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Two weeks of results, and so a lot of rankings moves.
We’ve got the best of them here.
Notably, Coco Gauff is back in the No. 3 spot after scuffling through the draw and getting all the way to the Madrid final.
A plus move for Bianca Andreescu as well, as she moves up 20 spots after a long period where she was out, and made no dent in her ranking at all.
For the moment, Sabalenka is a WHOPPING 4,345 ranking points in front of Swiatek, who has 3,000 points to defend as reigning Rome and Roland Garros champion.
A few years ago, you probably couldn’t have given much for Sabalenka, of all the players in the top 10 or so, being by far the most stable, consistent performer. But she’s proving she is.
Coco Gauff (USA): No. 4 =========> No. 3 (Gauff struggled a lot in Madrid. But somehow she got through all the way to the final day, where she lost to No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka. She could have gone to No. 2 and dropped Iga Swiaek to No. 3 with the title. But she couldn’t quite get there).
Diana Shnaider (RUS): No. 13 =========> No. 11 (Shnaider moves to a career high – although she’s more than 700 points out of the top 10 – with her fourth-round effort in Madrid).
Elina Svitolina (UKR): No. 17 =========> No. 14 (Svitolina made the Madrid semifinals, and moves to her highest ranking since Nov. 2021)
Marta Kostyuk (UKR): No. 36 =========> No. 27 (Kostyuk zooms back into the top 30, after being out for just a week, just in time to get seeded in Paris. She made the quarterfinals in Madrid, and her loss to eventual champion Aryna Sabalenka was pretty entertaining stuff).
Moyuka Uchijima (JPN): No. 56 =========> No. 47 (An outstanding week in Madrid for Uchijima, who made the quarterfinals and jumps into the top 50 for the first time. She smoked Jessica Pegula en route, and it was the first time she’d won even three matches at the WTA level – let alone four.
Naomi Osaka (JPN): No. 55 =========> No. 48 (It wasn’t true for most of the players who dropped down a level after early exits in Madrid. But that second week Challenger decision paid dividends for Naomi Osaka, wins the WTA 125 in Saint-Malo on Sunday. She bumps bump Emma Raducanu down a spot).
Yuliia Starodubtseva (UKR): No. 99 =========> No. 80 (A nice rise – just one short of her career high – for the Ukrainian who got into the Madrid main draw as a lucky loser and took that to the round of 16).
Dalma Galfi (HUN): No. 121 =========> No. 95 (Galfi, 26, is back into the top 100 after winning the WTA 125 in Vic, Spain. Considering both Bianca Andreescu and Leylah Fernandez wree in this draw, that’s good work. Especially for an unseeded player).
Rebeka Masarova (SUI): No. 155 =========> No. 112 (Masarova qualified and made the third round in Madrid. And then she went to the WTA 125 in Vic during the second week and made the final. A nice jump for her).
Iva Jovic (USA): No. 141 =========> No. 120 (The young American, who already has the reciprocal USTA wild card for Roland Garros sewn up, just keeps rising. She won the $100K ITF in Charlottesville, Va two weeks ago, and then won a round at a similar event in Bonita Springs.
Bianca Andreescu (CAN): No. 132 =========> No. 121 (A little positive news for the Canadian, who does win a round in Madrid (over American McCartney Kessler) despite losing in the first round the second week, at a WTA 125. She took the doubles in Vic, and so got plenty of court time that way. All in all, at least a little momentum going into Rome).
Zhang Shuai (CHN): No. 164 =========> No. 136 (After a long, long, long slump during which she didn’t win a match for the best part of a year, the 36-year old is back on a winning track. She wins a $100K ITF on hard court in Gifu, Japan. After being on a protected ranking seemingly forever, and being ranked No. 629 just a year ago, she has to be feeling better about herself even if it’s still going well in doubles).
Julia Grabher (AUT): No. 238 =========> No. 162 (The former No. 54 got to the final of an ITF in Wiesbaden, and was in the final of another one two weeks ago in Chiasso)
Wakana Sonobe (JPN): No. 448 =========> No. 287 (The 17-year-old currently world No. 2 junior and reigning Australian Open junior champion wins a big ITF in Tokyo two weeks ago, and reached the quarterfinals of a similar one in Gifu last week. Needless to say, it’s a career high).
Kaja Juvan (SLO): No. 515 =========> No. 356 (The Slovenian, who was out of the game for a full year after the 2024 Australian Open, is slowly making her way back and made the final in Saint-Malo. She was up against a tough one in Naomi Osaka. Juvan was outside the top 1100 in February, when the last of her pre-2024 AO points fell off. Still just 24, her career high of No. 58 came less than three years ago.
Anastasija Sevastova (LAT): No. 9999 =========> No. 580 (Out for much of the last few years with a maternity leave and then ACL surgery, Sevastova returned to the top level in Madrid and, beating Jelena Ostapenko on the way, got to the third round. Her career high of No. 11 came in 2018. Now 35, she’s using a protected ranking and will be in Madrid and at Roland Garros).
Diana Shnaider (RUS) (No. 11)
Moyuka Uchijima (JPN) (No. 47)
Sonay Kartal (GBR) (No. 56)
Aoi Ito (JPN) (No. 99)
Mananchaya Sawangkaew (THA) (No. 105)
Iva Jovic (USA) (No. 120)
Emerson Jones (AUS) (No. 236)
Wakana Sonobe (JPN) (No. 287)
Jessica Pegula (ITA): No. 3 =========> No. 4 (Coco Gauff retook the No. 1 American spot with her run to the final in Madrid, while Pegula was sort of a shock loser in the third round, to Moyuka Uchijima).
Madison Keys (USA): No. 5 =========> No. 6 (Keys drops just behind Jasmine Paolini, who moves back to No. 5. Neither did as well as they did a year ago, but Keys dropped more points despite making the quarterfinals in Madrid).
Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA): No. 19 =========> No. 22 (Getting to the third round in Madrid was actually a pretty good result for Haddad Maia, by recent standards. Since making the third-round of the Australian Open with a sweet draw, she had lost six openers in a row. It seemed as though a switch might flip, but in the end it didn’t. And she drops out of the top 20. Given came into Madrid 2-12 on the year, it’s actually kind of surprising it hadn’t already happened).
Ons Jabeur (TUN): No. 28 =========> No. 36 (Jabeur also likely takes herself out of seeding contention in Paris after a second-round loss in Madrid. She then went to Rabat, Morocco, to train and work on some things to try to turn her season around).
Victoria Azarenka (BLR): No. 48 =========> No. 54 (Azarenka lost her first round in Madrid – her first match since retiring after losing the first set 6-0 to Karolina Muchova in the second round of Miami when she was suffering from a neck issue. It was pretty quick: 6-4, 6-2 to young Olga Danilovic, who was coming into the tournament in form. But Azarenka stuck around for the doubles with American Ashlyn Krueger, and the two made the semifinals – edged out 10-8 in the match tiebreak by Kudermetova and Mertens. It’s the first time she’s dropped out of the top 50 since the pandemic).
Mayar Sherif (EGY): No. 50 =========> No. 64 (Sherif loses in the first round of Madrid – and in the process drops the points from her final at the Catalonia Open a year ago – and her third-round effort in Madrid. She has a lot to defend coming up: a third round in Rome, a final at the WTA 125 in Parma, and a final at the WTA 250 in Rabat. And then a couple more 125 finals before the end of Wimbledon).
Marketa Vondrousova (CZE): No. 61 =========> No. 68 (Vondrousova has been out since February – and has been out much of the time since last year’s Wimbledon. But the good news is that she’s in the house in Rome, apparently ready to make her return).
Sara Sorribes Tormo (ESP): No. 86 =========> No. 109 (Tormo is out at the moment, and sacrificed the points she earned a year ago in Madrid. She’s also out of Rome.
Caroline Garcia (FRA): No. 117 =========> No. 130 (It’s hard to know what’s up with the 31-year-old, although whatever her ranking is you’d expect her to have a wild card at Roland Garros. The question is: will it be her last one?)
Sloane Stephens (USA): No. 301 =========> No. 381 (Out with a foot injury, there’s no word on when (even if) Sloane Stephens, who has been spending time commentating on Tennis Channel lately and will be on the TNT coverage at Roland Garros, will be back. She could take a protected ranking if she waits until the US Open to return. But even that would be outside the top 100. As with Garcia, hard to really know what’s next).
Loïs Boisson (FRA): No. 302 =========> No. 513 (A tough blow for the 21-year-old, who went viral a few weeks ago and hopefully snagged a Dove endorsement. She won the WTA 125 in Saint-Malo a year ago. But she went out in the first round this year and drops out of the top 500).
Alizé Cornet (FRA): No. 460 =========> No. 613 (Her retirement fairly short-lived, Cornet drops her points from making the semifinal at the WTA 125 in Saint-Malo last year, but she’s back and playing in Rome this week).
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