SUI	899	-10
83	Panna Udvardy	28	HUN	899	-3
84	Mananchaya Sawangkaew	24	THA	886	-1
85	Shuai Zhang	37	CHN	880	-4
86	Kateřina Siniaková	30	CZE	865	+1
87	Taylah Preston	20	AUS	858	-1
88	Tereza Valentová	19	CZE	833	-26
89	Taylor Townsend	30	USA	831
90	Maya Joint	20	AUS	824	+2
91	Antonia Ružić	23	CRO	823	+2
92	Léolia Jeanjean	31	FRA	816	+2
93	Darja Viďmanová	23	CZE	812	-3
94	Renata Zarazúa	29	MEX	801	-9
95	Claire Liu	26	USA	789	+1
96	Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro	24	ESP	769	+3
97	Alina Charaeva	24	ARM	759	+1
98	Hanne Vandewinkel	22	BEL	756	-14
99	Francesca Jones	26	GBR	752	+5
100	Fiona Ferro	29	FRA	748	+5
101	Oksana Selekhmeteva	23	ESP	743	-1

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