After the first week of tennis, we've seen some moves in the newest edition of the
WTA Rankings as the Abu Dhabi champion,
Aryna Sabalenka moved already to 7th place.
Although, the champion from Abu Dhabi, Aryna Sabalenka reached the highest career-high, there are more players that reached their best and improved by many places after the first tournament of the 2021 season.
The runner-up from Abu Dhabi, Veronika Kudermetova improved by 10 places to reach the 36th position in the WTA Rankings which is also her career-high. Marta Kostyuk made a biggest move of the week after reaching semifinals in Abu Dhabi. The young Ukrainian moved by 21 places to 78th position what is also the best in her career.
WTA Rankings as of January, 18th 2021:
1 Ashleigh Barty 8717
2 Simona Halep 7255
3 Naomi Osaka 5780
4 Sofia Kenin 5760
5 Elina Svitolina 5260
6 Karolína Plíšková 5205
7 Aryna Sabalenka 4580
8 Bianca Andreescu 4555
9 Petra Kvitová 4516
10 Kiki Bertens 4505
11 Serena Williams 4080
12 Belinda Bencic 4010
13 Victoria Azarenka 3426
14 Johanna Konta 3152
15 Garbiñe Muguruza 3070
16 Madison Keys 2962
17 Iga Świątek 2960
18 Petra Martić 2850
19 Elena Rybakina 2718
20 Elise Mertens 2650
21 Markéta Vondroušová 2538
22 Maria Sakkari 2490
23 Anett Kontaveit 2330
24 Jennifer Brady 2320
25 Angelique Kerber 2271
26 Alison Riske 2256
27 Karolína Muchová 2065
28 Yulia Putintseva 2015
29 Dayana Yastremska 1925
30 Ons Jabeur 1908
31 Amanda Anisimova 1905
32 Donna Vekić 1880
33 Ekaterina Alexandrova 1775
34 Qiang Wang 1735
35 Shuai Zhang 1693
36 Veronika Kudermetova 1680
37 Svetlana Kuznetsova 1631
38 Barbora Strýcová 1630
39 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 1630
40 Sloane Stephens 1573
41 Magda Linette 1573
42 Saisai Zheng 1510
43 Fiona Ferro 1497
44 Caroline Garcia 1495
45 Jeļena Ostapenko 1485
46 Danielle Collins 1475
47 Nadia Podoroska 1407
48 Cori Gauff 1394
49 Polona Hercog 1335
50 Kristina Mladenovic 1335
51 Laura Siegemund 1331
52 Marie Bouzková 1314
53 Alizé Cornet 1290
54 Anastasija Sevastova 1288
55 Rebecca Peterson 1255
56 Patricia Maria Țig 1229
57 Jil Teichmann 1206
58 Heather Watson 1176
59 Kateřina Siniaková 1135
60 Shelby Rogers 1134
61 Anna Blinkova 1114
62 Sara Sorribes Tormo 1110
63 Bernarda Pera 1105
64 Jessica Pegula 1103
65 Alison Van Uytvanck 1095
66 Barbora Krejčíková 1092
67 Paula Badosa Gibert 1044
68 Su-wei Hsieh 1035
69 Ajla Tomljanović 1035
70 Kristýna Plíšková 1020
71 Daria Kasatkina 1010
72 Sorana Cîrstea 999
73 Nao Hibino 973
74 Arantxa Rus 971
75 Lauren Davis 967
76 Camila Giorgi 958
77 Danka Kovinić 942
78 Marta Kostyuk 934
79 Irina-Camelia Begu 932
80 Venus Williams 929
81 Zarina Diyas 928
82 Christina McHale 909
83 Madison Brengle 906
84 Misaki Doi 896
85 Carla Suárez Navarro 881
86 Martina Trevisan 879
87 Kirsten Flipkens 878
88 Tamara Zidanšek 865
89 Leylah Fernandez 859
90 Aliaksandra Sasnovich 838
91 Taylor Townsend 836
92 Lin Zhu 830
93 Ana Bogdan 805
94 Kaia Kanepi 804
95 Varvara Gracheva 798
96 Yafan Wang 795
97 Jasmine Paolini 785
98 Viktória Kužmová 775
99 Ann Li 767
100 Nina Stojanović 761