The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) presented an updated ranking, published on the official website on January 15.
On the eve of the start of the Australian Open, there was a change in the top 10 – Belinda of Switzerland dropped from 13th to 10th place. Bencic , who won the Adelaide tournament the day before. Daria Russian Kasatkina who lost heavily in this match (0:6, 2:6), retained the 8th place in the list, another representative of Russia, Veronika Kudermetova remains in 9th position.
The leader of the ranking is still the Polish Iga Swiatek, followed by Ons Jaber and Jessica Pegula.
Russian tennis player Ekaterina Alexandrova moved last week from 20th to 18th row, Lyudmila Samsonova – 20th. Anna Blinkova has scored 12 positions and is now the 60th racket in the world.
WTA ranking of January 15:
Eleven). Iga Swiatek (Poland) – 11,025 points
2(2). Ons Jaber (Tunisia) – 5,140
3(3). Jessica Pegula (USA) – 5,000
4 (4). Caroline Garcia (France) – 4,415
5(5). Arina Sobolenko (Belarus) – 4,340
6 (6). Maria Sakkari (Greece) — 3,921
7(7). Corey Gauff (USA) – 3,762
8(8). Daria Kasatkina – 3,500
9(9). Veronika Kudermetova (both from Russia) – 2,800
10 (13). Belinda Bencic (Switzerland) — 2,735…
18 (20). Ekaterina Alexandrova – 1910 …
20 (19). Lyudmila Samsonov – 1905 …
44(45). Anastasia Potapova – 1,079 …
59 (64). Anna Kalinskaya – 948
60(72). Anna Blinkova — 922…
97(98). Varvara Gracheva (all – Russia) – 630.
Source : MatchTV
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