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