Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka rose to second in the new WTA rankings released on Monday after winning her first Grand Slam singles title. Poland’s Iga Swiatek retained the top spot. The Belarusian cleared three places to earn his highest score since August 2021 at the expense of Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur, who dropped to third place. American Jessica Pegula dropped one place to fourth, while France’s Caroline Garcia dropped to fifth-ranked Elena Rybakina. Elena lost more than three times to Sabalenka in Melbourne on Saturday and rose 15 places to a career-best tenth. (Read Also: Sania Mirza ends her career with Australian open 2023 runner’s up)
The Kazakh did not collect ranking points for his successful Wimbledon final. After 12 months, the All England club’s decision to ban players from Russia and Belarus over their invasion of Ukraine. Former world champion Karolina Pliskova from the Czech Republic returned to the top 20 and moved up 11 places to 20th.
WTA ranking (players representing Russia and Belarus cannot compete with their country’s title or flag):
1. Iga Swiatek (POL) 10485
2. Aryna Sabalenka 6100 (+3)
3. Ons Jabeur (TUN) 5210 (-1)
4. Jessica Pegula (USA) 5000 (-1)
5. Caroline Garcia (FRA) 4645 (-1)
6. Cori Gauff (USA) 3992 (+1)
7. Maria Sakkari (GRE) 3811 (-1)
8. Daria Kasatkina 3380
9. Belinda Bencic (SUI) 2905 (+1)
10. Elena Rybakina (KAZ) 2815 (+15)
11. Veronica Kudermetova 2740 (-2)
12. Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) 2340 (+5)
13. Petra Kvitova (CZE) 2281 (+2)
14. Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA) 2195
15. Simona Halep (ROM) 2141 (-3)
16. Victoria Azarenka 2138 (+8)
17. Ekaterina Alexandrova 2030 (+1)
18. Anett Kontaveit (EST) 1909 (+1)
19. Liudmila Samsonova 1905 (+1)
20. Karolina Pliskova (CZE) 1880 (+11)
